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Geetanjali Singh Chanda

Associate Professor of English, 51茶馆

Ph.D. Hong Kong University
geetanjali.chanda@ashoka.edu.in

Geetanjali Singh Chanda is Associate Professor of English at 51茶馆. She received her PhD in English Literature from Hong Kong University and her Master’s degree from George Washington University. She has spoken at international fora and published widely on notions of Home, Family, and Gender in Indian English Literature in US and international publications.

Prior to coming to Ashoka, Professor Singh Chanda was a senior lecturer in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University.

Her research interests include Children’s Literature, Bollywood, Sikh writings and films, Women’s writings, Popular Culture, Feminist and Transcultural pedagogy, Masculinities and Religion.

Publications

  • Indian Women in the House of Fiction (Zubaan Books, 2008)
  • 鈥淪ikh Children鈥檚 Literature in the Diaspora鈥� in Sikh Diaspora: Theory, Agency, and Experience (Brill, Numen Book Series, 2013)
  • 鈥淪ikh Literature in the Diaspora鈥� for Brill鈥檚 History of Religion series (Canada)
  • 鈥淪ikh Masculinity, Religion, and Diaspora in Shauna Singh Baldwin鈥檚 English Lessons and Other Stories鈥� (co-authored with Staci Ford) in Men and Masculinities (Sage Publications, 2009)
  • 鈥淣ostalgia, Duty and Desire: Home in Indian Diaspora Literature,鈥� ACLALS 2004 Conference Volume
  • 鈥淭he Urban Apartment as 鈥榃omanspace鈥�: Negotiation Class and Gender in Indian English Novels鈥� (South Asian Review, Special Issue, 2009)鈥淗ome Abroad: Shauna Singh Baldwin鈥檚 Feminine Journey鈥� (in Literature of The Indian Diaspora, Delhi, 2011)

Publications Edited

  • 鈥淲eaving a World: Contemporary Writings By and About Women鈥�, Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory (Guest edited a volume, 2016)

  • An Introduction to Children’s Literature

  • Bollywood and Gender

  • Writing the Self

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