Aparajita Sagar

Aparajita Sagar serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Purdue University, with additional affiliations as an Affiliated Faculty member in Critical Disability Studies, Asian American Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies (all under SIS), and Asian Studies (under SLC). Her interdisciplinary academic profile bridges literary studies, cultural theory, and social justice frameworks.

Her educational background includes:

• Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1991)

Dr. Sagar's research critically examines postcolonial and feminist theoretical frameworks through 20th-century literary traditions, with concentrated expertise in Asian American, South Asian, and Caribbean literature. Her scholarship interrogates intersections of race, gender, class, ability, and sexuality within transnational contexts, while exploring urban space, domesticity, and cultural commodities in Africa and South Asia. Current projects investigate third-world cities/citizenship, imperial discourses of gifts and sacrifice, memory-speed dynamics, and aesthetic consumption patterns in global consumer culture.