Graduate Faculty

Nasrin Olla is an Assistant Professor of English and African & African American Studies. Nasrin completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Cape Town and her PhD in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Nasrin is currently completing her first book project, The Right to Opacity, which engages with the theme of alterity across a range of contemporary African and African diasporic literature.

M.F.A. Indiana University, 2000
B.A. University of Alabama, 1997

Doomstead Days, Nightboat Books, 2019

The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, Ahsahta Press, 2015

Companion Grasses, Omnidawn Publishing, 2013

Ph.D. Syracuse University

M.A. Virginia Commonwealth University

B.A. Virginia Commonwealth University

Small Pieces, Dalkey Archive Press, 2023

The New American, Simon & Schuster, 2020.
The Brick House, Awst Press, 2017.

Brief History of Yes, Dalkey Archive Press, 2013.

The Mirror in the Well, Dalkey Archive Press, 2008.

Draining the Sea, Riverhead Books, 2008.

The Daydreaming Boy, Riverhead Books, 2004.

Three Apples Fell from Heaven, Riverhead Books, 2001.