REPOST: Dr. Asha Nadkarni Talk on March 16, 12pm

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:01:47 -0500

Cross-promotion from this original event link.

Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM.

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 215

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.