Ranjana Khanna: “Asylum and its Indignities”

Ranjanna Khanna is Associate Professor in the Department of English and in the Program in Literature and affiliate of Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2003) and has recently completed a book manuscript entitled Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the present (Forthcoming). Her current book manuscript in progress is called Asylum: The Concept and the Practice. Professor Khanna participated in a roundtable discussion about her recent scholarship, and she also delivered a public lecture entitled “Asylum and its Indignities” which engaged the question of asylum in our contemporary world using psychoanalytic theoretical frameworks.