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CURRICULUM VITAE
ALPANA SHARMA
1984-1990 Ph.D., Critical and Cultural Studies/English, University of Pittsburgh.
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. 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. 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. UNDERGRADUATE COURSES (1982-2003):
GRADUATE COURSES (1991-2003):
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. "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.
"The Reinvention of English: Empire, Nation, and Gender in Indian Literature" (book ms). 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. COMMITTEES, WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY (2000-03):
COMMITTEES, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN (1995-2000):
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