Research Interests for Ranjana Khanna

Ranjana Khanna is Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and Professor of English, Women's Studies, and the Literature Program at Duke University. She works on Anglo- and Francophone Postcolonial theory and literature, and Film, Psychoanalysis, and Feminist theory. She has published widely on transnational feminism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial and feminist theory, literature, and film. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2003) and Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the present (Stanford University Press, 2008.) She has published in journals like Differences, Signs, Third Text, Diacritics, Screen, Art History. Her current book manuscript in progress is called: Asylum: The Concept and the Practice.

Current projects:

Asylum:The Concept and the Practice.

Edited volume: Race Trauma and the Politics of Melancholy.

Areas of Interest:

Feminist Theory
Postcolonial Theory
Psychoanalytic Theory
Colonial & Postcolonial Literature

Representative Publications

1. 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. R. Khanna, Signatures of the Impossible, Duke Journal of Law and Gender Policy (2004)
4. Latent Ghosts and the Manifesto, Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians, vol. 26 no. 2 (April, 2003), pp. 244-286
5. Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (April, 2003), Duke University Press
6. Taking a Stand for Afghanistan, Signs, vol. 28 no. 1 (Fall, 2002), pp. 464-5
7. with R. Khanna, Barbara Burton, Nouray Ibryamova, Dyan Ellen Mazurana, and S. Lily Mendoza, 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 Mary M. Lay, Janice Monk, Deborah S. Rosenfelt (2002), pp. 21-45, The Feminist Press
8. The Experience of Evidence: Language, Law and the Mockery of Justice, in Algeria in and Out of French, edited by Anne Berger (Jan. 2001), Cornell UP
9. The Ambiguity of Ethics: Specters of Colonialism, in Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century, edited by Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka (January, 2001), Columbia UP
10. From Third to Fourth Cinema, Third Text (1998), pp. 13-32
11. 'Araby' (Dubliners): Women's Time and the Time of the Nation, edited by Ellen Carol Jones, Joyce, Feminism, Colonialism/Postcolonialism/European Joyce Studies (1998), pp. 81-101, Rodopi (Refereed.)
12. The Construction of the Dark Continent: Agency as Autobiography, in Women's Lives/Women's Times, edited by Treva Broughton and Linda Anderson (Dec. 1997), pp. 103-20, SUNY
13. with R. Khanna and Karen Engle, Forgotten History: Myth, Empathy, and Assimilated Culture, in Feminism and the New Democracy, edited by Jodie Dean (1997), pp. 67-80, Sage Press
14. Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Repetition, Repression and the Unconscious, in New Directions in Cognitive Science, edited by Pauli Pylkko and Paavo Pylkannen (1995), pp. 358-67, Finnish Artificial Intellegence Society