Bio
Almas Khan is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. She is a literary and legal historian who analyzes how intellectual movements in law and literature have shaped conceptions of US citizenship since the Civil War. Khan’s work draws on her PhD in English from the University of Virginia and her JD with a concentration in constitutional history from the University of Chicago. Her current book project, “An Intellectual Reconstruction: American Legal Realism, Literary Realism, and the Formation of Citizenship,” construes legal realism (a progenitor of critical race theory) in relation to literary realism. Her work has appeared in the anthology Critical Insights: Social Justice and American Literature and Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History.Almas Khan Books
Reimagining the Republic
Sandra M. Gustafson