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Neetu Khanna’s research interests include theories of literature and decolonization, global marxisms, postcolonial literature theory, materialist aesthetics, and queer feminist theory. Her recent book, 'Visceral Logics of Decolonization' (Duke University Press, 2020), rethinks the global project of decolonization by exploring the relationships between embodied experience, political feeling, and visceral conceptualizations, centering the archive of Muslim internationalist art and literature emerging from India between the 1930s and 1950s. Khanna’s articles have appeared in prominent journals such as Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Text, Scholar Feminist Online, and Journal of Postcolonial Writing. As a comparative literary scholar, she focuses on South Asian literature and teaches literary works in Hindi, Urdu, Russian, English, and Spanish. Her areas of expertise include postcolonial literature theory, gender and feminist theories, Marxist materialist aesthetics, affect theory, and studies of the body.
University of Southern California • Los Angeles, CA
Teaches and conducts research in the field of Comparative Literature.
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