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Carolyn OWNBEY

Carolyn OWNBEY
Contact Information
Email address: 
carolyn.ownbey [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Biography: 

Carolyn Ownbey completed her PhD in the Department of English at 鶹ýվ in 2017. She works on modern and contemporary transnational literature and political and social theory. Her dissertation, entitled “Necessary Treason: Allegiance and Citizenship in Transnational Literature since Mid-Century,” focuses on questions of law, human rights, nation, and state in transnational and anti-colonial literature since 1945. She recently taught a course at 鶹ýվ entitled “Postcolonial Literature and the State.”

Current research: 

Human rights and citizenship; twentieth-century novel; literary nonfiction; postcolonial literature; political theory.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D., 鶹ýվ (2018)
M.A., Boston College
B.A. (Summa Cum Laude), University of California, Davis

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