Avni Sejpal

Avni Sejpal received a BA in English from St. Xavier’s College in Bombay, India. Before coming to Villanova, she spent several years in New York working in scholarly and independent publishing as well as nonprofit media production. Most recently, she was an editor at Boston Review, where she commissioned and edited critical essays on literature, race, and global feminisms. Her academic interests lie at the intersections of colonial and postcolonial literature, feminist and queer theory, and histories of South Asia. Beyond her academic pursuits, Avni is interested in food cultures, South Asian music, film, and popular genres of fiction. She is looking forward to calling Philly home for a while.