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RANJANA KHANNA: CURRICULUM VITAE Department of English Box 90015, Duke University Durham NC 27708 RANJANA KHANNA: CURRICULUM VITAE Department of English Box 90015, Duke University Durham NC 27708 EDUCATION: B.A. (Hons.) English, University of York, 1988 Ph.D., (D.Phil) Women’s Studies, University of York, 1993 Dissertation Title: “The Colonisation of the Dark Continent: Metaphor and the Politics of Exclusion” Dissertation Director: Nicole Ward Jouve EMPLOYMENT: Assistant Professor, English and Women’s Studies, University of Utah, 1993-96 Assistant Professor, English; Adjunct Professor, Women Studies, University of Washington, 1996-2000 Affiliate, Graduate School, University of Washington, 2001-2005 Assistant Professor, English, the Program in Literature, and Women’s Studies, Duke University 2000-2004 Six-Week Faculty, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, Summer 2004 Associate Professor, English, the Program in Literature, and Women’s Studies, Duke University 2004-2008 One-Week Faculty, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Summer 2005 Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women’s Studies, Duke University 2007-July 2015 Professor, English, the Program in Literature, and Women’s Studies, Duke University 2008- Two-Week Faculty, Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2010. Visiting Research Professor, the Hawke Research Institute, University of Adelaide, June 2013 GRANTS AND AWARDS: Erasmus Exchange Scholar to the Université de Paris VII, Sciences et documents des textes, January-July 1990 F.R. Leavis scholarship for travel, University of York, 1990-91 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in the Humanities, Susan B. Anthony Center for Women=s Studies, University of Rochester, Fall 1993 Career Development Grant, University of Utah, Spring 1995 Faculty Research Grant, University of Utah, Summer 1995 Faculty Fellow, University of Utah, Fall 1996 (Declined) Ford Foundation Fellow, SIROW Summer Institute on Globalization and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona, Summer 1996 Ford Foundation Fellow, Mentor for SIROW Summer Institute on Globalization and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona, Summer 1997 Khanna/Curriculum Vitae/1 Fellow Cornell Society for the Humanities, 1998-1999 Oceans Connect Grant for Travel, Duke University, 2001 New Beginnings Seminar Participant, Duke University, 2002-3 John Hope Franklin Award for Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism, 2003 Franklin Humanities Center, Duke University, 2005-6 Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2006-2007. Provost’s Common Fund, Duke University (with Charles Piot) “Asylum” Arts and Sciences Conference Funds, Duke University, 2009. Arts and Sciences Conference Funds, Duke University, 2010. Trent Foundation Grant for foreign scholars to Feminist Theory Workshop 2010 Mary Biddle Duke Grant for foreign scholars to Feminist Theory Workshop 2011 Australian National University Humanities Center Fellowship, Summer 2011, 2012 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, Duke Graduate School, 2015 PUBLICATIONS: Books: Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003). (Second printing 2004) (Reviewed in Choice, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Wasafiri, Radical Philosophy, Psychotherapy and Politics International.) Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present (Stanford University Press, 2008) (Reviewed in Journal of Peace Studies, Choice, Interventions, Journal of Women’s History, Journal of North African Studies, This Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory) Articles: 1. “Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Repetition, Repression and the Unconscious” in eds. Pauli Pylkko and Paavo Pylkannen New Directions in Cognitive Science (Helsinki: Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society, 1995) 358-367. 2. “The Construction of the Dark Continent: Agency as Autobiography” in Women’s Lives/ Women’s Times, ed.Treva Broughton and Linda Anderson, SUNY, December 1997 103-120. 3. “Forgotten History: Myth, Empathy and Assimilated Culture” in Feminism and the New Democracy ed., Jodie Dean, Sage Press, 1997 67-80 (With Karen Engle). 4. “Araby” (Dubliners): Women’s Time and the Time of the Nation” in Ellen Carol Jones, Ed., Joyce, Feminism, Colonialism/Postcolonialism. (European Joyce Studies 8. Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1998) 81-101. 5. “From Third to Fourth Cinema” Third Text 43 (Summer 1998): 13-32. 6. “Ethical Ambiguities: Specters of Colonialism” Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka eds. Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century (New York: Columbia UP, 2001) 101-125. Khanna/Curriculum Vitae/2 7. “The Experience of Evidence: Language, Law and the Mockery of Justice” Anne Berger ed. Algeria in Others’ Languages. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2002) 107-139. 8. “Frames, Contexts, Community, Justice” in Frame, Metaphor and Meaning ed. Joyce Goggin and Michael Burke (University of Amsterdam, 2002) 149- 172. 9. “Cartographies of Scholarship” in Encompassing Gender: Intergrating International Studies and Women’s Studies ed. Mary Lay, Janice Monk, Deborah Rosenfelt. Feminist Press, 2002. (With Mendoza, Mazurana, Burton and Ibryamova) 21-45. 10. “Taking a Stand for Afghanistan” “September 11 Roundtable Contribution” Signs 2002. 11. “Latent Ghosts and the Manifesto: Baya, Breton, and Reading for the Future” Art History 26:2 (April 2003): 244-286. 12. “Signatures of the Impossible” Duke Journal of Gender, Law and Policy 11 (Spring 2004): 69-91 13. “On Asylum, its Form of Protection of the Criminal, and the Staging of the Enemy” in SAQ 104:2 (Spring/Summer 2005): 371-380. 14. “Frames, Contexts, Community, Justice” in Diacritics 33.2 (2005) 11-41. 15. “Post-Palliative: Sovereignty, Disposability, Melancholia” in Postcolonial Text 2005. 16. “Asylum” Texas International Law Journal 41:3 (Summer 2006): 471-490. 17. “Indignity” Ethnic and Racial Studies 30:2 (March 2007): 257-280. 18. “From the Rue des Morgues to the Rue des Iris” Screen 48:2 (Summer 2007): 237-244. 19. “Fabric, Skin, Honte-ologie” Shame and the Visual Arts ed. Ivan Ward at the Freud Museum, London. Routledge, 2008. 159-179. 20. “Indignity” Positions: east asia critique 16:1 (2008):39-77. 21. “The Age of Asylum: Mona Hatoum” Communities of Sense ed. Jaleh Mansoor Duke University Press, 2009. 111-132. 22. “Disposability” Differences 20.1 (2009): 181-198. 23. "Unbelonging: In Motion." Differences 21:3 (2010): 109-123. 24. “Paradise Omeros” and “Encore” for the Gerst Collection Catalogue. (2010) 25. “Racial France, or the Melancholic Alterity of Postcolonial Studies.” Public Culture 23:1 (Winter 2011): 190-199. 26. "Hope, Demand and the Perpetual." Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties (Duke University Press, 2011). 27. “Feminism and Psychoanalysis” Gender: Key Concepts Routledge 2012 28. “Touching, Unbelonging, and the Absence of Affect” Feminist Theory 13:2 (August 2012): 213-232: 29. “The Lumpenproletariat, The Subaltern, The Mental Asylum, 1961” SAQ 112:1, (Winter 2013): 129-143. 30. “Isaac Julien; or The Southern Question in Art History” in eds. Jill H. Casid and Aruna D’Souza Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn Clark Studies in Khanna/Curriculum Vitae/3 the Visual Arts. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. 176-196. 31. “On the Right to Sleep, Perchance to Dream” in A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture. Edited by Laura Marcus and Ankhi Mukherjee. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK.) 2014. 351-366. 32. “Rex, or the Negation of Wandering” in Deconstructing Zionism: A Critique of Political Metaphysics. Edited by Gianni Vattimo and Michael Marder. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2014. 133-145. 33. “On the Name” differences 27.2, (Summer 2016): 62-78. Interviews (as interviewer) With Srinivas Aravamudan: Interview with Fredric Jameson in ed. Ian Buchanan, Fredric Jameson, Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007) 203-240. (as interviewee) 1.Interviewed by Amy Powell “To the Lighthouse: Zineb Sedira and Ranjana Khanna in Conversation” Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 26:2 (Summer/Fall 2014): 31-44. 2. Interviewed by Alastair Hunt, “The Stranger at the Gate” in eds. Hunt and Youngblood, Against Life Northwestern University Press, 2016. Translations 1. “Baya” by André Breton (with Julie Singer) in Art History: Journal of The Association of Art Historians April 2003. 2.“Le Combat de Baya” by Assia Djebar (with Julie Singer) in Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians April 2003. Reviews Eds. Elisabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen, Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997). Signs 26:1 (Autumn 2000): 262-5. Emily Apter, Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999). MLQ.61:4 (December 2000): 692-695. Sara Ruddick, Maternal Thinking (1989/2009). WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 37:3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 2009):302-4. Other Media: “From Exile to Asylum” Audio section of Bloomsday 100 created by The James Joyce Center, Bloomsday 100, and Hyperfecto CD-Rom 2005 Participant in MLA Radio Program “What’s the Word?” on Gillo Pontecorvo’s Battle of Algiers 2006 Interviewed by Jennifer Rutherford at the Hawke Research Center, University of Khanna/Curriculum Vitae/4 South Australia, Adelaide on “Asylum, Melancholia, and Psychoanalysis” at http://www.unisa.edu.au/research/hawke-research-institute/hawke-talks/ In Progress: Books: Asylum Expected completion and submission to press in June
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