Comparative Literature
Lucas Joshi
Research Interests
Afro-Asian studies, Indian Ocean worldmaking, Chesapeake Bay cultural theory, Indo-Portuguese literature, oceanic temporalities, mourning and memory
Biography
Lucas Cole Joshi is a doctoral student in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. He studies the ways in which the archive and the novel attend to and contend with legacies of Blackness and enslavement. Perhaps further, his writing emphasizes the garden as a site of enslavement and emancipation across Black American and Indo-Portuguese literature. His work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts. He writes of intimacy amid diaspora.
Education:
B.A. in Hispanic Studies and Lusophone Studies, Dartmouth College, 2022
Languages:
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Gujarati