Sneha Khaund

Assistant Professor

BA, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University; MA, SOAS University of London; PhD, Rutgers University

Research and Teaching Interests: Global anglophone literature, translation studies, literary multilingualism, postcolonialism, comparative literature, South Asian literature and culture

Sneha Khaund’s research is situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, comparative literature, translation studies, and narrative theory. Her book project, Multilingual Assamese: Literature, Identity, and Resistance in the Indo-Bangladesh Borderlands, shows that contestations over linguistic and national identity in 20^th and 21^st century texts drawn from borderland geographies in South Asia provide new ways to engage with literary form, including genre, mode, and the canon. Her work highlights ways in which contemporary South Asian writing, particularly from Northeast India, negotiates the colonial legacies of English through decolonial articulations of indigenous literary expression and transnational solidarities. Sneha Khaund’s writing has appeared in South Asian Review, Warscapes, Asymptote Journal, and Scroll.in and she is a literary translator working across Assamese, Bangla, and English.