Almas Khan, PH.D.

Assistant Professor of Law

As an intellectual historian, Professor Khan analyzes the dynamic relationships between legal and literary movements for equal citizenship in the postbellum United States. Drawing on her Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia and her J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, she interrogates how creative forms of legal dissent ‒ ranging from judicial opinions to lyric poems and graphic narratives ‒ have sparked constitutional reimagination in the context of African American, working-class, and women’s experiences. Professor Khan’s scholarship often centralizes figures whose identity or disciplinary hybridity has resulted in their marginalization from conventional accounts of U.S. legal history and jurisprudence.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Feminist jurisprudence; gender in American literature; Black feminism; and critical pedagogy.