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Department of English




Dr. Imtiaz Habib, Professor, Literature

  Ph.D. Indiana University
M.A. Oxon

5047 Batten Arts & Letters
757-683-3285
ihabib <AT> odu.edu

Teaching

  • Shakespeare
  • English Renaissance drama
  • Postcolonial literature and theory
  • History of English Drama
  • Modern Drama

Research Areas

  • Shakespeare
  • English Renaissance drama
  • Postcolonial literature and theory
  • History of English Drama
  • Modern Drama

Selected Publications

 

Books

Black Lives in the English Archives 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing co., 2007.

Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000.

Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character: A Study in Dramatic Anamorphism. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna UP, 1993.

Tennessee Williams: A Descriptive Bibliography. Dhaka: University Press Ltd., 1986.

Articles

"Racial Impersonation on the Elizabethan Stage: The Case of Shakespeare Playing Aaron." Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 2007.

"East Indians in Early Modern England as 'The First Fruits of India': Colonial Effacement and Postcolonial Re-inscription." Journal of Narrative Theory, 36.1 (2006): 1-13.

"Shakespeare's Spectral Turks: The Postcolonial Poetics of a Mimetic Narrative." Shakespeare Yearbook.14 (2004): 237-70.

"Elizabethan Racial Medical Psychology, Popular Drama, and the Social Programming of the Late-Tudor Black: Sketching An Exploratory Postcolonial Hypothesis." In Stephanie Moss and Kaara Peterson ed. Shakespeare and Medicine. VT: Ashgate Publishing co., 2004. 93-112.

"Demotic Desire and Female Subjectivity in David Mamet: The Split Space of the Women of Edmond." In Leslie Kane and Chris Hudgins ed. Gender and Genre in David Mamet. N.Y.: St. Martin?s Press, 2001.

" 'Hell's Perfect Character' or The Blackamoor Maid in Early Modern English Drama: The Postcolonial Cultural History of a Dramatic Type." Literature Interpretation Theory 11 (2000):277-304

"Sir Peter Negro, Othello and the Lost Blacks of Elizabethan England: Colonial Inscription and Postcolonial Excavation." Literature Interpretation Theory 9.1 (1998): 15-30

"Reading Black Women Characters in English Renaissance Literature." Renaissance Papers 1996. 67-80.

"Interrogating Cultures: Hybridity as Third Space in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas, R.K. Narayan's The Guide, and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children." Studies in the Humanities 23.1 (1996): 28-52.

"'Never Doubt I Love': Misreading Hamlet." College Literature 21.2 (1994): 19-32.

"'I Am Not What I Am:' Reflexivity in the Shakespearean Soliloquy." Halcyon 16 (1994): 205-22.

"'Which is the Merchant here and which the Jew?' Alternating Characterization in The Merchant of Venice." Dhaka University Studies (Bangladesh) Part A 46.1 (1989): 17-34.

"The Use of the Family in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night and in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman." Bangladesh Journal of American Studies 1 (1987): 65-77.

"Structural and Thematic Aspects of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra." Harvest (Bangladesh) 8 (!986-87): 1-23.

"Elizabethan Pictorial Anamorphism and Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character: Some Parallels and A Possible Methodology for A Comprehensive Study." Collected Essays Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities Dhaka University (Bangladesh) Part Two. June 1986. 1-29.

"The Shattered Rainbow: An Essay on Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie." Form: A Magazine of the Arts (Bangladesh) 4 (1986): 38-54.

"Superior Man and the Question of Responsibility: A Reading of Paradise Lost." Dhaka University Studies (Bangladesh) Part A 42.1 (1985): 60-71.

"G. Wilson Knight's Shakespeare Criticism: An Estimate." Dhaka University Studies (Bangladesh) Part A 42.2 (1985): 30-53.

"Some Old Problems in Shakespeare: An Exercise in Defining Dramatic Method." Dhaka University Studies (Bangladesh) Part A 27 (1977): 90-119.