Name Jenny Sharpe | ||
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Books Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text | ||
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Jenny Sharpe is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). Her research focuses on issues of postcolonial studies, Caribbean literatures, theories of allegory, the novel, rethinking models of memory and the archive, and the affect of the Middle Passage. In 2014 she is the Chair of Gender Studies, and is also Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
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- PerkinElmer Jenny Sharpe Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy UK
- Early life and education
- Publications
- References
Early life and education
Sharpe has a PhD in Comparative Literature, received from the University of Texas in Austin. She was a student of Gayatri Spivak, one of the founders of postcolonial and subaltern studies.
Publications
Her published works include the books Allegories of Empire, Ghosts of Slavery, essays, published interviews with Gayatri Spivak, and several edited volumes on postcolonial and Caribbean literature.