Education

• Ph.D, Duke University
• M.A., Purdue University
• B.A. (Highest Hons), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 
• Other studies: Université Nice Sophia Antipolis; Université Paris VII; Université des Antilles et de la Guyane; and University of Mauritius

Research

• Postcolonial Studies
• Cinema Studies
• French and Francophone Studies
• Creole Cultures
• African Studies
• Indian Ocean and Caribbean
• Eighteenth Century
• Anthropology and Literature
• French and British Colonialism

Professor Prabhu welcomes projects/supervision in any of these areas. Selected publications can be found here.*

Publications

• “French Chivalry in India: The Archival Effect of the Honnête Homme.” Studies in History 40.2 (2025)
• “Mudimbe’s Library.” African Studies Review. 2025;68(4):857-861.
• “De-dreading as Collective Agency.” Review of Dread: Facing Futureless Futures by David Theo Goldberg. Identities 31.3 (2024): 413-18.
• Review of African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization. Vol. 3. The Documentary Record – Declarations, Resolutions, Manifestos, Speeches. Edited by Michael T. Martin and Gaston J. Kaboré. Journal of the African Literature Association
• “Interrogating Neurotypical Bias in Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, and Spelling 2 Communicate Through a Humanistic Lens.” Current Development Disorders Reports 11.39 (2024): 41-51.
• “Literature and Hybridity in Mauritius Reunion.” in Ed. Olakunle George. A Companion to African Litearatures. Malden: Wiley and Sons, 2022. 45-59.
• “Négritude: A Passion in Abiola Irele’s Work.” Journal of the African Literature Association, 14.1 (2020): 126-32.
• “The Sympathizer: A Dialectical Reading.” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, March (2018): 388-95.
• “Ato Quayson’s Oxford Street, Accra: Tracing Autobiographical Narrative in Analytical Method.” PMLA:  Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 131.2(2016): 496-504.
• “Aesthetics in Postcolonial Reading: Cinematic Challenges from Karmen Geï.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. 2 (2015): 131-40.
• “Eros in Infinity and Totality: A Reading of Levinas and Fanon.” Levinas Studies 7 (2012): 127-46.
• “The Monumental Heroine: Female Agency in Joseph Gaï ramaka’s Karmen Geï.” Cinema Journal 51.4 (2012): 66-86.
• “Aux Etats-Unis d’Afrique: narration dialogique ou dialectique?” Ouevres et critiques 36.2 (2011): 79-92.
• “Fanon, Glissant, Memmi, and Postcolonial Writing.” in Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literatures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011: 1068-1099.
• “To Dream of Fanon: Reconstructing a Method for Thought by a Revolutionary Intellectual.” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 19.1 (2011): 57-70.
• “Narrating the City: Documentary or Fiction in Harrikrisna Anenden’s La Cathédrale.” French Forum 35.2 (2010): 115-134.
• With H.Adlai Murdoch. “Of Beauty, Cosmopolitanism, and History in Postcolonial Reunion.” International Journal of Francophone Studies 11.3 (2008): 401-16.
• “Narration in Frantz Fanon’s Peau noire masques blancs: Some Reconsiderations.” Research in African Literatures 37.4 (2006): 189-210.
• “Interrogating Hybridity: Subaltern Agency and Totality in Postcolonial Theory (Edouard Glissant’s Poétique de la Relation).” Diacritics 35.2 (2005): 76-92.
• “‘Calibrations’: Re-reading for the Social.” Research in African Literatures. 36.2 (2005): 97-103.
• “Representation in Mauritius: Who Speaks for African Pasts?” International Journal of Francophone Studies. 8.2 (2005): 183-97.
• With Ato Ouayson. “Francophone Studies / Postcolonial Studies: Postcolonializing through ‘Relation.”‘ In Eds. H. Adlai Murdoch, Anne Donadey. Postcolonial Theory and Francophone  Literary Studies. Gainesville: Florida U P, (2004): 224-34.
• “Theorizing the Role of the Intermediary in Postcolonial (Con)text:Driss Chraibi’s Une enquête au pays” Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 27.1 (2003): 167-190.
• “Mariama Ba’s So Long A Letter: Women, Culture, Development in Francophone/Postcolonial Context.” In Eds. KumKum Bhavnani, John Foran, and Priya Kurian. Feminist Futures: Reimagining Women, Culture, and Development. London: Zed Press (2003): 239-55.
• “Sisterhood and Rivalry: Between the Shadow and the Sultana: A Problematic of Representation in ‘Ombre sultane.’” Research in African Literatures 33.3 (2002): 69-96.