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Leila Neti teaches in the fields of postcolonial Anglophone literature and theory, 19th and 20th century British literature, and literary and cultural criticism.
She specializes in Victorian literature, contemporary Anglophone literature, postcolonial theory, and law and literature. Her research focuses on how legal formations intersect with literary representations to produce notions of self and sovereignty, particularly with respect to race, gender, class, and sexuality. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Law and Literature, Law and Humanities, and in various edited collections.
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Her book, (Cambridge University Press, 2021)听听 is situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies, and postcolonialism. Colonial Law in听India and the Victorian Imagination draws on original archival research to shed new light on Victorian literature.听 Each chapter explores the relational ways in which the shared cultural logic of law and literature inflect colonial sociality.
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Professor Neti teaches classes including 鈥淩ace, Law, and Literature,鈥 鈥淭he Animal,鈥 鈥淭he Contemporary Anglophone Novel,鈥 and 鈥淏ollywood Cinema and the 19th Century Novel,鈥 as well as survey courses in Literary Methodologies and Modern British Literature.
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Publications:
鈥'If you were an animal you would have eaten me':听Animal鈥檚 People听and the History of Corporate Colonialism". In听Law and Humanities听(forthcoming, 2021)
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Selected Conference Papers and Presentations:
"Oscar Wilde and the Secret Language of the Law." Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State. Clark Library. May 2020. Invited Lecture. (Cancelled due to Covid-19).
鈥淟ife at the Margins of the Human.鈥 Literature and International Law.听 London School of Economics. July 2019.
鈥淚ndigenous Engagements with Anthropology.鈥 Modern Language Association.听 Chicago, Illinois.听 January, 2019. Panel Chair. 听
鈥淔ictional History: Wilkie Collins鈥檚 The Moonstone and the Kohinoor.鈥 听University of Virginia. November 2018.听 Invited lecture.
鈥淣on-violence and the Thug.鈥 American Comparative Literature Association.听 University of California, Los Angeles.听 April 2018. 听
鈥淭he 鈥楳inute鈥 and the Penal Code: Macaulay鈥檚 Project of Biopolitics in Colonial India.鈥 Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference.听 Stanford University. April 2017.
鈥淏ottled Up: The Fluidity of Capital in Mohsin Hamid鈥檚 How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.鈥 American Comparative Literature Association.听 New York, New York.听 April 2014. Panel co-chair and presenter.
鈥淧ortrait as Landscape: Caribbean Labor and the Aesthetics of Representation.鈥 American Comparative Literature Association.听 Toronto, Canada.听 April 2013.听 Presented paper.听
Systems of Life Conference.听 swag外流 and Huntington Library.听 November 8-10, 2012. Panel chair.
鈥淪exual Politics in Arundhati Roy鈥檚 The God of Small Things.鈥澨 Tenure Talk.听 October 12, 2012.听 swag外流.
鈥淟ove in a Bad Time: The Story of Lutchmee and Dilloo.鈥澨 American Comparative Literature Association.听 Vancouver, Canada.听听 April 2011.听 Panel co-chair and presenter.