Aanchal Saraf

Biography

Aanchal Saraf is an Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies. She researches and teaches about entangled geographies and cultures of war, empire, knowledge, and the environment. Her current book project, Atomic Afterlives, Pacific Archives, theorizes the ‘colonial fallout’ of U.S. nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands as an ongoing logic that shapes dominant spatiotemporal, geopolitical, and disciplinary imaginaries of the Pacific. Her project engages official archives, Asian American and Pacific Islander cultural production and performance, and ethnography with nuclear-displaced ri-Ṃajeļ on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. Aanchal’s creative and scholarly works have appeared or are forthcoming in Literary Hub, CNN Opinions, Amerasia, Journal of Asian American Studies, Journal of Transnational American Studies, and Women & Performance, among other publications.