CURRICULUM VITAE
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ALPANA SHARMA
Department of English
457 Millett Hall
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435
(937) 775-2070/3136
alpana.sharma@wright.edu

 

EDUCATION

1984-1990   Ph.D., Critical and Cultural Studies/English, University of Pittsburgh.

  • Area of concentration: Twentieth-century Indian colonial and postcolonial literature in English.
  • TITLE OF DISSERTATION: "Indian Nationalism and Indo-Anglian Literature: A Critical Re-Evaluation of Writing Race into the English Language."

1982-1984   Ph.D. (commenced), English, Pennsylvania State University.

1980-1982   M.A., English, University of Delhi.

1977-1980   B.A. (Honors), English, University of Delhi.

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ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Sept. 2000-  Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Wright State University

1996-2000   Associate Professor, Department of English and Women’s Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

1993-1996   Assistant Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

1990-1993   Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Delaware.

1987-1988   Assistant to Director of Composition, University of Pittsburgh.

1984-1987   Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh.

1982-1984   Teaching Assistant, Pennsylvania State University.

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ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

Summer 2002   African and African American Studies Grant to develop course in African literature. $1,400.

1999-00   Faculty Associate to the Dean of International Affairs, University of Nebraska- Lincoln.

1995-96   International Affairs Grant to internationalize the Women’s Studies curriculum. $1,500.

1995   Research Council Grant-in-Aid, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. $3,000.

Summer 1994   Faculty Summer Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. $5000.

Summer 1991   General University Research Grant, University of Delaware. $5000.

1988-1989   Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh.

1980-1982   Indian National Scholarship, University of Delhi.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES (1982-2003):

  • Survey of Non-Western Literatures

  • World Literature by Women

  • Colonial and Postcolonial Indian Literature in English

  • African Literature

  • Study of Literature

  • Twentieth-Century Fiction

  • Twentieth-Century Women Writers

  • Novel 1700-1900

  • Composition and Technical Writing

GRADUATE COURSES (1991-2003):

  • Asian American Literature

  • Postcolonial Literature

  • Anglophone Literature from the Indian Subcontinent

  • Poststructuralist and Postcolonial Critical Theory

  • Postcolonial Women Writers from India

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PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

Editor, New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996). 386pp.

ARTICLES:

"Questions of Pedagogy and Multiculturalism," Multicultural Literature and Literacy: Making Space for Difference, eds. S. Miller and B. McCaskill (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993). 205- 217.

"Toward an Investigation of the Subaltern in Bharati Mukherjee's The Middleman and Other Stories and Jasmine," Bharati Mukerjee: Critical Perspectives, ed. E. Nelson (New York and London: Garland Publishing Co., 1993). 143-159.

"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.

"Hanif Kureishi" and "Timeri Murari," Writers of the Indian Diaspora: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, ed. E. Nelson (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993). 159-168; 249- 253.

"On Empire, Time, History: or, What Does the 'Post-' in 'Postcolonial' Signify?" Semiotics 1993, ed. R. S. Corrington and J. Deely (New York: Peter Lang, 1995). 255-260.

"Subnationalism, 'Home,' and the Function of New U.S. Media Markets," Semiotics 1994, ed. C. W. Spinks and J. Deely (New York: Peter Lang, 1995). 425-430.

"Indian Literature in English," Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India, ed. N. Natarajan (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996). 84-99.

"Inside Out, Outside In: Cultural Politics in the Films of Pratibha Parmar," Semiotics 1995, ed. C. W. Spinks and J. Deely (New York: Peter Lang). 208-213.

"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.

"'Sharp contrasts of all colours': The Legacy of Toru Dutt" in Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women’s Texts, eds. A. Amireh and L. S. Majaj (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2000). 209-228.

Entry on Toru Dutt for Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume 240, Late-Nineteenth and

Early-Twentieth-Century British Women Poets, ed. W. B. Thesing (Detroit and London: Gale Press, 2001). 54-60.

"Body Matters: The Politics of Provocation in Mira Nair’s Films," Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 18.1 (2001): 91-103.

Entries on Pratibha Parmar and Hanif Kureishi (films) for Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture, ed. A. Donnell (London and New York: Routledge, 2001). 172; 232-33.

"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.

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FORTHCOMING ARTICLES

"In-Between Modernity: Toru Dutt (1856-1877) from a Postcolonial Perspective," Women's "Experience" of Modernity, 1875-1945, eds. Ann Ardis and Leslie Lewis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press). 21pp.

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WORK IN PROGRESS

"The Reinvention of English: Empire, Nation, and Gender in Indian Literature" (book ms).

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS FROM 1995

June 2003  "Kashmir as Image in Mission Kashmir: Paradise Lost?" Cultural Studies Association, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Nov. 2002  "Asian American Literature: A Case for Globalization?" Invited Talk, Guelph University, Ontario, Canada.

Oct. 2001   "Towards a Pedagogy of Counterculture/Countering Culture," Content Providers of the World Unite! The Cultural Politics of Globalization, John Douglas Taylor Conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Feb. 2000   "Tradition and Modernity Revisited in the Films of Mira Nair, Deepa Mehta, and Shekhar Kapur," 9th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannnah, GA.

Dec. 1999   "‘There’s No Place Like Home’: Nostalgia in a Transnational Frame," International Conference on Theory at the End of the Millennium, University of Goa, India.

1998-1999   Participation in year-long national "Seminar on Japan" to develop curricula in Japanese history and literature.

July 1998   "Seminar on Japan" in Tokyo, Kurashiki, Hiroshima, and Kyoto, Japan.

Mar. 1998   Participant, Human Rights and Human Diversity Workshop, University of Nebraska- Lincoln.

Mar. 1998   Invited speaker at round table panel discussion, "Postcolonial Studies and the Globalization of the American University Curriculum," University of Delaware, Newark.

Jan. 1998   "Global Feminism in the Global Economy: Reflections on Indian Poet Toru Dutt (1856-1877)," Women’s Studies International Colloquium Series, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

June 1997   Participation in Faculty Development Institute, "Cross-Cultural Approaches to Curriculum Transformation," SUNY-Albany.

April 1996   "Modern Imperatives, Traditional Locations: The Ambivalent Reception of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Indian Women's Writing," Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Conference, Columbus, OH.

Mar. 1996   "The Postcolonial Critique of Universalism," Annual Cultural Studies Symposium, Kansas State University.

Oct. 1995   "Inside Out, Outside In: The Films of Pratibha Parmar," Semiotic Society of America Annual Conference, San Antonio.

Oct. 1995    "Self (En)Gendered in Ideology: Pratibha Parmar's Films on British Racism," Conference on Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism, George Washington University.

Mar. 1995   "Monumenting Documents: The Teaching of Postcolonial Literature," Annual Cultural Studies Symposium on Western Humanities, Pedagogy, and the Public Sphere, Kansas State University.

Feb. 1995   "Henry Derozio (1809-1831): Anglo-Indian Teacher of English in Colonial India," Pedagogy of the Oppressed Conference, University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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SELECTED SERVICE FROM 1995

COMMITTEES, WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY (2000-03):

  • Department: Graduate Program Committee; Library Committee; Search Committees for positions in African American Literature and Medieval Literature.

  • College: African and African American Studies Major Committee; Senator for English; College Curriculum Committee.

COMMITTEES, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN (1995-2000):

  • Department: Honors Theses Committee; Faculty Senator for English 1998-2000; Curriculum Committee subcommittee to design a 200-level theory course for English majors; Recruitment Committee for positions in African American literature and eighteenth-century British literature.

  • College: Human Rights and Human Diversity Steering Committee; Text Studies Committee; College Curriculum Committee, Chair 1998-99; Asian Studies Committee; Undergraduate Committee in the New International Studies Program; Norman and Jane Geske Lecture Series in the History of Arts Committee.

  • Women’s Studies: Advisory Committee; International Speakers Committee; International Grant Dispersal Committee; International Pedagogy Workshop Committee.

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OTHER SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • Reviewer of article submissions to College English, ed. L. Z. Smith; Diaspora, ed. K. Tololyan; Gender and Society, ed. M. Andersen; and PMLA 1995 special issue Colonialism and the Postcolonial Condition. 

  • Reviewer for book mss for University of Pittsburgh Press series, Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture, general eds. D. Bartholomae and J. Carr.

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