Santa Clara University

Aparajita Nanda is the recipient of a Visiting Associate Professorship to the University of California, Berkeley and a Fulbright Teaching Scholarship. She is also the recipient of the Cedric Busette Memorial Award for her “outstanding contributions” to the Ethnic Studies Program and the David E. Logothetti Teaching Excellence Award. Her recent book publications include God is Change: Religious Practices and Ideologies in the Works of Octavia Butler, Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism: Critical Imaginaries of a Global Age, The Strangled Cry:  The Communication and Experience of Trauma, Black California, and Romancing the Strange: The Fiction of Kunal Basu . She has published several book chapters in edited volumes and her articles appear in peer-reviewed journals, including Callaloo, Ariel , Subjectivity, and GRAMMA: Journal of Theory and Criticism while her academic treatises (by invitation) are in Oxford African American Studies.