Pranav Jani is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University and a member of the AAUP.  Pranav's research and teaching is in Postcolonial Studies and US Ethnic Studies, with a transnational, intersectional, and Marxist approach and a focus on South Asia. Along with Decentering Rushdie (2010), Pranav has published in journals like Critical Sociology, Historical Materialism, International Socialist Review, Postcolonial Studies, and South Asian Review, and anthologies like Globalizing Dissent, Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies, Marxism, Postcolonial Theory and the Future of Critique, and Tracing the New Indian Diaspora.  Pranav’s current book project is entitled Marxism, Nationalism, and the 1857 Revolt in Colonial India.