Overview
Roshon Singh Nandhra is a PhD student and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) doctoral fellow in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University.
Drawing from Lacanian psychoanalysis, contemporary French philosophy, and literary theory, his research focuses on psychosocial inscriptions of duress as they figure in formations and ruptures of relationships to place, archive, and origin.
Research Focus
- Psychoanalytic Theory (particularly Jacques Lacan and Bracha L. Ettinger)
- Contemporary French Philosophy (Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas)
- Postcolonial Studies
- Indigenous Studies
- South Asian Literature
- Migration and Diaspora Studies