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Sadia Abbas
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Rutgers University-Newark
sadiaabba@gmail.com
Sadia Abbas is assistant professor of postcolonial studies at Rutgers-Newark. She received her Ph.D from Brown University and her B.A. from Wellesley College. She specializes in postcolonial literature and theory, the culture and politics of Islam in modernity, early modern English literature—especially the literature of religious strife—and the history of twentieth-century criticism. She has taught at the University of Michigan, and at Williams College. She is working on an academic book, Realism, Dissent and Transnational Muslim Fiction. She has published essays on Robert Southwell, the early modern Jesuit poet, Jewish converts to Islam and migrants to Pakistan, and the uses of Reformation in contemporary Muslim thought. Her interests include film, religion, theology and theory, religious fundamentalisms, the rise of the global right, Muslim fiction and Empire, gender and religion, early Netherlandish painting, and the transformation of Pakistani popular music in the past fifty years.
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