Susan Koshy

Susan Koshy is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, holding positions in Asian American Studies, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and the Center for Global Gender Equity. She serves as a Faculty Fellow at the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation and the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute. Her interdisciplinary work bridges literature, anthropology, legal studies, and history, focusing on race, colonialism, capitalism, and diaspora.

She earned her B.A. and M.A. from Delhi University and a Ph.D. in English from UCLA. Her research integrates postcolonial studies, ethnic studies, and globalization theory, with a focus on white-Asian miscegenation narratives, transnational South Asian diasporas, and neoliberalism’s impact on family structures.

Key publications include *Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation* (2004, awarded the 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic Title) and co-edited volumes like *Colonial Racial Capitalism* (2022). Her recent work explores monolingualism’s cultural implications and financial empire dynamics.

Koshy has received the Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar distinction (2014–2019) and numerous teaching awards. She co-leads grants addressing anti-Asian racism and has held editorial roles at journals like *PMLA* and *American Literary History*.