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Skidmore College
English Department

BinaBina Gogineni

Assistant Professor

A.B., Harvard University
Ph.D., Columbia University

Office: Palamountain 326
Phone: (518) 580-5165
Email: bgoginen@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

  • Global Anglophone literature (especially South Asian, African, and Caribbean)
  • Postcolonial theory
  • Literature and religion/philosophy/anthropology
  • Novel theory
  • Transnational theory
  • Travel writing
  • Exoticism
  • South Asian poetry and prose
  • Enchantment and modernity
  • Postcolonial/subaltern architecture

Courses Taught:

  • EN 105: Exoticism Reconsidered
  • EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
  • EN 229: Transnatinal Cinema, Literature, and Theory
  • EN 229: World Literature
  • EN 229: The Empire Strikes Back: Postcolonial Literature from the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia
  • EN 229C: Postcolonial Literature
  • EN 229L: Transnational Cinema
  • EN 363: Enchanting Forms: Religion, Literature, and Colonialism in India
  • EN 363: Postcolonial Revisions: Canon and Counterpoint
  • EN 363: Modernity, Enchantment, and Literature