Graduate Associate
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Program in English, York University
Research Keywords:
Dystopia; postcolonial theory; Indian literature; contemporary literature; contemporary gothic; speculative fiction
Research Region(s):
India
Rashika Desai is pursuing her PhD in English at York University. Her research focuses on haunted urban spaces in contemporary dystopian fiction. She examines how the dystopian and gothic modes converge through the lens of postcolonial theory and spatial studies. She earned her BA in English from St. Xavier's College (Mumbai, India) and MA in World Literature from the University of Warwick (Coventry, England).