Pallavi Rastogi

Dr. Pallavi Rastogi is the J.F. Taylor Endowed Professor of English at Louisiana State University (LSU), affiliated with the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. She specializes in global Anglophone literature, postcolonial theory, and postcolonial popular culture. Her research focuses on postcolonial disaster narratives, diaspora studies, and critical ethnic studies.

• Education: Ph.D. in English from Tufts University

Her recent publications include Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century (2020) and co-edited volumes such as Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature (2024). She is co-editing Asians on the Third Coast: Other Races, Other Cultures in Louisiana, under contract with LSU Press.

Her work explores intersections of race, disaster, and diaspora in literary contexts. She has contributed to special journal issues like Writing South Asia in Disastrous Time (2023) and Precarities, Resistance, and Care Communities in South Asia (2018).

• Awards:
  • LSU Faculty Distinguished Award
  • LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award
  • English Graduate Student Association Outstanding Faculty Award
  • Tiger Athletic Foundation Award for Undergraduate Teaching
  • LSU Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching

Dr. Rastogi has also co-produced the award-winning film Peace Haven (2015) and holds editorial roles as Associate Editor of South Asian Review and member of Safundi’s editorial board. She received the Louisiana ATLAS grant (2021–2022) for her monograph Other South Asias.