{"id":11,"date":"2015-10-07T20:10:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T20:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amandarwlagji.com\/wp\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:00:28","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.amandarwlagji.com\/index.php\/cv\/","title":{"rendered":"CV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Curriculum Vitae<br \/><\/strong><strong>AMANDA RUTH WAUGH LAGJI<br \/><\/strong><a href=\"alagji@pitzer.edu\">alagji@pitzer.edu\u00a0<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amandarwlagji.com\">www.amandarwlagji.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>EMPLOYMENT<br \/><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor of English and World Literature, Pitzer College\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July 2023- Present<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor of English and World Literature, Pitzer College\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July 2017- June 2023<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>EDUCATION<br \/><\/u><\/strong><strong>Ph.D., English,<\/strong> <strong>University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/strong><br \/>May 2017<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>M.A., English,<\/strong> <strong>University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 February 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.A., English, Honors; B.A. Philosophy, Honors, Dickinson College<br \/><\/strong>May 2009, <em>summa cum laude<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>PUBLICATIONS<br \/><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><br \/><em>Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the 2020 Annual Book Award by the Northeast Modern Language Association for Best Unpublished Book Manuscript<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/edinburghuniversitypress.com\/book-postcolonial-fiction-and-colonial-time.html\">Now out<\/a> with Edinburgh University Press, November 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In progress:<br \/><em>Counterinsurgency and the Weaponization of Time: Insecure Futures in Contemporary Global Fiction<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hopeful Possibilities of \u2018Sideways\u2019 Time: Louise Erdrich\u2019s <em>Future Home of the Living God<\/em>,\u201d special issue of the <em>Journal of Postcolonial Writing<\/em>, edited by Goutam Karmakar and Janet Wilson, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 11-25. doi: 10.1080\/17449855.2025.2576247<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRouting Return through Contemporary Novels of Migration,\u201d in <em>Companion to Migration Literature<\/em>, edited by Carly McLaughlin, Gigi Adair, and Rebecca Fasselt, Routledge, 2025, pp. 320-331.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForms of Futurity: The Entangled Temporalities of Eco-Terror in the Niger Delta,\u201d in <em>Temporalities in\/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures<\/em>, edited by Birgit Neumann and Sibylle Baumbach. Forthcoming 2024, Routledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColonial Clowns? The Tragicomedy of V.S. Naipaul\u2019s <em>Miguel Street<\/em>.\u201d <em>Pacific Coast Philology<\/em>, special issue edited by Stanley Orr, vol. 56, no. 2, pp.211-223. Backdated to 2021; in print May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Contemporary\u2019 Comparisons: <em>The Silent Minaret<\/em> at the Intersection of the \u2018Post\u2019 Debates.\u201d In <em>Post-45 vs. The World: Literary Perspectives on the Global Contemporary<\/em>. Ed. William Welty. Vernon Press, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeavenly Homes and Transnational Travel: Amanda Smith\u2019s Religious Cosmopolitan Vision.\u201d In <em>Transnational Africana Women\u2019s Fictions<\/em>, edited by Cheryl Sterling, Routledge, 2022, pp. 52-68.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaithood and Girlhood in NoViolet Bulawayo&#8217;s <em>We Need New Names<\/em>.\u201d Invited book chapter for <em>Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the 21st Century<\/em>. Ed. Rose Sackeyfio. Lexington Books, 2021, pp. 45-58.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransnational Law and Literatures: A Post-Colonial Perspective.\u201d Invited book chapter for the <em>Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law<\/em>. Ed. Peer Zumbansen. Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 1051-1068.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerrorist Plots: Temporality, the Politics of Preemption and the Postcolonial Novel.\u201d <em>Studies in the Novel <\/em>52.4 (December 2020): 403-318. Special issue edited by Gaurav Desai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsurd Waiting in Samuel Beckett and Zakes Mda.\u201d In <em>Timescapes of Waiting: Spaces of Stasis, Delay and Deferral<\/em>. Eds. Christoph Singer, Robert Wirth, and Olaf Berwald. Brill, 2019, pp. 125-139.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaiting in Motion: Mapping Postcolonial Fiction, New Mobilities, and Migration through Mohsin Hamid\u2019s <em>Exit West<\/em>.\u201d <em>Mobilities\u00a0<\/em>Published online before print 30 Oct. 2018. 1-16. doi: 10.1080\/17450101.2018.1533684<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marooned Time: Disruptive Waiting and Idleness in Carpentier and \u00a0Coetzee.&#8221; <em>Safundi:<\/em>\u00a0<em>The\u00a0<\/em>Journal<em> of South African and American Studies\u00a0<\/em>19.2 (2018): 1-22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Now\u2019 is Here: Disillusionment and Urgency in Anita Desai\u2019s <em>Cry, the Peacock<\/em>.\u201d 37.3 (2016): 89-110. (Backdated; in print February 2018).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaiting for Now: The Temporality of Return in Ayi Kwei Armah\u2019s <em>Fragments<\/em>.\u201d <em>African Literature Today<\/em> 34: Diaspora &amp; Returns in Fiction (November 2016): 28-47.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmoke and Mirrors: Generic Manipulation and Doubling in <em>Dancing to \u2018Almendra<\/em>.\u2019\u201d <em>Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal<\/em> 13.2 (2016): 1-17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Postcolonial Perspective: Law and the Literary World.\u201d <em>Law, Culture and the Humanities.<\/em> Published online before print 11 Feb. 2016. 1-14. doi:\u00a01743872116630698.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRevising the Narrative of Failure: Reconsidering State Failure in Nuruddin Farah\u2019s <em>Knots<\/em>.\u201d <em>ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature<\/em> 45.4 (2014): 31-57.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Willing Liberates\u2019: Nietzschean Heroism and Tsitsi Dangarembga\u2019s <em>Nervous Conditions<\/em>.\u201d <em>Pacific Coast Philology<\/em> 46 (2011): 80-96.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Reviews<br \/><\/strong>Review of <em>Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction<\/em>, by Leela Gandhi (2<sup>nd<\/sup> edition) for H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2019). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.h-net.org\/reviews\/showpdf.php?id=54600\">https:\/\/www.h-net.org\/reviews\/showpdf.php?id=54600<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Public Writing and Other Work<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPostcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now.\u201d Interview with Dr. Miranda Melcher, <em>New Books Network<\/em> podcast, February 1, 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/postcolonial-fiction-and-colonial-time\">https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/postcolonial-fiction-and-colonial-time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Fragments<\/em> of a World That \u201cDoesn\u2019t End\u201d: The Apocalyptic Impulse in a Time of Perpetual War.\u201d Invited essay for <em>Post 45<\/em>, online forum \u201cContemporaries\u201d on form and global Anglophone fiction. 2019. Link <a href=\"http:\/\/post45.research.yale.edu\/2019\/02\/fragments-of-a-world-that-doesnt-end-the-apocalyptic-impulse-in-a-time-of-perpetual-war\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStung by Empire: Decolonizing Higher Education in Nnedi Okorafor\u2019s <em>Binti<\/em>.\u201d <em>Empire Studies Magazine<\/em>, online series on Children\u2019s Literature and Empire. Link <a href=\"http:\/\/empirestudies.com\/2019\/12\/16\/empire-and-higher-education-in-nnedi-okorafors-binti\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCosmopolitan Commitments: Beyond the \u2018Nation\u2019 and the \u2018Meantime\u2019 in Nadine Gordimer\u2019s <em>The Pickup<\/em>.\u201d <em>Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism<\/em> (Winter 2011): 137-53.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>AWARDS AND HONORS<br \/><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2026\u00a0 \u00a0 Scholar-in-residence, Pitzer College for seminar &#8220;Counterinsurgency&#8221;<br \/>2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Shortlist, Inaugural Routledge Area Studies Interdisciplinary Award<br \/><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">2020\u00a0 \u00a0 NeMLA Annual Book Award for the unpublished manuscript, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;\">Waiting for Now: Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time<br \/><\/em>2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate Student Caucus Essay Award, Northeast Modern Language Association<br \/>2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship<br \/>2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Special Mention, Postcolonial Studies Association Postgraduate Essay Prize<br \/>2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Special Mention, Postcolonial Studies Association Postgraduate Essay Prize<br \/>2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Charles A. Peters Prize, Renaissance Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<br \/>2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Special Mention, Postcolonial Studies Association Postgraduate Essay Prize<br \/>2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Hicks Prize in Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS<br \/><\/u><\/strong>2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Modern Language Association Travel Grant for MLA Paper Presentations<br \/>2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Northeast Modern Language Association Graduate Student Travel Award<br \/>2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dissertation Summer Fellowship<br \/>2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 English Department Travel Grant for MLA Conference Paper Presentation<br \/>2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 English Department Travel Grant for MLA Conference Paper Presentation<br \/>2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Northeast Modern Language Association Graduate Student Travel Award<br \/>2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 English Department Travel Grant for NeMLA Paper Presentation<br \/>2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Graduate School Travel Grant<br \/>2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 English Department Travel Grant for PAMLA Paper Presentation<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS<br \/><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Gaps\u2019 in (National) Memory and Belonging: Jess Walters\u2019 <em>The Zero<\/em>.\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual conference, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInsurgency: Theorizing Resistance from the Border.\u201d British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies annual conference, Savannah, GA, February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>My Brother, My Land<\/em>: Family at the Intersection of Palestine and Critical Indigenous Studies.\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInnovative Time: Reading Futurity \u2018Sideways\u2019 in Louise Erdrich\u2019s <em>Future Home of the Living God<\/em>.\u201d British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies annual conference (jointly held with the American Conference for Irish Studies), Savannah, GA, February, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnruly Women: Anger that Translates into Revolutionary Consciousness in Egyptian and Palestinian Texts.\u201d Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) annual conference, Palm Springs, CA, November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolicing Counter-Insurgency in <em>The Secret Agent<\/em>.\u201d Modern Language Association (MLA) annual conference, San Francisco, CA, January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Labor of <em>Love<\/em>: Women\u2019s \u2018Work\u2019 in Aminatta Forna\u2019s Fiction.\u201d Modern Language Association (MLA) annual conference, San Francisco, CA, January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The \u2018Fantastic\u2019 Form of Masande Ntshanga\u2019s\u00a0<i>Triangulum<\/i>.&#8221; Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) annual conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Terrorist as Type: Exploiting the Implied Reader\u2019s Expectations.\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual conference, Baltimore, MD, March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[W]e can no longer be sure of the future\u2019: Anticipating the Unfolding Oil Crisis in Okpewho\u2019s <em>Tides<\/em>.\u201d Temporalities of Crisis Workshop, organized by Birgit Neumann and Sibylle Baumbach. Held virtually, organized in Germany, December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDecolonizing \u201cDevelopment\u201d in Caryl Phillips\u2019s <em>A State of Independence<\/em>.\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual conference, Boston, Massachusetts. March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond Binaries: Delving into Deltas and Hungry Tides.\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual conference, Boston, Massachusetts. March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStung by Empire: Decolonizing Higher Education in Nnedi Okorafor\u2019s <em>Binti<\/em>.\u201d British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannah, Georgia. February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reading the Writing On\/Behind the Wall: Palestine and State Terror.&#8221; The Modern Language Association annual conference, Seattle, Washington, January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColonial Clowns? The Tragicomedy of V.S. Naipaul\u2019s <em>Miguel Street<\/em>.\u201d Pacific and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) annual conference, San Diego, California. November 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCamps and Postcolonies: Waiting in\/for the Aftermath.\u201d The Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies conference, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTiming Terror: Stopped Watches Across the Twentieth Century and Beyond.\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual conference, Washington, D.C., March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaching Terror in the Postcolonial Classroom.\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual conference, Washington, D.C., March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegistering Insecurities in the Global War of\/on Terror.\u201d British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannah, Georgia, February 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Enduring Spectacle of the Aftermath: Embodying the Blast in <em>The Association of Small Bombs<\/em>.\u201d South Asian Literary Association (SALA) annual conference, Chicago, IL, January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLetters to the Future: Petroleum, Protest, and Persistence.\u201d Modern Language Association (MLA) annual conference, Chicago, IL, January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProducing the Pipeline: Making the Most of Graduate-School Years.\u201d Modern Language Association (MLA) annual conference, Chicago, IL, January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Terrorist Plots: Terrorism, Temporality, and the Politics of Preemption.&#8221; Marquis Salon Talk, Pitzer College, October 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColonial Time Regimes in Cheikh Hamidou Kane\u2019s <em>Ambiguous Adventure<\/em>.\u201d The Social Life of Time, International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Postcolonial Petroscape of Isidore Okpewho\u2019s <em>Tides<\/em>.\u201d African Literature Association (ALA) Annual Conference, Washington D.C., May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaiting on the Move in Mohsin Hamid\u2019s <em>Exit West<\/em>.\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Wait: Reflections from a Recent Hire.\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaithood and Girlhood in NoViolet Bulawayo\u2019s <em>We Need New Names<\/em>.\u201d Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference, New York, NY, January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018Fundamentals\u2019 of World Literature: <em>The Silent Minaret<\/em> and Post-9\/11 Global Forms.\u201d African Literature Association (ALA) Annual Conference, New Haven, CT, June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinding a Form for the Fragments: Bilal Tanweer\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Scatter Here is Too Great<\/em>,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime and the Other: Negotiating Temporalities in African Fiction,\u201d African Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaiting and Creating: Presenting African Futures in <em>The Cry of Winnie Mandela<\/em> and <em>Radiance of Tomorrow<\/em>,\u201d Waiting as Cultural Practice: An Interdisciplinary, International Conference, Paderborn, Germany, May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trauma of Waiting: Gendered Time in Anita Desai\u2019s <em>Cry the Peacock<\/em>,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Conference, Hartford, CT, March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime to Revisit: Nadine Gordimer and Times of Transition,\u201d Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Austin, TX, January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaiting: Keywords for the Global South,\u201d Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Austin, TX, January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarking Time in Postcolonial Studies: Tracking Colonial Time and Temporality in Postcolonial Fiction,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaw and Literature: A Postcolonial Perspective,\u201d Desire for Narrative in Law and Literature, Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPostcolonial Temporalities and the Violence of History,\u201d African Studies Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, November 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaiting for Now: Theorizing Postcoloniality&#8217;s Temporalities,\u201d International Conference on Narrative, Boston, MA, March 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssessing the State of Things: Failure and Nuruddin Farah&#8217;s Fiction,\u201d Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, January 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReconciliation Revised: Narrative Closure, Truth, and Trauma in Nuruddin Farah&#8217;s <em>Maps<\/em>,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRevising the Narrative of Failure: Reconsidering State Failure in Nuruddin Farah\u2019s <em>Knots<\/em>,\u201d British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Association Conference, Savannah, GA, February 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCirculating Colonial Contagions: Labor, Sickness, and Scars in Charlotte Yonge\u2019s <em>The Clever Woman of the Family<\/em>,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Conference, Rochester, NY, March 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Willing Liberates\u2019: Nietzschean Heroism in Tsitsi Dangarembga\u2019s <em>Nervous Conditions<\/em>,\u201d Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, November 2010.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TEACHING EXPERIENCE<\/u><\/strong><u><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Counterinsurgency (Spring 2026)<\/li>\n<li>Bad Romance: Intro to World Lit, cross-listed with Gender, Feminist Studies (Fall 2025, Fall 2026)<\/li>\n<li>(End) Days of Our Lives: Apocalyptic Fiction, First Year Seminar (Fall 2025)<\/li>\n<li>Post-Apartheid Novels, cross-listed with Africana Studies (Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2023)<\/li>\n<li>Intro to Literary Theory (Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Decolonial Futures (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2026)<br \/>Growing Up Postcolonial (Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2023)<\/li>\n<li>Unruly Women of World Lit, First Year Seminar (Fall 2018, Fall 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Terror and the Text (Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2021, Spring 2023, Fall 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Intro to World Lit: Texts on the Move (Spring 2018, Fall 2019, revised as \u201cBad Romance\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>World Literature in an Oceanic Context (Fall 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Postcolonial Studies for the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century (Fall 2017, revised as \u201cDecolonial Futures\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>SERVICE<br \/><\/u><\/strong><strong>Select Professional Service<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reviewer: <em>Time &amp; Society<\/em>, <em>Studies in the Novel<\/em>, <em>Contemporary Women\u2019s Writing<\/em>, <em>Contemporary South Asia<\/em>, <em>South Asian Review<\/em>, <em>Journal of Commonwealth Literature<\/em>, <em>Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies<\/em>,<em> Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies<\/em>, Routledge (<em>The Companion to Migration Literature<\/em>), <em>Mobilities, Journal of Postcolonial Writing<\/em>, <em>Mosaic<\/em>, SUNY University Press, <em>Journal of Narrative Theory<\/em>, <em>African Identities<\/em>, <em>Ethnicity<\/em>, <em>PMLA<\/em>, <em>Tulsa Studies in Women\u2019s Literature<\/em>, <em>Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2025\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Panelist, \u201cTeaching Palestine in a Liberal Arts Context,\u201d <em>Gaza in Context: Teach-ins, <\/em>organized by <em>Jadaliyya<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Panel organizer and chair, \u201cGeographies of Terror: The Fantastic and Quotidian,\u201d Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, November 11-13.<\/p>\n<p>2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mentor at NeMLA job clinic; assigned 3 graduate student mentees to advise on CV development<\/p>\n<p>2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nominated by LLC African Since 1990 to stand for elections to MLA Delegate\u00a0Assembly<\/p>\n<p>2019-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Editorial Board Member, <em>Time and Society<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chair, \u201cTeaching Terrorism: Global (Ethno)Nationalisms and the Geo-Politics of Terror\u201d roundtable, Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., March 21-24.<\/p>\n<p>2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Panel organizer and chair, \u201cGlobal Capitals,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., March 21-24.<\/p>\n<p>2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Panel organizer, \u201cAesthetics of Terrorism,\u201d Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Chicago, January 3-5.<\/p>\n<p>2018\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roundtable organizer and chair, \u201cTeaching Terrorism,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, April 12-15.<\/p>\n<p>2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Panel organizer and chair, \u201cPost-Post-Colonial? Time in Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, March 23-26.<\/p>\n<p>2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Panel organizer and chair, \u201cOrientalism and the Globalization of Africa: New Directions with Africa at the Center,\u201d African Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C., December 1-3.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Postcolonial literature and theory<br \/>Narrative and time<br \/>Global Anglophone, twentieth-century literature<br \/>African literature<br \/>Law and literature<br \/>Terrorism and literature<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIENCE<br \/><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Center for Teaching and Learning, Claremont Colleges Consortium<br \/><\/strong>Faculty Co-Director for three-year term, July 2026- July 2029.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editorial Review Board<\/strong><br \/>Time &amp; Society, 2019-Present<br \/>Diesis: Footnotes on Literary Identities, 2012- 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Member, Teaching and Learning Communities of the Claremont College.<\/strong><br \/>First 5, organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning, 2017-2019.<br \/>Learner Centered Teaching, organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning, Fall 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Great Books Summer Programs<\/strong>, Amherst College and Stanford University campuses, online 2020 and 2022 Academic Director, Senior program (2018, 2022) and Intermediate program (2019, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant, Interdisciplinary Studies Institute<\/strong><br \/>University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2012- May 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writing Tutor, University of Massachusetts Writing Center<\/strong><br \/>University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2010-2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Modern Language Association (MLA)<br \/>Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)<br \/>Pacific and Ancient Modern\u00a0 Language\u00a0 Association (PAMLA)<br \/>Phi Beta Kappa<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curriculum VitaeAMANDA RUTH WAUGH LAGJIalagji@pitzer.edu\u00a0www.amandarwlagji.com EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor of English and World Literature, Pitzer College\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July 2023- Present Assistant Professor of English and World Literature, Pitzer College\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July 2017- June 2023 EDUCATIONPh.D., English, University of Massachusetts, AmherstMay 2017\u00a0 M.A., &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amandarwlagji.com\/index.php\/cv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amandarwlagji.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amandarwlagji.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amandarwlagji.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amandarwlagji.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amandarwlagji.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.amandarwlagji.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.amandarwlagji.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amandarwlagji.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}