Sabnam Ghosh

Sabnam Ghosh is a Lecturer in Asian American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL). She teaches and researches at the intersection of Comparative Literature, Asian American Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, with a particular focus on displacement aesthetics, diaspora, and migration.

Education:

• PhD in Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies, University of Georgia
• MSc in Comparative and General Literature, The University of Edinburgh, UK
• BA in Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, India

Research Interests: Professor Ghosh interrogates how themes of displacement, diaspora, migration, immigration laws, and new materialisms manifest in literary forms, and how these disrupt identity, culture, ethics, alterity, and nationhood. Her comparative work spans multiple Asian American ethnicities, tracing how unique experiences of displacement across generations shape identities and rights in diaspora.

Her current book manuscript, Displaced Lives, identifies an Asian American consciousness privileging displacement as historically defining Asian Americans as foreigners and aliens. Her ongoing project, Soil and Nationalism, examines how the materiality of soil in literary works situates Asian Americans within transnational marginalization before and after migration.

Teaching & Engagement: Committed to inclusive and community-engaged pedagogy, Professor Ghosh has designed literature courses that integrate applied humanities projects, fostering diversity and belonging. She has taught widely in Ethnic Studies programs across the United States.

Personal Note: Her passion for displacement and social justice is rooted in her own family’s migration from Bangladesh to India before the 1947 Partition, experiences that literature helps her articulate and understand.