Education

Ph.D.,Georgia State University
M.A., Georgia State University
B.A., Agnes Scott College

Biography

Moon Charania is an assistant professor in International Studies at Spelman College and affiliate faculty in Comparative Women’s Studies. She teaches in the areas of transnational feminist theory, queer of color critique, postcolonialism and psychoanalysis.

She is the author of "Will the Real Pakistani Woman Please Stand Up: Empire, Visual Culture, and the Brown Female Body" (2015) and has also written several articles that have appeared in the top academic journals such as "Sexualities, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Meridians, Feminist Studies, and Camera Obscura."

She is currently working on a second book manuscript, "Archive of Tongues," a creative nonfiction project that thinks though trauma and feminist theory, neo/colonialisms and diaspora and the intimate geographies of race (Duke U. Press).

Courses Taught

Girls, Global Perspectives on Violence Against Women
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Sexual Politics of Islamophobia
Advanced Sexualities and Queer Theories
Identity and Inequality

Research Interests

Transnational Feminism, Queer and Decolonial Resistance, Visual Culture, Empire and Whiteness