Aparajita Sagar
- Associate Professor // English
- Affiliated Faculty // Critical Disability Studies // SIS
- Associate Professor // Comparative Literature // SLC
- Affiliated Faculty // Asian American Studies // SIS
- Associate Professor // SIS
- Affiliated Faculty // Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies // SIS
- Affiliated Faculty // Asian Studies // SLC
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
Room: SC 257
Email: asagar@purdue.edu
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)