Henry Schwarz Professor Georgetown University Washington, dc

Birthdate: 9 April, 1961, Boston, MA

Age: 55

Nationality: USA

1991 Ph.D. Duke University, Graduate Program in Literature

1987 Certificate, French language proficiency, YMCA, Montreal, Canada

1986 M.A. Rutgers University, Comparative Literature

1985 Certificate, Spanish language proficiency, University of Salamanca, Spain

1982 B.A. McGill University, English

Fall 2014 Sabbatical

August 2012 - 2013 Interim Director, Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice

May 2010 Professor, English Department, Georgetown University

1997-2008 Associate Professor, English Department, Georgetown University

1999-2007 Director, Program on Justice and Peace, Georgetown University

1991-97 Assistant Professor, English Department, Georgetown University

1988-89 Instructor, University Writing Program, Duke University

Tutor, English Department, Duke University

1984-86 Teaching Assistant, Department of Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

Expert Legal Witness for confidential tenure and promotion process, 2013

Peer Reviewer, American Council of Learned Societies, 2013

Dissertations: Columbia, George Washington, American, Jadavpur Universities

Tenure and Promotion: Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, George Mason, Rutgers, Tufts, Lehigh, St. Thomas, DePaul Universities; John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY); Georgetown SFS-Q; Univ. of Chicago; Yarmouk Univ., Jordan
Honors, Awards, Grants and Positions

Fall 2016 Main Campus Competitive Grant-In-Aid, $2,000

Summer 2016 English Department Research Assistantship, $1,500

2016 – 17 Georgetown India Initiative Faculty Seminar Grant, $5,000

Fall 2015 Doyle Seminar, Engaging Difference Program Grant, $2,000

ITEL Designing the Futures Program Grant, $2,000

2014, ‘15 Teaching, Learning and Innovation Summer institute

Since 2013 Trustee, American Institute of Indian Studies

2013 Doyle Seminar, Engaging Difference Program Grant, $3,000

2013 Global Liberal Education, Faculty Curricular Innovation Grant, $3,000

2013 Director, Lannan Symposium and Festival, “America from the Outside: How the Worlds Sees US.” Speakers included Naomi Klein, Chris Hedges, Trevor Paglen, Dinaw Mengestu, Heidi Ewing, Wafaa Bilal and others. Budget $50,000.

http://lannan.georgetown.edu/2013/02/america-from-the-outside-how-the-world-sees-us/

2012-15 ICCR Faculty Coordinator, Indian Visiting Faculty Program

2012-13 Lannan Foundation Grant for AY 2012-13 to fund Georgetown Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, $180,000. Funded.

2010 Finalist, “Engaging India: Grants for Deepening Georgetown’s Relationships in India.” Provost’s Initiative. Curricular Development.

2009 Director, Lannan Symposium and Festival: “Cry Havoc: Poetry of War and Remembrance, 1968 – 2008.” Speakers included Seymour Hersh and Amy Goodman; James Fenton, Yousef Komunyakaa, Saadi Yousef, Carolyn Forche. Budget $50,000.

http://lannan.georgetown.edu/2009/03/cry-havoc-2/

2008 Keynote address, “Acting Like a Thief: Rhetorics of Action and Aesthetics in Indian Literature,” Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature, Sao Paolo, BR.

2007 Director, Lannan Symposium and Festival: “Writers, Masses, Multitudes: Liberation Movements and the Neo-Liberal World Order.” Speakers included Ngugi wa Thiongo, Kim Stanley Robinson, G. N. Devy and others. Budget $50,000.

http://lannan.georgetown.edu/2007/02/writers-masses-multitudes/

2007 Honorary Speaker, Peace Summit, Bhakti Vedanta Institute, Manipur, India.

2007 Keynote address, “Aftershock: Violence, Conflict and Resolution in Contemporary Art,”

Sainsbury Center, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

1997-99 Visiting Scholar, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory,

University of Pennsylvania.

1998-9 Sabbatical

1997 Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, National Endowment

for the Humanities.

1992-1996 Georgetown University Summer Academic Grants (4)

1996, 1997 Nominee, Summer Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (2)

1992-1994 Georgetown University Reduced Teaching Load Grant (2)

1993 Georgetown University Junior Faculty Research Fellowship

1993 Finalist, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wesleyan University

1989-91 Fellow, James P. Duke International Studies Fellowship, Duke University

1989-91 Honorary Visiting Scholar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

1986-88 Graduate Program in Literature Departmental Fellowship, Duke University

2016-2017 Professional Devmnt; Humanities Ph.D.

2015-2016 Executive; Professional Devmnt.; Rank and Tenure

2014-2015 Graduate; Executive; Professional Devmnt.

2013- 2014 Graduate; Ph. D. Working Group; Rank and Tenure Mentor, two candidates

2012 – 2013 Interim Director, Lannan Center; Executive; Merit Review; Chair, SFS-Q Hiring

2011 – 22016-012 Chair, Intellectual Life; Lannan; Hiring

2010 – 2011 Chair, Intellectual Life; Lannan

2008 – 2009 Lannan; Intellectual Life

2006-2007 Chair, Intellectual Life; Lannan

2005-06 Intellectual Life

2004-05 Chair, Newsletter; Humanities Initiative--A year-long effort to consolidate cultural and intellectual activities within a Center

2003-2004 Intellectual Life

1999-2002 Rank and Tenure Mentor, four candidates

1999-2000 Research; Honors

1997-1998 Graduate; Research

1996-1998 Research; Computer

1994-1995 Dept. representative to Ad Hoc Com. on Comparative Literature Program; Computer

1994-1995 Executive; Graduate

1994 Curriculum Com. Spanish Department

1993-1994 Graduate

1992-1993 Hiring; Honors; Hiring Com. Spanish Department

2016 – 2017 Main Campus Intellectual Life Committee

2016 – 2017 Main Campus Research Committee

2014 - 2017 University Committee on Rank and Tenure

2014 Promotion Mentor, SFS-Q

2013 Academic Integrity

2012 School of Foreign Service-Qatar Hiring, World Literature

Since 2011 Provost’s India Initiative

2010 Faculty Research Academic Integrity

Since 2006 Advisory Board, African-American Studies

2006-2007 Faculty Sponsor, Critical Theory Society

Since 1995 Advisory Board, Communications, Culture and Technology

Since 1994 Advisory Board, Program in Comparative Literature

Since 1994 Advisory Board, Culture and Politics, School of Foreign Service

Since 1993 Steering Com., Program on Justice and Peace
Other Academic Activities (Professional Development)

Conference Facilitator, Cultural Studies Assn., Georgetown, 25 – 27 May 2017

Pre-conference Organizer, Madison South Asia Conf., 24 Oct. 2016

Sept. 2016 Indentured Lives, Univ. Edinburgh

July 2016 European South Asia Studies Conf., Warsaw

June 2016 Global Theatre Network Preconference

May 2016 Panel Organizer, Left Forum, Uberization and the University

June 2015 Conference Organizer, Marxist Literary Group, Georgetown Univ.

May 2015 Panel Organizer, Left Forum on Academic Activism

May 2015 Panel Organizer Community Drama Conference, Baltimore

May 2014 Participant, Zeitgeist International Symposium on Participatory Theater

August 2013 War Resister’s League annual convention, Georgetown Univ.

June 2013 “Voice of the Voiceless:” Community Theatre, Georgetown Univ.

April 2013 “Antonio Gramsci in the World,” Duke Univ.

Fall 2011 Curator, “Rights, Identities, Communities: Literature and Social Justice in India.” Hosted six academic visitors from India in support of the Provost’s India Initiative.

May 2008 Panel Organizer, “Aesthetics, Politics and Violence in Contemporary Indian Visual Culture,” Cultural Studies Assoc., NYU

Feb. 2008 Panel Organizer, Berkeley South Asia Conference, Berkeley, CA

Dec. 2007 Panel Organizer, South Asia Literary Assoc., Chicago

Oct. 2006 Steering Committee, National Guantanamo Teach In, webcast, 200 schools

Sept. 2006 Co-organizer, “Nonviolent Response to 9/11,” MK Gandhi Institute, Georgetown

June 2006 Conference organizer, MLG-ICS, Georgetown

June 2005 Conference organizer, MLG-ICS, Georgetown

Nov. 2001 Outreach Coordinator Criminal Justice Reform Summit, Seattle

June 2000 Conference organizer, MLG-ICS, Georgetown

Mar. 1999 Conference organizer, "Race and Sexuality in South Asia," U Pennsylvania

Oct. 1998 Panel Organizer, "South Asian Literary History," Madison South Asia Conf

Jan. 1997 Workshop Participant, SARS, "Indian Cinema," U Pennsylvania

May 1996 Conference Co-organizer, Bengal Studies Association, Georgetown

Apr. 1996 Conference Co-organizer, CAAPS, Georgetown

Fall 1994 Seminar Participant, "Cultural Identities and World Civilizations," SFS, Georgetown

Apr. 1994 Conference Organizer, "The Shape of the World Today," Georgetown

May 1992 Panel Organizer, "Cultural Studies and the Politics of Interdisciplinarity," ACLA

1991-1992 Faculty Coordinator, International Board of Cultural Critics, Georgetown
PUBLICATIONS
1. Books Published

6. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. 3 Vols., 1800 pp. General Editors Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). A comprehensive summary of world writing and culture after colonialism. Published on Internet with full searchability after print version. Three Associate Editors, over 200 contributors. Published February 2016.

16. “Texture as Substance: Homi Bhabha’s Location of Culture Twenty Years On,” PMLA Spring 2017. Forthcoming. 10 pp.

15. “Thug.” American Comparative Lit. Assoc. 2015. 1000 words. http://stateofthediscipline.acla.org/entry/thug

14. “Resolution, Revolution, Reaction: Reimagining Conflict Transformation through Art,” South Asian Review 28.1 (2008): 141-158.

13. “Editorial: Extending American Hegemony: Beyond Empire,” (with You-me Park) Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 7.2 (2005): 153-161.

12. “Postcolonial Performance: Texts and Contexts of Mahasweta Devi,” SHARP: Sussex History of Art Research Publication 2.0 (April 2002).

11. “Aesthetic Imperialism: Literature and the Conquest of India," Modern Language Quarterly 61.4 (December 2000) 563-586.

10. “The Denotified and Nomadic Tribal Rights Action Group,” and “Will India Be Moved?” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 6.2 (Fall 1999): 126-138.

9. "Laissez-faire Linguistics: Grammar and the Codes of Empire," Critical Inquiry 23 (Spring 1997): 509-535.

8. "Under the Sign of Semiotext(e): The Story According to Sylvere Lotringer and Chris Krause" (with Anne Balsamo) Critique 37.3 (Spring 1996): 205-221.

7. "Postcolonial Discourse: The Raw and the Cooked" (with Sangeeta Ray) Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 26.1 (January 1995): 147-166.

6. "Introduction: Contesting the New World Order," (with Richard Dienst) Polygraph 5 (Spring 1992): 1-12.

5. "'He is no unletter'd man': King Lear, The Courier's Tragedy, and the Historical Agency of Postage," Shakespeare Jahrbuch (Spring 1991): 63-76.

4. "Introduction: Post-Colonial Cultures of Resistance," (with Richard Dienst) Polygraph 4 (Fall 1990): 2-8.

3. "Introduction: The End of Everything?" (with Richard Dienst) Polygraph 2/3 (Spring 1989): 1-3.

2. "Provocations Toward a Theory of Third World Literature," Mississippi Review 49/50.17/18 (Winter 1989): 177-201.

1. "Rewriting the Golden Age: D.D. Kosambi's Ancient India," Polygraph 1 (Fall 1987): 81-88.
3. Chapters in Books

14. “Superpower Symptoms, Subaltern Solutions: Postcolonial Perspectives on International Relations Theory,” Postcolonial Studies, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, eds. Claudia Fuentes and Paula Drummond, under contract at Routledge (2019). 20 pp.

13. “Approaches to Teaching Mahasweta Devi’s Imaginary Maps in the Undergraduate Classroom,” In Approaches to Teaching South Asian Women’s Writing, ed. Deepika Bahri, Publication of the Modern Language Association. Forthcoming. 20 pp.

12. “Making it Real: The Radical Documentary Cinema of Dakxin Bajrange,” in Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance, eds. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and Peter Hulme (New York: Routledge: 2015), 20 pp.

11. “Acting Like a Thief: from Aesthetics of Survival the Politics of Liberation,” Tessituras, Interacoes, Convergencias, ed. Sandra Nitrini (Sao Paolo: Abralic Huitec Editora, 2011) 53-68.

10. “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Crime,” Literary Criticism and Cultural Critique (Wenxue Piping he Wenhua Pipan) (Wuhan, China: Central-China Normal University Press, 2007) 269-279.

9. “Postcolonial Literary Historiography of the Americas," Literary Studies in India: Historiography ed. Ipshita Chanda (Kolkata: Jadavpur U P, 2004) 82-112.

8. "Is Modernity Modern?" Dialogues on Cultural Studies: Interviews with Contemporary Critics, eds. Shaobo Xie and Fengzhen Wang (Calgary: U of Calgary P, 2002) 219-232.

7. "From Text to Work: Postcolonial Textuality," Reimagining Textuality, eds. Beth Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat (Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2002) 211-224.

6. “Reimagining the Homeland in South Asian America,” Indiaspora: Theories, Histories, Texts, ed. Makarand Paranjape (New Delhi: Indialog Publications, 2001) 171-178.

5. "Mission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US," A Companion to Postcolonial Studies, 1-20.

4. "The Turning Point of Crime: Tribal Identity and Postcolonial Subversions," Contributions to Bengal Studies, 463-472.

3. "Sexing the Pundits: Gender, Romance and Realism in the Cultural Politics of Colonial Bengal," Reading the Shape of the World, 224-258.

2. "Warning! Cautious Readers," (with Richard Dienst), Reading the Shape of the World, 1-12.

1. "Simulation, Hyperreality, and the Ends of the Text: Introduction to Baudrillard," Papers in Comparative Literature: Seminars and Workshops, 1987-92, Vol. III "Approaches to Paraliterature," ed. Amiya Dev (Calcutta: Jadavpur U, 1992) 43-50.
4. Special Journal Issues

“Future Collectivities and the Global South,” special issue of The Global South, Indiana University Press, 2016. Peer reviewed. 30 pp.

“Postcolonial American Studies,” special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 7.2 (2005). Routledge Publishers. eds. Henry Schwarz and You-me Park. Peer reviewed.100 pp.
5. Articles and Chapters Reprinted

4. “Postcolonial Performance: Texts and Contexts of Mahasweta Devi,” Mahasweta Devi: Critical Perspectives, ed. Nandini Sen (New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2011), 175-189.

3. “Subaltern Studies: Radical History in the Metaphoric Mode,” Reading Subaltern Studies: Perspectives on History, Society, and Culture in South Asia, ed. David Ludden (Delhi: Oxford U P, 2000) 304-342.

2. “Editorial: Postcolonial Studies,” Semiotic Review of Books 10.2 (May 1999).

1. "Negotiating the Structures of Violence: A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak," The Postcolonial Critic, ed. Sarah Harasym (London and New York: Routledge, 1990).
6. Academic Reviews

5. Review of Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing, by Brian Chayette, Philip Roth Studies, forthcoming (Fall 2016). 6 pp.

4. Review of Endless Filth: The Saga of the Bhangis, by Mari Marcel Thekaekara. Journal of Asian Studies (Fall 2006): 217-19.

3. Review of In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India, by Priya Joshi. Modern Language Quarterly 66.1 (March 2005): 136-42.

2. Review of The Illegitimacy of Nationalism, by Ashis Nandy. Journal of Asian Studies (1995).

1. “A Permanent Settlement of the Mind: The Colonial Subject of English Studies." Rev. of Masks of Conquest: The Colonial Subject of English Studies, by Gauri Viswanathan. Polygraph 5 (Spring 1992): 263-269.

6. “Will India Be Moved?” Budhan: Newsletter of the Denotified and Nomadic Tribes Rights Action Group (Baroda, India) 2000, 36-39. Rpt. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature (2000).

5. “The Denotified and Nomadic Tribes Rights Action Group,” Frontier (Kolkata) Dec. 2000.

4. "Postcolonialism and Marxism," Frontier (Kolkata), 25 October 1997, 16-18.

3. "US Hegemony and the Struggle Within," Frontier (Kolkata), 1 August 1992, 3-8.

2. "Loose Canons," Frontier (Kolkata), 22 December 1990, 7-10.

1. "Masks of Conquest," Frontier (Kolkata), 3 November 1990, 4-6.
9. Academic Interviews

1. "Negotiating the Structures of Violence: A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak," Polygraph 2/3 (Spring 1989): 218-29.

2. "The Genetics of Genres: An Interview with Franco Moretti," Polygraph 2/3 (Spring 1989).
10. Published Works in Progress

1. Special Issue of The Global South. “Future Collectivities and the Global South.” Four authors, 60 pp. With critical Introduction. Spring 2016.

2. Making Revolution in Real Time: The Transformative Street Performances of Budhan Theatre. Full length book manuscript designed for digital platform on Scalar. Proposal under consideration with Cornell University Press.
Editorships: Journals

2008 Consulting Editor, World Art, Taylor and Francis Publishers, Editorial home: University of East Anglia, UK.

2001 Editorial Board, SHARP: Studies in History of Art Research Publication, University of Sussex, UK.

1998-2008 U. S. Regional Editor, Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Routledge: Oxford.

1992 – 1998 Managing Editor, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures, Georgia Southern University.

1986-1996 Founding Editor, Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics, Duke University.

June 2015 “Realism and Reality in Chharanagar: 15 Years in the Gypsy Thieves’ Quarter” MLG-ICS, Georgetown Univ.

April 2015 “Transnational Indigenous Cultural Studies.” Emory Univ.

March 2015 “Literary Historiography of the Ghetto.” Haryana Univ. of Punjab

March 2015 “Texture as Substance: Isaac Julian Reading Homi Bhabha.” Univ. Mumbai

Sept. 2014 “Doing Ethnography in the Thief’s Quarter,” IIT Gandhinagar

Aug. 2014 “Bengal Renaissance Revisited: Other Side of Historiography.”Jadavpur U.,Kolkata

Aug. 2014 “Postcolonial Bidyākalpadruma.” Jadavpur Univ., Kolkata

Aug. 2014 “Fifteen Years in Budhan Theatre,” Jadavpur Univ., Kolkata

June 2013 “India’s Tribes in Perspective.” US State Department, School of Foreign Service

Arlington, VA.

June 2007 “India’s Eternal Revolution,” Institute on Culture and Society, Chicago.

May 2006 “World Social Forum: The Cultural Logic of Postglobalization,” Lat. Am., UC Irvine.

Mar. 2006 “Report from Caracas: World Social Forum 2006,” Peace Action, Milwaukee.

Spring 2006 Three reports to classes at Georgetown on World Social Forum 2006.

Dec. 2005 “Acting Like a Thief,” Critical Theory Society, Georgetown U.

Oct. 2005 “Globalization: Longue Duree and Latest News,” Tech de Monterey, Mexico.

Oct. 2004 “World Social Forum and Global Peace Movement,” Peace Action, Milwaukee.

July 2004 “US Unilateralism,” Peace Action National Congress, Milwaukee.

Apr. 2004 “Inviting the World: The World Social Forum, 2004,” Hampden-Sydney College.

Apr. 2003 “India’s Tribes: From Underclass to Autonomy,” Asian Studies, Michigan State U.

Jan. 2002 “Orality and the Challenge of Tribal Literature.” Comp. Lit., Jadavpur U, Calcutta. Facilitator and lecturer for two week seminar.

Nov. 2001 Forum on Contemporary Theory, MSU, Baroda. Journal of Contemporary Thought. Facilitator and lecturer for three day symposium.

Feb. 2001 “Postcolonialism and Inequality,” Theme Panel, ISA, Chicago.

Dec. 2000 “Tribality and Commitment in India Today,” Calcutta U.

Dec. 2000 “Aesthetic Imperialism in Nineteenth Century Bengal,” Jadavpur U.

Oct. 2000 “Tribal Activism in an International Frame,” Museum of Mankind, Bhopal.

June 2000 “Modernism and Genre: Woolf, Tagore, Ray,” English dept., UMBC.

Jan. 2000 “Microsoft, Biodiversity, Tribality,” Lunawada College, Gujarat, India.

Dec. 1999 Keynote: “Postcolonialism, Justice, Diversity,” Nat. Museum of Mankind, Bhopal.

Nov. 1999 “The Christianization of Indian Literature,” Dept. of Asian Studies, Emory Univ.

June 1999 “Postcolonial American Studies,” Institute on American Studies, Dartmouth College.

Apr. 1999 "Tribal Women’s Activism in India," Gender Studies, GWU.

Apr. 1999 "Debunking the Postcolonial Intellectual," Cultural Studies, George Mason U.

Feb. 1999 "Aesthetic Imperialism: Kant, Literature, India," Comp. Lit., U of Pennsylvania.

Feb. 1999 "Ideology and Form in Satyajit Ray's Shatranj ke Khilari," SARS, U of Pennsylvania.

Oct. 1998 "Subalternity, Governmentality, Literature," Beijing Normal U, Beijing.

May 1998 Roundtable, "Postcolonial Futures?" Poco. and Commonwealth Lit. Conf.

Dec. 1997 "Is There a Literary History of Colonial India?" Comp. Lit., U of Pennsylvania.

Aug. 1997 "Genre and Method in Recent Indian Writing," Jadavpur U.

Aug. 1997 "Peace Studies at Georgetown," Calcutta U.

Apr. 1997 "Postcoloniality and Marxality," Poco. and Commonwealth Lit. Conf.

Apr. 1996 Respondant, "Theories of Culture, Cultures of Theory," U of Maryland.

Apr. 1996 Respondant, "The Social Construction of International Relations," ISA, San Diego.

Apr. 1995 "The Role of Authorship in Neocolonial Society," Duke U.

Apr. 1994 "Kidlat Tahimik's Perfumed Nightmare," Georgetown Film Society.

Apr. 1992 "A Woman's Text from India: 'The Death of Jagmohan,'" Georgetown Asian Studies.

Apr. 1991 "Forced Bloom: Narrative and Empire in Bengal," Triangle SA Colloq., Durham, NC.

Dec. 1990 "Simulation and Hyperreality: Intro. to Baudrillard," Paraliterature, Jadavpur U.

Nov. 1990 "Inequality and Bengali Novel: Genre, Narrative, Ideology," Calcutta U.

Conference Papers

Sept 2016 Edinburgh

July 2016 ESASC Warsaw

June 2016 MLG

May 2016 Left Forum

March 2016 ACLA

Oct. 2015 “Radical Theater and Social Transformation,” PJSA Conference, Harrisonburg, VA

May 2015 Panel Organizer: “Academic Activism,” Left Forum, NYC

Jan. 2015 “Future Collectivities in Global South,” Vancouver, MLA

Jan. 2015 “Texture as Substance: Rading Homi Bhabha,” Vancouver, MLA

Jan. 2015 “Location of Culture 20 Years After,” Vancouver, SALA

Jan. 2015 “Update: Budhan Theatre,” Vancouver, SALA

Oct. 2014 “Improvising Social Change: Budhan Theatre,” Madison SA Conf.

Apr. 2014 Panel Organizer: “Marginality and Techniques of Survival,” CDC, Baltimore, MD.

Apr. 2014 “Acting Real in an Unreal World,” Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore, MD.

Jan. 2014 Respondant, “Indian Literature and Dalit Politics,” SALA, Chicago.

Jan. 2014 “Making it Real: Budhan Theatre’s The Lost Water,” SALA, Chicago.

Mar. 2013 “Budhan Theatre.” Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore, MD.

Jan. 2012 “Please Don’t Beat Me, Sir!” South Asia Literary Assoc., Seattle, WA.

June 2011 “Jameson’s Representing Capital as Postcolonial Critique,” MLG-ICS, Chicago.

Oct. 2010 “Radical Drama in the Theatre of Survival,” Madison South Asia Conf.

Apr. 2010 “Aesthetics of the Oppressed,” Amer. Comparative Literature Assoc.

Nov. 2009 “Marxist Aesthetic Theory and Indian Theatre,” Rethinking Marxism Conf.

Oct. 2009 “Budhan Theatre and Cultural Activism,” Canadian Cultural Studies Assoc.

June 2009 “Aesthetics and Politics in Indian Performance,” MLG-ICS, Portland.

May 2008 “Aesthetics and Violence in Indian Drama,” Cultural Studies Assoc., NYU.

Dec. 2007 “Is Indian History Indian History Yet?” South Asian Literary Association, Chicago.

July 2006 “Radical Theater and Social Change,” Midwest Social Forum, Milwaukee.

June 2005 “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Crime,” Chinese Acad. Soc. Sci., Wuhan, China.

Oct. 2004 “Bhasha: Social Change Through Intellectual Activism.” Madison South Asia Conf.

June 2004 “Subaltern Ethics,” Institute on Culture and Society, Chicago.

Oct. 2001 “Mahasweta Devi: Witness, Advocate, Writer,” Emerging Forms Film Conf. U Wash.

Oct. 2001 “Visiting with Mahasweta: Stories, Reports, Anecdotes,” COPRED, Evergreen U.

Sept. 2000 “Reimagining the Homeland in SA America,” “Indian Diaspora,” JNU, New Delhi.

Dec. 1999 “Global Justice: History of the Notion” National Museum of Mankind, Bhopal.

Nov. 1999 “Postcolonialism and Globalization,” SAMLA, Atlanta.

Apr. 1999 "A Popular Literature for Bengal," South Asia Popular Culture, U Victoria.

Oct. 1998 "Material Conditions for Bengali Literary Historiography," Madison SA Conf.

June 1998 "Strange Fish: Three Postcolonial Projects," MLG-ICS, U Illinois-Chicago.

Mar. 1998 "Calcutta, Capital of the Nineteenth Century," Comp. Lit., Georgetown U.

Aug. 1997 "Further Thoughts on Culture in IR Theory," Indian Philo. and Religion, Calcutta.

July 1997 "Mapping the Empire: James Rennell's Bengal Atlas," His. of Cartography, Lisbon.

May 1997 "Postcolonialism and International Ethics," PSA/ COPRED, Georgetown U.

Dec. 1996 "Competing Modes of Authorship in Indian Writing Today," MLA, Wash., DC.

Dec. 1996 "The Quest for Culture in International Relations Theory," MLA, Washington, DC.

June 1996 "Theory as Addiction: Semiotext(e)," MLG-ICS, George Mason Univ.

May 1996 "Criminal Tribes and Literary Subversion," Bengal Studies Association, Georgetown.

Apr. 1996 "Alternate Modernities: Cultural Politics of Modernization in India," ISA, San Diego.

July 1995 "A Literature of Their Own: J.S. Mill and the Colonial Romance," NASSR, UMBC.

May 1995 "Using Newsgroups in the Extended Classroom," ITLT, Georgetown U.

Feb. 1995 "Situational Objectivities; Reading the Cultural World System," ISA, Chicago.

Dec. 1994 "Under the Sign of Semiotext(e)" (with Anne Balsamo) MLA, Washington, DC.

June 1994 "'The Value of Literature in Colonial Bengal," MLG-ICS, Hartford.

Apr. 1994 "Postcoloniality and the Challenge to the State," Georgetown U.

Nov. 1993 "Sexing the Pundits: Bankim and Rabindranath in Pictures," Madison SA Conf.

June 1993 "Situational Objectivities: Cultural Studies in the 90s," MLG-ICS, Pittsburgh.

Feb. 1993 "The Turning Point of Crime," Center for South Asia Studies, Berkeley.

June 1992 "Teaching Cultural Theory," MLG-ICS, Pittsburgh.

Apr. 1992 "Inequality and the Bengali Novel: Postcolonial Cultural Theory," ACLA, Columbia.

Mar. 1988 "Popular Science: Poststructuralist Theory," Pop. Cult. Assoc., New Orleans.

Feb. 1988 "Postmodernism and Third World Literature" Duke-Irvine Symposium, UC-Irvine.

Nov. 1987 "Doing It With Mirrors: Narratives of Power and Submission in Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning," SAMLA, Atlanta.

June 1987 "Poststructuralist Theory and Italian Politics," MLG-ICS, Pittsburgh.

Apr. 1987 "Subaltern Studies and Literary Criticism, History and Subaltern Studies,” UCSC.

Apr. 1987 "Donne's Vision of Excess: Symbol and Allegory," SE Ren. Conf., Knoxville.

Mar. 1987 "The Truth of Textuality: Reading in Wordsworth's Prelude," ACLA, Atlanta.

Mar. 1987 “D.D. Kosambi’s Ancient India,” Philosophy and Social Change, Duke U.

Filmed at the home of the great writer in Calcutta, in her words with no script.

Proficient: French, Bengali, Spanish; Reading only: Sanskrit, German, Italian, Portuguese.

Modern Language Association; American/ International Comparative Literature Association; International Studies Association; Bengal Studies Association; Marxist Literary Group.

Short Story/ Novel: Exploring Global Culture

International Culture and the New World Order

Colonial/ Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures

Critical Theory

Cultural Theory and Practice; or, Ideology of the Aesthetic

Inventing the Disciplines

Issues in Cultural Studies

Literary Theory

Marxism and Culture

Literature, Media, Social Change

Postcolonial Studies

International Culture and the New World Order

Intro. To Comparative Literature

Intro. to Critical Methods

Sex and Politics in European Renaissance Culture

Senior Seminar: English Honors

Senior Seminar: Justice and Peace

Youth Soccer Coach, 2007 - 2009

CEO, Vimukta, Inc., 501©3, Incorporated October 2007

Peace Action Steering Committee since 2002

Certified Legal Observer, National Lawyers Guild
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