About Barbara Harlow

teaches English and comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Resistance Literature (Routledge, 1986), Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention (Wesleyan, 1992), After Lives: Legacies of Revolutionary Writing (Verso, 1996), and co-editor with Mia Carter of Archives of Empire (Duke, 2003). She has taught in Egypt (Cairo), Ireland (Galway), and South Africa (Pietermaritzburg and Durban). In addition to an intellectual biography of the South African activist Ruth First, she is working on a project examining historical connections of international humanitarian and human rights law with Third World literature.