[1] Her MA dissertation was entitled Crossing the boundaries of substance and accident: rhetoric, ecclesiastical hypocrisy, and eucharistic language in The Pardoner's Tale.
[2] She then completed a PhD at Yale University in 2001, with a thesis entitled Memorial and metamorphosis: the image of the reliquary in the poetry of medieval England and France.
[3] After completing her PhD, Chaganti joined the English department at UC Davis, where she continues to work.
This won the Modern Language Association's 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies.
[14] Chaganti's current research interests include a project on early English law's role in violence in the American South,[1] and a collaboration with Gabrielle Nevitt on poetic form and animal studies.