She is particularly interested in the use of the visualization of an interface, and suggests that works by Derek Jarman and Shirin Neshat focus less on the spectacular nature of autobiographical expressiveness and more on the problem of the idea of affect as belonging

Ranjana Khanna is Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women’s Studies and Professor of English, Women’s Studies, and the Literature Program at Duke University. She works on Angloand Francophone Postcolonial theory and literature, and Film, Psychoanalysis, and Feminist theory. She has published widely on transnational feminism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial and feminist theory, literature, and film.

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