Sara Suleri
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Professor Sara Suleri Goodyear |
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| Born |
June 12, 1953 Karachi, Pakistan |
| Alma mater |
Kinnaird College (BA) Punjab University (MA) Indiana University (PhD) |
| Occupation | Professor, writer |
| Employer | Yale University |
| Known for | Founding editor of the Yale Journal of Criticism |
| Notable work | Meatless Days |
| Spouse(s) | Austin Goodyear (m. 1993–2008; his death) |
| Parent(s) |
Z. A. Suleri Mair Jones |
Sara Suleri Goodyear, born Sara Suleri (born June 12, 1953), is an author and professor emeritus of English at Yale University, where her fields of study and teaching include Romantic and Victorian poetry and an interest in Edmund Burke. Her special concerns include postcolonial literature and theory, contemporary cultural criticism, literature and law. She was a founding editor of the Yale Journal of Criticism, and serves on the editorial boards of YJC, The Yale Review, and Transition.
Suleri was born in Pakistan, one of six children, to a Welsh mother, Mair Jones, an English professor, and a Pakistani father, Z. A. Suleri (1913–1999), a notable political journalist, conservative writer, author, and the Pakistan Movement activist regarded as one of the pioneer of print journalism in Pakistan, and authored various history and political books on Pakistan as well as Islam in the South Asian subcontinent.
She had her early education in London and attended secondary school in Lahore. She received her B.A. at Kinnaird College, also in Lahore, in 1974. Two years later, she was awarded an M.A. from Punjab University, and went on to graduate with a PhD from Indiana University in 1983.
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