Project Assistant

CURRICULUM VITAE

(recent developments are in bold)

Name: Asha Sen

Home Address: ****, **** ******

Eau Claire, WI 54701

Home Telephone: 715-***-****

Office Address: 422, Hibbard Hall

Eau Claire, WI 54702

Office Telephone: 715-***-****

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Rank: Professor

EDUCATION:

PhD in English Literature, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 1996

M.A. in English Literature, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 1989

M.A. in English Literature, Bangalore University, India, 1986

B.A. (Hons). in English Literature, St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, India, 1984

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2010-2011 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC), Professor

2010-2011 Sabbatical (book project on Spirituality and Postcolonial Literature), Professor

2005-2009 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC), Associate Professor

2003-2004 Sabbatical Towards a National Culture: India and its Diaspora (wrote a number of peer-reviewed articles)

2002-2003 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC), Associate ProfessorUniversity of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC), Assistant ProfessorPurdue University, Teaching AssistantJyoti Nivas College, India, LecturerPurdue University, Teaching AssistantJyoti Nivas College, India, LecturerMedia Centre, India, Assistant Director

Professional Organizations:

Modern Language Association of America

Midwest Modern Language Association

South Asian Literature Association

AWARDS, GrANTS, Honors:

10-11 Sabbatical (Book Project on Postcolonial Spirituality)

Summer Stipend for book project

UWEC University Research and Creative Activity grant (URCA), Fall 2010-Spring 2011

05 Recognized at the Tenth Anniversary of the Annual Women of Color Awards

ceremony at UW-Madison, 2005, and invited to propose a session for the conference.

03-04 Sabbatical

2002 UWEC Woman of Color Honoree (UW System Award). Fall 2002.

2001 Faculty Reading Seminar Proposal. UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity. Spring 2001.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Examining Pre-Colonial Identities in Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like a Man. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 41.2 (2011): 129-38.

Forthcoming. (Post) Colonial Allegories in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines.

New Literatures Review. 9. December 2009.

Re-Visioning Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India in a Post-National Age. Kunapipi. General issue. 9. (2009): 66-82.

None of Her Lord’s Blessings Would She Deny: Towards a Feminist Reading of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. (short article) NAWCHE: National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education newsletter. Women’s Studies Dept., Dept. of Sociology. Boston College, Massachusetts.

From National to Transnational: Three Generations of South Asian American Women Writers. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature. Vol. 4 No. 1 (June 2009).

Feminist Ethnographies of Desire and Resistance in Lalithambika Antherjanam’s The

Goddess of Revenge and Ismat Chugtai’s Lihaaf. South Asian Review. XXVIII. 2. 2007. 165-181.

Allegories of Nation, Woman, and Empire in Salman Rushdie’s East, West Stories. Kunapipi 13.2 (2001): 121-44.

Rewriting History: Hanif Kureishi and the Politics of Black Britain. Passages: A Journal of Transnational and Transcultural Studies. 2.1 (2000): 61-80.

Locating South Asian Feminisms within the Context of Postcolonial Theory. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the University of Wisconsin Systems Women’s Studies Consortium. Ed. Rhoades and Statham. WI: Madison, 1999: 244-56.

Book manuscript: Postcolonial Yearning: In Search of the Sacred in Anglophone Studies under review at Palgrave MacMillan. Received one positive review. Waiting to hear from the second reviewer.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS:

Presentation on Spirituality in a Postcolonial World. 8th Annual Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference. Iowa City. 23-23 August 2012

Presentation on Rethinking Spirituality Today. New Directions in the Humanities. Montreal, Canada. 14-16 June, 2012.

Presentation on Interleaves by Lata Mani. Annual Postcolonial and

Commonwealth Studies Conference. Savannah, Georgia. 2012.

Presentation on The Reluctant Fundamentalist. For the Professional Development

Reading Salon in Global and Multicultural Literature. The Eau Claire

School District and the Unviersity of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. November 12th

2008.

Feminist Ethnographies of Desire and Resistance in Lalithambika Antherjanam’s The

Goddess of Revision and Ismat Chugtai’s Lihaaf. Invited Presentation. U of Hawaii at Manoa. November 2007.

Is There Nowhere Else That We Can Meet?: Overlap and Distinctiveness within the Emerging

South Asian Literary Canon Roundtable Organizer and Participant. 35th Annual South Asian Studies Conference. UW-Madison, October 2005.

Invited Talk on Modern Indian Literature. High School Teachers conference. UW-Madison,

June 5, 2005.

Situating Dance like a Man alongside Indian Regional Language Productions. Session #3.

Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS). May 26-31, 2005.

Teaching about Non-Western Women in an Age of Imperialism. Roundtable Organizer

and Participant. 29th Annual UW System Women’s Studies conference. Madison, WI, April 2005.

(Re)Examining Race and Gender in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Chitra Divakaruni’s

Arranged Marriage. Race, Gender and Immigration. Seattle University. Seattle, March 2005.

None of Her Lord’s Blessings Would She Deny: Towards a Feminist Consciousness

in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. 33rd Annual South Asian Studies Conference. UW-Madison, October 2004.

Women’s Bodies and Discursive Sites: Situating Women Writers from India. Second Annual

South Asian Literary Association Conference. New Orleans, December 2001.

Invited Presenter and Moderator. Globalizing Curricula: Challenges and Strategies. The

Impact of Globalization on Literature. Globalization and India Symposium. Neenah, WI, October 2001.

Presenter. Postcolonial Feminism in the US Classroom. Global Pedagogies in the US Women’s Studies Classroom. Twenty-Second Annual National Women’s Studies Conference. Minneapolis, June 2001.

COURSES TAUGHT:

New Courses Developed:

English 713: Postcolonial Theory (spring 2012)

English/WMNS 335 (Transnational Feminisms) (spring 2012)

English 430/630 (Postcolonial Spirituality) (Fall 2011)

English 459 (Literature of Black Britain) (Spring 2009)

English 330 (Empire and the Postcolonial Novel) (Fall 2008)

English 330 (Postcolonial Novel) (Fall 2007)

Postcolonial Feminisms (English 430) (Spring 2005, 2006). Advised capstone students in each section.

Empire and the Twentieth Century British Novel (English 359) (Fall 2006)

Introduction to English Studies (English 210) (Fall 2006)

Introduction to World Literatures (FYE) (English 131): Literature of the Indian Subcontinent

Representations of Women in Postcolonial Literature (Hons. 304)

Introduction to World Literatures (English 331): Women Writers of the Indian Subcontinent

Salman Rushdie (English 370): Major Author umbrella

Postcolonial Literature and Theory (English 379/579)

National Narratives of South Asia (English 733)

Graduate Seminar in a Major Figure (English 780): Salman Rushdie

Other New Courses Taught:

Women in African Literature (English 332) (Fall 2008)

English 284 (Spring 2009)

Other Courses Taught:

Introduction to College Writing (English 110)

Introduction to College Writing (FYE) (English 110)

Introduction to College Writing (Hons) (English 110)

Introduction to Literature (English 150)

Introduction to English Studies (English 200)

World Literature II (English 230)

Introduction to the Novel (English 275)

Images of Women in Contemporary Literature (English 290)

Taught a section of Responses to Colonialism class (HUMS 301)

Twentieth-Century British Literature (English 377/577)

Several directed and independent studies on assorted topics

THESIS ADVISOR:

Reader for Lindsey Bush’s thesis on the Black Panthers.

Jackie Bailey: The Hero Must Hang: The Postcolonial Swerve and the Re-Visioning of Homer’s Odyssey in Hanif Kureishi’s Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. April 2005

Sarah Adams: Colonial Discourse Analysis and Euripides’ Medea. December 2002

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE:

Served on the following committees:

Literature review committee

DPC Secretary (Fall 2011-Spring 2012) Chair Curriculum Committee (2008-2009), Chair Literature Committee (2008-2009), American

Poetry Search Committee (2008), Global History Search Committee (2008)

Served on the following committees:

Linguistics Committee (2007-2008), DPC Secretary (2005-2006), Executive DPC (2002-2003), Curriculum Committee (1997-1999, 2002-2003, 2004-2005), Schedules Committee (2001-2003) Composition Committee (2000-2002), Long Range Planning Committee (2000-2002), Media Resources Committee (1999-2001), Graduate Review Committee (1997-1999), Multiethnic American Literature Search Committee (1998-1999), Technical Writing Search Committee (1997-1998)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

Participated in Global/Diversity Workshop (August 2012)

Bringing in Tabassum Siraj to speak on refugee relocation in the US as a Visiting Minority Scholar (August 2012). Ms. Siraj works for the Office of Refugee Relcoation in Washington DC.

Served on the following committees:

Nominating Commtitee (2005-2006), University Research and Creative Activity Council (2000-2003), Fulbright Selection Committee (1997-2003), Women’s Studies Program Committee (2000-2002), Women’s Studies Curriculum (2000-2001), Advising panel for New Faculty Orientation (1999), Ad Hoc committee of Project 2008 (1999), Discussion Panel for NET at the Movies (1998)

Served on the Council for Assessing and Advancing Student Learning

UW SYSTEM SERVICE

Served on the advisory committee for the recognition of the 10th Anniversary of Outstanding Women of Color Awards at the UW 2005 Women’s Studies Conference at UW-Madison, 2005.

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