Labanya Unni

Labanya Unni is a PhD student at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research examines key works of translation, literary historiography, and critical meta-texts around the time of Indian Independence (1935-1989), and the different social, cultural, and ideological practices and discontinuities that go into the theorization of a new nation. Her interests include Indian history and historiography, postcolonial studies, Marxism, critical theory. She holds a master’s and MPhil degree from Delhi University, and presently teaches at Queens College.