Sravanthi Kollu
Postdoctoral Associate
Sravanthi Kollu researches ideologies of speech and community in anticolonial literatures. Her current book project draws on global social theory (feminist, Dalit and postcolonial studies), philosophy of language, and poetics and postcolonial literary theory to excavate the significance of the speech-writing binary for the anticolonial poetic imagination. She holds a PhD in Asian Literatures, Cultures and Media, with a minor in Comparative Literature, from the University of Minnesota. Her work has appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East and Maidaanam. She serves on Maidaanam’s editorial collective and is an academic partner at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
Recent Publications: an academic essay on anticolonial monolingualism; a narrative essay on precarious archives; and a translation of a feminist poetry manifesto.