Sara Ahmed

Sara Ahmed (born 1969) is an Australian and British academic working at the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism. She was born in Salford, England to a Pakistani father and English mother, and emigrated to Adelaide, Australia with her family in 1973. Key themes in her work relating to migration, orientation, difference, strangerness, and mixed identities relate directly to some of these early experiences. She completed a BA (hons) in English and History at Adelaide University from 1987–1990, and then undertook doctoral research at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University from 1991-1994. She has published 5 single-authored books as well 7 edited or co-edited books and journals, in addition to over 50 journal articles and book chapters.[1] She was based at the Centre for Women’s Studies (later the Institute for Women’s Studies) at Lancaster University from 1994–2004, and was Co-Director and then Director of the Institute from 2000-2003. Appointed to the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2004, she is now Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. She has been an Executive Member of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK and Ireland), and has also acted as Co-Chair of this Association as well as Editor of its Newsletter. In the Spring semester of 2009, she was the Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women’s Studies at Rutgers University and has previously held visiting appointments in Gender Studies at Sydney University (2003-4) and Adelaide University (1999). Sara Ahmed is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Cultural Studies, and is also on the editorial boards of 16 other academic journals and book series.

Key Publications

(2010) The Promise of Happiness. Durham: Duke University Press. [2]

(2006). Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke University Press. [3]

(2004). The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and New York: Routledge. [4]

(2000). Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality. London: Routledge. [5]

(1998). Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [6]

Interviews

(2007). Salla Tuori and Salla Peltonen, "Feminist Politics: An Interview with Sara Ahmed," Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Volume 15, Issue 4 2007 , pages 257 - 264.

(2009). Ward, Amanda and Ahmed, Sara. "Global Emotion", The Adelaide Review, Issue 356.

External Links

Sara Ahmed’s Goldsmiths Page http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/ahmed/

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