Javed Majeed appointed as Professor in English and Comparative Literature

The Department is very happy to welcome Professor Javed Majeed as our new Professor in English and Comparative Literature.  Professor Majeed, who joined us in January, comes to King's from the School of English at Queen Mary University of London, where he was Professor Postcolonial Literature.  At King's he will assume duties as the Director of the Comparative Literature Programme.

Professor Majeed's research combines literary studies with the intellectual and cultural history of colonialism and postcolonialism in South Asia.  His books include Ungoverned Imaginings. James Mill’s The History of British India and Orientalism, Autobiography, Travel, and Postnational Identity. Nehru, Gandhi and Iqbal, and Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism, and he is currently writing about the linguistic survey of India at the turn of the 20th century.  At King's he will teach courses in comparative literature and english, including a course on postcolonial literature, translation and theory at MA level, and on the novel in British India at undergraduate level.

He has recently spent a period researching in the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of the Witswatersrand, Joannesburg.