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International Relations; Comparative Politics, specialization in Middle East; International Political and Social Conflict; The Nexus between Human Rights Law and Counter-Terrorism; Political Violence and Majority-Minority Relations; Ethnic Identities, Religion and Citizenship; Political Competition; Political Psychology and the Decision-Making Processes in International Relations
Professor of English and African Studies, Associate Dean for International and Intercultural Studies
My research interests:
My research is on African literature, particularly literature from Zimbabwe. I am interested in the political and cultural conditions which affect African writers and which they address in their work.
My field of research is Comparative Feminist Philosophy. My current project is a manuscript entitled Ethics Embodied to be published with Lexington Books. In Ethics Embodied, I discuss the prospects for integrating aspects of Japanese Zen Buddhism, contemporary Japanese philosophy and western ethics through a feminist lens. More specifically, I propose an alternative orientation for thinking about selfhood and ethics that draws on my comparison of Western feminist and Japanese philosophy.
