Anupama Arora, PhD
Professor
English
Contact
508-910-6520
508-999-9235
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Liberal Arts 322
Education
| Tufts University | PhD |
| Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi | MA |
| Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi | BA |
Teaching
- Post-colonial and Global Anglophone Literature; Literature and Empire
- Multicultural Literature, especially Asian British and Asian American literature
- Women's Studies, especially Global/Transnational Feminism
- Bollywood Studies
- Literary Criticism and Theory
Programs
Research interests
- Postcolonial Literature, especially from South Asia and its diaspora
- Popular Indian film
- 21st century Global Anglophone Literature
Select publications
A. Arora, R. Kaur (2017).
India in the American Imaginary, 1780s-1880s
The New Urban Atlantic, 1
Arora, Anupama (2012).
The Sea is History:’ Colonialism, Migration, and Opium in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies
Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 42, 21-42.
Dr. Anupama Arora received her Ph.D. in English from Tufts University. She teaches courses on postcolonial and global literatures, among others. She was the recipient of the Provost’s Best Practices Award for the Recognition of Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology in 2011 and 2014. She is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Feminist Scholarship, an open-access online journal. In addition to publications in edited volumes, her work has appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Women’s Studies, Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, and LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. Her current research projects focus on India in the U.S. in the long 19th century, contemporary South Asian/diasporic literature, and Bollywood.