Asia/South Asia

Affiliated Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

Denise Cruz

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Transnational, interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to Asian North American, ethnic American, and American literature and culture

Filipino and Philippine Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Asia/South Asia

Postcolonial Studies

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

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Full-time Faculty

Gauri Viswanathan

Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Cultural and Intellectual History

Religious Studies

19th Century British and Colonial Cultural Studies

History of Disciplines

20th and 21st Century

Postcolonial and Global South

Asia/South Asia

Affiliated Graduate Students

Laurie Bashford

PhD Student

Research Interests

Asian American and Asian Diaspora

Global Anglophone

World Literature

Postcolonial and the Global South

Asia/South Asia

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Comparative Literature and Translation,

Performance Studies

Creative Writing

Creative-Critical

Poetry and Poetics

Cultural Studies

Science and Environmental Studies

Law and Humanities

Srija Umapathy

PhD Student

Research Interests

Global Anglophone

Postcolonial and the Global South

Postcolonial Studies

Asia/South Asia

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Critical Theory

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Postcolonial Studies