Dr. Roanne Kantor

Biography

Roanne Kantor's primary field is Global Anglophone literature with a focus on the relationship between literary traditions and the Global South. She has examined works by South Asian writers and Latin American literature, highlighted in her book 'The Rise of Global English', published in 2022. Kantor's research engages with interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities, particularly the interface of literature with medicine and the social sciences. Prior to her appointment at Stanford, she has taught at Harvard, Boston University, Brandeis, and the University of Texas at Austin. Kantor earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin and her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has received several awards, including the Helen Tartar Book Subvention Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association and the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. Her current research includes examining figures of suspicion and analysis of health narratives within public policy in India. Kantor is dedicated to exploring how global literary dynamics have shaped contemporary discourse and presents this in her teaching.

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