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Kavita Daiya is Assistant Professor in the department of English at George
Washington University in Washington DC, where she is also affiliated faculty
and Executive Committee member of the Women’s Studies Program. A literary
critic and scholar of transnational cultural studies, Dr. Daiya’s research
engages the field of feminist postcolonial studies with Asian American Studies.
Her specializations include nationalism, literature and film in public culture,
migration studies and globalization.
Her interdisciplinary research and publications have focused on the cultural
representation in global media of ethnic belonging, violence and gendered
citizenship in India, South Asia, and their diasporas.
The 1947 Partition of India by the British is the focus of her first book Violent
Belongings: Partition, Gender and Postcolonial Nationalism in India (Temple
University Press, forthcoming in 2008); this book takes up the postcolonial and
diasporic representation of the 1947 Partition, from 1947-2007. Specifically,
the book tracks a cultural genealogy of how particular categories come to
determine national belonging in the transnational public spheres of
postcolonial South Asia. Examining novels, short stories, art and Bollywood
films, journalism, Legislative Assembly debates and oral testimony, the book
shows how contemporary forms of ethnic violence and ethnic nationalisms
dominant in India and the Indian diaspora in the United States are informed,
and indeed, partially constituted by this cultural history of Partition.
Currently, Dr. Daiya is working on her second book on urban migrations,
refugees, race, minoritization and human rights with a focus on contemporary
urban India and immigrant America.
Dr. Daiya was born and educated in Bombay. She studied at Sydenham College
before coming to the United States. She earned her B.A. from the University of
Rochester in 1993, her M.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
(1995) and Ph.D. (2001) from the University of Chicago.
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Library Research, Indian Office Library and British Museum, London, 1998, 1999,
2003-2004.
Archival Research, National Film Archives of India, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006.
Ethnographic and archival research (Maharashtra State Government Archives) in
Bombay, India, Summer 1999, 2003-2005, 2006-2007.
Ethnographic research in Pune, India, Summer 1999, 2004-2005.
Ethnographic research in the United States, Summer 2004, 2006-2007.
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