Biography

Nasrin Olla is an Assistant Professor of English and African & African American Studies. Nasrin completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Cape Town and her PhD in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Nasrin is currently completing her first book project, The Right to Opacity, , which engages questions of ethics, alterity, and recognition in feminist and anti-racist traditions. Nasrin’s work has appeared in b2o, the History of the Present, and New Literary History. For more information please visit Nasrin’s website.

Research and Teaching Interests

• African Diasporic & African Literature
• Anglophone & Francophone African Thought
• Gender Studies & Queer Theory
• Critical Theory & Continental Philosophy