Before joining the Cornell English department, Dagmawi Woubshet received his PhD from Harvard University, where he specialized in African-American, comparative African Diaspora, and contemporary American literature and culture. He is currently completing a comparative study on the poetics and politics of AIDS writing in the United States, South Africa and Ethiopia. He is also a co-editor of two forthcoming volumes: Imaging Ethiopia: Monarchy to Modernity (with Salah Hassan and Elizabeth Wolde-Giorgis); and, a special issue on Ethiopia in the journal Callaloo (with Salamishah Tillet). His writing has appeared in Art South Africa, Callaloo , and NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art . A true itinerant, he splits his time between Ithaca, New York City, and Addis Ababa.