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Nikhita Obeegadoo, PhD
(She, Her, Hers)Assistant Professor
Languages and World Literatures
Email: nikhita.obeegadoo@ubc.ca

Research Summary
Oceanic and Archipelagic Studies; Indian Ocean and Caribbean Studies; Critical Race Studies Gender Studies; Contemporary literatures from the Global South, including Africa, South Asia and Latin America; Border Theory and Creolization; Theorising the relationship between History and Literature; Environmental Humanities; Medical Humanities. Research Languages:
French, Spanish, English, Hindi, Mauritian Creole.
Courses & Teaching
Francophone Studies and African Transcultural Studies
Degrees
B.S., Computer Science, Stanford University.
B.A., Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Ph.D., Romance Languages & Literatures (French and Spanish), Harvard University
Selected Publications & Presentations
“An Archipelagic Node in Global Migration? The Stakes of Comparison and Irony in Nathacha Appanah’s Tropique de la violence.” Comparative Literature, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 219–232, June 2022.
Selected Grants & Awards
2021 Mellon ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2016 Harvard University Presidential Scholar Fellowship