Research and Publications

Books

Reviewed in Gender, Place, and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography; Quarterly Review of Film and Video; Studies in South Asian Film and Media; and South Asia Research.

Reviewed in Journal of World History; and Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

 

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

 

  • “’Just Like Everyone Else:’ Queer Representation in Postmillennial Bollywood” (co-authored with Nikki P. Sylvia). Feminist Media Studies. April, 2023. 1-15. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680777.2023.2201398
  • “Recaste-ing the New Woman: Caste and Gender in Contemporary Indian Cinema.” (co-authored with Megha Anwer). The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema. Eds. Judith Mizrahi-Barak and Joshil Abraham. Routledge, 2023. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003343578/routledge-companion-caste-cinema-india-judith-misrahi-barak-joshil-abraham
  • “Love, interrupted: Caste and Couple-formation in New Bollywood” (co-authored with Megha Anwer). Quarterly Review of Film and Video 39.3 (2021). 615-643. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10509208.2020.1867476?journalCode=gqrf20
  • “#ImNotAChickFlick: Neoliberalism and Postfeminism in Veere Di Wedding (My Friend’s Wedding, 2018)” (co-authored with Megha Anwer). Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies 11.2 (2021). 146–168. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0974927621992595
  • “Decolonizing the Museum: Leila Aboulela’s ‘The Museum’.” The Journal of Postcolonial Writing 57.1 (2020). 121-134. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449855.2020.1847171
  • “Nobody puts Rani in a Corner: Making of the New Indian Woman in Queen (2014),” South Asian Popular Culture 17.2 (2019), 145-157.
  • “‘Of Connection across Space and Time:’ The Scarlet Letter and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth,” Critical Insights: The Scarlet Letter, Ed. Brian Yothers. MA: Salem Press, 2018. 36-51.
  • “‘The Wonders of India so Near our Front Doors:’ Consuming India, Imagining America,” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 37 (May 2017), 111-135.
  • “Writing India in Early American Women’s Fiction,” Early American Literature 52.2 (June 2017), 363-388. (co-authored with Raje Kaur)
  • “‘A Black Pagan in Orange Clothes’: Swami Vivekananda’s American Travels,” Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 27.1 (2016), 71-89.
  • “Forbidden Desires: Interracial Relationships in Jhumpa Lahiri and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Short Fiction.” Critical Insights: Contemporary Immigrant Short Fiction, Ed. Robert C. Evans. MA: Salem Press, 2015. 52-69.
  • “Strategies for Success: Using Formative Assessment to Build Skills and Community in the Blended Classroom.” In Selma Koc and Patrick Wachira, Eds. Assessment in Online and Blended Learning Environments. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. 2015. 235-251. (co-authored with S. Evans, C. Gardner, K. Gulbrandsen, and J. Riley).
  • “‘This is a Civilized Nation, and a Man from the East has no Right to Criticize it:’ Indian Visitors at the 1893 Columbian Exposition,” Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 15.1 (2014), 23-47.
  • “‘The International Colour Line Has Been Challenged’: Solidarity Networks in Indian Travel Narratives.” In Anne Richards and Iraj Omidvar, Eds. Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers. Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. 145-163.
  • “‘The Sea is History:’ Colonialism, Migration, and Opium in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies,” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 42.3-4 (July-Oct 2012), 21-42.
  • “Bhangra Blues: Melancholy, Memory and History in Gurinder Chadha’s I’m British But…,” The Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47.1 (2011), 89-100. (with Sandrine Sanos)
  • “The Nightingale’s Wanderings: Sarojini Naidu in North America,” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 44.3 (Sept 2009), 87-105.
  • “‘Neighborhood Nuisances’ or ‘Neighborhood Assets?’ National Anxieties in Katherine Mayo’s Mother India,” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 37.2 (March 2008), 131-155.
  • “Rituals of Queer Diaspora in Nisha Ganatra’s Chutney Popcorn,” South Asian Popular Culture 5.1 (April 2007), 31-43

 

Book Reviews

 

  • Review of Manav Desai, The United States of India: Anticolonial Literature and Transnational Refraction, South Asian Review (2021)
  • Review of Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Caste and Outcast, Eds. Gordon Chang, Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta, South Asian Review (2002)
  • Review of Rajini Srikanth and Lavina Dhingra Shankar. Eds. A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America, in The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad (2001)

 

Short Pieces

 

  • “Visitors and Travelers.” In Our Stories: An Introduction to South Asian America, SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive): Chicago, 2021
  • Entries on “Vincent Chin Incident,” “Mexican-Indian Marriages,” and “Dalip Singh Saund,” in Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Luping Hing and Allan W. Austin. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe (2010)
  • Entries on “Sara Suleri” and “Meena Alexander,” in the Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography. Eds. Jo Malin and Victoria Boynton. Greenwood Press (2005)
  • Entries on “Ved Mehta,” “Amitava Kumar,” and “Meena Alexander,” in the Encyclopedia on South Asian Literature. Ed. Jaina Sanga. Greenwood Press (2004)