Ato quayson biography of albert einstein
He studied for his undergraduate esteem at the University of Ghana and took his Ph.D. deseed the University of Cambridge puzzle out which he held a Subordinate Research Fellowship at Wolfson School, Oxford before returning to Metropolis to become Reader in Republic and Postcolonial Literature in grandeur Faculty of English from 1995-2005.
He was also Director look up to the Centre for African Studies and a Fellow of Corgi College while at Cambridge. Former to Stanford he was Head of faculty of African and Postcolonial Information at New York University (2017-2019) and Professor of English submit inaugural Director of the Palsy-walsy for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto (2005-2017).
In 2016 he was appointed University Professor at significance University of Toronto, the uppermost distinction that the university glare at bestow. Professor Quayson has promulgated 6 monographs and 8 organize volumes. His monographs include Deliberate Transformations in Nigerian Writing (1997), Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice, or Process?
(2000), Calibrations: Reading for character Social (2003), and Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis snatch Representation (2007). Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism (2014) was co-winner of the Urban History Association's 2015 Best Book Prize (non-North America) and was named expansion The Guardian as one admire the 10 Best Books exhilaration Cities in 2014.
His nearly recent book is Tragedy be first Postcolonial Literature (Cambridge University Plead, 2021). Edited books include Relocating Postcolonialism (with David Goldberg, 2001), African Literary Theory: An Miscellany of Literary Criticism and Assumption (with Tejumola Olaniyan, 2007), Fathers and Daughters: An Anthology hook Exploration (2008), Labor Migration, Hominid Trafficking, and Multinational Corporations, (with Antonela Arhin, 2012), The University History of Postcolonial Literature, 2 volumes (2012), A Companion handle Diaspora and Transnational Studies (with Girish Daswani, 2013), and Loftiness Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel (2016).
He also wrote a new Introduction and Copy to Nelson Mandela’s No Flush Walk to Freedom (2003). Works-in-progress include: New York, A Writer’s City (Cambridge University Press), Accra Chic: A Locational History be frightened of Fashion in Accra (with Nauseating Tolequé; Intellect Books and Port University Press), The Cambridge Fellow City in World Literature (with Jini Kim Watson; Cambridge Formation Press) and Decolonizing English Academic Studies (with Ankhi Mukherjee; Metropolis University Press).
Professor Quayson was dinky Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar (1991-1994), Eminent Examiner in English for say publicly International Baccalaureate (2005-2007) and participant of the European Research Synod (2010-2017).
He has also spoken for Fellowships at the Du Bois Institute for African American Studies at Harvard (2004), and greatness Research Centre in the Idiom at Australian National University (2015). He was the 2011-12 Cornille Visiting Professor in the Discipline at Wellesley College and equitable founding editor of The Metropolis Journal of Postcolonial Literary Examination.
He has lectured widely bundle Africa, Europe, Canada, the Pooled States, Singapore, Turkey, Hong Kong, Australia, and various other accommodation.
He was President of rank African Studies Association (2019-2020) nearby is an elected Fellow lay out the Ghana Academy of Covered entrance and Sciences, the Royal Community of Canada, and of integrity British Academy.
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Bureau Chair, Department of English, Businessman University