Ranjana Khanna
Professor of English
Ranjana Khanna is 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, positions, SAQ, Feminist Theory, and Public Culture. Her current book manuscripts in progress are called: Asylum: The Concept and the Practice and Technologies of Unbelonging.
Office Hours
Fall 2022 Semester:
T 9:00-10:00 am (304GH Allen)
Th 9:00-10:00 am B193 Smith Warehouse Bay 4/5
By appointment over zoom; contact Avery Rhoades for an appointment: avery.rhoades@duke.edu .
T 9:00-10:00 am (304GH Allen)
Th 9:00-10:00 am B193 Smith Warehouse Bay 4/5
By appointment over zoom; contact Avery Rhoades for an appointment: avery.rhoades@duke.edu .
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008
- Director, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2018
- Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008
Contact Information
- 304GH Allen Bldg, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
- Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
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rkhanna@duke.edu
(919) 684-2741
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of York (United Kingdom) 1993
- B.A., University of York (United Kingdom) 1988
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2021
- Director of the Program in Women, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2015
- Margaret Taylor Smith Director of the Women's Studies Program, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2007 - 2011
- Director, Undergraduate Studies in the Women, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2011
- Director of Graduate Studiesfor Women, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2011
- Associate Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004 - 2008
- Associate Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004 - 2008
- Associate Professor in Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004 - 2006
- Assistant Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2004
- Assistant Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2004
- Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003 - 2004
- Recognition
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In the News
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SEP 25, 2014
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Subject Headings
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Global Scholarship
- Research
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Selected Grants
- American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellow awarded by American Council of Learned Societies 2022 - 2024
- Seminars in Historical, Global, and Emerging Humanities awarded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014 - 2018
- Promoting International Perspectives at the Feminist Theory Workshop awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2009 - 2010
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Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
- Reckoning with Race, Racism, and the History of the American South Initiative: AAA Lab: Art, Archive, Asylum; or Race and Mental Health in the Southern United States awarded by Duke Office of the Provost 2021
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Khanna, R. Technologies of Unbelonging (In preparation), 2009.
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Khanna, R. Asylum: The Concept and the Practice (In preparation), 2009.
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Khanna, R. Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present, 2007.
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Khanna, R. Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism. Duke University Press, 2003.
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Academic Articles
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Khanna, R. “Touching the corpse: Reading Sinan Antoon.” New Literary History 51, no. 2 (March 1, 2020): 401–18. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2020.0024.Full Text
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Khanna, Ranjana. “Stefania Pandolfo, Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam.” Psychoanalysis and History 21, no. 3 (December 2019): 369–72. https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2019.0313.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Speculation; Or, living in the face of the intolerable.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 109–15. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4297159.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Stranger.” New Literary History 49, no. 2 (March 1, 2018): 279–84. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2018.0018.Full Text
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Khanna, Ranjana. “Stranger.” New Literary History 49, no. 2 (2018): 279–84.Link to Item
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Khanna, R. “On the name, ideation, and sexual difference.” Differences 27, no. 2 (September 1, 2016): 62–78. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-3621709.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Fabric, skin, honte-ologie,” January 1, 2014, 159–79. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315787626.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “The lumpenproletariat, the subaltern, the mental asylum.” South Atlantic Quarterly 112, no. 1 (December 1, 2013): 129–43. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-1891287.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Touching, unbelonging, and the absence of affect.” Feminist Theory 13, no. 2 (August 1, 2012): 213–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700112442649.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Racial France, or the melancholic alterity of postcolonial studies.” Public Culture 23, no. 1 (December 1, 2011): 191–99. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2010-022.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Unbelonging: In motion.” Differences 21, no. 1 (August 20, 2010): 109–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2009-020.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Hope, Demand and the Perpetual,” 2010.
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Khanna, R. “Disposability.” Differences 20, no. 1 (August 18, 2009): 181–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2008-021.Full Text
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Mansoor, Jaleh, ed. “The Age of Asylum: Mona Hatoum,” 2009.
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Khanna, R. “Indignity.” Positions 16, no. 1 (January 1, 2008). https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2007-011.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “From Rue Morgue to Rue des Iris.” Screen 48, no. 2 (December 1, 2007): 237–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjm021.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Indignity.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 30, no. 2 (March 1, 2007): 257–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870601143943.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Post-Palliative.” Postcolonial Text 2 (2006).
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Khanna, R. “Asylum.” Texas International Law Journal 41 (2006): 471–90.
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Khanna, R. “On asylum and genealogy.” South Atlantic Quarterly 104, no. 2 (December 1, 2005): 371–80. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-2-371.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Signatures of the Impossible.” Duke Journal of Law and Gender Policy, 2004.
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Khanna, R. “Latent Ghosts and the Manifesto.” Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians 26 (April 2003): 244–86.
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Khanna, R. “Baya (translation).” Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians 26 (April 2003): 287–287.
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Khanna, R. “Le Combat de Baya (translation).” Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians 26 (April 2003): 288–89.
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Khanna, R. “Frames, contexts, community, justice.” Diacritics 33, no. 2 (January 1, 2003): 11–41. https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2005.0022.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Taking a stand for Afghanistan: Women and the left.” Signs 28, no. 1 (2002): 464–65. https://doi.org/10.1086/340873.Full Text Link to Item
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Khanna, R. “The Ambiguity of Ethics: Specters of Colonialism.” Edited by Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka, January 2001.
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Khanna, R. “Review of Emily Apter’s Continental Drift: From National Characterisitics to Virtual Subjects.” (U of Chicago P 1999), Mlq 61 (December 2000): 692–95.
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Khanna, Ranjana. “Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects.” Modern Language Quarterly 61, no. 4 (December 1, 2000): 692–96. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-61-4-692.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Cartographies of Scholarship.” Area & International Studies Curriculum: Integration Book, January 2000.
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Khanna, R. “Review of Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism.” Edited by Elisabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, and Helene Moglen U of California P. 1997. Signs 26 (2000): 262–65.
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Khanna, R. “The battle of Algiers and the Nouba of the women of Mont Chenoua: From third to fourth cinema.” Third Text 12, no. 43 (December 1, 1998): 13–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528829808576731.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “From Third to Fourth Cinema.” Third Text, 1998, 13–32.
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Khanna, R. “’Araby’ (Dubliners): Women’s Time and the Time of the Nation.” Edited by Ellen Carol Jones. Joyce, Feminism, Colonialism/Postcolonialism/European Joyce Studies, 1998, 81–101.
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Book Sections
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Khanna, R. “The stranger at the gate: An interview.” In Against Life, 257–67, 2016.
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Khanna, R. “On the right to sleep, perchance to dream.” In A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture, 351–66, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118610169.ch19.Full Text
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Khanna, R. “Hope, Demand and the Perpetual.” In Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties. Duke University Press, 2010.
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Khanna, R. “Isaac Julien: Paradise Omeros.” In Gerst Foundation Catalogue, 2010.
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Khanna, R. “Psychoanalysis before 1966.” In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literary Theory, 2010.
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Khanna, R. “The Age of Asylum: Mona Hatoum.” In Communities of Sense, edited by Jaleh Mansoor. Duke University Press, 2009.
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Khanna, R. “Fabric, Skin, Honte-ologie.” In Shame and the Visual Arts. Routledge, 2008.
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Khanna, R., and Srinivas Aravamudan. “Interview with Fredric Jameson.” In Ed. Ian Buchanan, Fredric Jameson, Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism, 203–40. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 2007.
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Khanna, R. “Frames, Contexts, Community, Justice.” In Meaning, Frame, and Metaphor, edited by Joyce Goggim and Michael Burke, 149–71. University of Amsterdam Press, 2003.
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Khanna, R., 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, and Deborah S. Rosenfelt, 21–45. The Feminist Press, 2002.
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Khanna, R. “The Experience of Evidence: Language, Law and the Mockery of Justice.” In Algeria in and Out of French, edited by Anne Berger. Cornell UP, 2001.
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Khanna, R. “The Construction of the Dark Continent: Agency as Autobiography.” In Women’s Lives/Women’s Times, edited by Treva Broughton and Linda Anderson, 103–20. SUNY, 1997.
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Khanna, R., and Karen Engle. “Forgotten History: Myth, Empathy, and Assimilated Culture.” In Feminism and the New Democracy, edited by Jodie Dean, 67–80. Sage Press, 1997.
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Khanna, R. “Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Repetition, Repression and the Unconscious.” In New Directions in Cognitive Science, edited by Pauli Pylkko and Paavo Pylkannen, 358–67. Finnish Artificial Intellegence Society, 1995.
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Other Articles
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- AAAS 690S: Special Topics 2023
- AMES 690S: Special Topics in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 2023
- CULANTH 590S: Seminar in Selected Topics 2023
- ENGLISH 590S-2: Special Topics Seminar II 2023
- GSF 590S: Selected Topics in Feminist Studies 2023
- LIT 496: Honors Thesis II 2023
- LIT 690S: Special Topics in Literature 2023
- ROMST 690S: Seminar in Romance Studies: Special Topics 2023
- LIT 495: Honors Thesis I 2022
- LIT 891: Special Readings 2022
- AAAS 390S: Special Topics 2021
- CULANTH 290S: Current Issues in Anthropology 2021
- ENGLISH 390S-7: Special Topics in Language and Literature 2021
- ENGLISH 493: Research Independent Study 2021
- ENGLISH 497: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2021
- ENGLISH 590S-4: Special Topics Seminar in Criticism, Theory, or Methodology 2021
- ENGLISH 890S: Special Topics Seminar 2021
- LIT 390S: Special Topics in Literature 2021
- LIT 496: Honors Thesis II 2021
- ROMST 390S: Special Topics in Romance Studies 2021
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Vulnerability, Dispoability, Desubjectivation. October 16, 2009 2009
- Isaac Julien: Mobility, ‘Unbelonging’ and ‘Asylum’. September 10, 2009 2009
- Arendt, the Refugee, and the End of the Nation State. May 20, 2009 2009
- Technologies of Unbelonging: Mona Hatoum. May 15, 2009 2009
- Hope, Demand, and the Perpetual. May 7, 2009 2009
- What's the Difference?. April 10, 2009 2009
- Technologies of Unbelonging: Isaac Julien. April 8, 2009 2009
- Psychoanalysis Today: The Belated, the Perpetual, and Futurity. April 4, 2009 2009
- Hope, Demand, and the Perpetual. March 14, 2009 2009
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Service to the Profession
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