About MeI am Assistant Professor of English at Boise State University. I graduated with a doctorate degree in Comparative Literature and a minor in Gender and Women's Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. I also have an MPhil in Women's Studies and an MA in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur university, Calcutta, India.
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CoursesEngl 268/GS 380- Survey of British Literature
Engl 216- " Cultural Exchange in Transnational Literature" Engl 395- "Women Writers" Engl 396/GS 380- "Postcolonial Literature" ISLE 397/597- Other Voices, Alternative Imaginations- Refugee non-refugee Communication" Engl 398/GS 380- "Gender, Biopower, and War" Engl 424/380 "Prison Narratives" Engl 530/GS 580- "Subalternity, Space, and Agency" |
Fellowship, grants and Teaching awardsBarbara and Smalley Fellow, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011.
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Comparative & World Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011-2012. Comparative & World Literature Departmental Fellowship, Fall 2009. Arts and Humanities Institute, Boise State University, 2015. Cultural, Ethnic, and Diversity Board, Boise State University, 2015. Idaho Film Council, Boise State University, 2015. Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, awarded by the School of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2009 Featured in the Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010. |
Publications• “Living in Subalternity: The Becoming of the Subaltern in Bessie Head’s A Woman Alone, A Gesture of Belonging, and When Rain Clouds Gather,” Journal of the African Literature Association, Vol. 7. No. 2, (Spring 2014): 36-55.
“The New Bhadramahila and the Reformed Bhadralok: Reconfiguration of Gender relations in Rabindranath Tagore’s Streer Patra (The Wife’s Letter) and Ghare Baire (The Home and the World).” (accepted for publication in University of Toronto Quarterly). Book Review: Review of The Cambridge Introduction to Edward W. Said (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). By Conor McCarthy. “Abecedarium Anthology: The Cambridge Introduction to Edward W. Said” (Boundary 2; February 25 2015) http://boundary2.org/2015/02/25/abecedarium-anthology-the-cambridge-introduction-to-edward-w-said/ Publications in Conference Proceedings: “The Crisis in Teaching Subalternity” in the Conference Proceedings of the First International Conference on Literature, Language and Communication: An Essential Trident (Lucknow: Amity School of Languages, Amity University, January 2015). Articles under preparation: “Other Voice, Alternative Imaginations: The Refugee and the Sovereign State.” “Diaspora and Female Body-Space relationship in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Namesake and The Lowland.” “The Politics of Writing Women Without Men: Surrealism and Feminist Agency.” |
Interviews“Quilting to Speak: Boise Refugees / Non-Refugees Stitch Quilt, Weave New Relationships” by Shannon Heller, Boise Weekly Newspaper, July 7, 2015.
“How Quilting Is Bringing Boise Kids And Refugees Together” by Samantha Wright, Boise State Public Radio, July 3, 2015.(Featured in UNHCR Washington, Boise Sun Times Network, “Bronco Snapshot: Reshmi Mukherjee” by Dave Mckerracher, Boise State University, December 14, 2014. “Boise State Gender Studies Program explores Mainstream Identity of Masculinity” by Justin Kirkham, The Arbiter, December 4, 2014. |