Description: Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.
Brief description: Shirin E. Edwin is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Metropolitan State University. She is a scholar of African literatures, women's studies, and Islamic studies. She has also served as a tenured Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at NYU Shanghai and as a tenured Associate Professor of French at Sam Houston State University.