Full-Time Faculty

Kavita Daiya
Ph.D. Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago

Engaging the field of feminist postcolonial studies with Asian American Studies, my specializations include nationalism, literature and film in public culture, migration studies and globalization.  My interdisciplinary research has focused on the cultural representation in global media of ethnic belonging, violence and gendered citizenship in India, South Asia, and their diasporas. The 1947 Partition of India by the British is the focus of my first book; currently, I am working on minoritization, race, transnational women’s experiences, and human rights with a focus on immigrant America and contemporary urban India.

Book:

Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender and Postcolonial Nationalism in India.  Temple University Press.  Forthcoming, 2008.

Other Publications:

“Postcolonial Masculinity: 1947, Partition Violence and Nationalism in the Indian Public Sphere,”Genders March 2006.

“Provincializing America: Engaging Postcolonial Critique and Asian American Studies in a Transnational Mode,” South Asian Review vol. 26, no. 2 Dec 2005: 265-275.

Co-editor, South Asian Review, Special Issue on “Imagining South Asia,” Summer 2007.

“’No Home But in Memory:’ Migrant Bodies and Belongings, Globalization and Nationalism in Amitav Ghosh’s Novels,” in Brinda Bose, ed., Amitav Ghosh: Critical Essays (New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2003).

“‘Honourable Resolutions:’ Gendered Violence, Ethnicity and the Nation,” Alternatives: Global Local Political vol. 27, no. 2 April-June 2002.