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About Pavan Mano
I am a cultural theorist working in and around the fields of (20th and 21st century) contemporary literature and cultural studies. I received my PhD in English Literature & Cultural Studies from King’s College London, and my work engages heavily with contemporary critical and literary theory as well as affiliated intellectual fields such as postcolonial studies, queer studies, nationalism studies, and political theory.
One of the key themes that animates my current research is studying nationalism’s continual generation of outsider figures and its intersections with race, gender, and sexuality. My forthcoming monograph, Straight Nation, (Manchester UP, 2025) examines heteronormativity as a modality for the transmission of nationalism in postcolonial Singapore. Drawing on a range of texts such as political biographies, legal texts, archival records, oral histories and more, the book analyses the production of subjectivity and demonstrates how affects of belonging can be calibrated through the governance of sexuality. My work has been published in journals such as Culture, Theory and Critique, the Journal of Language and Sexuality and I have also worked on more public-facing material for outlets such as the King’s English and LSE Southeast Asia blogs, Back Page Football, and Atticus Review. I have also given public keynotes and talks such as a TED talk at Oxford University in January 2024.
NBN Episodes hosted by Pavan:
October 3, 2025
Queer Correctives
Queer Correctives: Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality and Christianity in Singapore (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) explores Christian discourses of sex…
June 6, 2025
Poetics of the Migrant
Since the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections on cla…