Rate My Professor Sandhya Shukla

Sandhya Shukla serves as Professor of English and American Studies and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Virginia. She received her BA from Cornell University in 1988, MA from Yale University in 1991, and PhD from Yale University in 1998. Her academic career includes postdoctoral fellowships such as the Institute of American Cultures at UCLA (1997-1998), Society for the Humanities at Cornell University (2001-2002), and Scholars-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (2005-2006), along with Yale fellowships including the Henry Hart Rice Advanced Research Fellowship (1993-1994) and John F. Enders Research Grant (1993). Shukla's specialties encompass American and postcolonial studies, with research interests in South Asian diasporic cultures, transnational ethnic cultures, diaspora and nation formations, post-1965 Indian migrations to the United States, Harlem and race relations, and transnational frames in the Americas.

She is the author of the monographs India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England (Princeton University Press, 2003) and Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place (Columbia University Press, 2024), and co-editor of Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (Duke University Press, 2007). Notable articles include “Locations for South Asian Diasporas” in Annual Review of Anthropology (2001), “‘It’s that Spanish Blood’: Langston Hughes Imagines Race in Harlem and the World” in American Quarterly (2018), and “Langston Hughes and Simple: Across Form and Space to a Political Consciousness” in Langston Hughes in Context (2022). She has edited special issues of Radical History Review, such as “Our Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings” (Spring 2004), awarded Best Special Issue of 2004 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and “The Global South: Histories, Itineraries and Politics” (May 2018). Her scholarship also appears in the Cambridge History of Asian American Literature (2015) and Routledge Handbook on South Asian Diaspora (2014).