Title: Assistant Professor

Department: English

Office: Benson 419
Phone: 615-322-2347
Email: jaya.n.kasibhatla@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• Ph.D., Duke University 2005
• B.A., Yale University 1998

Research Area

• Postcolonial Literature and Theory
• Comparative Constitutional Studies
• Feminism and Political Theory

Current Research

• Constitutional Emergency
• Indian Legal Education and History of the Indian Constitution
• Legal Cultures in the Postcolonial World

Current Courses

• "Postcolonial Theory," ENG 337B, Fall 2007
• "Utopian Fictions," ENG 118W, Fall 2007
• "Contemporary British Fiction," ENG 235, Fall 2006
• "Feminist Theory: Feminism in Global Perspective", ENG 246, Spring 2007
• "Intro to Postcolonial Literature," ENG 278, Spring 2007

Professional Societies

• Law & Society Organization
• Modern Language Association