Ranjana Khanna is Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women’s Studies and a professor in the Department of English, the Program in Literature, and Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (2003) and Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present (2008). She has published widely in journals such as diacritics, differences, positions, South Atlantic Quarterly, Screen, Signs, and Art History. She is currently at work on projects about the concept of asylum and on technologies of unbelonging.