Ranjana Khanna

Ranjana Khanna is a literary critic and theorist recognized for her interdisciplinary, feminist and internationalist contributions to the fields of post-colonial studies, feminist theory, literature and political philosophy. She is best known for her work on melancholia and psychoanalysis, but has also published extensively on questions of post-colonial agency, film, Algeria, area studies, autobiography, Marxism, the visual and feminist theory. She received her Ph.D in 1993 from the University of York. She has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle and at the University of Utah, and in 2000 began teaching at Duke University, where she is the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women’s Studies,[1] and Professor of English, Literature and Women’s Studies.[2] Her theorization of subjectivity and sovereignty, including her recent work on disposability, indignity and asylum, engages with the work of diverse thinkers such as Derrida, Irigaray, Kant, Marx, Heidegger, de Beauvoir, and Spivak.

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  1. ↑ Ranjana Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and Professor, English, Literature and Women's Studies
  2. ↑ Ranjana Khanna Professor of English and Literature, and Chair, Women's Studies
  3. ↑ http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/viewArticle/385/815
  4. ↑ http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/djglp/vol11/iss1/5/
  5. ↑ Stasio, Frank (May 10, 2012). "Who Needs Feminism?". The State of Things. WUNC-FM. Retrieved 2014-03-09.
  6. ↑ November DukeReads Selection with Ranjana Khanna(archived)
  7. ↑ DukeReads - The White Tiger - 11-11-09 on YouTube
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