Asia/South Asia

Affiliated Faculty

photo of Denise Cruz

Full-time Faculty

Denise Cruz

Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature; 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

Director of the South Asia Institute; 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