Ranjana Khanna
- Professor of English and Literature,
- English
- 210 East Duke Building
- Campus Box 90760
- Phone: (919) 668-2548
- Fax: (919) 684-4652
- Office Hours: Spring 2011
By appointment -
Specialties
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Research Summary
Critical Theory; Postcolonial Literature; Psychoanalytic Theory and Feminist Studies -
Research Description
Ranjana Khanna is Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and 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. Her current book manuscript in progress is called: Asylum: The Concept and the Practice.
