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ON LEAVE SPRING 2008

Courses: Spring 2008
On Leave

Teaching and Research Interests : World Literature, South Asian Literature and Film, Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, Postcolonial Theory, Women's Literature, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies, Literature of the Partition of India

Education:
Ph.D. South Asian Studies, University of Chicago
M.A. Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
M.A. Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. First Class Honors, First in University
B.A. Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. First Class Honors, First in University

Selected Awards:
National Endowment for the Humanities / American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship
Summer Research Grant, College of Arts and Letters, James Madison University
Edna T. Shaeffer Humanist Award, James Madison University
International Development Grant, James Madison University
Faculty Research and Travel Grant, Cornell University
International Doctoral Fellowship, American Association of University Women
Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize for the best graduate research paper on South Asia, Midwest Association of Asian Affairs
Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Chicago
Ruth Murray Memorial Prize (Graduate) for the best essay in the area of women’s studies, feminist criticism or gender studies, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago
University of Chicago Fellowship, University of Chicago
MacArthur Fellowship, University of Minnesota
National Scholarship, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India
Pratibhamoyee Medal awarded to the best female graduate of the year, Jadavpur University
Hirendranath Dutta Memorial Gold Medal for modern Indian Literature, Jadavpur University
B.C. Basu Memorial Prize for excellence in Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
University Medals: B.A. and M.A., Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

“Divided Homelands, Hostile Homes: Partition, Women and Homelessness.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 40:2, 2005

“Jyotirmoyee Devi: writing history, making citizens.” Indian Journal of Gender Studies 12:1, 2005

“Quarantined: Women and the Partition.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 24:1, Special issue on Sex, Gender and Family Structure, 2004

“Disenfranchised Bodies: Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Writings on the Partition.” Genders 38, 2003

“The Nationalist Construction of Femininity: Sarat Chandra’s Srikanta.” Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature 39, 2002

Chapters in Books

“The Dilemma of Purity: Gandhi and the Partition” in “Culture and Development: Essays in Honour of Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi.” Manoj K. Sanyal (ed.). Forthcoming, Sage, India, 2008

“The Diminished Man: Partition and ‘Transcendental Homelessness’” in Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement and Re-settlement. Anjali Gera Roy and Nandi Bhatia (Eds.). Pearson Education, India, 2007

“Divided Homelands, Hostile Homes: Partition, Women and Homelessness.” Reprinted in Interpreting Homes In South Asian Literature. Malashri Lal and Sukrita Paul Kumar (eds.). Pearson Education, India, 2007

Reference Work Entries

“Jibanananda Das.” Entry in the Companion to 20th Century World Poetry. Victoria Arana Ed. New York: Facts on File (forthcoming, December 2007)

“‘Banalata Sen’.” Entry in the Companion to 20th Century World Poetry. Victoria Arana Ed. New York: Facts on File (forthcoming, December 2007)

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