Wesleyan portrait of Ashraf H.A. Rushdy

Ashraf H.A. Rushdy

Benjamin Waite Professor of the English Language

Center for African American St, 236

Professor of African American Studies

Center for African American St, 236
860-685-3577

Professor of English

Center for African American St, 236
860-685-3577

Chair, African American Studies

Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Center for African American St, 236

arushdy@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Alberta
MA University of Alberta
PHD Cambridge University

Ashraf H.A. Rushdy

Ashraf H. A. Rushdy's main field of research is in African American culture and history.  He has published work on the representation of slavery in African American culture and politics.  He has also written on the history of lynching in American culture. He has written on the practice of political apologies, and his most recent work is an exploration of the philosophical concepts of resentment and forgiveness.

 

His work raises a key question about what we can do with an unacceptable and violent past, that is, what we can do with the historical forces that forged the world we inherit.  He is interested in the range of options different artists, philosophers, and intellectuals have offered for confronting that past -- from those who dwell in the history we inherit, to those who resist it in different ways, to those who struggle to find some kind of redemption in and from it.

Academic Affiliations

Office Hours

By appointment

Courses

Spring 2024
ENGL 324 - 01
Modern Narrative of Slavery

Fall 2024
AFAM 301 - 02
Junior Colloquium