Dr. Pallavi Rastogi is Professor of English at Louisiana State University where she teaches classes on Global Anglophone literature, postcolonial theory, and film. 

Dr. Rastogi’s second book, Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2020. Her first book, Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa, was published by Ohio State University in 2008. She has edited a special issue of the journal, South Asian Review, on "Precarities, Resistance, and Care Communities in South Asia" (December, 2018). The special issue was published as a book, Vulnerable South Asias: Precarities, Resistance, and Care Communities, (Routledge, 2021). Dr. Rastogi has also published articles on South African, South Asian, and South Asian diasporic literature as well as multiethnic British and American literature in various journals and anthologies. She co-produced the award-winning film, "Peace Haven," in 2015 and also contributed to the subtitles for the movie. She is an Associate Editor of South Asian Review and a member of the editorial board for Safundi: The Journal of South African Studies. She is finishing a book, entitled Other South Asias: The Indian Subcontinent Through Different Eyes, focusing on how non-white and non-Western writers have written about the Indian sub-continent. Dr. Rastogi’s co-edited volume of essays, entitled Teaching Anglophone South Asian Diasporic Literature was published by the MLA in 2024. Another co-edited collection of essays on Asians in Louisiana is under advance contract with LSU Press.