Manan Desai

Associate Professor; Director of the A/PIA Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor

mrdesai@umich.edu

Office Information:

3749 Haven Hall, 1045
734-615-2524

Fields of Study:
Literature, Asian American Studies, Popular Culture

Education/Degree:

Ph.D. (English Language & Literature), University of Michigan, 2011

Manan Desai is the author of The United States of India: Anticolonial Literature & Transnational Refraction (2020), published by Temple University Press as part of the Asian American History and Culture Series. His essays have been published in Comparative Literature, the Journal of Popular Culture, and the recent volume of Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930-1965. He has served on the Board of Directors for the South Asian American Digital Archive (saada.org).

On Thursday mornings at 6 AM, he hosts a freeform radio show called "The Syllabus" on WCBN (88.3 FM).

Affiliations:

Core Faculty: Program in Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies

On Thursday mornings at 6 AM, he hosts a freeform radio show called "The Syllabus" on WCBN (88.3 FM).

Affiliations:

Core Faculty: Program in Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies