Aarthi Vadde
- Assistant Professor
- English
- 303I Allen Building
- Campus Box 90015
- Phone: 919-613-0424
- Office Hours: Spring 2013
Thursday - 10:00am-12:00pm - Homepage
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Specialties
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Research Summary
Transnational British and Anglophone Literature, Theories of Cosmopolitanism, Approaches to World Literature, Modernism, Postcolonialism, Environmentalism and the Human -
Research Description
Aarthi Vadde works in the overlapping fields of British and Anglophone literature with a particular interest in the novel, transnational modernism, postcolonialism, and contemporary issues of migration and globalization. Her current book project, entitled “Chimeras of Form: Anticolonial Modernism and Transnational Thought” looks at the conjuncture of modernist aesthetics and anticolonialism in the first half of the twentieth century. From there, it recovers a set of formal strategies and political aspirations that remain crucial for writers adapting the novel to the contemporary moment of globalization. Tracing convergences between formal experimentation and transnational thought in works that circulate across Britain, South Asia, South Africa, and the Caribbean, this study also diversifies the practices and practitioners usually associated with modernism’s evolution and its legacies. Vadde joins Duke from a postdoctoral fellowship in the English Department at Harvard and currently serves as book reviews editor (British and Anglophone literature division) for the journal Contemporary Literature. A list of her publications can be found below.
