EMAIL: alpana.sharma@wright.edu
Research Interests: Gender, Nation, Post-Colonial Literature and Film
Publications:
"R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao and Modern English Discourse in Colonial India," Literature of the Indian Subcontinent, ed. A. Sagar. Spec. Issue of Modern Fiction Studies 39.1 (Spring 1993): 169-186. Under Alpana Sharma Knippling.
(Ed.) New Immigrant Literatures in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1996). Under Alpana Sharma Knippling.
“Self (En)Gendered in Ideology: Pratibha Parmar’s Bhangra Jig and Sari Red,” Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 1.2 (Fall 1996): 119-124. Under Alpana Sharma Knippling.
“Body Matters: The Politics of Provocation in Mira Nair’s Films,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 18.1 (2001): 91-103.
“In-Between Modernity: Toru Dutt (1856-1877) from a Postcolonial Perspective,” Women's “Experience” of Modernity, 1875-1945, ed. A. Ardis and L. Lewis (Johns Hopkins Press, 2003).Read the article: OHIOLINK Access
“Towards a Pedagogy of Counterculture/Countering Culture: Globalization and the Case of Asian American Literature," Learning from Seattle, ed. I. Szeman, Spec. Issue of Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies 24.1/2 (2002): 77-89.
"Paradise Lost in Mission Kashmir: Global Terrorism, Local Insurgencies, and the Question of Kashmir in Indian Cinema," Quarterly Review of Film and Video 25.2 (2008): 124-13. (Electronic version - pdf)
Teaching Interests: Post-Colonial Literature, Film, and Theory; Women's Literature from the Indian Subcontinent and Africa; Feminist Theory
See sample syllabi: Writing Back to Empire: Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi (graduate seminar); Empire and Gender in Three Women's Post-Colonial Novels (upper-level undergraduate/graduate)