Jana Fedtke

Dr. Jana Fedtke is a Clinical Associate Professor of the Writing Program at NYU Shanghai. Her research and teaching interests include algorithmic authorship, data justice, science and technology, gender studies, and transnational literatures with a focus on South Asia and Africa. Professor Fedtke’s work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and edited collections.

Select Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Fedtke, Jana. (2023). “Gendered Nationalism: Bangladeshi Narratives of the War of Liberation.” South Asia Research 43(3): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231190758

• Highland, Kristen Doyle, & Fedtke, Jana. (2023). “Rethinking the Essay: Student Perceptions of Collaborative Digital Multimodal Composition in the College Classroom.” Higher Education Pedagogies 8(1): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2023.2216194

• Younis, Aya, & Fedtke, Jana. (2023). “’You’ve Been Living Here For As Long As You Can Remember’: Trauma in OMORI’s Environmental Design.” Games and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231162982

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• Fedtke, Jana. (2024). “‘What to Call that Sport, the Neuter Human...’: Asexual Subjectivity in Keri Hulme’s The Bone People.” In Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition. Ed. KJ Cerankowski and Megan Milks. London: Routledge. Chapter 16.

• Fedtke, Jana. (2023). “Peripheral Urbanization as Queer Identity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.” Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India. Edited by Swathi Krishna S. and Srirupa Chatterjee. Lexington Books. pp. 33-50.

Education

• PhD, Comparative Literature
  University of South Carolina 

Research Interests

• Algorithmic Authorship

• Data Justice

• Science and Technology in Fiction

• Gender Studies

• Transnational Literatures with a focus on South Asia and Africa