Dr. Asha Nadkarni
Eminent Scholar Lecture
Location
Performing Arts & Humanities Building : Dresher Center
Date & Time
March 16, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
Please join us on March 16 at 12pm in
the Dresher Center Conference Room to welcome Dr. Asha Nadkarni, who is
visiting UMBC as part of the Eminent Scholar Mentor Program. "‘A Queerness of No Return’?: Competing Diasporic Imaginaries in Shani Mootoo’s He Drown She in the Sea.”  Asha Nadkarni is Associate Professor of English at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. Her research and teaching interests include
postcolonial literature and theory, transnational feminist theory, US
empire studies, and Asian American studies, with an emphasis on the
literatures and cultures of the South Asian diaspora. Her book, Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India
(University of Minnesota Press, 2014), traces connections between U.S.
and Indian nationalist feminisms to suggest that both launch their
claims to feminist citizenship based on modernist constructions of the
reproductive body as the origin of the nation. She is working on a
second book project, tentatively titled From Opium to Outsourcing, that focuses on representations of South Asian labor in a global context. |