Anupama Arora
Assistant Professor of English

Education:
Ph.D. English, Tufts University, 2004
M.A. English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1997
B.A. (Honours) English, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, 1995

Specializations:
Post-colonial theory and literature, especially from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia and its diaspora; women's studies; Asian American literature; colonial literature; literary criticism and theory

Contact Information:
Office: LARTS 302
Email: aarora@umassd.edu

Professor Arora is Assisant Professor of English and she joined the UMass Dartmouth English Department in Fall 2008. She moved to Dartmouth after spending a few years at Earlham College in Indiana. At UMD, Prof. Arora has taught and looks forward to teaching courses on post-colonial literature, Indian literature and film, women's literature, and critical methods and literary theory.

Professor Arora is currently working on a book project on the documentary history of South Asians in North America. This book will demonstrate the long, complex, and vibrant history of South Asians in the U.S. and Canada through the use of images (in the form of cartoons, illustrations, photographs), important court cases regarding citizenship issues, newspaper articles, autobiographical sketches, ethnographic accounts, among other sources.

Her dissertation examined the autobiographies of first-generation South Asian American writers such as Ved Mehta and Sara Suleri, among others. At annual conferences and in peer-reviewed journals, she has presented and published her work on South Asian diasporic literature and film, as well as on other texts that illustrate the interlinked histories of India, England, and North America.