Zoya Khan

Education

• Ph.D. University of Michigan,

  Ann Arbor, 2003

• M.A. Jawaharlal Nehru University,

  New Delhi, India , 1994

• B.A Jawaharlal Nehru University,
  New Delhi, India, 1992

Research Interests

Director: Graduate Certificate in Spanish for Healthcare Professionals 

• Spanish American Literature and Culture:
• Andean Literature and Culture,
• US Hispanic Literature 
• South Asian Culture and Literature
• Medical Humanities 
• Literary Theory
• Subaltern Studies
• Women's Studies
• Film Studies 

Publications

Journal Articles
 

• "El Maps de Luto and The Chimera of a Kharisiri State: Subjectivity, Territoriality and the State in La senda de Kharisiri.” Forthcoming Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain,   Portugal and Latin America. 99 (2022)
• "The Novel as Dislocation : Latin America and the United States in Edmundo Paz Soldán's Norte" A Contracorriente: Una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. , Spring 2021.
• "Like a Condemned Sacred Fire: Transnational Capital and Reading as Recovery and Erasure.” Transmodernity: Journal of  Peripheral Cultural Production of Luso-Hispanic World.  8.1 (2018).
• "Dismantling the Narrative Machine: Language, National Narratives and Postnational Flux in Carmen Boullosa's La novela perfecta. "  Literature, Interpretation, Theory.  27.2 (2016). 
• "Bare Life, Indigenous Viscerality and Cholo Barbarity in Jesús Lara's Yanakuna." Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of Luso-Hispanic World.3.2 (2014): 15-39.
• "'Pirate Utopias': From the Archive to Homeless Writing in Edmundo Paz Soldán's Novels." Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal and Latin America . 91.6 (2014): 913-937.
• "Chuño Palma: A National Subject in Mother's Time." A Contracorriente (Winter 2010): 137-164.
• "Oscar Cerruto's Aluvión de fuego: An Incomplete Narrative of a Fragmented Bolivian Nation." Chasqui 38.1 (2009): 84-103.
• "Moon, Stars and Sharing the Sky of Nationhood in Cristina García's The Aguero Sisters." Hispanófila 154 (2008): 73-86.
• "The Emergence of Mestizaje in the Works of Adolfo Costa du Rels." The Latin Americanist 50.1 (2006): 74-102.
  
  

Courses

All levels of graduate and undergraduate language, culture and literature classes.

Graduate Seminars

• LG 592 The Urban Space in the Latin American Novel of 20th and 21st Centuries

• LG 592 Motherhood and the State in the Latin American Novel of Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

• LG 592 Themes and Tendencies of Contemporary Latin American Literature

• LG 592 The Pioneers: Feminine Interventions in Political, Social and Literary Debates during the Nineteenth Century in the Hispanic World

• LG 592 Nation and Technology in the Contemporary Detective Novel in Latin America

• LG 592 Seminar on Jorge Luís Borges

• LG 592 Peru in the Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa

• LG 592 Writing Home: The Latin American Novel in the United States

Undergraduate Honors Theses

• Director, Khanh Trinh, Fantasy Worlds and Modern Lives: Modernity and the Fantastic Literature in Latin America and Asia. Departmental Honors in Progress.

• Director, Megan Heatherly. Representations of Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Cinema, University Honors Program, Spring 2012.

• Director, Tina O'Shea. The Healing Touch: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Perceptions of the Physician in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America and the United States, University Honors Program, Fall 2008-Spring 2009.

• Reader, Kristen Blosser. Peru: A Country of Two Concurrent National Identities. University Honors Program, Fall 2012-Spring 2013. 

• Reader, Monica Whatley. Eastern European Immigration to the United States 1990-2010, University Honors Program, Fall 2010-Spring 2011.

• Reader, Katie Hardin. Representation of Southern Identity in Contemporary Southern Literature, University Honors Program, Spring-Summer 2010.

• Reader, John Havard. Departmental Honors Thesis in English, Fall 2004.