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Zita Cristina Nunes

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Contact Information

Fisher Bennett Hall 238
znunes@upenn.edu
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Associate Professor of English
    Fields of Study
  • Global Anglophone
  • Digital Humanities
  • Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory
  • Post-colonial
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Race and Empire

Interests

African American and Ethnic American Literatures,  Postcolonial Literature and Global Anglophone,   African American Studies,  Comparative Race and Empire Studies,  Critical Theory,  Digital Humanities,  Gender and Sexuality Studies,  Psychoanalytic Studies,  Visual Culture

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Comparative Literature
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Undergraduate Chair

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