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. Nasrin’s work has appeared in b2o, the History of the Present, and the LA Review of Books. Her research interests include African Diasporic & African Literature; Anglophone and Francophone African Thought; Ethics/Critical Theory; and Gender Studies/Queer Theory.