Jay Rajiva

Jay Rajiva is an Associate Professor of Global Anglophone Literature at Georgia State University. Working at the disciplinary intersection of postcolonial literature and trauma theory, Rajiva is a comparative scholar with a regional focus in Caribbean, pan-African, and South Asian fiction. Their scholarship interrogates the relationship between reading practices and ethical responses to trauma in postcolonial contexts.

Key research areas include Postcolonial Literature, Transnational and Diasporic Literatures, Trauma Theory, Caribbean Literatures, African Literatures, and South Asian Fiction. Rajiva’s work explores how animist frameworks and nonhuman matter interact with traumatic representation in literary texts.

Rajiva’s publications span books, peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and reviews. Their work engages with authors like Chinua Achebe, Jhumpa Lahiri, Nnedi Okorafor, and Arundhati Roy, analyzing trauma through animism, intertextuality, and aesthetic innovation.