UMass Boston

Human rights and literature; American literature (including Asian American literature, Native American literature, and literature of the American South); interdisciplinary approaches to literature; literature in the context of comparative race and ethnicities; pedagogy of literature; literatures of the Middle East 

PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo

• Co-editor, Cambridge History of Asian American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U. S. Literature and Law (2012).
• The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America (Temple UP, 2004);
• White Women in Racialized Spaces: Imaginative Transformation and Ethical Action in Literature (SUNY Press, 2002)
• Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing (Rutgers, 2001)
• Co-editor, A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America (Temple U.P., 1998)
• Co-editor, Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America (Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1996)

Mississippi Quarterly, Amerasia Journal, Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism; Asian Pacific American Journal; Journal of Asian American Studies; The Subcontinental; Pedagogy; The Comparatist, Frame, Special Issue on Human Rights and Literature

Want to book an appointment with Rajini? Email her at Rajini.Srikanth@umb.edu.