Bassam Sidiki

Dissertation Title: Parasitic Empires: Illness, Insularity, and Inter-imperiality in Anglophone Literary Cultures, 1890 - 2020 

Fields: 

History of Science and Medicine
New Imperial History 
Postcolonial Studies/Global Anglophone
Medical/Health Humanities
Disability Studies
Asian American/Pacific Islander Studies

Primary Interests: the postcolonial historical novel; philosophy of immunology and parasitology; medico-legal discourse; biopolitics; Anglo-American inter-imperiality; colonial/tropical medicine; insularity and island spaces; the Indo-Pacific; the global fin de siecle

Secondary Interests: South Asian/South Asian-American literature in English; trauma studies; history of magic; creative nonfiction/autotheory