nasra.smith@outlook.com
Nasra Smith is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at 91亚色. She also earned her Masters of English and Masters of Education at 91亚色. Her dissertation focuses on coastal Eastern African literary cultures of the Indian Ocean, and relations of space and place in literature. Her research interests are coastal East African literature, Indian Ocean studies, literatures of the global South, comparative antiquities, postcolonial theory, and spatial humanities. She recently completed an international visiting fellowship at The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg Universit盲t in Mainz, Germany, and her articles are published in Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century and African Studies Quarterly. She is currently working on a project on premodern coastal East Africa.
Keywords: Coastal East African Literature, Indian Ocean Studies, Literatures of the Global South, Comparative Antiquities, Postcolonial Theory, Spatial Humanities