Aparajita Nanda

Biographical Sketch: Aparajita Nanda, recipient of a Visiting Associate Professorship to the departments of English and African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and a Fulbright faculty teaching scholarship, now teaches at University of California, Berkeley. Her recent book publications include Black California, The Strangled Cry, Romancing the Strange, and Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism: Critical Imaginaries for a Global World. She has published several book chapters, most recently with Cambridge University Press and Modern Language Association (MLA). Several of her articles may be found in peer-reviewed journals, including Callaloo and Ariel while her academic treatises (by invitation) are in Oxford African American Studies edited Henry Louis Gates. She is presently engaged in a book length project titled Changing Faith: Religious Practices and Ideology in the Works of Octavia Butler, contracted with Temple University Press.