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Joseph R. Slaughter is a comparative literature scholar who studies the intersections of literature, law, and social justice in the Global South. He is the author of Human Rights, Inc. and the co-editor of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development.
Joseph Slaughter is a scholar of postcolonial literatures, international law, and human rights. He is the director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the author of Human Rights, Inc. and New Word Orders.
Articles 1–20. Columbia University - Cited by 2,169 - Comparative Literatures - International Law - Human Rights - Postcolonialism/Decolonization - World Literature.
Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London. 2018. Global Humanities Project Grant, “Literature and International Law at the Edge” ($20,000), Columbia University. 2018-19. Alternate for School of Social Science Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. 2018.
Joseph Slaughter is an associate professor of English and comparative literature who specializes in literature, law, and the Global South. He has written a book on human rights and the novel, and edited a journal on human rights, humanitarianism, and development.
Joseph R. Slaughter teaches postcolonial literature and theory, human rights, and literary approaches to international law in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Aug 12, 2016 · Joseph Slaughter is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He specializes in postcolonial literature, human rights, and narrative theory, and has published several books and articles on these topics.
