Ranjana Khanna

Ranjana Khanna is a literary critic and theorist recognized for her interdisciplinary, feminist and internationalist contributions to the fields of post-colonial studies, feminist theory, literature and political philosophy. She is best known for her work on melancholia and psychoanalysis, but has also published extensively on questions of post-colonial agency, film, Algeria, area studies, autobiography, Marxism, the visual and feminist theory. She received her Ph.D in 1993 from the University of York. She has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle and at the University of Utah, and in 2000 began teaching at Duke University, where she is Professor of English, Literature and Women's Studies.^[1] Her theorization of subjectivity and sovereignty, including her recent work on disposability, indignity and asylum, engages with the work of diverse thinkers such as Derrida, Irigaray, Kant, Marx, Heidegger, de Beauvoir, and Spivak. From 2007 until 2015, she was the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies,^[2] and in July 2017, she was appointed to be the incoming Director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute,^[3] both at Duke University.

Ranjana Khanna
Academic background
Alma mater	University of York
Academic work
Institutions	Duke University
Main interests	Literary critic and literary theory

Published works

• Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present. Stanford University Press. 2007.
• Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism. Duke University Press. 2003.

References

• Houtman, Coral (August 2005). "Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (review)" (PDF). Leonardo. 38 (4). Retrieved 2014-03-09.^[specify]
• R.Khanna. "Asylum." Texas International Law Journal. Jul 1, 2006. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P3-1215282531.html
• Boitten, Jennifer. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32480
• Neath, Nic. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppi.131/abstract

Footnotes

1. Ranjana Khanna Professor of English and Literature, and Chair, Women's Studies
2. Ranjana Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and Professor, English, Literature and Women's Studies
3. http://www.fhi.duke.edu/khanna-named-fhi-director ^{[dead link‍]}

External links

• Duke Women's Studies