Kalyan Nadiminti is an Assistant Professor of English and Faculty Fellow (2023-24) at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University. 

They work in the field of postcolonial and Global South literatures with a focus on novel theory, US empire studies, and human rights critique. 

They are currently working on a monograph titled “Unendurable Freedom: US Empire, 9/11, and the Fate of the Postcolonial.” The study examines fiction from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq along with detainee prison memoirs from Guantánamo to examine the aesthetic and political fallout of the Global War on Terror on postcolonial sovereignty and citizenship.

Their scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Post45/Contemporaries, Humanity Journal, Journal of Asian American Studies, Contemporary Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, and other venues. They teach courses on South Asian and global Anglophone literatures, postcolonial theory and US empire, race and terror. Before Northwestern, Kalyan taught at Gettysburg College, where their work was supported by a Mellon Fellowship, as well as Haverford College.