Anil Chandiramani teaches high school literature at The Blake School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Often integrating South Asian texts and films into his literature courses that explore wide-ranging historical and contemporary issues–from Dalit aesthetics to Gandhi and Hindutva–Anil gets his classes to examine literature at the intersections. Anil completed his graduate studies at the University of Minnesota and the University of California, earning two Master’s Degrees, one in English Literature and another in Comparative Literature.
- Unclaimed Terrain by Ajay Navaria
- The World of Premchand (selected short stories) by Premchand
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
- English (novel) by Wang Gang
- The Game in Reverse by Taslima Nasrin
- Selected Stories (w/ introduction by Ha Jin) (W. W. Norton) by Lu Hsun
- A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The White Tiger: A Novel by Aravind Adiga
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
- Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- The Fire and the Rain by Girish Karnad
- Shailja Patel by Migritude
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang
- Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- The Bridegroom: Stories by Ha Jin
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- The Thing Around Your Neck and Other Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “Heart of Darkness with “An Image of Africa” (Norton Critical Ed.) by Joseph Conrad
- The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf
- Jump and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer
- A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
- The Measures Taken by Bertolt Brecht
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert