Assistant Professor
English
St. John Hall, B-40, #15
Queens campus
(718) 990-5605
ahmadd@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
BA, 1993, Yale University, English Literature
PhD, 2004, Columbia University, English and Comparative
Literature
Profile
Dohra Ahmad has been teaching at St. John’s University since 2004,
having received her Ph. D. from Columbia University that
year. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in
twentieth-century postcolonial and world Anglophone literature,
postcolonial theory, American and ethnic American literature, and
utopian fiction. Dr. Ahmad also serves as an advisor for
faculty members teaching English 1100C, Literature in a Global
Context. In the broadest terms, her research aims to draw
thematic, stylistic, and historical connections among various
twentieth-century literary movements. Her anthology Rotten
English, a collection of poetry and fiction in a variety of
non-standard Englishes, was published by W. W. Norton in 2007. She
is currently completing a manuscript that traces the utopian
aspects of anti-colonial writing during the first half of the
twentieth century. Her essays have appeared in ELH and the
Yale Journal of Criticism.