Asia/South Asia

Affiliated Faculty

photo of Denise Cruz

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

photo of Gauri Viswanathan

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,, Theatre, Drama, 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, Africa, Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film media, Visual Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Psychoanlaysis