Saha’s teaching, like their research, spans studies of race, empire, and sexuality. They teach undergraduate and graduate courses across a range of interests that include Critical Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Queer and Feminist Theory, and Ethnic American Literature. Read more about their course on cults in popular culture.

Poulomi Saha is Chair of the Program in Critical Theory. A member of the LGBTQ Citizenship Cluster at Othering and Belonging Institute, they am also affiliated with the Center for Race and Gender, the Designated Emphasis in Women and Gender Studies, and the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies.

Recent Graduate Courses

Freud and His Followers (Spring 2021)

Paranoid States: Empire and the Rise of the Surveillance State (Fall 2017)

What Does Critical Theory Have to Do with the Postcolonial? (Spring 2016)

Recent Undergraduate Courses

American Hustle: Race, Ethnicity, and Dreams of Getting Ahead, or, Capitalism Kills (Fall 2020, Spring 2019)

Multi-Culty: Cults in Pop Culture (Fall 2020)

The Bad Seed: Monstrosity, Horror, and the Inhuman in Children’s Literature (Spring 2019)

Growing Up Funny (Fall 2019)

Getting Global: Literature & Film of an Expanding & Unequal World (Fall 2019)

Orphans, Feral Children, Runaways: Notes on Queer Childhood (Spring 2018)

Postcolonial Sex (Fall 2016)

Global Cities (Fall 2016)