Sarika Chandra
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
Globalization Studies, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, Comparative Racialization, Critical Theory, Environmental and Food Politics.
Research
My current research maps the relationship between race and capitalism. I am at work on two projects. The first, Race After Representation situates questions of race in the U.S. within a broader global context and attempts to rethink race and antiracism outside of a nationalist framework. The second, Race and Capital, co-authored with Chris Chen, retheorizes the political economy of comparative US racial formation. Historicizing dominant understandings of race, this book-length study traces several persistent impasses in the analysis of race.
Selected publications
Books:
Totality Inside Out: Rethinking Crisis and Conflict Under Capital.
Co-Edited with Kevin Floyd and Jen Hedler Phillis. Fordham University Press, 2022.
Dislocalism: The Crisis of Globalization and the Remobilizing of Americanism. The Ohio State University Press, 2011.
Articles:
"Remapping the Race/Class Problematic." (Co-authored with Chris Chen). Totality Inside Out: Rethinking Crisis and Conflict Under Capital. Eds. Kevin Floyd, Jen Phillis and Sarika Chandra. Fordham University Press, 2022.
"Narrative Possibilities in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats." McCorry S., Miller J. (eds.) Literature and Meat Since 1900. Palgrave, 2019.
“From Fictional Capital to Capital as Fiction: Globalization and the Intellectual Convergence of Business and the Humanities.” Cultural Critique, Fall 2010.
“Producing a Nationalist Literature in the Age of Globalization: Reading (Im)migration in Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.” American Quarterly, September 2008.
Courses taught by Sarika Chandra
Winter Term 2025 (future)
- ENG2415 - Geopolitics and Literature: Writing about Texts
- ENG5090 - Topics in Critical Theory
- ENG7004 - Theoretical Issues in Cultural Studies
Fall Term 2024 (current)
- ENG2540 - Global Literatures: Writing about Texts
- ENG5080 - Topics in Global and Transnational Studies
Fall Term 2023
Winter Term 2023
- ENG5500 - Topics in English and American Literature
- ENG7045 - Transnational American Race and Ethnic Studies