Geoffrey Nash
MA (Oxon) PhD (Lon) PGCE (Kent)
Senior Lecturer
Location:
Priestman Building, City Campus
Phone: 0191 515 2156
Fax: geoff.nash@sunderland.ac.uk
Biography
Teaching Areas
Victorian, Postcolonial and World LiteraturesResearch Interests
My research operates within the field of literary cultural studies, concentrating on Anglo-Arab/Islamic cultural relations, taking Orientalism and Postcolonial theory as its theoretical underpinning. It divides into: 1) the historical period of European imperialism in the Middle East, roughly between 1800 and 1925. I am specifically interested in representations of Islam and the Orient in Victorian travel, political and literary writings; 2) recent cross-cultural representations of the Middle East and the West by Arab and Muslim writers in English (and occasionally English translation) specifically in the genres of fiction and autobiography.
Selected Publications
Books
2012. Writing Muslim Identity (London: Continuum).
2007. The Anglo-Arab Encounter, Fiction and Autobiography by Arab Writers in English (Bern: Peter Lang)
2005. From Empire to Orient, Travellers to the Middle East, 1830-1926 (London: I.B. Tauris)
1998. The Arab Writer in English, Arab Themes in a Metropolitan language, 1908-1958 (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press)
Edited books
2009. Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger: An Anthology (London: Anthem)
2009. Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism: Selected Eastern Writings (London: Routledge)
Chapters in Books
2011. ‘Death and Resurrection: the Renan’s in Syria, 1860-61,’ in Katherine Salhi, ed. Knowledge is Light. Oxford: Astene/Oxbow.
2009. ‘From Harem to Harvard: Cross-Cultural Memoir in Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage,’ in Laila al-Maleh, ed. Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature (Amsterdam: Rodopi)
