Rohan Ghatage

Rohan Ghatage (he/him) is interested in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature, African American studies, Black diasporic literatures, postcolonial fiction, intellectual history and critical theory.

His current book project, provisionally titled Reluctant Revolutionaries, explores the writing of Nella Larsen, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, all of whom had ambivalent relationships with communism.

The project argues that despite a shared reluctance to fashion their literary practices as explicitly leftist, this cast of authors nevertheless wrestles with and tacitly affirms a Black radical left pitched at abolishing America’s class and race-based inequalities.

Rohan’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Modernism/modernity, MELUS: Multiethnic Literatures of the United States, James Baldwin Review and The English Languages: History, Diaspora and Culture.

He welcomes inquiries from graduate students interested in American literature and postcolonial studies.