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Kalyan Nadiminti is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University. They hold a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and are a member of the graduate faculty. Their research focuses on postcolonial and global Anglophone literature, particularly 20th- and 21st-century South Asian writing. They explore themes such as literary humanitarianism, terror, and narrative form in contemporary literature. Their work has appeared in journals like NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction and Journal of Asian American Studies.
Teaching interests include human rights literature, political theory, South Asian and Global Anglophone literatures, postcolonial theory, U.S. empire studies, and race and terror. They previously taught at Gettysburg College, where they held a Mellon Fellowship, and Haverford College.
Key research areas include global Anglophone literature, critical race studies, narrative theory, modernism, and postcolonial diaspora studies. Their articles analyze intersections between literature, law, and politics, with a focus on transnational movements and neoliberalism's cultural impacts.
- Received Mellon Fellowship (Gettysburg College)
- Author of a forthcoming monograph on literary humanitarianism and contemporary narrative form
- Active in interdisciplinary clusters addressing global literary economies and empire studies
Publications span theoretical critiques of postcolonial print cultures to analyses of detention narratives and neoliberal development discourses in global fiction.
