University of Ghana; Cambridge University; Oxford University
Alma mater
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)
Literary critic and academic
Notable work
Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism (2014)
Ato Quayson (born 26 August 1961)[1] is a Ghanaian literary critic and Professor of English at Stanford University where he acts as the current chair of the department.[2] He is also the chair of the newly established Department of African and African American Studies.[3] He was formerly a Professor of English at New York University (NYU),[4] and before that was University Professor of English and inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora Studies at the University of Toronto.[5] His writings on African literature, postcolonial studies, disability studies, urban studies and in literary theory have been widely published. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and the Royal Society of Canada (2013), and in 2019 was elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He was Chief Examiner in English of the International Baccalaureate (2005–07), and has been a member of the Diaspora and Migrations Project Committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the UK, and the European Research Council award grants panel on culture and cultural production (2011–2017). He is a former President of the African Studies Association.[2]
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^ ab"Ato Quayson | Department of English". english.stanford.edu. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
^"Q&A: Professor Ato Quayson talks AAAS departmentalization". 27 April 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
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” The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2 volumes). Ed. AtoQuayson, Cambridge: CUP, 2011 “‘This Traffic of Influence’: Derrida and Spivak...
African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory (2007, with AtoQuayson), African Drama and Performance (2004, with John Conteh-Morgan), and...
Government: A West African View. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-825356-3. Quayson, Ato (3 September 2014). Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries...
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