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 Joshi is a doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Literature. His work carries into conversation the Indian Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay, two bodies of water whose legacies of enslavement, trafficking, and Blackness-as-other have informed and colluded with the other. Additionally, his forthcoming novel meditates with Afro-Asian storytelling and the networks of kinship and care that it has sustained. He writes of intimacy amid diaspora.
Education:
B.A. in Hispanic Studies and Lusophone Studies, Dartmouth College, 2022
Languages:
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Gujarati