Simon Gikandi
Gikandi is a Kenyan-born Professor at Princeton University.
About Simon
Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University, where he is affiliated with the Departments of Comparative Literature and African American Studies and the Program in African Studies. Gikandi was MLA's president in 2019. He served as editor of PMLA, the official journal of the MLA, from 2011 to 2016. Gikandi has written many books and articles. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
“What are we to make of those events that cannot be visibly celebrated as part of our Western identity, because they seem to be at odds with its informing categories, and yet cannot be mourned, because to do so would contaminate the modes of our self-understanding as civilized subjects?”
- Simon Gikandi, Slavery and the Culture of Taste
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