Nasrin Qader

Associate professor of French. Ph.D University of Wisconsin Department of African Languages and Literatures. Specialist of African literature in French and Arabic. She is the author of "Art and the Crisis of Representation in Mohammad Barradah's Al-Daw' Al Harib," Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. XXXI, 3 (2000); "Fictional Testimonies or testimonial fictions on Moussa Ouled Ebnou's Barzakh," Research in African Literature, Vol. XXXIII, 3 (2002); and "From Poetry to Writing: Abdelkebir Khatibi's Le Livre du sang," in Présence Africain 167/168 (2004)as well as a contributor to the Encyclopedia of African Literature. Her first book, entitled Narratives of Catastrophe: Khatibi, Boris Diop, ben Jelloun which explores the question of temporality and storytelling as they relate to catastrophic events, has been published by Fordham University Press.

Nasrin Qader is also part of the core faculty of the Program in Comparative Literary Studies and the Program of African Studies. Her interest primarily lies in various modes of interaction between philosophy and literature, including Islamic thought. She has presented her work in conferences around the world and has given lectures at such venues as the University of Chicago and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris where she was a visiting scholar.

For the 2009-2010 academic year, she is the recipient of a Mellon New Direction Fellowship, which allows her to explore the relationship between Islam and Hinduism.

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