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Dagmawi Woubshet

Assistant Professor
Graduate Faculty Member

Degrees
Harvard University A.M, Ph.D.
Duke University
B.A.

Woubshet

Bio

Before joining the Cornell English department, Dagmawi Woubshet received his PhD from Harvard University, where he specialized in African-American, comparative African Diaspora, and contemporary American literature and culture. He is currently completing a comparative study on the poetics and politics of AIDS writing in the United States, South Africa and Ethiopia. He is also a co-editor of two forthcoming volumes: Imaging Ethiopia: Monarchy to Modernity (with Salah Hassan and Elizabeth Wolde-Giorgis); and, a special issue on Ethiopia in the journal Callaloo (with Salamishah Tillet). His writing has appeared in Art South Africa, Callaloo, and NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art. A true itinerant, he splits his time between Ithaca, New York City, and Addis Ababa.

Research and Teaching Interests

  • African-American Literature and Culture
  • Comparative African Diaspora Studies
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Critical Race Studies
  • Ethiopian Literature and Culture
  • Contemporary Black Visual Culture
  • James Baldwin
  • AIDS Writing

Current Projects

  • Figurations of Catastrophe: AIDS and the poetics and politics of loss (book manuscript)
  • Anthologizing Ethiopia