Goyal, Yogita
Associate Professor
Humanities 228
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Education

Ph.D., Brown University, 2003

Interests

African American Literature, Anglophone African Literature, Black Atlantic/ Black Diaspora Studies, Novel, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Transnational American Literature, and Slavery Studies.

Selected Publications

Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item2713795/?site_locale=en_US

“The Pull of the Ancestors: Slavery, Apartheid, and Memory in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying and Cion” (Research in African Literatures, 2011)

“Towards an African Atlantic: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Diasporic Theater” (Atlantic Studies, 2010)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a926030563&fulltext=713240928

“The Gender of Diaspora in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby” (Modern Fiction Studies, 2006)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modern_fiction_studies/v052/52.2goyal.html

“Theorizing Africa in Black Diaspora Studies: Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River” (Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 2003)

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=13527169&site=ehost-live

Additional Information

Yogita Goyal’s research examines the literature of the African diaspora, with a particular focus on Anglophone African and African American literature.  Seeking to bridge distinct intellectual traditions, she has broad interests in transnationalism and globalization, anti-colonial and black nationalism, slavery, and the novel. Her work has been supported by a University of California President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities (2007-2008) and an NEH Fellowship as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library (2003-2004).  She teaches classes on a range of black diaspora literature, including Black Atlantic Travel Narratives, Modern African Novel, Race and Form, Slavery and Black Women Writers, Postcolonial and Transnational Theory, and Literary Cities.  Her current book project, “Slavery and Transnational Black Memory,” focuses on the afterlives of slavery, colonialism, and apartheid in black diaspora literature and culture.