Literary Arts
Karan Mahajan
Associate Professor of Literary Arts
Biography
Fall 2024 Courses
- LITR 1200 — Writers on Writing
- LITR 1230Y — Structuring / De-structuring the Novel
Spring 2025 Course
- LITR 2010A — Graduate Fiction Workshop
Karan Mahajan is the author of Family Planning, a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Association of Small Bombs, which was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Awards, won the 2017 New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and was named one of the New York Times Book Review's "Ten Best Books of 2016." In 2017, he was selected as one of Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists." His essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker Online, n+1, The New Republic, and other venues.