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Siddharth Srikanth received a Ph.D. in English from The Ohio State University in 2021. He previously taught at Ohio State and Wake Forest University before joining 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ. He specializes in global Anglophone literature, particularly the Anglophone literatures of Africa and South Asia in comparison, postcolonial studies, narrative theory, and novel theory.

He is currently at work on two projects: the first, Out of Character: Form and Geopolitics in the Anglophone Novel 1958-2016, examines how global Anglophone writers responded to the geopolitical overdetermination of their work with innovations in how they used character as a formal device. His other book-length project, The Literary Afterlives of Anti-Colonial Struggles, focuses on how major male political figures such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Jomo Kenyatta, and Kwame Nkrumah were written about in mid-century books, periodicals, and newspapers, how they wrote about themselves in relation to their nations, and how those writings influence the narrative forms taken by postcolonial and contemporary fictions.

His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Style, Genre, and Modern Fiction Studies. In recent semesters, he has taught the following courses:

ENG 787: Modern Comparative Literature (topic: Scale, Place, and Literature)
ENG 738: Studies in Modern British Literature (topic: Postcolonial Studies and Its Discontents)
ENG 485A: Asian Literature (topic: Global Asias)
ENG 486B: Postcolonial Literature (topic: Race, Caste, Empire: Contexts and Comparisons)