English Department Faculty

Lena Khor
Assistant Professor of English

Education
Middlebury College, B.A.
University of Texas at Austin, M.A., Ph.D.

Interests
Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Human Rights and Humanitarianism
Contemporary World Anglophone Literature
Film

Courses taught
Survey of Postcolonial Literature
Postcolonialism and Globalization
Literature and Human Rights
Narratives of International News
Contemporary Critical Theory

Publications
“Whose Image of Whose Africa? Problems of Representation in Ryszard Kapuscinski’s The Shadow of the Sun.” Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations. Eds. Toyin Falola and Fallou Ngom. New York: Routledge, 2010. 23-47.

“Mama Benz and the Taste of Money: A Critical View of a ‘Homespun’ Rags to Riches Story.” On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions. Eds. Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian, and Debashish Munshi. New York: Routledge, 2009. 167-187.

“Genocide and HIV/AIDS in Gil Courtemanche’s A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali.” Health Knowledge and Belief Systems in Africa. Eds. Toyin Falola and Matthew Heaton. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2008. 425-434.