Anjuli Raza Kolb - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Anjuli Raza Kolb

Anjuli Raza Kolb is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Williams College. She completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2014, with a dissertation entitled “Epidemiology of Terror: Health, Horror, and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature.” Her areas of specialization include colonial and postcolonial literature and theory, especially South Asian, North African, and Caribbean; Gothic and post-Gothic literature; race and ethnic studies; history of science; the politics of globalization; and comparative poetics. She is the recipient of Columbia’s Presidential and Meyerson Awards for outstanding teaching, and her recent work has appeared in Discourse3 Quarks Daily, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is currently writing her first book, which develops the argument of the dissertation, and researching a new set of projects on the discursive and literary history of the life and earth sciences in the colonial scene.