Professor Pheng Cheah (Visiting Research Professor)
Biographical note
Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Research Professor in the School of English, HKU. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (2006) and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (2003), and the co-editor of Derrida and the Time of the Political (2009), Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson (2003) and Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation (1998). He is currently completing a book on theories of the world and world literature from the postcolonial South in an era of global financialization.
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