Degrees and Institutions Granting the Degree

• Michigan State University, Ph.D., 2007
• Jadavpur University, M.Phil., India, 1998
• University of Calcutta, M.A., India, 1994
• B.A. (Honors), Presidency College, India, 1992

Professional Areas of Specialty

• Transnational and Postcolonial Feminism
• Postcolonial Literature and Theory
• Cultural Studies
• South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and Latin American Studies
• Resistance Literature
• Human Rights Discourse
• Subaltern Studies

Selected Publications and Projects

• My current book project studies postcolonial literature and photography depicting the gendered dynamics of state sanctioned violence as well as resistance to such injustice. In my work I draw on the representations of atrocities perpetrated against populations spread across the diverse geographies of Central America, South Asia, Southern Africa, North Africa, and the Middle East. This project both explores and critiques the transnational feminist possibilities of globally distributing such narratives as a political strategy against repression.

 Journals Co-edited

• Transnational Inquiries: Representing Postcolonial Violence and Cultures of Struggle, Special Issue of Postcolonial Text [forthcoming]

• Assistant Editor, Directions: Discussions of Pedagogy, Gender, and Language. Ed. Cynthia Klekar, Rachel Holmberg, & Basuli Deb. Morgantown: WVU Press, 1999.

Articles

• “Transnational Feminism and Women Who Torture: Reading My Guantanamo Diary and Abu Ghraib Photography. Postcolonial Text[Under consideration]
• Transnational Trends: Imagining Women’s Collective Politics in the Empire” Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation [Under consideration]
• “Turning a Deaf Ear: Women’s Wounds in Truth and Reconciliation.” Forthcoming in Healing South African Wounds. Special Issue of Les Carnets du Cerpac (Journal of Commonwealth Studies) 7.
• “Convict Narratives from Postcolonial India: The Criminalized Woman in Phoolan Devi’s Stories.” Ruminations on Violence. Ed. Derek Pardue. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, 2007. 144-55.
• “The British Raj, Modernization, and India: Women, Transgression, and the Communism-Casteism Dyad in The God of Small Things.” Postcolonial Feminist Writing.Special Issue of Atlantic Literary Review 4.4(2003): 34-48.
• “The Giving Tree: The Victim as the Victor.” Directions: Discussions of Pedagogy, Gender, and Language. Ed. Cynthia Klekar et al. Morgantown: WVU Press, 1999. 34-39.

Review

• An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature, ed. King-Kok Cheung. Women in Development Bulletin 18.3 (2003): 19-21.

Review and Advisory Panels

• Peer Reviewer, Body and Society, UK

Selected Awards/Honors

• Seed Funds, Grant-in-Aid Program, Quinnipiac University
• Summer Research Grant, Quinnipiac University
• Michigan State University Excellence-In-Teaching Award (University-wide)
• Yunck Endowed Scholarship, Outstanding Graduate Student, Dept. of English, Michigan State University
• Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Michigan State University
• Centennial Review Completion Fellowship, Dept. of English, Michigan State University
• Michigan State University Dissertation Fellowship                      
• Graduate School Research Enhancement Award
• Michigan State University SCRAM award    
• Best Graduate Student Paper, Conference on Resistance to Tyranny: Representing the Struggle for Human Rights in Literature, New York College English Asso.,

Selected Invited Lectures/Presentations

• “Violence Against Women, the Responsible Archive, and Transnational Activism” Junior lecture class on Women in Modern India, Yale University, New Haven, April 2009
• “Women, Warriors, and War-Talk,” Panel Discussion on the Language and Politics of Weapons and War, Albert Schweitzer Institute, Quinnipiac Univ., Sept. 2007
• Sponsored Speaker, “Research and Teaching in USA,” United States Educational Foundation, Calcutta, India, June 2004
• “Wide Sargasso Sea: Rewriting Jane Eyre,” International Speakers Series on Postcolonialism, Presidency College/University of Calcutta, India, January 2004
• “African-American Women Novelists,” British Council, Calcutta, India, Feb. 1999

Teaching: Current and Upcoming Courses at UNL

• Survey of Women's Literature: Thinking Women and War Postcolonially
• Introduction to Women’s Literature: Decolonizing Our Voices
• Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies: Transnational Feminism