Bassam Sidiki

Tentative Dissertation Title: Parasitic Empires: Colonial Medicine, Disability, and Literary Cultures in the Anglophone World, 1880 - Present 

Primary Interests: post-1850 Anglophone literature; literature and life sciences/health; philosophy of immunology; medico-legal discourse; biopolitics; Anglo-American inter-imperiality after 1898; science and technology studies; illness narratives and disability; colonial/tropical medicine; insularity and island spaces 

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

Education:

A.B. English (Magna Cum Laude, Alpha Sigma Nu), Georgetown University, 2016

M.A. Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Northwestern University, 2017