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Postcolonial Studies

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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Faculty Emeriti

Ann Douglas

Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature; Special Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th-Century American Literatures and History
Popular Culture
Film, Media, and Visual Studies
Ethnicity and Race
Postcolonial Studies

Affiliated Graduate Students

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Aya F Labanieh

PhD Student

Research Interests

Conspiracy Theory and Conspiracy Culture
Postcolonial Studies
Secularisms and Modernities
Middle Eastern Literature and Politics
Counter-Discourse
Comedy
Secularisms and Modernities
Ancient Babylonian Reception
Public Humanities
Critical Museology
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Evelyn MacPherson

PhD Student

Research Interests

Postcolonial Studies
Culture Studies
Extraction Studies
the Intersection of Corporate Colonialism and Literature
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Srija Umapathy

PhD Student

Research Interests

Queer Theory
Psychoanalysis
Postcolonial Studies
Film Theory
Gender and Sexuality Studies
World Literature
Media Studies
Film, Media, and Visual Studies
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