About

Since 1976 Valerie Kennedy has worked in Kenya, Morocco, and Turkey, teaching a variety of undergraduate and graduate classes and supervising M.A. and Ph.D. theses. She has published articles on various nineteenth- and twentieth-century British authors, and on postmodernism, feminism, and post-colonialism. She has also edited and written the introduction for a collection of poetry entitled Framing Reference (2001). Her book, Edward Said: A Critical Introduction, was published in 2000 with Polity, and has since been translated into Chinese complex characters and into simplified Chinese, Korean, and Arabic. She co-edited Liminal Dickens: Rites of Passage in His Work with Katerina Kitsi-Miyakou (2015). Her current areas of interest are nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century fiction, travel writing and postcolonial writing. She is currently working one of a team of researchers working on a book project based on the early- nineteenth-century travel journal and other writings of Henrietta Liston (1752-1828)on Constantinople and Turkey/the Ottoman Empire.



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