Lopamudra Basu is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Stout. She is author of Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation and Its Others after 9/11: Homeland Insecurity (2018). She has reviewed books for World Literature Today, India Currents, and Ariel: A Review of International English Literature.
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