Sadia Abbas

Author of At Freedom’s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament—winner of the 2015 MLA Prize for a First Book—and a debut novel, The Empty Room—shortlisted for the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, where she also directs the multi-media and multi-disciplinary speaker series, ‘Postcolonial Questions and Performances’. She is currently co-editing a volume on Shahzia Sikander’s art, with Jan Howard of the RISD Museum, and working on her next academic book and novel.