Personal Information

Education:
B.A., M.A., Panjab University, Chandigarh, India (1977, 1979); Ph.D. Purdue University (1986)

Teaching and Research Interests:
Postcolonial Studies; South Asian Studies; Third World Feminism

Recent Publications:
"'The Undiscovered Country': Suniti Namjoshi, Diasporic Sexuality, and the Textual Politics of Inter-Nationality."  Occasional Papers Series, Women's Studies and Development Centre, University of Delhi, India, 2006.  

"Deterritorializing Trinidad and India: V. S. Naipaul's Diasporic Travels in India: A Million Mutinies Now."  South Asian Review 26.1 (2005).

"South Asian Partition Literature and the Gendered Rape and Silence of the National Body." South Asian Review (2001).

"Religious Fundamentalism and the Twice-Fragmented Narrative of Gender in Contemporary Punjab." Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 4.2 (2000).  

"'The Magic Idyll of Antiquated India': Patriarchal Nationalism in R. K. Narayan's Fiction."    ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 31.3 (2000).

Works-in-Progress:
In Pursuit of Equality: Feminism and Nationalism in South Asian Women's Literature in English.  Book-length monograph.

"'A Politics Essentially Their Own': Women's Leadership in the Quit India Movement."