Dr. Cilano's primary teaching and research area is postcolonial literature, with a special emphasis on South Asia. Currently, she is at work on a monograph that examines fiction about the 1971 Pakistani civil war. She is also editing a collection of essays on representations of 9/11 in fiction and film from outside the US. In her courses, she often also covers literatures from the Caribbean, Africa, and the Pacific Islands. In addition, she is interested in critical theory and contemporary literature, as well as travel and nature writing.

ENG 205:  Approaches to the Study of Literature

ENG 341:  Postcolonial and Third World Literature

ENG 343:  Studies in Postcolonial Literature (topics vary)

ENG 387:  Critical Theory and Practice

ENG 502:  Introduction to Literary Theory

ENG 508:  Studies in Nonfiction (topics vary)

ENG 580:  Studies in Literature (topics vary)

• “‘Writing from Extreme Edges’:  Pakistani English-Language Fiction.” ARIEL:  A Review of International English Literature (forthcoming).

• “Where ‘Tomorrow’?: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things as Derridean Ghost Story.” Globalizing Dissent:  Essays on Arundhati Roy. Eds. Ranjan Ghosh and Antonia Navarro-Tejero. New York:  Routledge, 2008.  25-39.

• “‘In a World of Consequences’:  An Interview with Kamila Shamsie.” Kunapipi:  Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Culture 29.1 (2007): 150-162.

• with Elizabeth DeLoughrey. “Introduction:  Against Authenticity:  Global Knowledges and Postcolonial Ecocriticism.”  Special cluster in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 14.1 (2007): 71-87.