Linn Cary Mehta
Part-time Faculty
lcm8@nyu.edu
429 - 1 Wash Pl
Office Hours
Tuesday 1:00-3:00
Thursday 1:00-3:00
B.A., English and French Literature, Yale University, 1977
M.A., English Language and Literature, St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford, 1988
M.Phil., Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1989
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2004
In addition to the degrees above, Dr. Mehta has studied at the Freie Universität, the Sorbonne, and Universidad Catolica in Lima, Peru.
Books
2015
Linn Cary Mehta's Poetry and Politics of Decolonization: Yeats, Tagore, Senghor, Césaire, Neruda was published by Lambert Academic Publishing.
Teaching and Research Interests
19th- and 20th-century comparative literature; literature of the Americas; historical approaches to European and postcolonial literatures especially in Ireland India Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean; poetry; modernism and post-modernism; literary theory; cultural development; women and development
Courses
2023 Spring
Poetry and the Politics of Decolonization
2023 Fall
Politics, Writing and the Nobel Prize in Latin America
2022 Spring
Poetry and the Politics of Decolonization
2022 Fall
Politics, Writing and the Nobel Prize in Latin America
2021 Spring
Poetry and the Politics of Decolonization
2021 Fall
Politics, Writing and the Nobel Prize in Latin America
2020 Spring
