Amanda Lagji

Amanda Lagji is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and World Literature at Pitzer College, where she has taught since 2017. She holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a BA from Dickinson College.

Her research explores:

• Postcolonial temporalities and narrative forms
• Intersections of law, migration, and literature
• African/Caribbean/South Asian Anglophone fiction
• Theoretical frameworks in global literary studies

Her scholarly publications (2016-2024) consistently examine themes of waiting, displacement, and colonial legacies, with geographical emphasis on Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Methodologically, she employs comparative analysis across postcolonial, legal, and temporal frameworks.

Awards include:

• 2020 NeMLA Book Award for Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time

She teaches undergraduate courses such as Decolonial Futures/Postcolonial Now, Terror and the Text, and Post-Apartheid Novels. No advising relationships, grants, or lab affiliations are documented.