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EDUCATION:
1987 Ph. D. in English. The Pennsylvania State University
1981 M. A. in English. Miranda House College, University of Delhi
1979 B. A. Honors in English. Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. (compiled and edited with an introduction.)
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. (For sale only in the South
Asian market.
Issued as a paperback, December 2000.)
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. London: Arnold, 1996. (compiled and edited
with an introduction.) 4th reprint, 2000.
Selected Articles:
“Multan.” In Regional Perspectives on India’s Partition. Eds. Anjali Gera Roy and Nandi
Bhatia. New York: Routledge, 2023. 87-100.
“Contemporary Chick Lit in Indian English.” In Teaching Approaches to South Asian
Women’s Writing. Eds. Deepika Bahri and Filippo Menozzi. New York: MLA,
2021. 172-181.
“Domesticity, Food, and Gender in “Falk.” L’Epoque Conradienne 41 (2017-2018): 99-106.
"Shobhaa De and Indian Pulp Fiction” in A Concise History of the Indian Novel in English.
Ed. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 2017. 424-435.
"Geography Fabulous: Conrad and Ghosh." In Under Construction: Postcolonial Gateways
and Walls. Ed. Janet Wilson and Daria Tunca. Amsterdam: Brill/Rodopi. 2016. 59-68.
“Eating Out: Conrad, Food, Gender.” L’Epoque Conradienne 40 (2015-2016): 39-48.
"What About Shobhaa De? Indian Pulp Fiction meets Indian Writing in English."
in
Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imaginations. Ed. Stephanos Stephanides et al.
Amsterdam: Brill/Rodopi. 2015. 103-120.
“Speaking American: Popular Indian Fiction in English.” Comparative American Studies
12.1-2 (June 2014): 140-146.
"Geography Fabulous: Conrad and Ghosh." Coldnoon Travel Poetics 3.1 (Summer
2014): 191-201.
“Empire, Narrative, and the Feminine in Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.” Rpt. in Short
Story Criticism, Gale/Cengage Learning. 2012.
“The Emergence of ‘Indian’ Literature in the US Academic and Cultural Landscape.”
in
Crafting Identities, Remapping Nationalities: The English-Speaking World in the
Age of Globalization. London: Cambridge Scholars Publications. 2012. 57-70.
“Sister Hyacinth.” South Asian Review 27.3 (Fall 2007): 156-64.
"Whose India? The Emergence and Marketing of Indian Literature" in Saleme, Cecilia
(comp) Poscolonialismo y literaturas anglófonas. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán: San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 2009.
pp 25-38.
“The Rescue: Reading Conradians Reading Achebe.” Modern Critical Interpretations:
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. New ed. New York: Harold Bloom’s Literary
Criticism, 2008. 104-115.
“The Making and Marketing of Arundhati Roy.” In Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small
Things. Ed. Alex Tickell. Routledge 2007. 103-109.
“Between Men: Conrad in the Fiction of Two Contemporary Indian Writers.” in Conrad in
the 21 st Century. Eds. Peter Mallios, Andrea White, and Carola Kaplan. Routledge,
2005. 85-100.
“Medieval Travel in Postcolonial Times: Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land."in
Perspectives on Travel Writing: Borders and Crossings. Eds. Glenn Hooper and Tim
Youngs. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. 153-166.
Also published in Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion Ed. Tabish Khair. New Delhi:
Permanent Black, 2003. 73-89.
“Abandoned by Great Indian Novelists (in English, of course).” The Hindu: Literary
Review. February 1, 2004. 4.
"Why I Teach Conrad and Achebe." in Teaching Approaches to Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Eds. Hunt Hawkins and Brian Schaeffer. New York: MLA, 2002. 104-110.
"The Rescue: Conrad, Achebe, and the Critics.” Conradiana 33.2 (Summer 2001): 153-163.
Also published in Conrad in Africa: New Essays on Heart of Darkness. Eds. Gail Fincham,
Attie deLange, and Wieslaw Krajka. Boulder-Lublin-New York: Social Science
Monographs-Maria Curie-Sklodowska University-Columbia University Press,
2002.
299-312.
"Confession and Self-making in the Fiction of Contemporary Indian Women Writers."
In
Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English. Ed. Jacqueline Bardolph.
Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2001. 293-301.
"Contemporary Indian Women Writing in English and the Exclusions of the Postcolonial
Canon." Translating Cultures. Eds. Isabel Carrera Suárez, Aurora García Fernández,
and M. S. Suárez Lafuente. Oviedo/Hebden Bridge: KRK Dangaroo Press, 1999.
87-
92.
"Ghosts of the Gothic": Spectral Women and Colonized Spaces in Lord Jim.The Conradian
17.2 (Spring 1993): 1-16.
This special issue, Conrad and Gender was also published as a book (Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 1993).
"Ghosts of the Gothic" has been anthologized in Joseph Conrad: Longman Critical
Reader. Ed. Andrew Michael Roberts. Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1998. 155-
170.
"Empire, Narrative, and the Feminine in Conrad's Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness."
Contexts for Conrad. Eds. Keith Carabine, Owen Knowles, and Wieslaw Krajka.
East
European Monographs. Boulder: U of Colorado Press, 1993. 135-150.
Also reprinted in Under Postcolonial Eyes: Joseph Conrad After Empire. Eds. Gail Fincham
and Myrtle Hooper. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 1996. 120-132.
"Post-Colonial Identity and Gender Boundaries in Amitav Ghosh's" The Shadow Lines."
College Literature 19.3, 20.1 (Oct. 1992, Feb. 1993): 225-228.
"Narrative Strategy and Imperialism in Conrad's Lord Jim." Studies in the Novel
24.2 (1992): 173-186.
"The Problem of the Female Voice in Bleak House." West Virginia University
Philological Papers 34 (1988): 31-37.
Fiction:
I do so I do. Forthcoming. New Delhi: Red River Press. 2025.
Baby Looking Out and Other Stories. New Delhi: Yoda Press. 2018.
Poems:
“Vaishnu Devi,” “Almost True,” “New Delhi, Atrani.” Moving Worlds 4:1 (Summer 2004).
“The Dead Ones.” Catamaran. January 2004. 31.
"Words for Angela Carter," in InvAsian: Asian Sisters Present. Ed. Elaine H. Kim.
Berkeley: Study Center Press, 2003. 64.
"Ghazal." in Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English. Ed. Agha Shahid
Ali. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, October 2000.
“Again a Dream of Water. Women and Language XVII No.1 (Spring 1994): 47.
For Children:
“The Magic of Tara,” in Stories of Magic. New Delhi: Puffin Books. 2011.
Pchak, Pchak: A Story of Crocodiles. New Delhi: Young Zubaan. 2008.
Essays:
“Bill Hutson in Paris Noir.” 2025
https://www.theartblog.org/2025/04/bill-hutson-in-paris-noir-at-the-centre-pompidou/
“All Routes to Death: A Personal Essay of Friendship with Agha Shahid Ali.” 2021
https://scroll.in/article/1011441/all-routes-to-death-a-personal-essay-of-friendship-with-
agha-shahid-ali-in-the-early-1980s-in-usa
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS:
2002-2003 NEH Fellowship
Summer 2001 NEH Summer Fellowship for College Teachers
1994 NEH Summer Seminar, University of Pennsylvania.
1991 NEH Summer Seminar, University of Texas at Austin.
1987 Sparks Fellowship Designate, The Pennsylvania State University
1986 Graduate School Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University
1985-86 American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship 1983-84 Sparks Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University
COURSES TAUGHT:
CNX: Food
Seminar: India in English
Introduction to Literary Studies
Studies in the Nineteenth Century
Indian Fiction in English
1983 Folger Institute Fellowship
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