Jay N Shelat

Assistant Professor

Jay N Shelat is an Assistant Professor of English. He received his PhD at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He was the 2021-2022 recipient of the Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship, and his work has appeared in TSLL, Post45 Contemporaries, CEA Critic, and elsewhere. Dr. Shelat’s current book project, tentatively titled Ordering the Chaos, examines how the political ideologies that fuel 9/11 and the War on Terror affect familial and domestic dynamics.

Department

English

Degrees

B.A. in English (Georgia State University)

M.A. in English (Georgia State University)

Ph.D. in English (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

Teaching

Contemporary Fiction

World Literature

Terrorism Studies

20th century American literature

Research Interests

American and World Literatures; Contemporary Literature; Kinship; Brownness; Racialized Violence; 9/11; Terrorism; Imperialism; Queerness; Visual Culture; Global Conflict; Bollywood.

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Reading Through Terror: Shelat Challenges Cultural Understanding in the Classroom

Since joining Ursinus in 2022, Assistant Professor of English Jay Shelat has used popular media such as “The Hunger Games” and “Iron Man” to show the impact terror has had on modern popular culture