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Dr. Nandini Chandra, Ph.D.

Director, Center for South Asian Studies
Associate Professor, Department of English

I am an Associate Professor and my teaching combines genre-based courses with foundational, theory based classes on Marxism and psychoanalysis. My teaching uses pop-culture to understand theory and theory to understand popular forms, not to mention everyday life. I strive for a literary-historical mapping that both resonates with the history of capital, while being simultaneously discontinuous with it.  I am currently in the process of completing two manuscripts on late modernism in Hindi literature: Superfluous Life: Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Surplus Population and Literary Lumpens: Lumpenism and Lumpen-Aesthetics in North India.

Educational Background

  • PhD, Centre for Linguistics & English, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, 2002;
  • MPhil English, JNU, 1996;
  • MA English, JNU, 1994;
  • BA English, Fergusson College, University of Poona, Pune, 1992.

Email: nc8@hawaii.edu

Phone: (808) 956-6085 (CSAS)

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