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Ranjana Khanna, Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies

Ranjana Khanna
Contact Info:
Office Location:  305B Allen Building
Office Phone:  (919) 684-2741
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Fall 2024):

  • ENGLISH 290-7.02, SP TOP IN LANG & LIT Synopsis
    Allen 326, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
    (also cross-listed as GSF 290.02, LIT 290.02)
Office Hours:

Tuesdays 1:00-4:00pm and Wednesdays 1:00-5:00pm
Education:

Ph.D.University of York (United Kingdom)1993
B.A.University of York (United Kingdom)1988
Specialties:

Critical Theory
Postcolonial Literature
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Modern to Contemporary
Novels
Research Interests: Critical Theory; Postcolonial Literature; Psychoanalytic Theory and Feminist Studies

Current projects: Asylum:The Concept and the Practice., , Edited volume: Race Trauma and the Politics of Melancholy.

Ranjana Khanna works on Anglo- and Francophone Postcolonial theory and literature, Psychoanalysis, and Feminist theory. She has published on transnational feminism, psychoanalysis, autobiography, postcolonial agency, multiculturalism in an international context, postcolonial Joyce, Area Studies and Women's Studies, and Algerian film. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2003) and has recently completed a book manuscript entitled Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the present (forthcoming Stanford University Press, 2006.) Her current book manuscript in progress is called: Asylum: The Concept and the Practice.

Areas of Interest:

Feminist Theory
Postcolonial Theory
Psychoanalytic Theory
Colonial & Postcolonial Literature

Keywords:

Anglophone • International • Multiculturalism • Africa • Algeria • Francophone • Literature • Colonial • Postcolonial • Feminism • Theory • Psychoanalysis

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Azeen Khan  
  • Madhumita Lahiri  
  • Shilyh Warren  
  • Rachel Price  
  • Firat Oruc  
  • Rachel Price  
  • Betsy Hines  
  • Sarah L Lincoln  
  • Stacy B Lavin  
  • Jaya Kasibhatla  
  • Virginia Tuma  
  • Elizabeth Howie  
  • Simon Hay  
  • David Woodard  
  • Li li Hsieh  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Denise Comer (2002 - 2004)  
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Khanna, R, Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present (November, 2007)
  2. Frames, Contexts, Community, Justice, Diacritics, vol. 33 no. 2 (2005), pp. 11-41 (Summer 2003. However, the issue appeared in November 2005..)
  3. Khanna, R, Signatures of the Impossible, Duke Journal of Law and Gender Policy (2004)
  4. Khanna, R, Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (April, 2003), Duke University Press
  5. with Khanna, R; Burton, B; Ibryamova, N; Mazurana, DE; Mendoza, SL, Cartographies of Scholarship: The Ends of Nation-States, International Studies, and the Cold War, in Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women’s Studies, edited by Lay, MM; Monk, J; Rosenfelt, DS (2002), pp. 21-45, The Feminist Press
  6. Khanna, R, Taking a stand for Afghanistan: Women and the left, SIGNS, vol. 28 no. 1 (Fall, 2002), pp. 464-465, University of Chicago Press, ISSN 0097-9740 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  7. Khanna, R, The Experience of Evidence: Language, Law and the Mockery of Justice, in Algeria in and Out of French, edited by Berger, A (January, 2001), Cornell UP
  8. Khanna, R, The Ambiguity of Ethics: Specters of Colonialism, in Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century, edited by Bronfen, E; Kavka, M (January, 2001), Columbia UP
  9. Khanna, R, ’Araby’ (Dubliners): Women’s Time and the Time of the Nation, edited by Jones, EC, Joyce, Feminism, Colonialism/Postcolonialism/European Joyce Studies (1998), pp. 81-101, Rodopi (Refereed.)
  10. Khanna, R, From Third to Fourth Cinema, Third Text (1998), pp. 13-32
  11. Khanna, R, The Construction of the Dark Continent: Agency as Autobiography, in Women’s Lives/Women’s Times, edited by Broughton, T; Anderson, L (December, 1997), pp. 103-20, SUNY
  12. with Khanna, R; Engle, K, Forgotten History: Myth, Empathy, and Assimilated Culture, in Feminism and the New Democracy, edited by Dean, J (1997), pp. 67-80, Sage Press
  13. Khanna, R, Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Repetition, Repression and the Unconscious, in New Directions in Cognitive Science, edited by Pylkko, P; Pylkannen, P (1995), pp. 358-67, Finnish Artificial Intellegence Society