Sangina Patnaik is Associate Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College.  Her research and teaching interests include twentieth-century world literature, Modernism, human rights, and critical legal studies. She is currently finishing a manuscript entitled What We Owe: Reparation in Law and Literature, which studies literary and legal accounts of post-conflict reparations around the world. She was an initial member of the college’s Sanctuary Task force in 2016-7 and is currently chair of the college’s Sanctuary Committee.