Pallavi Rastogi
Professor
Ph.D., Tufts University
prastogi@lsu.edu
212-H Allen Hall
Biography
Dr. Pallavi Rastogi is the J.F. Taylor Endowed Professor of English at Louisiana State University, where she teaches classes on global Anglophone literature, postcolonial theory, and postcolonial popular culture. Dr. Rastogi's most recent single-authored book, Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century, was published by Northwestern University Press in April 2020. Her first single-authored book, Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa, was published by Ohio State University in 2008. In March 2024, she published a co-edited collection with Dr. Nalini Iyer, Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature (Modern Languages Association). She is currently working on Asians on the Third Coast: Other Races, Other Cultures in Louisiana, a co-edited book with Dr. Madoka Kishi, which is under advance contract with LSU Press. Dr. Rastogi’s other editing projects include special issues of the journal South Asian Review, Writing South Asia in Disastrous Time with Dr. Meghan Gorman DaRif and Dr. Liam O’Loughlin (2023), as well as Precarities, Resistance, and Care Communities in South Asia (2018). Dr. Rastogi has also published many articles on South African, South Asian, and South Asian diasporic literature and multiethnic British and American literature in various journals and anthologies. She is an Associate Editor of "South Asian Review" and a member of the editorial board for "Safundi." In 2015, Dr. Rastogi co-produced the prize-winning film, "Peace Haven," and contributed to the movie's subtitles. She has won multiple university awards, such as the LSU Faculty Distinguished Award, the LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award, the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) Outstanding Faculty Award, the Tiger Athletic Foundation Award for Undergraduate Teaching, and the LSU Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching. She was awarded the Louisiana ATLAS grant for her third monograph, Other South Asias: The Indian Subcontinent Through Different Eyes, from 2021-2022.
Area(s) of Interest
Postcolonial, Global Anglophone, Multiethnic Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Ethnic Studies, Postcolonial Popular Culture