The Centre for Research on Colonial Culture is pleased to announce that Dr Samia Khatun will be based in Dunedin from September 2013 to February 2014 as a guest of CRoCC.
Samia completed her PhD at the University of Sydney, where her research examined cultural encounters and translation in the Australian interior using both Aboriginal and South Asian language materials. She has held a postdoctoral fellowship at Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin and has recently completed a residency at the Asian-American Writers Workshop, New York, USA. Samia is also an accomplished film maker.
While in Dunedin she will be completing her book manuscript Camels, Ships and Trains: Australia in an Indian Ocean Context.
