Duke the Program In Literature

  • Ranjana Khanna

  • Professor
  • Literature
  • 313 Allen Building
  • Campus Box 90760
  • Phone: +1 919 684 2548
  • Fax: +1 919 684 4871
  • Specialties

    • Critical Theory
    • Postcolonial Literature
    • Gender & Sexuality Studies
    • Modern to Contemporary
    • Novels
  • Research Description

    Ranjana Khanna works on Anglo- and Francophone Postcolonial theory and literature, Psychoanalysis, and Feminist theory. She has published articles on transnational feminism, psychoanalysis, autobiography, postcolonial agency, multiculturalism in an international context, postcolonial Joyce, Area Studies and Women's Studies, and Algerian film. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2003) and Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the present (Stanford University Press, 2008). Her current book project in progress is entitled "Asylum: The Concept and the Practice."
  • Education

      • Ph.D.,
      • University of York,
      • 1993
      • B.A. (honors),
      • University of York,
      • 1988
  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • Radcliffe Institute Fellowship,
      • January, 2006-2007
      • Seminar participant,
      • New Beginnings,
      • March, 2002
      • Fellow,
      • Cornell Society of the Humanities,
      • March, 1998
      • Ford Foundation Fellow,
      • SIROW Summer Institute on Globalization and Women's Studies, University of Arizona,
      • March, 1997
      • Ford Foundation Fellow, Mentor,
      • SIROW Summer Institute on Globalization and Women's Studies, University of Arizona,
      • March, 1997
      • Faculty Fellow (declined),
      • University of Utah,
      • March, 1996
      • Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in the Humanities,
      • Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Studies, University of Rochester,
      • March, 1993
      • Erasmus Exchange Scholar,
      • Universite de Paris VII, Sciences et documents des textes,
      • March, 1990
  • Selected Publications

      • Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present.
      • November, 2007.
      • "Frames, Contexts, Community, Justice."
      • Diacritics
      • 33
      • .2
      • (2005)
      • :
      • 11-41.
      • (Summer 2003. However, the issue appeared in November 2005.)
      • R. Khanna.
      • "Signatures of the Impossible."
      • Duke Journal of Law and Gender Policy
      • (2004)
      • .
      • "Latent Ghosts and the Manifesto."
      • Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians
      • 26
      • .2
      • (2003)
      • :
      • 244-286.
      • Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism.
      • Duke University Press,
      • 2003.
      • "Taking a Stand for Afghanistan."
      • Signs
      • 28
      • .1
      • (2002)
      • :
      • 464-5.
      • with
      • R. Khanna, Barbara Burton, Nouray Ibryamova, Dyan Ellen Mazurana, and S. Lily Mendoza.
      • "Cartographies of Scholarship: The Ends of Nation-States, International Studies, and the Cold War."
      • Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women's Studies.
      • Ed. Mary M. Lay, Janice Monk, Deborah S. Rosenfelt.
      • The Feminist Press,
      • 2002.
      • 21-45.
      • "The Experience of Evidence: Language, Law and the Mockery of Justice."
      • Algeria in and Out of French.
      • Ed. Anne Berger.
      • Cornell UP,
      • Jan. 2001.
      • "The Ambiguity of Ethics: Specters of Colonialism."
      • Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century.
      • Ed. Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka.
      • Columbia UP,
      • 2001.
      • "From Third to Fourth Cinema."
      • Third Text
      • (1998)
      • :
      • 13-32.
      • "'Araby' (Dubliners): Women's Time and the Time of the Nation."
      • Joyce, Feminism, Colonialism/Postcolonialism/European Joyce Studies
      • .
      • Ed. Ellen Carol Jones.
      • Rodopi,
      • (1998)
      • :
      • 81-101.
      • (Refereed)
      • "The Construction of the Dark Continent: Agency as Autobiography."
      • Women's Lives/Women's Times.
      • Ed. Treva Broughton and Linda Anderson.
      • SUNY,
      • Dec. 1997.
      • 103-20.
      • with
      • R. Khanna and Karen Engle.
      • "Forgotten History: Myth, Empathy, and Assimilated Culture."
      • Feminism and the New Democracy.
      • Ed. Jodie Dean.
      • Sage Press,
      • 1997.
      • 67-80.
      • "Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Repetition, Repression and the Unconscious."
      • New Directions in Cognitive Science.
      • Ed. Pauli Pylkko and Paavo Pylkannen.
      • Finnish Artificial Intellegence Society,
      • 1995.
      • 358-67.
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  • Postdoctoral Students

    • Denise Comer
      • 2002 - 2004
  • PhD Students

    • Azeen Khan
      • 2007 - present
    • Madhumita Lahiri
    • Shilyh Warren
    • Rachel Price
      • 2004 - present
      • Status: PostQual
    • Firat Oruc
      • 2004 - present
      • Status: PostPrelim
    • Rachel Price
      • 2004 - 2007
      • Status: PostPrelim
    • Betsy Hines
      • 2003 - present
      • Status: PostPrelim
    • Sarah L Lincoln
      • 2003 - present
      • Status: PostQual
    • Stacy B Lavin
      • 2003 - present
      • Status: PostQual
    • Jaya Kasibhatla
      • 2003 - present
      • Status: PostPrelim
    • Virginia Tuma
      • 2003 - present
      • Status: PostPrelim
    • Elizabeth Howie
      • 2002 - present
      • Status: PostPrelim
      • (UNC)
    • Simon Hay
      • 2002 - present
      • Status: PostPrelim
    • David Woodard
      • 2002 - present
      • Status: PostPrelim
    • Li li Hsieh
      • 2002 - present
      • Status: PostPrelim
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