Dr. Yogita Goyal

Biography

Yogita Goyal is a Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 2003 and has since focused her research on African American literature, Anglophone African literature, and postcolonial studies. Goyal's work critically examines the intersections of race, literature, and the historical contexts of the Black diaspora. She is the author of 'Romance, Diaspora, Black Atlantic Literature' (2010) and 'Runaway Genres: Global Afterlives of Slavery' (2019), which emphasize the impact of slavery on contemporary human rights discourses. Goyal received the René Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association in 2021 and has participated in various editorial projects, contributing to the understanding of U.S. postcolonial studies. Previously, she has been an editor for the journal Contemporary Literature and held the position of President of the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (A.S.A.P.). Goyal has also been recognized with numerous awards for her teaching and research, including fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She explores contemporary literature's role in articulating narratives of migration and identity, significantly enriching the academic discourse surrounding these topics.

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