Work of Seven Students Posted on Postcolonial Web Site

February 20, 2004

February 20, 2004, Greencastle, Ind. - The work of seven of the nine students from last fall's English 293 class, Postcolonial Literature, is published on the Postcolonial Web. The site, which is maintained by George Landow, professor of English and art history at Brown University, is a project funded by the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. "It's one of the web's best resources for information on postcolonial literature," says Anne E. Fernald, assistant professor of English at DePauw University, who teaches English 293. "It's a comprehensive resource full of historical, biographical, critical, and theoretical materials. I consult it often in preparing to teach my classes and encourage my students to consult it, too, so it's really exciting that their work is now available there."

The students are: Selasi Dorcoo (read article here), Heather Wildrick (read article here, Tim Rausch (read article here), Joseph Uphoff (read article here, Lindsey Holden (read article here), Ty Hollett (read article here and Abhi Chaudhuri (read article here).

"Postcolonial Literature is the literature written in the countries that used to be part of the British Empire," Dr. Fernald's course description reads. "These novels are beautiful, dreamlike, political, uncompromising -- anything but stuffy and predictable."

You can read more about the class by clicking here. Access the Postcolonial Web here.

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