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Kavita Daiya is currently Associate Professor in the Department of English at
George Washington University, in Washington DC. She is also Executive Committee
Member of the Women’s Studies Program. Her research and teaching interests
include Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Colonial Discourse, Transnational
Feminism, South Asian American Literature, Bollywood Cinema, Visual Culture,
Race and Diaspora. She teaches a range of graduate and undergraduate courses on
Postcolonial and Feminist Theory, Transnational Literature and Film, twentieth
century British Literature. Dr. Daiya’s interests are interdisciplinary,
seeking to explore cultural representations in various media, in relation to
historical, theoretical and anthropological accounts of colonial and
postcolonial experience, in India, South Asia, and around the world.
Dr. Daiya received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of
Chicago in 2001. Engaging the field of feminist postcolonial studies with Asian
American studies, her first book Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender and
Postcolonial Nationalism in India examines the cultural negotiation of
ethnic violence and mass migration in South Asian literature and cinema, from
the diaspora and the subcontinent (Temple University Press, 2008). Her second
book project focuses on the memories and experiences of migration, and she is
currently in India conducting video interviews with those who migrated during
the Partition. She has also published several articles, and has been invited to
present her work at the University of Chicago, Georgetown University,
Provisions Library, and the University of Michigan, among others. In addition,
her research has been presented at national and international conferences like
the MLA, AAS, the Annual South Asia Conferences at the University of California
at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, among other spaces. She
has been a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford in England and a
Research Fellow at the Globalization Project at the University of Chicago. Dr.
Daiya is a member of Indus Women Leaders.
Dr. Daiya’s research has been generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the University of Chicago, and George
Washington University. Apart from her book, her publications include articles
on questions about immigrant experience, masculinity, globalization, refugees,
women, and anti-colonial nationalism in South Asia, the United States and
Africa. Not only because she was born and brought up in Bombay (now Mumbai),
India, Dr. Daiya continues to take an active interest in cultural and political
debates there on ethnic violence, community and gender identities, contemporary
art, cinema, urban development, globalization, and cultural nationalism.
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