• Ph.D., University of York, 1993
• B.A. (honors), University of York, 1988

Research Interests:  

Ranjana Khanna received her PhD in Women's Studies at the University of York, U.K., in 1993. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Literature at Duke University. She is also an affiliate in Women's Studies. She teaches and researches in the areas of psychoanalytic, postcolonial and feminist theory and literature (and in various combinations of these). Her book, Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She is currently completing a book manuscript on transnational feminism provisionally titled "Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present." She has published on a variety of subjects ranging from feminism, film, autobiography, new configurations of Area Studies in the post-Cold War era, torture and terrorism, and psychoanalysis.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

Books

•  Asylum: The Concept and the Practice. 2010 .
•  Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present. November, 2007 .
•  Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism.  Duke University Press, April, 2003 .

•  "Frames, Contexts, Community, Justice."  2005, 11-41. (Summer 2003. However, the issue appeared in November 2005.)
•  "Utopia's Guest." The Future of Utopia Ed. Alberto Moreiras and Fredric Jameson. Duke University Press, Forthcoming.
• R. Khanna. "Signatures of the Impossible."  2004.
•  "Latent Ghosts and the Manifesto."  April, 2003, 244-286.
•  "Taking a Stand for Afghanistan."  Fall, 2002, 464-5.
• 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." Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women's Studies Ed. Mary M. Lay, Janice Monk, Deborah S. Rosenfelt. The Feminist Press, 2002, 21-45.
•  "The Experience of Evidence: Language, Law and the Mockery of Justice." Algeria in and Out of French Ed. Anne Berger. Cornell UP, Jan. 2001.
•  "The Ambiguity of Ethics: Specters of Colonialism." Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century Ed. Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka. Columbia UP, January, 2001.
•  "From Third to Fourth Cinema."  1998, 13-32.
•  "'Araby' (Dubliners): Women's Time and the Time of the Nation."  Ed. Ellen Carol Jones. Rodopi, 1998, 81-101. (Refereed)
•  "The Construction of the Dark Continent: Agency as Autobiography." Women's Lives/Women's Times Ed. Treva Broughton and Linda Anderson. SUNY, Dec. 1997, 103-20.
• with R. Khanna and Karen Engle. "Forgotten History: Myth, Empathy, and Assimilated Culture." Feminism and the New Democracy Ed. Jodie Dean. Sage Press, 1997, 67-80.
•  "Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Repetition, Repression and the Unconscious." New Directions in Cognitive Science Ed. Pauli Pylkko and Paavo Pylkannen. Finnish Artificial Intellegence Society, 1995, 358-67.