Dr. Anna Guttman
- Ph.D, School of English, University of Leeds, UK
1st Year
- ENGL 1116 - Native and Newcomer Literatures in Canada: Contact Zones
2nd Year
- ENGL 2510 - Global Literatures in English
3rd Year and Special Topics titles
- ENGL/WOME 3810 – Special topics in Women's Writing
- ENGL 3970 – Global South Asia
4th year Special Topics titles
- Travel Writing
- Postcolonial Women's Writing
- Globalization
- Global Women's Writing
- Indigenous and Jewish Intersections
Graduate Courses: Special Topics titles
- Travel Writing
- Jewishness in Multicultural Literature
- Globalization
- Postcolonial Women's Writing
- Gender, Globalization and Literature
- Indigenous and Jewish Intersections
Anna Guttman's primary field is postcolonial literature, particularly that of South Asia and its diaspora. Her areas of interest include the nation, multiculturalism, gender and sexuality, Jewishness, diaspora, globalization, call centre work, housing and popular culture. She was previously the international president of the Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies, the largest and oldest scholarly association for the study of postcolonial literatures. She is also a past president of the Canadian Association of Chairs of English. Dr. Guttman is the author of Writing Indians and Jews: Metaphorics of Jewishness in South Asian Literature (2013), The Nation of Indian in Contemporary Indian Literature (2007) and co-editor of The Global Literary Field (2006) and Ruptured Commons (2024). Her work on Jewishness in South Asia and on the Ruptured Commons was supported by SSHRC. Dr. Guttman received the 2026 Lakehead University Distinguished Research Award (SSHRC). She welcomes the opportunity to supervise graduate students in all areas of postcolonial literature.
Selected Publications:
Guttman, Anna. “Housing Society: Religion, Caste and Class in Indian Apartment Block Fiction.” In Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge, Eds. Myra Bloom and Kasia Juno, Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. 2025. 197-216.
Guttman, Anna. “‘The Last Jew in the village’: Extinction, Indigeneity, Authenticity and Jewishness in contemporary Indian literature.” In Nationalism and Indigenousness in Select Commonwealth Writings and Films: A Postcolonial Rereading, Ed. Pinaki Roy. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag. 2025. 285-304.
Guttman, Anna. “Our brother’s blood:” Inter-religious Solidarity and Commensality in Indian-Jewish Literature.” Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 40:2 (2023): 71-93. DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.40.2.03
Guttman, Anna. “Queer Futurities in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness." In Transgender India: Understanding Third Gender Identities and Experiences. Ed. Douglas A. Vakoch. New York, NY: Springer, 2022. 37-47.
Guttman, Anna. “Real life fiction: Genre and truth claims in popular call centre narratives,” South Asian Popular Culture 2022. DOI: 10.1080/14746689.2022.2115741
Guttman, Anna. “Jews and Muslims in Globalization Literature and Theory From William Shakespeare to Ayad Akhtar" Interventions, 23:6 (2021): 905-921. DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2020.1816849