Kalyan Nadiminti is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University, where they write and teach on postcolonial theory and U.S. empire, contemporary literature, terror and human rights, and global histories of detention. They are currently writing a monograph that constellates novels, memoirs, graphic fiction, and poetry from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Guantánamo, Kashmir, and elsewhere. Examining discourses around carcerality, counterterrorism, and literary humanitarianism after 9/11, the project theorizes contemporary narrative form as it negotiates representations of freedom in a global creative economy caught between U.S. and postcolonial empires. Kalyan's writing has previously appeared or is forthcoming in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Humanity Journal, Post45/Contemporaries, Journal of Asian American Studies, LARB, and other venues. They received their Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.