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POULOMI SAHA is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Their research and teaching interests span postcolonial studies, ethnic American literature, feminist and queer theory, critical theory, and psychoanalytic critique. Her first book, An Empire of Touch: Women’s Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal (Columbia, 2019), was awarded the 2020 Harry Levin Prize for outstanding first book by the American Comparative Literature Association and the Helen Tartar First Book Award. Saha’s scholarship has appeared in differences, qui parle, Signs, Interventions, The Journal of Modern Literature, Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, and the Journal of American Studies, among other places. They are currently at work on Fascination: America’s “Indian” Cults.