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Shwetha Chandrashekhar is an Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Anglophone Literature in the Department of English at the University of South Dakota. She is a scholar of of 20th and 21st century South Asian literature and cinema and joins USD after receiving her Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her current research looks at the emotional and political lives of debilitated postcolonial subjects and the affective dynamics of power, labor, and violence in the late-twentieth- and twenty-first- century literary, cinematic, and cultural representations of South Asia and its diasporas. Chandrashekhar's writings have been featured in or are forthcoming in ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Critical Inquiry, South Asian Review, South Asian History and Culture, and Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History.
South Asian Literature and Cinema
Postcolonialism
Negative Affects
