Ranjana Khanna

Ranjana Khanna is Professor of English and Director of Women’s Studies at Duke University. She works on Anglo- and Francophone postcolonial theory and literature, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory. She has published on transnational feminism, psychoanalysis, autobiography, postcolonial agency, multiculturalism in an international context, postcolonial Joyce, Area Studies and Women's Studies and Algerian film. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (2003) and Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present (2008). Her current work in progress is called Asylum: The Concept and the Practice. Ranjanna Khanna joined the Advisory Board in 2004.