Reema Rajbanshi

Degrees and Institutions
Ph.D. Literature, University of California - San Diego, 2018
M.A. English & Creative Writing, University of California - Davis, 2007
B.A. English & Women’s Studies, Harvard University, magna cum laude, 2003
Area: World Literature, Creative Writing (Fiction, Memoir), Critical Theory (Subaltern Studies, Caste Studies, Indigenous Studies), Histories of Labor
Research Interests: Creative fiction and memoir; Postcolonial and World literatures; Fourth World cinema; Feminist & New Materialisms; Abolitionist literatures
Courses Taught
Undergraduate courses
Introduction to Fiction
Introduction to Non-Fiction
Advanced (Experimental) Fiction
Speculative & Climate Fiction
World Literature and Film
Visual Politics of Bondage
Select Publications
Sugar, Smoke, Song. Red Hen Press, 2020. Women’s Prose Prize, 2018.
Individual publications in Confrontation, Southwest Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and other journals.
Work in Progress
“Fourth World Filmic Interventions” in Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Development (forthcoming Fall 2022).
Indigeneities at the Millennium: Caste Articulations, critical monograph.
A Woman Named Lightning, A Man Named Victorious, experimental travel memoir.
Updated: 02/04/2023 06:20PM