Anhiti has a PhD in Cultural Studies from Trent University and extensive teaching and publishing experience in India, Canada, and the US. She is a fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory (Cornell University), the Institute of World Literature (Harvard University), and a recipient of the Kanner Fellowship in British Studies (UCLA). Her areas of interest are crime fiction, Victorian Literature, postmodernism, and South Asian culture and she is currently working on a biography of Oscar Wilde and Saadat Hasan Manto's criminal trials. Her hobbies include writing fan fiction, cooking with wine and true crime podcasts, and going on nature walks with her toddler.
Courses Taught at Cascadia College
- ENGL&101: Persuasion
- ENGL&102: Supervillains
- ENGL&236: Fan Fiction and the Art of Imitation
- HUM150: Cultural Criminology
Select Publications
- Patnaik, Anhiti, and Elana Gomel. Serial Killers and Serial Spectators: Cultures, Narratives, and Representations. 1st ed., vol. 107, BRILL, 2024.
- Patnaik, Anhiti. “The World Poetics of Lockdown in Pandemic Poetry.” Journal of World Literature vol. 7, no. 1, 2022, pp. 70–86.
- Patnaik, Anhiti. “The Queer Ecological Aesthetics of Wuthering Heights.” Brontë Studies : Journal of the Brontë Society, vol. 46, no. 1, 2021, pp. 30–42.