cooolmlk2

I go to Columbia for English right now and I am almost positive that she will not answer your e-mail. Additionally, she does not teach anymore so the fact that you want to work with her will be of no consequence to the admissions committee. It may even be a detriment in that it will reveal that you haven't sufficiently researched the program. That being said, there are a lot of interesting and noteworthy other post-colonial scholars working in the English department who you might want to contact. It seems that Columbia is quite well known for that field so it would probably impress the admissions committee more if you had a more nuanced idea of what kind of work was going on there in your field.