Deepa Jani

Deepa Jani is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Old Westbury in Long Island.  She specializes in Global Postcolonial and Postmodern literatures, Anglophone African and World Literatures, and Critical Theory.  Her research also focuses on gender and critical race studies, humanism and human rights discourse, and globalization studies.  Her articles on Coetzee and critical theory have appeared in two edited collections, one of which is on postcolonial studies and the other on critical studies.  Additionally, her second article on Coetzee was published in the Oxford Journal, Forum for Modern Language Studies.  Her interview on Coetzee appeared in the film and App, Traverses: J. M. Coetzee in the World.  She has also served as peer reviewer in the fields of Postcolonial and World Literatures and Critical Theory.  She is currently completing her first book manuscript titled “J. M. Coetzee: Ethics, Subalternity, and the Critique of Humanism.”  In preparation for her second book project on the legacy of humanisms from the Global South, she is also working on the article “Bandung, Frantz Fanon, and Edward Said: Postcoloniality and the Question of Humanism.”