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- Imtiaz Habib
- Professor
- English
- 5047 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3991
- ihabib@odu.edu
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Education
- Indiana University, Bloomington,
1984
- Major: Literature-Renaissance
- Degree: Ph. D.
- New College, Oxford University,
1976
- Degree: M.A.
- New College, Oxford University,
1973
- Major: Honors in English Literature
- Degree: B.A.
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Expertise
- Literature
- Shakespeare/English Renaissance / Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences, Theory and History / Indian Subcontinent - Culture,
History, Politics, Literature / Immigrant Experiences / Race/Minority Issues
- Shakespeare
- Shakespeare/English Renaissance / Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences, Theory and History / Indian Subcontinent - Culture,
History, Politics, Literature / Immigrant Experiences / Race/Minority Issues
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Books
- Habib, I. (2008). Black Lives in the English Archives 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible. London: Ashgate Publishing Co..
- Habib, I. (2000). Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
- Habib, I. (1993). Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character: A Study in Dramatic Anamorphism. Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses.
- Habib, I. (1986). Tennessee Williams: A Descriptive Bibliography. Dhaka (Bangladesh): University Press Ltd..
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Book Chapters
- Habib, I. (2004). Elizabethan Racial Medical Psychology, Popular Drama, and the Social Programming of the Late-Tudor Black: Sketching An Exploratory
Postcolonial Hypothesis. In Shakespeare and Medicine.. (pp. pp. 93-112). VT: Ashgate Publishing Co..
- Habib, I. (2001). Demotic Desire and Female Subjectivity in David Mamet: The Split Space of the Women of Edmond. In Gender and Genre in David
Mamet.. N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press.
- Habib, I. (1998). Sir Peter Negro, Othello and the Lost Blacks of Elizabethan England: Colonial Inscription and Postcolonial Excavation. (pp. 15-30). Literature Interpretation Theory.
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Articles
- Habib, I. (2007). Racial Impersonation on the Elizabethan Stage: The Case of Shakespeare Playing Aaron. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 20, (pp. 17-45).
- Habib, I. (2006). East Indians in Early Modern England as ‘The First Fruits of India’: Colonial Effacement and Postcolonial Re-inscription.”. Journal of Narrative Theory, 36 (1), (pp. 1-13).
- Habib, I. (2004). Shakespeare’s Spectral Turks: The Postcolonial Poetics of a Mimetic Narrative. New Studies in the Shakespearean Heroine: A Publication of the Shakespeare Yearbook, 14, (pp. 237-70).
- Habib, I. (2000). Hel’s Perfect Character’ or The Blackamoor Maid in Early Modern English Drama: The Postcolonial Cultural History of a Dramatic
Type. Literature Interpretation Theory, 11, (pp. 277-304).
- Habib, I. (1996). Interrogating Cultures: Hybridity as Third Space in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas, R.K. Narayan's The Guide, and Salman
Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Studies in the Humanities, 23 (1), (pp. 28-52).
- Habib, I. (1996). Reading Black Women Characters in English Renaissance Literature. Renaissance Papers (pp. 67-80).
- Habib, I. (1995). Hystericizing Shakespeare. Review of Linda Charnes' Notorious Identity: Materializing the Subject in Shakespeare. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1993. South Carolina Review, 28 (1), (pp. 163-65).
- Habib, I. (1994). `I Am Not What I Am:' Reflexivity in the Shakespearean Soliloquy. Halcyon, 16, (pp. 205-22).
- Habib, I. (1994). `Never Doubt I Love': Misreading Hamlet. College Literature, 21 (2), (pp. 19-32).
- Habib, I. (1993). Mamet, Bakhtin, and the Dramatic: The Demotic as a Variable of Addressivity.” The David Mamet Review 4 (1997): 14. (Review
of Ilkka Joki's Mamet, Bakhtin, and the Dramatic: The Demotic as a Variable of Addressivity. Abo Akademi University Press
- Habib, I. (1991). The Properties of Othello. Review of James L. Calderwood's The Properties of Othello. Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press, 1989. Shakespeare Yearbook, 2,
- Habib, I. (1989). `Which is the Merchant here and which the Jew?' Alternating Characterization in The Merchant of Venice. Dhaka University Studies (Bangladesh) Part A, 46 (1), (pp. 17-34).
- Habib, I. (1987). Structural and Thematic Aspects of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra. Harvest, 8, (pp. 1-23).
- Habib, I. (1987). The Use of the Family in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night and in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Bangladesh Journal of American Studies, 1, (pp. 65-77).
- Habib, I. (1986). The Shattered Rainbow: An Essay on Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Form A Magazine of the Arts, 4, (pp. 38-54).
- Habib, I. (1986). Elizabethan Pictorial Anamorphism and Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character: Some Parallels and A Possible Methodology
for A Comprehensive Study. Part Two. Collected Essays Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities Dhaka University (pp. 1-29).
- Habib, I. (1985). G. Wilson Knight's Shakespeare Criticism: An Estimate. Dhaka University Studies. Part A, 42 (2), (pp. 30-53).
- Habib, I. (1985). Superior Man and the Question of Responsibility: A Reading of Paradise Lost.. Dhaka University Studies (Bangladesh) Part A, 42 (1), (pp. 60-71).
- Habib, I. (1977). Some Old Problems in Shakespeare: An Exercise in Defining Dramatic Method. Dhaka University Studies. Part A, 27, (pp. 90-119).
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Presentations
- Ipssisima Vox, or Is It? Deciphering the Black Voice in the English Archives
- Conference Name:
- Location: The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University
- Date: July 14, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- Speaking the Black Self: Black Voices in the Early Modern English Archives and the Problems of their Reading
- Conference Name:
- Location: Huntington Library, Pasadena
- Date: February, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- ’Born where they are not christenyd’: The De-Legalizing of Blackness in Tudor Legal Archives
- Conference Name:
- Location: Bermuda
- Date: March, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- Race in the English Renaissance and Othello
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk,
- Date: April, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- East Indians in Early Modern England as ‘The First Fruits of India’: Colonial Effacement and Postcolonial Re-inscription
- Conference Name:
- Location: New Orleans
- Date: April, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- Racial Impersonation on the Elizabethan Stage: The Case of Shakespeare Playing Aaron
- Conference Name:
- Location: Minneapolis, MN
- Date: April, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- Staging Hispanophobia: Decoding the Demotic and a Subaltern Perspective in the Roderigo Lopez Affair
- Conference Name:
- Location: Miami
- Date: April, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- The Limits of Late Tudor Civil Law and the Alien: Re-Examining the Roderigo Lopez Case
- Conference Name:
- Location: Valencia, Spain
- Date: April, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- Race and Medical Psychology in Early Modern England: Sketching an Exploratory Postcolonial Hypothesis
- Conference Name:
- Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Date: April, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- The ‘Kindness’ of Elizabethan Colonialism: Exploring a Tactical Paradigm
- Conference Name:
- Location: San Francisco
- Date: April, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- `Hel's Perfect Character' or The Blackamoor Maid in English Renaissance Drama: The Postcolonial Cultural History of a Dramatic
Type
- Conference Name:
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Date: November, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- The Turk in Shakespeare: The Poetics of a Spectral Narrative
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington D.C.
- Date: April, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- Aaron, Tamora and the Lost Aliens of Andronician Rome: Metropolitan Construction and the Writing of the Minority in Early
Shakespeare
- Conference Name:
- Location: Savannah, GA
- Date: November, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- Sir Peter Negro, Othello, and the Blacks of Early Modern England: Colonial Inscription and Postcolonial Excavation
- Conference Name:
- Location: University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Date: June, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- `Speak of me as I am:' Subaltern Voice and the Politics of Ethnic Mimesis in Postcolonial Shakespeare
- Conference Name:
- Location: Los Angeles
- Date: April, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- Reading Black Women Characters in English Renaissance Literature: Colonial Inscription and Postcolonial Recovery
- Conference Name:
- Location: Duke University
- Date: March 23, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- Bengali Feminist Thought in the Nineties: The Conference on Women in Society and Literature held at Dhaka University, Bangladesh,
1991. Images of Asian Women
- Conference Name:
- Location: Old Dominion University
- Date: November, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- The Renaissance: Recovering Lost Voices
- Conference Name:
- Location: English Department, Old Dominion University
- Date: November, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- Complex Soliloquies in the Plays of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
- Conference Name:
- Location: Bowling Green University. Bowling Green, Ohio
- Date: March, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- The Colors of the Butterfly: A Discourse on the Problematics and Issues of the Shakespearean Presence in Bangladesh 1858-1988
- Conference Name:
- Location: Philadelphia
- Date: April, 1990
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- O'Neill and Shakespeare: A Connection Reconsidered
- Conference Name:
- Location: University of Wisconsin. Oshkosh
- Date: October, 1988
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- Richard III and the `Misuses' of History
- Sponsoring Organization: British Council
- Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Date: June, 1985
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- The Novel and the Film: Bibhuti Bhusan's Pather Panchali (Song of the Road) and the Satyajit Ray film trilogy
- Conference Name:
- Location: Oklahoma University. Stillwater, Oklahoma
- Date: 1980
- Authors/Presenters:
Habib, I.
- 2009: Charles and Elizabeth Burgess Award for Scholarship, College of Arts and Letters, ODU
- 1991: Merit Award, outstanding teaching and research, University of Nevada
- 2011: Shining Star Award , Division of Student Affairs, Old Dominion University
- 2008: Robin L. Hixon Research Fellow in English, Old Dominion University
- 1971: Junior Common Room Scholar, New College, Oxford