Jap-Nanak Kaur Makkar
- Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Literature
- History of Literary Theory
- History of Technology
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2018
M.A., University of Toronto, 2011
B.A., University of Toronto, 2010
Dr. Jap-Nanak Makkar is ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) at the Department of English. Her research examines the intersection between postcolonial fiction, poststructuralism, and the history of technology.
Dr. Makkar’s book project, tentatively titled Uses of Autonomy: Literature and Theory after Cybernetics, reconsiders the relationship between postcolonial literature and poststructuralism in light of recently published historiographies of the Euro-American academy. Some of her work appears or is forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature and boundary 2.
“‘Recalling This’: Language and Irony in Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story (1990),” Modern Fiction Studies, forthcoming.
“More on the Missing Half Second: A Review of Hayles and Hansen,” boundary 2 47.1 (February 2020): 215-238
“A Trademark on Irony: J.M. Coetzee’s Formalism, Digital Copyright, Literary Proprietorship,” Contemporary Literature 59.2 (Summer 2018): 204-231
