Overview
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.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of English
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2008 - Present
English,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
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2018 - Present
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute,
University Institutes and Centers
Professor of Literature
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2008 - Present
Literature,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
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2018 - Present
Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
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Recent Publications
Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia”
Chapter · January 1, 2024 This chapter on melancholy/melancholia addresses the use of these categories over the last 30 years in the analysis of cultural difference associated with race, gender, and sexuality. In particular, I will address the different trajectories that emerge in ... Full text CiteTranslation, geschlecht, and thinking across: On the theory of trans-
Chapter · November 29, 2022 Full text CiteTouching the corpse: Reading Sinan Antoon
Journal Article New Literary History · March 1, 2020 Full text CiteRecent Grants
American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellow
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Council of Learned Societies · 2022 - 2024Seminars in Historical, Global, and Emerging Humanities
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation · 2014 - 2018Promoting International Perspectives at the Feminist Theory Workshop
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2009 - 2010View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of York (United Kingdom) ·
1993
Ph.D.
University of York (United Kingdom) ·
1988
B.A.