OK my #Introduction so people can find me on #AcademicMastodon. I'm a PhD student (based in the UK long-term but writing up in ZA currently).

Main interests #Internationalism and #GlobalAnglophone #LitStudies: broadly interested in capitalist political economy, scales of space + community, and aesthetics. Thesis looks mostly at lit cultures 1900-1950 in #AotearoaNewZealand and #SouthAfrica; I'm developing engagements elsewhere. Main coordinates are #Marxism #Decolonization #Postcolonial.

Now that I'm happily settled into a server I see myself staying on long-term (Humanities Commons), I thought I would finally write an #introduction.

I'm Smaran Dayal, currently an Assistant Prof. of #Literature at #Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.

I recently got my #PhD in #ComparativeLiterature from #NYU. My PhD dissertation, which I'm now working into a book was a study of literary #Afrofuturism, in particular the novels of #SamuelDelany and #OctaviaButler.

Along with Ulrich Baer, during the first year of the pandemic, I co-edited an anthology of American literature titled Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts.

My primary research interests are #GlobalAnglophone and #AfricanAmerican literature, #postcolonial literary studies, #queertheory and #queerliterature, and, centrally, #sciencefiction studies.

Lovely to (re)connect with you all here!

#TwitterMigration #AcademicTwitter #AcademicMastodon #LitStudies #litodons #litaphants