Aparajita Sagar
Associate Professor
// English
Faculty
Affiliated Faculty // Critical Disability Studies // SIS
Associate Professor
// Comparative Literature // SLC
Faculty
Affiliated Faculty // Asian American Studies // SIS
Associate Professor
// SIS
Faculty
Affiliated Faculty // Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies // SIS
Affiliated Faculty
// Asian Studies // SLC
Faculty
Research focus:
Postcolonial literature and theory; feminist studies; 20th century literature; Asian American, South Asian, and Caribbean literature; critical race, gender, class, ableism, sexuality studies
Office and Contact
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991
Specialization
Postcolonial Literature
Research Areas:
Urban space, domesticity and cultural commodities in Africa and South Asia, postcolonial- and feminist-cultural studies, theory, literature and film, third world cities/citizenship; discourses of gifts and sacrifice in the imperial encounter; memory and speed culture; and taste and distinction (aestheticism and consumerism in a transnational context)