Dr. Marian Aguiar

Biography

Marian Aguiar is an Associate Professor of Literary Cultural Studies in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research and teaching focus on postcolonial studies, border studies, mobilities, and global gender studies. She authored a book that considers representations of India’s railway and its imagination within colonial and postcolonial spaces of movement. Her book, 'Arranging Marriage: Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora,' examines the cultural agency of the South Asian diaspora through the lens of legal, literary, and media narratives surrounding arranged marriage in the UK, Canada, and the U.S. Aguiar is also the co-editor of 'Mobilities, Literature, Culture' (Palgrave, 2019), a book dedicated to literary and cultural scholars’ engagement with mobilities scholarship. She serves as co-editor for Palgrave Macmillan’s book series 'Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture' and is a co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal 'Mobilities' (published by Taylor & Francis). Her forthcoming book, 'Errant Mobilities: Decolonial Imaginaries of Mediterranean Sea Migration' (Manchester), examines representations of refugees, particularly focusing on the movements of migrants within the borderspace of the Mediterranean Sea.

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