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Kritish Rajbhandari is an Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College, affiliated with the English Department and the Division of Literature and Languages. Their work bridges South Asian and African literature, Indian Ocean studies, and postcolonial theory. They teach in Reed's Humanities 110 interdisciplinary program and the Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies (CRES) program.
Research focuses on Indian Ocean literary networks, examining how contemporary novels reimagine cultural encounters and migration through oceanic frameworks. Their award-winning PhD dissertation, honored with the ACLA’s Charles Bernheimer Prize (2020), forms the basis of an upcoming book project. Translation work includes children's poetry from Nepal Bhasa to English, with an upcoming bilingual edition of Durgalal Shrestha's poetry.
Recent publications engage with oceanic humanities, exploring themes like migratory narratives, archival silences, and queer diaspora. Their scholarship critiques colonial maritime histories while proposing new aesthetic frameworks for understanding transoceanic exchanges. Current projects emphasize decolonial approaches to literary analysis and the epistemologies of marginalized oceanic voices.
