Raj Chetty

Raj Chetty is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. John's University. His research focuses on Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Literary Studies, and Black Diaspora Studies, with an emphasis on Dominican and Haitian cultural production.

• Ph.D., 2013, University of Washington, English
• M.A., 2006, Brigham Young University, English
• B.A., 2000, University of California, Riverside, English

His current projects include theatrical interpretations of C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins and analyses of Dominican literary engagements with blackness post-Trujillo dictatorship. His work challenges dominant theories of racial identity through interdisciplinary approaches combining literature, performance, and cultural studies.

Key themes in his publications include race and ethnicity, postcolonial theater, and Dominican-Haitian diasporic narratives. He has presented at international conferences such as the Afro-Latin American Research Association and the Latin American Studies Association.