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Regular Faculty

G.S. Sahota
  • Title
    • Associate Professor, Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Literature Department
    • History of Consciousness Department
    • History Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Phone
    831-459-2487 (office)
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Humanities Building 1, 630
  • Office Hours W 10am-noon, and by appointment
  • Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise South Asian Studies, European Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Religion and Secularism

Research Interests

colonial/postcolonial studies; world literature and cultural studies; Indian literary and intellectual history (especially in Urdu, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Hindi, and English); historiography of South Asia; epic; religion and modernity (Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism); romanticism; Marxism; Continental Philosophy (especially Hegel and the Frankfurt School); film and media studies, cosmopolitanism and diaspora