Zubeda Jalalzai

Craig-Lee Hall 261 (401) 456-8281 (401) 456-8027 zjalalzai@ric.edu

Academic Background

B.A. St.Lawrence University;
M.A. Binghamton University;
Ph.D. State University of New York (Buffalo)

Background

Zubeda Jalalzai has published articles in the fields of Early American Literature, Transatlanticism, Native-American Literature, Postcolonial Theory, and Afghanistan. A co-edited collection, Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation-Building (with David Jefferess) is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She is currently working on a manuscript examining Afghanistan and transnational Afghan literature. She has also completed a photo-essay, Wayside Whaling: Moby Dick and the Whale Ornament in Contemporary New with photographer Jason Fiering that examines the visual elements in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick in relation to issues of representation in both the novel and contemporary New Bedford.

At Rhode Island College Dr. Jalalzai has taught graduate classes, The Body in Early America and Early America as Transatlantic Utopia; Senior seminars, The Native-American Presence in Early American Literature, Americans Abroad; and undergraduate courses, American Literature to 1860, The American Novel to 1914, Backgrounds in American Literature, Introduction to Literary Theory, Introduction to Literary Studies, Islamic/Arabic Literature, Western Literature, Honors Writing, and Composition.