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Ian Am currently working on the context of late 19th/early 20th century Bengali literature for a book on Nirad C. Chaudhuri.
Faculty Member, Dept of English
Professor of Transnational Literatures
About
Ian Almond teaches mostly in the area of South Asian and postcolonial literature and theory. He received his degrees from the British universities of Warwick and Edinburgh, and has spent most of his academic life outside his home country, teaching at universities in Italy and Germany and spending a research year in India. He lived for six years in Turkey, teaching at universities both in and outside Istanbul.
He is the author of four books: Sufism and Deconstruction (Routledge, 2004), The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam (I.B.Tauris, 2007), a general military history of Muslim-Christian alliances Two Faiths, One Banner (Harvard University Press, 2009) and History of Islam in German Thought From Leibniz to Nietzsche (Routledge, 2009).
He has also published over forty articles in journals such as PMLA, New Literary History, ELH, the Harvard Theological Review and the left-wing UK journal Radical Philosophy. His work has been translated into seven languages, including Arabic, Korean, Turkish, Persian, Bosnian/Serbo-Croat and Indonesian.
