Postcolonial Studies

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

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

Aya F Labanieh

PhD Student

Research Interests

Conspiracy Theory and Conspiracy Culture

Postcolonial Studies

Secularisms and Modernities

Middle Eastern Literature and Politics

Counter-Discourse

Secularisms and Modernities

Ancient Babylonian Reception

Public Humanities

Critical Museology

Evelyn MacPherson

PhD Student

Research Interests

Postcolonial Studies

Culture Studies

Extraction Studies

the Intersection of Corporate Colonialism and Literature

Srija Umapathy

PhD Student

Research Interests

Postcolonial Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies

World Literature

Film, Media, and Visual Studies