Yogita Goyal

Yogita Goyal is Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.  She is the author of Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery (NYU Press, 2019).  Her articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Diaspora, Atlantic Studies, American Literary History, African American Review, Research in African Literatures, College Literature, and The Oxford History of the Novel in English.  She is guest-editor of a 2014 special issue of Research in African Literatures on “Africa and the Black Atlantic,” editor of the  Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature (2017), and currently serves as Editor of the journal, Contemporary Literature, for British and Anglophone Fiction.  Her personal webpage is www.yogitagoyal.com