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Dr. Omaar Hena
Assistant Professor

Education

PhD, University of Virginia
MA, University College, Dublin
BA, Wake Forest Univeristy

Area(s) of Specialty

World Anglophone Literature and Globalization Studies

Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

History of Critical Theory

Contact Information

Office: C102 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-5225
Email

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 111: Globalization and Culture
ENG 165: The Global Imagination and the Work of Mourning
ENG 358: Postcolonial and World Anglophone Literatures
ENG 359: Transnational Geographies of Cosmopolitanis

Selected Publications

“Playing Indian / Disintegrating Irishness: Globalization and Cross-Cultural Identity in Paul Muldoon’s ‘Madoc: A Mystery,’” Contemporary Literature 49:2 (2008): 232-62.

“‘Taken for a Turkish Woman’: Paula Meehan, the East, and the Globalization of Irish Culture,” in New York University’s journal for Irish Studies, Foilsiú 5.1 (2006): 113-128.

“The Global Turn in Postcolonial Literary Studies,” Minnesota Review 71-71 (2009): 289-96. Review essay covering The Postcolonial and the Global edited by Revathi Krishnaswamy and John C. Hawley; Mongrel Nation by Ashley Dawson; Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace by Sarah Brouillette; Reading the Global: Troubling Perspectives on Britain’s Empire in Asia by Sanjay Krishnan.

Review of Irish Orientalism by Joseph Lennon, Foilsiú 5.1 (2006): 145-48.

“Imagining Ireland.” With Jahan Ramazani. Norton Topics Online. (link)
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