Introducing... Dr Roanne Kantor

Roanne L. Kantor, PhD is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University. Her book, South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English was published in 2022 in the Studies in World Literature Series at Cambridge University Press. It was awarded the ACLA Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Prize in 2021 and short-listed for the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities. Her translations have been honoured by the Susan Sontag prize for Translation and performed at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.

IAS Project
The project she hopes to undertake examines how the threat of defamatory libel shaped early twentieth century fictions critical of the British empire. 

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