Associate
Professor
Department of English
Lehigh University
Selected
Publications
Books
The
Films of Mira Nair: Cinema Vérité. Published by University Press of Mississippi, 2018.
Literary Secularism: Religion and Modernity in Twentieth
Century Fiction.
Selected Journal Publications and Reference Encyclopedia Entries
“Untranslatable Authorship: Positioning Yeats' "Preface" and the Poetry of Tagore.” Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-Visioning, 2022
Digitizing Derozio: Exploring Intertexts to English Romanticism in the Collected Poems of Henry Derozio Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India, 2022
“The Indian Novel in the Twenty-First
Century.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia
of Literature, 2017
“Postcolonial Studies.” Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial
Studies. 2016.
"Veiled Strangers: Rabindranath Tagore’s America, in Letters
and Lectures." Journeys: The International Journal of Travel
& Travel Writing, 10:1, 2009.
"Animating a Postmodern Ramayana: Nina Paley's Sita
Sings the Blues" South Asian Review, December 2009.
"More
than 'Priestly Mumbo-Jumbo': Religion and Authorship in All About H. Hatterr."
Journal of Postcolonial Writing, December 2009.
”Names Can Wait: Mis-naming the South Asian Diaspora.” South Asian Review, 28:1 2007 [2008].
Re-Orienting Forster: Intimacy and Islamic Space.”
Criticism: A Quarterly, Winter 2007.
[PROJECT MUSE]
Republics of the Imagination: Afghan and Iranian Expatriate
Narratives.” Minnesota Review 68,
2007.
“Anonymity,
Authorship, and Blogger Ethics.” Symploke 16:1-2, 2008.
Hinduism in Indian Fiction.” In Studying Hinduism: Key Concepts and Methods. Ed. Gene Thursby and Sushil Mittal. Routledge UK, 2007.
The Lifting and the Lifted: Prefaces to Colonial Modernist
Texts.” Wasafiri 47, Spring 2006, 1-10.
“Forward,” South Asian Review 26.3, fall 2005, 2-5.
“A Pisgah Sight of Ireland: Religious Embodiment and Colonialism
in Ulysses.” Semeia 88, fall/winter 2001, 129-147.
“Preface,” Polygraph 12, April 2000, 3-13.
“They Would Rather Listen to Samba or Death Metal: Channeling Global
Subcultures,” Polygraph 11, April 1999, 89-114.
Mainstream
Media/ Other Publications
“Being Sikh in America” (New
York Times, 2012)
“The New Wave of Islamophobia”
(Salon.com 2016)
“ Entry on
"G.V. Desani." Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century World Fiction.
Memories of 1971: A Review of Tahmima
Anam’s A Golden Age.” Pragati, May 2008.
“Skinny Candidates With Funny Names.” SAMAR, February 2008.
“The Communalization of Censorship.” Himal Southasian,
August 2006.
“Indian Science Fiction: An Introduction to Two Authors.” SF
Revu, November 2006.