Christopher Ian Foster

CHRISTOPHER IAN FOSTER is the author of Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas (2019). He served as an Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies at Jackson State University and James Madison University after receiving a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has published widely in postcolonial and Black diaspora studies and has taught courses on globalization in the International Studies Program at Colorado State University; he recently taught in the Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Oregon. He lives in Portland, OR with his partner and is working on a second book. He is currently a faculty member in the Black Studies and International & Global Studies departments at Portland State University.