Nikhita Obeegadoo
Areas of Study: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures On leave 2026-2027 Phone: 773-834-2836 Contact: Email Interests:
Contemporary Francophone and World Literature, Critical Race Studies and Decolonial Theory, Archipelagic Studies, Environmental Humanities (Including Oceanic Humanities), Medical Humanities
Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization; and the College; Associate Member in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Biography
Selected Publications
Journal issues
- Co-editor (with Mona El-Khoury) “Rencontres du postcolonialisme et de l’écocritique.” Special issue, Nouvelles Études Francophones, vol. 38, no. 2, 2023.
Peer-reviewed articles
- “‘Pena nanye pou bann dimounn kouma nou isi’: Global Labor Mobilities and Layered Identities in Simin Zetwal (2022).” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, vol. 52, no. 1-2, pp. 169-184, 2025.
- "Archipelagic Stories, Anguilliform Resistances." Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 48-57, 2024.
- “Les Enjeux de la chair corallienne chez Khal Torabully.” Nouvelles Études Francophones, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 119–131, 2023.
- “An Archipelagic Node in Global Migration? The Stakes of Comparison and Irony in Nathacha Appanah’s Tropique de la violence.” Comparative Literature, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 219–232, June 2022.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
- “Tracing the Faultline: the Multispecies Archipelago in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing.” Island Indias, Archipelagic Memory ed. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Luca Raimondi, and Sandrine Soukai, pp. 123-147, 2026.
- "Croaking Toads and Singing Youth: When the Sega Angaze Meets the Francophone Novel." Transoceanic and Transmedial Imaginaries in the Indian Ocean, ed. Ute Fendler and Clarissa Vierke, pp. 108-126, 2025.
