Kalyan Nadiminti is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.
They work in the fields of postcolonial and Global South literatures with a focus on novel theory, US empire studies, and human rights critique.
They are currently completing a monograph titled Unendurable Freedom: US Empire and Postcolonial Literature after 9/11(forthcoming, Columbia University Press). The study asks how postcolonial writers respond to their incorporation into post-9/11 US literary culture by examining fiction from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq in dialogue with detainee prison memoirs from Guantánamo. The book considers the aesthetic and political fallout of the Global War on Terror on postcolonial sovereignty and citizenship.
Their scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Post45/Contemporaries, Humanity Journal, Journal of Asian American Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asia, Contemporary Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, and other venues. They teach courses on South Asian and global Anglophone literatures, postcolonial theory and US empire, race and terror. Kalyan's work has previously been supported by a faculty fellowship at the Alice Kaplan Humanities Institute at Northwestern University and a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Gettysburg College.
