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Sara Ahmed (b 1969) is an Australian and British academic working at the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism. She was born in Manchester, England to a Pakistani father and English mother, and emigrated to Adelaide, Australia with her family in 1973. Key themes in her work relating to migration, orientation, difference, strangerness, and mixed identities relate directly to some of these early experiences. She completed a BA (hons) in English and History at Adelaide University from 1987-1990, and then undertook doctoral research at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University from 1991-1994. She was based at the Centre for Women’s Studies (later the Institute for Women’s Studies) at Lancaster University from 1994-2004, and was Co-Director and then Director of the Institute from 2000-2003. Appointed to the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2004, she is now Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. She has been an Executive Member of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK and Ireland), and has also acted as Co-Chair of this Association as well as Editor of its Newsletter. In the Spring semester of 2009, she was the Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women’s Studies at Rutgers University and has previously held visiting appointments in Gender Studies at Sydney University (2003-4) and Adelaide University (1999).

Key Books

(2010) The Promise of Happiness. Durham: Duke University Press.

(2006). Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke University Press.

(2004). The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and New York: Routledge.

(2000). Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality. London: Routledge.

(1998). Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Online Papers

(2009). ‘Happiness and Queer Politics,’ World Picture 3, http://www.worldpicturejournal.com/

(2008). ‘The Politics of Good Feeling’, Australasian Journal of Critical Race and Whiteness Studies. 4, 1. http://www.acrawsa.org.au/ejournalFiles/Volume%204,%20Number%201,%202008/acrawsa%205-1.pdf

(2006). ‘The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism’, borderlands, 5, 3: http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol5no3_2006/ahmed_nonperform.htm

(2005). ‘The Politics of Bad Feeling’, Australasian Journal of Critical Race and Whiteness Studies. Vol 1: 72-85. http://www.acrawsa.org.au/ejournalFiles/Volume%201,%20Number%201,%202005/SaraAhmed.pdf

(2004). ‘Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism’, borderlands, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol3no2_2004/ahmed_declarations.htm

(2003). ‘In the Name of Love’, borderlands, 2, 3: 1-41. http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol2no3_2003/ahmed_love.htm

External Links

Sara Ahmed’s Goldsmiths Page http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/ahmed/

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-Sara Ahmed (b 1969) is an Australian and British academic working at the intersection of [[feminist theory]], [[queer theory]], [[critical race theory]] and postcolonialism ]]. She was born in Manchester, England to a Pakistani father and English mother, and emigrated to Adelaide, Australia with her family in 1973. Key themes in her work relating to migration, orientation, difference, strangerness, and mixed identities relate directly to some of these early experiences.  She completed a BA (hons) in English  and History at Adelaide University from 1987-1990, and then undertook doctoral research at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University from 1991-1994. She was based at the Centre for Women’s Studies (later the Institute for Women’s Studies) at Lancaster University from 1994-2004, and was Co-Director and then Director of the Institute from 2000-2003. Appointed to the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College in 2004, she is now Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. She has been an Executive Member of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK and Ireland), and has also acted as Co-Chair of this Association as well as Editor of its Newsletter.  In the Spring semester of 2009, she was the Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women’s Studies at Rutgers University and has previously held visiting appointments in Gender Studies at Sydney University (2003-4) and Adelaide University (1999).
+Sara Ahmed (b 1969) is an Australian and British academic working at the intersection of [[feminist theory]], [[queer theory]], [[critical race theory]] and [[postcolonialism]]. She was born in Manchester, England to a Pakistani father and English mother, and emigrated to Adelaide, Australia with her family in 1973. Key themes in her work relating to migration, orientation, difference, strangerness, and mixed identities relate directly to some of these early experiences.  She completed a BA (hons) in English  and History at Adelaide University from 1987-1990, and then undertook doctoral research at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University from 1991-1994. She was based at the Centre for Women’s Studies (later the Institute for Women’s Studies) at [[Lancaster University]] from 1994-2004, and was Co-Director and then Director of the Institute from 2000-2003. Appointed to the Department of Media and Communications at [[Goldsmiths College, University of London]] in 2004, she is now Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. She has been an Executive Member of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK and Ireland), and has also acted as Co-Chair of this Association as well as Editor of its Newsletter.  In the Spring semester of 2009, she was the Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women’s Studies at Rutgers University and has previously held visiting appointments in Gender Studies at Sydney University (2003-4) and Adelaide University (1999).