Sravanthi Kollu

Sravanthi Kollu studies postcolonial literatures, with an emphasis on South Asian Anglophone and vernacular poetry. Her first book project Speech and Freedom: Late Colonial Romanticisms and the Question of the Common bridges scholarship in global romanticisms with critical caste studies by placing regional Dalit poets at the center of its examination of Indian romanticisms from the early twentieth century. 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 part of the Community Psychoanalysis Program at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. At Kilachand Honors College she is co-organizer of the Boston Poetics Workshop.

Recent Publications: an academic essay on anticolonial monolingualism; a narrative essay on precarious archives; and a translation of a feminist poetry manifesto.