Roanne Kantor

Roanne Kantor's primary field is Global Anglophone literature and its relationship to other literary traditions of the Global South. She also works on the conditions for interdisciplinary research in the humanities, especially literature's interface with medicine and the humanistic social sciences. Kantor is also a translator and the winner of the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. Before coming to Stanford, Kantor taught at Harvard, Boston University, Brandeis, and The University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her Masters and Ph.D.
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Anonymous Biography: A performance of my 2015 translation of the stories of Juan José Saer
Interview with Books of Some Substance: This Fruit is Dynamite!
Synapsis: a health and humanities journal
Global South Studies: Booms in Literatures of the Global South
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Courses
Spring 2022-2023
Stories at the Border
The Indian Novel
Autumn 2022-2023
The World, The Globe, The Planet
Spring 2021-2022
Just Feelings
Time Travel in the Americas (HUMCORE 137)
Autumn 2019-2020
Introduction to English III: Modern Literature
Intro to Disability Studies: Disability and Technology (HUMBIO 178A)
Autumn 2018-2019
Native Intelligence
Disability Literature (HUMBIO 177)
Spring 2018-2019
The Indian Novel
Global English