Conferences

Conference Presentations

 

  • “Caste and the Collapse of Romantic Love in Post-millennial Bollywood,” Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA), October 2022.
  • “Migration, Precarity, and Agency in Fiction of the Arabian Gulf,” Modern Language Association conference (MLA), January 2022.
  • “Visitors and Travelers from South Asia to the United States in the late 19th Century,” at “The United States and South Asia from the Age of Empire to Decolonization: New Perspectives on Indo-US Entanglements, c. 1850s-1950s” conference, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, January 2020. Invited.
  • “Re-cast(e)ing the New Woman: Caste and Gender in Contemporary Indian Cinema,” Northeast Popular Culture Association, October 2020. (virtual conference)
  • “#ImNotAChickFlick: Neoliberalism and Postfeminism in Veere Di Wedding (My Friend’s Wedding, 2018),” Northeast Popular and American Culture Association-NEPCA, October 2019.
  • “African Migrants and the American Metropolis: Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears (2007),” Arts and the City Conference, Károli Gáspár University and The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, May 2019.
  • “Journeys of the Self: Global Travel and the Female Bildungsroman in New Bollywood,” Modern Language Association conference (MLA), January 2018.
  • “Globalization and Labor in Asian Diasporic Women’s Fiction,” Postcolonial Studies Association conference, University of London, September 2017.
  • “Migration, Mobility, Melancholia: American Cities in the Contemporary Global Anglophone Novel,” 27th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association (ALA), San Francisco, May 2016.
  • “‘The Benefits to be Obtained from an India Voyage:’ Imagining India in the Early American Novel,” Modern Language Associate Conference (MLA), Austin, January 2016.
  • “‘The Benefits to be Obtained from an India Voyage:’ Imagining India in the Early American Novel,” 26th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association (ALA), Boston, May 2015.
  • “A Heathens’ Guide to the World’s Fair,” Annual Conference of the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS), Chicago, April 2015.
  • “Beyond Idols and Items: Feminist Possibilities in Recent Bollywood Films,” Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA), Providence, October 2014.
  • “The Seductive Swami,” International Journal of Arts and Sciences’ (IJAS) American Canadian Conference for Academic Disciplines, Toronto, May 2014.
  • “Blended Learning in the English Classroom,” The 21st Century Classroom: Online and Blended Learning conference, Norwood, MA, April 2013.
  • “Indian Visitors at the 1893 Chicago Exposition,” Modern Language Associate Conference (MLA), Boston, January 2013.
  • “Blended Learning Impacting Student Learning,” 17th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, Florida, November 2011.
  • “Pandita Ramabai in Late Nineteenth-century U.S.,” 15th Annual Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, June 2011.
  • Panelist, Commemorative Panel on Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee, “Remembering Meenakshi Mukherjee: The Teacher and the Scholar” (which featured distinguished speakers Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan), annual South Asian Literary Association Conference (SALA), December 2009.
  • “Opium, Colonialism, and Migration in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies,” “Acts of Elaboration: A Symposium on Asian American Studies in the Northeast,” Boston College, May 2009. (Invited).
  • “‘On the Road’: The Travel Writings of Three Indian Women,” Modern Language Association Conference (MLA), San Francisco, December 2008.
  • “Carlos Bulosan’s Melancholic Politics,” Multiethnic Literatures of the United States Conference (MELUS), Columbus, OH, April 2008.
  • “Bhagat Singh Thind and the Challenges of U.S. Citizenship.” Ohio University panel discussion, South Asians in North America: Race and Class Long Before 9/11 (Invited; GAP/Global Awareness Program), May 2007.
  • “‘Neighborhood Nuisances’ or ‘Neighborhood Assets’? National Anxieties in Katherine Mayo’s Mother India,” annual South Asian Literary Association Conference (SALA), Philadelphia, December 2006.
  • “Dalip Singh Saund’s Exceptional Argument about America,” Association of Asian American Studies Conference (AAAS), Los Angeles, April 2005.
  • “Being Indian, Becoming American: Early Asian Indian Autobiographers Dhan Gopal Mukerji and Dalip Singh Saund,” MLA, San Diego, December 2003.
  • “‘A Lonely Foreigner Besides’: Ved Mehta’s Many Memories and Autobiographies,” 32nd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, October 2003.
  • “Homing Desires in Abraham Verghese’s My Own Country,” Multiethnic Literatures of the United States Conference (MELUS), Boca Raton, Florida, April 2003.
  • “Race-ing Hyde: A Reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (USACLALS), San Jose, CA, April 2002.
  • “‘Stomaching Englishness’: Mother Country, Race and Gender in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions,” MLA, New Orleans, LA, December 2001.

 

 

Other Presentations

 

  • Panelist, “The Bechdel Test Oscar Webinar” (organized by the UMass Dartmouth Center for Women,Gender & Sexuality, in partnership with the YWCA of Southeastern MA), March 2022.
  • “Knowledge, Application, and Collaboration: Layering Blended Tools to Foster Student Engagement and Learning,” Teaching and Learning Technologies Brown Bag Seminar, University of Massachusetts- Dartmouth, March 2012.
  • Moderator, Panel, “Women: A Graceful Pursuit of Strength and Dignity” at the NJISACF (New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest), October 2011. Invited.
  • Panelist, “40 Years of Women’s Struggles and Women’s Rights across the Globe,” International Women’s Day, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Spring 2010.
  • “South Asians in North America,” Humanities Research in Progress Seminar, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Spring 2009.
  • Panelist, “Teaching in America: A Guide for International Faculty,” organized by Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Spring 2009
  • “Born into Brothels,” Invited Presentation and Discussion for “Gender in a Global Frame” film series, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, November 2009.
  • Panelist, “Responding to Sammie and Rosie Get Laid: The Place of Black British Cinema,” at the GLCA “Black Studies Conference,” Earlham College, April 2005.