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CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: DR. NILUFER E. BHARUCHA Designation: Professor, Department of English University of Mumbai (Bombay) HonoraryCoordinator, Indo-Canadian Studies Centre

Funded by the British Columbian Province, Canada Coordinator and Scientist-in-Charge Constructions of Home and Belonging (CoHaB), a Marie Curie ITN Project, funded by the European Union Chief Investigator, Group for Research on the Indian Diaspora (GRID), UPE Project, Funded by the UGC, New Delhi

Date of Birth: 24th January 1952 Marital Status: Married Office Address: English Department University of Mumbai Kalina Campus Mumbai 400 098, India Tele/Fax: 091-22- 2654 1830

E-mail: nilufer.bharucha@english.mu.ac.in indocanadiansc@gmail.com nbharucha@cohab.mu.ac.in

Home Address C-12-4 Academic Staff Bungalows University of Mumbai Kalina Campus Mumbai 400 098 E-mail : nbharucha@hotmail.com Academic Qualifications: 1972 B.A. (Hons.) in English Literature, University of Bombay, Bombay 1974 M.A. in English Literature, University of Bombay, Bombay 1975 Diploma in Higher Education, University of Bombay, Bombay 1980 Diploma in Teaching English, Central Institute of English and Foreign

Languages, Hyderabad

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1982 M.Ed.(Teaching English Overseas), University of Manchester,Manchester 1990 Ph.D., University of Bombay, Bombay Professional Awards: 1981 British Council Scholarship, tenable for a one year course of study, at the

University of Manchester 1994 Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, tenable for a Post-doctoral

Project in Postcolonial Literatures, at the Queen Maryand Westfield College, University of London

2000 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Visiting Professorship, at The University of Siegen, Germany 2006 Indo-Canadian Shastri Institute, Visiting Lectureship, at the University of Fraser Valley, University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria, B.C. 2008 DAAD Visiting Professorship, at the University of Muenster, Germany 2012 ICCR Rotating Chair in Germany, University of Muenster Service on Literary Award Juries: 2001 Served on the Jury for the Commonwealth Literature Award, Eurasian Section, U.K . 2007 Served on the Jury for the Literature in English Award, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. Service on Other Juries: 2008 Served on the Rhodes Scholarships India jury for award of 5 full

scholarships for study at the University of Oxford in different disciplines and at different levels.

Academic Links Programmes Initiated Academic Links Programmes between the University of Mumbai and the Otto-Von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany, the University of Avignon, France and the Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London in 1996, in the areas of Postcolonial Literatures, cinema and Contemporary British Literature. These programmes include faculty and student exchange and joint research projects/publications. Through such exchanges and research projects faculty and students of the linked universities are provided with current knowledge in the target areas. The programme has resulted in annual/regular visits by German, French and British faculty to Mumbai and faculty and students from Mumbai have also visited Magdeburg and London. Also initiated Academic Links between the University of the Fraser Valley, B.C., Canada, the University of Muenster, Germany which has resulted in the establishment of an Indo-Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Mumbai and joint research projects respectively.Enabled the establishment of academic links between the University of Bologna, Italy and the University of Mumbai.

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Indo-Canadian Studies Centre - ICSC: Set up the Indo-Canadian Studies Centre in 2010 and is its Honorary Coordinator. The ICSC is funded by the British Columbia Province, Canada. It is a resource centre that facilitates research in Indo-Canadian literatures, cinemas as well as in areas of sociology, education, politics and health. The ICSC has received a grant of Canadian Dollars 60,000/- and a further grant of Canadian Dollars 22,000/- for programming, research and centre related activities. European Union funded ITN research project on Diapsoric Constructions of Home and Belonging (CoHaB): Initiated the cooperation between the Muenster University headed CoHaB project and the University of Mumbai, thus making Mumbai University a partner in this EU funded research project with five European universities – Muenster, Oxford, Northampton, London, Stockholm. Under this project three international researchers from the USA, Canada and Romania are doing their Ph.D. projects under my supervision and are totally funded by the EU Marie Curie grants. The University of Mumbai has received a grant of Rs. 3.4 crores from the EU for this project.

UGC Visiting Fellowships

Visiting Fellow under the UGC’s Special Assistance Programme (SAP) at the SaurashtraUniversity, Rajkot, 28th January to 5th February 2004 Visiting Fellowunder the UGC’s Special Assistance Programme (SAP) at theSouthGujaratUniversity, Surat, 13 February to 17 February 2006 Visiting Fellowunder the UGC’s Special Assistance Programme (SAP) at the Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 1 March to 8 March 2006 Membership of Professional Bodies:

Member, Board of Studies in English, University of Mumbai, from November 2004 - 2007 Member, Library Committee, University of Mumbai, from February 2005 - 2007 Member-Secretary, Campus Development Council, University of Mumbai, from March 2005 – 2007 Member, Research and Recognition Committee, University of Mumbai, November 2004 - 2007 Member, XI Plan Coordination Committee, University of Mumbai, January 2007-09 Member and Past Executive Committe Member (1996-1999), Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Delhi. Executive Committee Member and Past Secretary (1976-78), Bombay English Association Life Member and Past Secretary (1991-1994),English Language Teaching Circle, Bombay Life Member and Past Secretary (1993-96), Association of British [Council] Scholars, Western Region, India Member, Board of Studies for English, SardarPatelUniversity, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, 2000 to 2003 Life Friend, Indian PEN, Bombay

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Teaching Experience: Professor Department of English, University of Mumbai 1995 –

Present

Professor and Head Department of English, University of Mumbai2004-2007

Reader Department of English, University of Mumbai 1990-1995

Senior Lecturer Department of English, University of Mumbai 1988-1990

Lecturer Regional Institute of English, Bangalore 1986-1988

Lecturer Maniben Nanavati Women’s College, Mumbai 1975-1986

Part-time Lecturer JaiHindCollege, Mumbai 1974-1975

Tutor JaiHindCollege, Mumbai 1973-1974 Internet Teaching

Global Virtual Faculty, Course on Globalism, Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ, USA, from 2001 onwards. Visiting Professorships Overseas

2005 Visiting Professor, Otto-Von-Guericke Universitat, Magdeburg, Germany

2005 Visiting Professor, University of Bordeaux, France

2002 Visiting Professor, University of Avignon, France

2002 Visiting Professor, University of Cologne, Germany

2001 Visiting Professor, University of Avignon, France

2000 Visiting Professor, University of Avignon, France

1996-1998 Visiting Professor, Otto-Von-GuerickeUniversity, Magdeburg,Germany

1998 Visiting Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain Teaching/Guest Lectures Overseas:

1995 Lectured on Indian Literature in English at the Universities of Leeds, Reading and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies,University of London, U.K.

1995 Lecture tour of Germany, organised by the British Council,

Cologne,Germany, on Postcolonial Indian Literature in English. Lectured at the Universities of Saarbrucken, Essen, Siegen, Jena and Magdeburg. 1996 Guest speaker on Postcolonial Indian Literature in English at the

Universities of Oldenburg, Hannover, Humboldt-Berlin andthe Free University-Berlin

1997 Guest speaker on South Asian Canadian Writers, Centre of CanadianStudies, University of Barcelona, Spain

1998 Guest speaker on Parsi Contribution to Indian English Literature,

University of Tarragona, Spain

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1998 Guest Speaker on Indian English Literature: An Overview, University of

Siegen, Germany.

2000 Guest Speaker on Imaging the Worlds of Women: Indian Literature in

English ,University of Frankfurt, Germany

2001 Guest Speaker on Indian Drama in English, University of Magdeburg,

2002 Guest Speaker on Women in Indian Cinema, Universities of Cologne & Mainz, Germany 2004 Guest Speaker on Minority Discourse in Indian Literature in English, University of Cologne, Germany 2005 Guest Speaker on The Globalisation of Indian Cinema, University of Potsdam, Germany, Guest Speaker on The Art of Creative Writing, University of Siegen, Germany Guest Speaker on Historicising the Indian Diaspora: Writing Across

Time and Space, University of Dusseldorf, Germany. 2006 Guest Lecture at the University of British Columbia, Canada on Women In Indian Cinema Guest Lectures at the University of Victoria, Canada on Rohinton Mistry as an Indo-Canadian Writer 2007 Guest Lecture at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany on Ageing among Parsi Women: Literature as Witness.

Guest Lecture at the University of Bordeaux, France on Salman Rushdie

as a Writer of the Indian Diaspora 2009 Guest Lecture at the Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany 2010 Guest Lectures on Indian Literature and Cinema at the H.H. University,

Dusseldorf, Germany

Guest Lecture on Salman Rushdie’s Post-Fatwa Fiction at the Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

2011 Guest Lecture on Postcolonial Indian Cinema at the University of Bonn,

Germany

Guest Lecture on the Indian Diaspora at the W.W. University, Muenster, Germany Guest Lectures on Literature and Cinema on Mumbai, at the H.H. University, Dusseldorf, Germany Guest Lecture on Rohinton Mistry at the Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

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Guest Lecture on the Indian Diaspora in the Age of Globalisation, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA Guest Lecture on Syllabus Development in a Global World, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA Guest Lecture on Women Travellers in Colonial India, George Washington University, USA Guest Lecture on Mahasweta Devi’s Women Characters, Georgetown University, USA Guest Lecture on Mumbai’s Tryst with Terrorism, Penn State University, USA Guest Lecture on Salman Rushdie’s Texts as Literature of Resistance, University of Bologna, Italy

2012 Guest Lecture on The Tale of a City: Fictional and Cinematic Imaging of the Journey of Bombay to Mumbai, University of Bonn, Germany in Days of India, Consulate General of India in Frankfurt, Germany Guest Lecture, on Cross-Over Bollywood in a Globalising World, University of Cologne, Germany in India Week in Cologne. 2013 Lecture on the Indian Diaspora and its Literature , CoHaB Summer School, University of Northampton, U.K. , 25-26 March 2013

(Full details in the sub-section Recent Overseas Talks /Seminars/Papers/Workshops

Overseas)

Research Projects:

1. Coordinator and Scientist-in-Charge, Marie Curie ITN project on ‘Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging CoHaB, funded by the European Union, 2011 onwards

2. Chief Investigator of the Research project on the Indian Diaspora, entitled GRID (Group for Research on the Indian Diaspora), under the auspices of the University with Potential for Excellence programme, funded by the UGC, from 2009 onwards

3. Fundamentalism and Literature, Joint Research Project with the University of Sorbonne/Lyon, France and the University of Muenster, Germany, June 2005-2009, funded by the Rhine Westphalia province, Germany.

4. Postcolonialism in Literatures, Member of Research Group, Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K., 2002 -2005

5. Literatures across Cultures, Member of Research Group, University of Avignon, France, 2004 - 2006

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Research Guidance Experience

Nine students have successfully completed their Ph.D. degrees under my guidance between 1991 and 2013: 1. Bagher Mohamad Shabani - Self-access Learning Material for Students of English as a

Foreign/Second Language. 2. B.K. Samal - A Syllabus Design in English for Students at the First Year B.Com.

degree course. 3. Sridhar Rajeswaran - English Cup, Irish Coffee and Black Sugar: Postcolonial

Perspectives on the Poetry of W.B. Yeats. 4. Manju Sampat - Identification and Alienation in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee 5. Vibha Saxena - Did the Andaka See Too Much? A Postcolonial Analysis of Girish

Karnad’s Work 6. Farhad Pakdel - The Theme of Evil in the Fiction of William Golding 7. Ulka Mayur Puri – Researching Fiction and Fictionalising Research: Native and

Cosmopolitan Elements in the Writing of Amitav Ghosh 8. Manpreet Kaur – A Feminist Perspective on Male Response to Shifting Gender Roles in Shashi Deshpande’s Fiction. 9. Parul Bhardwaj – Partition Narratives: Researching History in the Mirror of Fiction Eight other students are in the process of completing their Ph.D. degrees under my guidance: 1. Mughda Karnik – Translating Texts, Translating Culture: Parameters and Perspective 2. Negar Tazgadeh – Magic and Fantasy as a Feminist Trope in the Novels of Angela

Carter 3. Preeti Shirodkar – Reconciling Reminiscences: Tracing Moyez Vassanji’s Journey from

‘Routes’ to ‘Roots’ 4. Arvind Mardikar - The Warli Folk Tale: A Russian Formalist and Structuralist Study 5. Shirish Jadhav – Impact of Socio-Economic, Cultural and Religious Changes on Tribal

Folklore and Art forms of the Thane District: A Marxist Perspective 6. Melanie Wattenbarger – Authorship and Authenticity: Exploring Ideas of Self-Image

and Belonging among the Indian Diasporic Literati of Toronto 7. Iulia Rascanu – Transnational Networks, Identities and Homes: Diasporic South Asian

Women in Fiction and Film 8. Ruby Rana – Changing Faces and Places: Re-Imaging the Contemporary Transnational

Indian Diaspora Six students have successfully completed their M.Phil. dissertations under my guidance.. Extension Work: 1976-1977 Resource Person, Orientation Programmes for teachers of Englishat junior

colleges in Bombay, conducted by the State Institute of English Maharashtra

State

1986-1988 Resource Person, Orientation Programmes for teachers of English in Goa, Karnataka and Kerala, conducted by the Regional Institute of English,

Bangalore

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1988-1989 Resource Person, Workshops for the production of Testing Items, Bangalore and Goa, conducted by NCERT, New Delhi

1990-1992 Honorary Director, Teacher Development Project, Indian Education Society,

Bombay

1991-1992 Expert and Materials Designer, In-service training programmefor teachers of English in Bombay Municipal Corporationschools, conducted for the Language Development Project, Bombay Municipal Corporation

1992-1993 Expert and Materials Designer, Textbook project, EnglishLanguage

Teaching Cell, Shivaji University, Kolhapur 1994 Resource Person, Workshop on Evaluation and Testing Reforms,conducted

by the Department of Civics and Politics, Universityof Bombay 1997-1998 Resource Person, Orientation Programme: Contemporary British

Literature, British Council, Western Region, University of Goa 1997 -2007 Resource Person for UGC Refresher Courses in English Literature at the University of Mumbai 2003-2004 Resource Person for UGC Refresher Courses in English Literature at the Saurashtra University, Rajkot 2005 Resource person for UGC Refresher Course in English Literature at the University of Burdwan, West Bengal 2005 Resource Person for UGC Refresher Course in English Literature at the Osmania University, Hyderabad 2008 Resource Person for UGC Refresher Course in English Literature at the Jammu University, Jammu 2009 Resource Person for UGC Refresher Course in English Studies at the

Academic Staff College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad Refresher Course Coordination

1996-1997 Course Coordinator,UGC Refresher Courses in English Literaturefor in-service teachers, conducted by the Academic Staff CollegeUniversity of Bombay

1996-1997 Coordinator, Follow-up Workshops for participants of Refresher Courses, conducted by the Academic Staff College, Universityof Bombay

Coordination of Seminars/Conferences/Workshops:

1. National Seminar on Indian English Fiction: 1980-1990, University of Bombay, March 1991.

2. National Seminar on Anglo-Indian Literature: Postcolonial Perspectives, University of Bombay, October 1992.

3. Seminar on Contemporary British Fiction, British Council, Bombay and the Department of English, University of Bombay, 6 March 1996.

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4. Seminar on Indo German Perspectives on Contemporary Indian Literature in English, Max Mueller Bhavan, Bombay and the Department of English, University of Bombay, 6-7 February 1998.

5. Seminar on Goethe and World Literature in Postcolonial Times, Max Mueller Bhavan, Bombay and the Department of English, University of Bombay, 30 September - 1 October 1999.

6. Seminar on Two Hundred Years of Indian Literature in English, Asiatic Society, Mumbai, 3rd September 2004.

7. Seminar on Translation Theory and Practice: Then and Now, Asiatic Society, Mumbai, 4th September 2004.

8. International Conference on Resistance through Literature to Religious, Casteist, Racist and Gender Hegemonies, Department of English, University of Mumbai, 2-4 February 2006

9. National Workshop on Translation, Department of English, University of Mumbai, Sesquicentennial Celebrations, 28-29 August 2006

10. International Conference on New Worlds, New Texts: English Literatures in the Global/Local Order, University of Mumbai, 20-22 December 2006

11. Inaugural Symposium on Re-Imaging the Old and Negotiating the New: Indo-Canadian Literature and Cinema, 3rd October, 2011.

12. International Conference, Indo-Canadian Studies Centre, University of Mumbai, “Hyphenated Identities Hybrid Selves: Explorations through Literature and Cinema”, 20-22February 2013.

Recent Publications:

Books:

1. Indian English Fiction 1980-1990: An Assessment, B.R. Publishers, New Delhi,1994,Co-editor and Contributor.

2. Postcolonial Perspectives on the Raj and its Literature, University of Bombay Press, 1994, Co-editor and Contributor.

3. Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial Indian English Writing - Essays in,Honour of Nissim Ezekiel, Vision Books, Delhi, 1999, Co-editor and Contributor.

4. Rohinton Mistry:Ethnic Enclosures and Transcultural Spaces, Author, Rawat Publications, Jaipur and Delhi, 2003.

5. World Literature: Postcolonial and Post-Imperial Literatures, Prestige Publications, 2007, Editor and Contributor.

Articles: 1. The World is not Flat: Minority Discourse against Fundamentalisms,re-print of

2007 article, in Zoroastrianism: From Antiquity to the Modern Period, Vol. VII, Part 8, History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Editor, Murzban Jal, PHISPC Centre for Studies in Civilization, New Delhi, 2012

2. Foregrounding Ethnicity and Postcolonial Marginality: Contemporary Literature, in Parsee Voices in Indian Fiction in English, Eds. Vandana Pathak, Urmila Dabir, Subha Mishra, Dattsons, Nagpur, 2012

3. Repossessing the Master Tongue, Subverting the Master Narrative and Challenging the Meta-narrative of History: Rohinton Mistry’s Fiction, in Critical Practice, Vol. XVII, Annual, 2010.

4. The Parsi Voice in Recent Indian English Fiction: An Assertion of Ethnic Identity, reprint of 1994 article inSouth Asian Literatures, Eds. Gerhard Stilz, Ellen Dengel-Janic, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier, 2010.

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5. Retreating Into Tribal Mansions: Race and Religion in Plays Written by Parsi Zoroastrians in India, in Modern Indian Theatre: A Reader, Ed. Nandi Bhatia, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2009.

6. Translated Men and Women: Cultural and Linguistic Negotiations in Postcolonial Literature in English, in Cultures of Translation, eds. Klaus Stierstorfer and Monika Gomille, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2008

7. Resistance to Fundamentalism: Salman Rushdie’s Post-Fatwa Fiction, in Only Connect: Texts, Places and Politics, eds. Klaus Stierstorfer & Catherine Pesso Miquel, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2008

8. Cities Under Siege:Metropolitan Journeys from Plural Identities to Essentialisms, in Literary Encounters of Fundamentalism: A Case Book, eds. Klaus Stierstorfer and Annette Kern-Stahler, Universitatsverlag, Winter, Heidelberg, 2008

9. Stepping Across Lines in Time and Space: Salman Rushdie’s Ground Beneath Her Feet and Fury, Points of View, Vol. XV, No. 1, Summer 2008.

10. The Emergency – A Defining Moment in Indian Democracy: Literary Responses, in Only Connect: Texts, Places and Politics, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2008.

11. Writing Across Borders: A Historical Grounding of Indian Literature in English, in World Literature: Contemporary Postcolonial and Post-Imperial Literatures, Editor Nilufer E. Bharucha, Prestige, New Delhi, 2007.

12. The Bhibhitsa Rasa in Anglophone Indian Cultural Discourse: The Repugnant and Distasteful at the Level of Gender, Race and Caste, in The Abject of Desire: The Aestheticization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Editors Konstanze Kutzbach and Monika Mueller, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2007.

13. The Earth is not Flat: Minority Discourse Against Fundamentalisms, in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Routledge, Vol. 43, No. 2, August 2007, Guest Edited by Nilufer E. Bharucha and Klaus Stierstorfer.

14. Dattani Mahesh: Dance Like a Man, Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture, Drama, Part I, WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2006, Editors Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, Laurenz Volkmann.

15. Divided Bloodlines: Partition in the Fiction of Bapsi Sidhwa, Reading Partition/Living Partition, editor, Jasbir Jain, Rawat Publishers, Jaipur/Delhi, 2006

16. Writing from the Margins: Parsi Literature in Postcolonial India, Parsis, The Next Hundred Years, editor Nawaz Mody, Allied Publishers, Delhi, 2006.

17. Shashi Deshpande, Dictionary of Literary Biographies, Columbia, USA, 2005. 18. Recalling Cornelia Sorabji: Plural Identities in Colonial Spaces and Nationalist

Times, in Discourse of Resistance in the Colonial Period, ed. Avadhesh Kumar Singh, Creative Books, New Delhi, 2005

19. ‘Twice-Told’ Tales: A Narratological Consideration of Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag, Of Narratives, Narrators, eds. Rajul Bhargava and Shubhshree, Rawat Publications, Jaipur and Delhi, 2004

20. Forging Identities, Initiating Reforms: The Parsi Voice in Colonial India,South Asian Review, Vol.25, No.1, November 2004

21. Behramji Malabari ‘The Parsi Hindu’: A Minority Figure as Social Reformer, Critical Practice, Vol. X, No.2, June 2003

22. Colonial Languages and Cultural Hegemony, Points of View, Vol. X, No. 2, Winter 2003

23. Colonial Enclosures and Autonomous Spaces: R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi, South Asian Review, Vol. XXIII, 2002, University of Pittsburg.

24. Of Devis, Devdaasis and Daayins: The Image of Women in Indian Cinema, The Gender Forum, On-line Journal, University of Cologne, Germany, December, 2002.

25. Salman Rushdie and the Indian Diaspora, in Flight from Certainty, editors Anne Luyat and Francine Tolron, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2002.

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26. Whither Indian Drama?: The Politics of Performatives, Performance and Performance Spaces, (Dis)Continuities: Trends and Traditions, joint paper with Dr. Nilufer E. Bharucha, in CDE, (Contemporary Theatre and Drama), ed. Elke Mettinger, Vol.IX, May 2002, Vienna.

27. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Gayatri Spivak’s History of the Vanishing Present, joint review article with Sridhar Rajeswaran, Atlantic Literary Review, Vol.2, No.3 (July-September 2001), Delhi.

28. From Macaulay’s Minute to the Millennium: An Overview of Indian Drama in English,in CDE Studies, What Revels are in Hand? Assessments of Contemporary Drama in English, in Honour of Wolfgang Lippke, Edited by Bernhard Reitz and Heiko Sthal, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2001.

29. Imaging the Parsi Diaspora: Narratives On the Wings of Fire, in ShiftingContinents/Colliding Cultures, edited by Ralph J. Crane & Radhika Mohanram, Rodopi, Amsterdam-Atlanta, 2000

30. Resisting Colonial and Postcolonial Hegemonies: Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ethno-ReligiousDiscourse, in The Diasporic Imagination: Asian-American Writing, Vol.2, Edited by Somdatta Mandal, Prestige Books, Delhi, 2000.

31. Real and Imagined Worlds: Salman Rushdie as a Writer of the Indian Diaspora, Hard Times, No.67/68, Autumn 1999.

32. Retreating into Tribal Mansions: Race and Religion in Plays written by ParsiZoroastrians in India, CDE, Frankfurt, Vol.6, 1999.

33. The Parsi Voice in Western Indian Literature and Journalism: 1820-1920, in The Parsi Contribution to Western India: The First Hundred Years, edited by Nawaz Mody, Allied Publishers, Delhi,1999.

34. Why all this Parsiness?: An Assertion of Ethno-Religious Identity in Recent NovelsWritten by Parsis, in Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial Indian English Writing,edited by Nilufer E. Bharucha and Vrinda Nabar, Vision Books, Delhi, 1998.

35. Attia Hosain: A Conversation,Biblio, Delhi,Vol.III, Nos. 7 & 8, July-August 1998. 36. Articulating Silences? : Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance, Critical

Practice,Delhi,Vol.V,No.1, January 1998. 37. Inhabiting Enclosures and Creating Spaces: The Worlds of Women in Indian

EnglishFiction, ARIEL, Vol.29, No.1, Canada, January 1998 38. Bombay to Mumbai: Postcolonial Repossessions and Hegemonies,SPAN, Journal of

the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand, No.45, October 1997.

39. Remapping and Repossessing: Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay, Journal of the University of Mumbai, Arts: Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 54, No.1, April 1997 (Published in February 1999).

40. The Charting of Cultural Territory: Second Generation of Postcolonial Indian EnglishFiction, in The Postmodern Indian English Novel, edited by Viney Kirpal, AlliedPublishers, Delhi, 1997.

41. Translated Women: A Study of Atima Srivastava’s Transmissions and ManoramaMathai’s Mullingtawny Soup, in The Postmodern Indian English Novel, edited VineyKirpal, Allied Publishers, Delhi, 1997.

42. Literature of the Raj: Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Readers, in PostcolonialDiscourse: A Study of Contemporary Literature, edited by R.K. Dhawan, Prestige Books, Delhi, 1997.

43. From Commonwealth to Postcolonial: Indian Literature in English, Silver JubileeVolume, Journal of Indian Writing in English, Gulbarga, 1997.

44. South Asian Novelists in Canada: Narratives of Dislocations and Relocations, Literary Criterion, Mysore, Vol.XXXII, No.1 & 2, 1997.

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45. The Double Bind of Patriarchy and Colonialism: Women Writers of the Raj, inCommonwealth and American Women’s Discourse, edited by Alan McLeod, Sterling,Delhi, 1996.

46. When Old Tracks are Lost: Diaspora Discourse in Rohinton Mistry’s Tales fromFirozsha Baag and Such a Long Journey, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol.XXX, No.2, Leeds, 1995.

47. Malgudiscape: A Study of R.K. Narayan’s Fiction, The English Review, Oxford, August, 1995.

48. Reflections in Broken Mirrors: The Diverse Diasporas in Parsi Fiction, Wasafiri,London, 1995.

49. From Behind a Fine Veil: A Feminist Reading of Recent Parsi Novels, in Purdah inIndian English Literature, edited by Amina Amin and Jasbir Jain, Sterling, Delhi,1995.

50. Materials Production for English Language Teaching : A Holistic Approach, IndianJournal of Applied Linguistics, New Delhi, June 1994.

51. The Writings of the Unconventional Memsahibs: A Subaltern View of the Raj, Postcolonial Perspectives on the Raj and its Literature, edited by Vrinda Nabar andNilufer E. Bharucha, University of Bombay Press, Bombay, 1994.

52. Subaltern Discourse: Strategies of Feminist and Postcolonial Resistance in Dina Mehta’s And Some Take a Lover, in Indian Literature Today, Vol. 1, edited by R.K.Dhawan, Prestige, Delhi, 1994.

53. The Parsi Voice in Recent Indian English Fiction:An Assertion of Ethnic Identity inIndian English Fiction 1980-1990: An Assessment, edited by Nilufer E. Bharuchaand Vilas Sarang, B.R. Publishers, Delhi, 1994

54. The Filming of Forster’s Fiction, New Quest, Pune, Sept.-Oct., 1993 55. The City as Hero, Literary Criterion, Mysore, Vol. XXVIII, No.3, 1993

Review Essays:

1. Review ofIndian Writers at Work, edited by Devender Kohli, B.R. Publishers, Delhi,1991, in Indian PEN, Bombay, January-March 1992.

2. A Postmodernist Krishna: Makarand Paranjape’s Playing the Dark God, Rupa, 1992, in Sunday Free Press Journal, Bombay, 3 May 1992.

3. Useful Introduction: New Writing, An Anthology, edited by Malcolm Bradbury and Judy Cooke, Minerva in association with British Council, London, in Debonair, September 1992.

4. Review of The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, in Literature Alive, British Council,Madras, January, 1993.

5. Telling All Revealing Nothing: Dom Moares’ Never at Home, Viking Penguin, 1992,in Debonair, February 1993.

6. Review of Reading, Catherine Wallace, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992, in Focus on English, British Council, Madras, Vol. IX, No.1, September 1993.

7. Review of Forster and Further: The Tradition of Anglo-Indian Fiction, Sujit Mukherjee, in BEAM, December 1994.

8. Review of The Endless Female Hungers: A Study of Kamala Das, Vrinda Nabar,in Indian Horizons, Delhi, Vol.44,No.3,1995.

9. The Floodgates are Open: Recent Fiction from the Indian Subcontinent, Wasafiri,London, May 1995.

10. ‘Mixed Marriage, Mixed Bag’ - A review of Mixed Marriage and other Parsi Stories,by Mehr Pestonji, in Parsiana, Mumbai, August 2000.

11. ‘A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Gayatri Spivak’s History of the Vanishing Present’,Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Berlin, 1/2001.

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12. Review of Boman Desai’s Asylum, USA,Parsiana, November, 2001, Mumbai 13. Review of Keki N. Daruwala’s Night River: Poems, Parsiana, October,

2001,Mumbai. 14. Review of Mehr Pestonji’s Pervez,Parsiana, November 2003, Mumbai. 15. Review of Mehr Pestonji’s Sadak Chaap, Parsiana, 2006, Mumbai. 16. Review of Imtiaz Dharker’s book of poems, Terrorist at My Table, Wasafiri, No.51,

Summer 2007, London. Short-Stories: 1. Benediction, The Indian PEN, Bombay, July-September 1993. 2. Aunt Rati’s Wedding Day, The Indian PEN, October-December 1996.

Translations:

The Dharampur Saga, translation of Urdu short-story, Tabeer, by Moinuddin Jinabade, The Sunday Observer, Bombay, serialised from 3 October to 7 November 1993. Where is the Sun, translation of a Gujarati poem by Dalpat Chauhan, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, U.K., Summer 2008

Forthcoming:

Edited Anthology:

CONSTRUCTIONS OF HOME: THEORY, LITERATURE AND CINEMA, Editors: Sridhar

Rajeswaran , Nilufer E. Bharucha, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 2013

Translated Novel:

Malak, translation of a Gujarati novel by Dalpat Chauhan, National Publishing House,

Delhi.

Articles:

‘Negotiating Plural Identities and Multiple Locations: Indian Diasporic Fiction and

Cross-Over Cinema’, in Multilingualisms: Concepts and Contexts, ed., Vibha Surana, 2013

Teaching and Testing Materials: 1. A Pupil’s Workbook for Std. XI, Lower Level English Reader, co-authored, SNDT

Women’s University, Bombay, 1978. 2. Correspondence Lessons in English Literature and Grammar, BA II and III,

SNDTWomen’s University, Bombay, 1980-81. 3. A Course in Communicative English for Postgraduate Students, Central

Institute ofEnglish and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, 1980. 4. A Course in Listening Comprehension, Maniben Nanavati Women’s

College,Bombay, 1980. 5. A Course in English for First Year B.A. (Home Science), Maniben Nanavati

Women’sCollege, Bombay, 1982. 6. Test in English Proficiency ( TEP-10), prepared for the Ministry of Human

Resources Development, Government of India, at the Regional Institute of English, Bangalore,1986-88.

7. English for Communication, Regional Institute of English, Bangalore, 1987. 8. A Course in English Proficiency and English Language Teaching, Language

Development Project, Bombay Municipal Corporation, Bombay, 1994.

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9. A Course in Reading Comprehension and Communication Skills in English, Book IExpert and Co-writer, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, 1992.

Recent Overseas Talks /Seminars/Papers/Workshops

1. Talk on The Indian Diaspora: Its History and Its Literature, CoHaB Summer School, University of Northampton, U.K., 25-26 March 2013.

2. Guest Talk on The Tale of a City: Fictional and Cinematic Imaging of the Journey of Bombay to Mumbai, University of Bonn Germany in the Days of India in Germany, Consulate General of India in Frankfurt, Germany, 5 June 2012

3. Public Lecture on Cross-Over Bollywood in a Globalising World, University of Cologne in the India Week in Cologne, 14 June 2012

4. Guest Talk on Salman Rushdie’s Texts as Literature of Resistance, University of Bologna, Italy, 1 November 2011

5. Guest Talk on Mumbai’s Tryst with Terror: Literary and Cinematic Representations, Penn State University, USA, 19th September, 2011

6. Guest Talk on Syllabus Development in the Global Context, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA, 16th September, 2011

7. Guest Talk on Negotiating Plural Identities and Multiple Locations: The Indian Diaspora in the Age of Globalisation, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA, 15th September, 2011

8. Guest Talk on Women Characters in Mahasweta Devi’s Fiction, Georgetown University, USA, 14th September, 2011

9. Guest Talk on The Mobile Memsahibs: Women Travellers in Colonial India, George Washington University, USA, 13th September, 2011

10. Paper on ‘Rohinton Mistry: Making the Subalterns Speak?’ at Symposium on India: Identity and Difference, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany, 27 May, 2011.

11. Guest Talk on ‘The Indian Diaspora: An Introduction’, W.W. University, Muenster, Germany, 24th May 2011

12. Presentation on Knowledge Transfer and Sharing Between Indian and German Universities, DAAD Symposium on Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Sharing, W.W. University, Muenster, Germany, 17th May, 2011

13. Guest Talk on Portrayal of Women in Diasporic Indian Cinema, University of Bonn, Germany, 11 January, 2011.

14. Guest Talk on Postcolonial Indian Cinema, University of Bonn, 10 January 2010

15. Guest Talk on The Role of Literature in the Resistance to Fundamentalism in India, Otto Von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany, 26 June 2009.

16. Panel Discussant on The Institutionalisation of Postcolonial Teaching, 20th Annual Conference of ASNEL, University of Muenster, Germany, 21-24 May 2009.

17. Guest Talk on Narrative as Shared Territory: Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Ferozesha Baag, Magdeburg University, Germany, 14 November 2008

18. Paper on Resisting Fundamentalism: Salman Rushdie’s Post-Fatwa Fiction, International Conference on Fundamentalism and Literature, University of Lyon 2, France, 29-30 May 2008.

19. Paper on The Indian Diaspora: A Historical Perspective, International Conference on Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, University of Bordeaux, 13 -15 December 2007.

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20. Valedictory Address on Literary Discourse on MetropolitanTerrorism, International Conference on Literature and Fundamentalism, University of Muenster, Germany, 20th November 2006

21. Talk on Rohinton Mistry as an Indo-Canadian Writer, University of Victoria, Canada, 24 October, 2006

22. Talk on Women in Indian Cinema, University of British Columbia, 19 October, 2006

23. Talks and Workshops on History in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Rohinton Mistry as a Parsi Writer, University College of Fraser Valley, B.C., Canada, 15 October-3 November 2006

24. Presentation on Global Challenges in Education, International Workshop on Global Challenges, Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Wroxton Campus, U.K., 30 June 2006

25. Panelist on the Panel Discussion on Globalisation of Higher Education around the World, International Conference on Global Competencies in Higher Education, Fairleigh Dickinson University, N.J., USA, 2-5 April 2003.

26. Seminar course on Gender and Caste in Indian Literature in English, 15th April to 24th May 2002, University of Avignon, France.

27. Talk on Stereotyping the Image: Women in Indian Cinema, 16th April 2002, University of Avignon, France.

28. Keynote Speech, Crossing Borders and Embracing the Other: Teaching Indian Literature in English in the ESL/EFL context, First International ELT Conference, University of Hodeidah, Yemen, March 31, 2002.

29. Talk on The Mother Icon in Indian Cinema, University of Mainz, Germany, 1st February 2002

30. Talk on Stereotyping Women in Indian Cinema, University of Cologne, Germany, 8th January 2002.

31. Seminar Course on The Image of Women in Indian Cinema, University of Cologne, Germany, 15th November 2001 to 15th March 2002.

32. Seminar Course on Myth and History in Indian Literature in English, University of Cologne, Germany, 15th November 2001 to 15th March 2002.

33. Seminar course on The Changing Image of Women in Indian Cinema, 15th April to 24th May 2002, University of Avignon, France.

34. Seminar Course on The Novels of Salman Rushdie, University of Cologne, Germany, 15th November 2001 to 15th March 2002.

35. Seminar Course on Writing from the Margins: Women’s Writing in Indian Literature in English, University of Cologne,Germany, 15th November 2001 to 15th March 2002.

36. Talk on The Worlds of Women in Indian Literature in English, University of Frankfurt, 14 June 2000

37. Talk on Postcolonial Indian Cinema, University of Avignon, France, 18 May 2000

38. Paper presented on Whither Indian Drama? The Politics of Performative, Performance and PerformanceSpace, jointly with Dr. Sridhar Rajeswaran, at the annual conference of the Society for Contemporary Drama in English, University of Vienna, Austria, 24-27 May 2001.

39. Seminar-course on Narrating the Nation in Indian Cinema, University of Avignon, France, 6 April to 18 May 2001.

40. Seminar-course on Postcolonial Indian Fiction, Poetry and Drama, University of Avignon, France, 3rd April to 22nd May 2001.

41. Talk on Contemporary Indian Drama in English, University of Magdeburg, Germany, 18 April 2001

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42. Paper on Race and Religion in the plays of Parsi Dramatists in India, Annual Conference on Contemporary Drama in English, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, 21-25 May, 1998.

43. Talk on Anita Desai’s Recent Novels, Humboldt University, Berlin, 6 May 1998.

44. Workshops on Imaging India in Indian and Western Cinema, Otto-Von-Guericke Universitat, Magdeburg, Germany, 9 April-10 May 1998.

45. Talk on Parsi Diasporic Writing, University of Tarragona, Spain, 28 March 1998.

46. Workshops on Imaging India in Indian and Western Cinema, University of Barcelona, Spain, 23-27 March 1998.

47. Paper on Constructing Identities and Living in Diasporas: Salman Rushdie andRohinton Mistry as Writers of the Indian Diaspora, Conference on Identity and Exile in the Anglophonic World, University of Avignon, 19 March-22 March 1998.

48. Talk on South Asian Canadian Writers: Narratives of Dislocations and Relocations, the Centre of Canadian Studies and the Department of English, University of Barcelona, Spain, 27 May 1997.

49. Talk on Indian Responses to Postcolonial Theories, Free University, Berlin, Germany, 21 May 1997.

50. Talk onDeconstructing Colonial Discourse: Women Writers of the Raj, University of Oldenburg, Germany, 15 May 1997.

51. Guest Lecture on Postcolonial Indian Writing in English: The 1990s, University of Magdeburg, Germany 14 May 1997.

52. Seminars on The Worlds of Women: The Writing of Attia Hosain, Shashi Deshpandeand Githa Hariharan, University of Magdeburg, 5 May to 6 June 1997.

53. Talk on Second Generation Postcolonial Indian Literature in English: AnOverview, University of Hanover, Germany, May 1996.

54. Talk on Salman Rushdie’s London in The Satanic Verses, University of Oldenburg, Germany, 24 May 1996

55. Talk on The Rise of Hindu Fundamentalism in India, Seminar on Indian Culture and Society, University of Magdeburg, Germany, 23 May 1996.

56. Guest Lecture on The Feminist Voice in Recent Indian Literature in English, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 17 May 1996

57. Guest Lecture on Indian Women Writing in Canada, Symposium on Canadian Culutre Today, Canada Week, Magdeburg, 15 May 1996

58. Guest Lecture on The Triad of Indian Women Writers: Anita Desai, ShashiDeshpande, Githa Hariharan, University of Magdeburg, Germany, 8 May 1996.

59. Seminars on Contemporary Indian Literature in English, University of Magdeburg, Germany, 7 May 1996 to 28 May 1996

60. Talk on Second Generation Postcolonial Indian Literature in English: Focus onDiasporic Writing, Otto-Von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, 16 June 1995

61. Talk on Second Generation Postcolonial Indian Literature in English: CreatingCultural Spaces, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, 15 June 1995

62. Talk on A Postcolonial Indian Response to Raj Nostalgia Writing, University of Essen, Germany, 13 June 1995

63. Talk on Postcolonial Indian English Writing: The Raising of the Feminist Voice, University of Siegen, Germany, 12 June 1995.

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64. Talk on Declaration of Cultural Autonomy:Post-1980s Indian English Writing, University of Saarbrucken, Germany, 9 June 1995.

65. Talk on Teacher Development Programmes for School Teachers, University of Manchester, 10 May 1995.

66. Talk on Second Generation of Postcolonial Indian English Literature, Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K., April 1995.

67. Paper on Remappings and Repossessions: Indian Literature in English, Seminar on New Cartographies in Postcolonial Literatures, St. John’s College, Oxford, 5 April 1995.

68. Talk on Born Under the Indian Sun: Second Generation Postcolonial English Fiction, University of Reading, 22 March 1995.

69. Talk on Erosion of Cosmopolitanism and Religious Tolerance in Bombay: Fiction asWitness, University of Leeds, 15 March 1995.

70. Paper on Offering Resistance: Postcolonial Perspectives on Colonial FemaleDiscourse, Postgraduate Seminar on Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 13 March 1995.

71. Talk on The Arrival of the Parsi Contingent: A Look at Recent Parsi Novels, European Association of Zoroastrians , London, 6 March 1995.

Recent Talks/Seminars/Papers/Workshops in India

1. Talk on The Old and New Indian Diasporas: A Literary Review, Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, 1 March 2013.

2. Talk on Re-Viewing the Indian Diaspora in Global Times, Refresher Course in English, University of Mumbai, 23rd October 2012

3. Talks on The Old and New Indian Diaspora in Indian Literature in English, Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, 20 March 2012

4. Paper on India Imaging the Diaspora: Literature and Cinema, 37th All India Sociological Conference, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, 11-13th December 2011

5. Paper on Plural Identities and Multiple Locations: Indian Diasporic Literature and Cross-Over Cinema, International Conference on Multilingualism: Concepts and Contexts, Department of German, University of Mumbai, 12th October, 2011

6. Keynote Paper on Resisting the Master Tongue: Language in Rohinton Mistry’s Fiction, Inaugural Symposium, Indo-Canadian Studies Centre, University of Mumbai, 3rd October 2011.

7. Talk on Research Design and Methodology, Workshop on Research Methodology, for Ph.D. candidates, Department of English, University of Mumbai, 5 July 2011.

8. Talk on Cornelia Sorabji as a Diasporic Figure, at Book Release function, GRID, Group for Research on the Indian Diaspora, University of Mumbai, 19 January 2011.

9. Keynote address on The Research Craft, Short Term Course on Research Paper Writing, Academic Staff College, University of Gujarat, Ahmedabad, 22-24 January 2010.

10. Keynote address on The City as Hero: Literary Representations of Mumbai’s Journey from Cosmopolitanism to Essentialisms, National Conference on The City of Mumbai, Sophia College, Mumbai, 7-8 January 2010

11. Panel Coordinator of the panel on Literary and Cinematic Constructs of Home, International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Constructs of Home, University of Kachchh, Bhuj, 24-26 November 2009.

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12. Paper on Bypassing the Translator: Alka Saraogi’s Kalikatha via Bypass, National Conference on Writer as Translator, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi, March 2008.

13. Hindu Endowment Address, Cities Under Siege: Literary and Cinematic Resistance to Terror, University of Madras, Chennai, 30th January 2007

14. Keynote Address on The Emergency: A Defining Moment in Democracy – Literary Responses, International Conference on Literary Discourse in the Context of Democracy and Development Studies, University of Madras, Chennai, 29th January, 2007

15. Keynote Address on MinorityDiscourse: Resisting Postcolonial Essentialisms, International Conference on English Literature in the 21st Century, University of Calcutta, 8th January, 2007

16. Joint Paper on Reading Fanon Understanding Sartre, National Seminar on Sartre, Department of Philosophy, University of Mumbai, 20 March 2006

17. Talks on Ethnic Minority Literatures, the Short Stories of Rohinton Mistry and Creative Writing, UGC Visiting Professor, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, 1-8 March 2006

18. Valedictory Address on Translation Studies Today, National Workshop on Translating Short Fiction, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, 3 March 2006

19. Talks on Disaporic Indian Literature and The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry, UGC Visiting Professor, South Gujarat University, 13-14 February 2006

20. Keynote Presentation on Resistant Minority Writing: The Fiction of the Parsis, International Conference on Resistance Through Literature, University of Mumbai, 4 February 2006

21. Talk on Teaching Techniques at the UGC Refresher Course, University of Mumbai, 14 January, 2006.

22. Talks on Postcolonial Indian Literatures in English and in Translation, UGC Refresher Course, University of Burdwan, West Bengal, 25-27 July 2005.

23. Coordinator on Panel Discussion on My Favourite Author, in Fiction Festival, British Council Library, Mumbai, 28 February 2005

24. Inaugural Address on An Overview of Colonial and Postcolonial Indian Poetry in English, Seminar on Indian Poetry in English, Somaiya College, Mumbai, 26 February 2005

25. Panel Coordinator on Panel discussion on Global Trends in Education, St. Xavier’s Institute of Education, Mumbai, 12 February 2005

26. Inaugural Address on Writers of the Indian Diaspora, UGC Seminar, K.C. College, Mumbai, 14 December 2004

27. Workshop on Deconstructing Indian Diasporic Writing, UGC Refresher Course, M.S. University, Baroda, 27 November 2004

28. Talk on Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Ferozsha Baag, UGC Refresher Course, M.S. University, Baroda, 26 November 2004

29. Paper on Cornelia Sorabji: Resistant Writing in the Colonial Period, UGC seminar on Discourse of Resistance in the Colonial Period, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, 26 October 2004.

30. Workshop on the Texts and Contexts in the Short stories of Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry, UGC Refresher Course, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, 28th March, 2004.

31. Talk on Syllabus Revisions, Teaching and Testing Reforms, Workshop organized by the Board of Studies, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, 27th March, 2004.

32. Talk on Texts, Contexts and Co-Texts: Diasporic Indian Writing in English, UGC Refresher Course, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, 26th March, 2004.

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33. Paper on Forging Identities and Initiating Reforms: Parsi Literary and Non-Literary Writing in theIndian Renaissance, National Conference on the Indian Renaissance, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, 29th January to 31st January 2004.

34. Inaugural Talk on Postcolonial Perspectives on Indian Literature in English, Literary Society, Jhunjhunwala College, Mumbai, 23rd August 2003.

35. Talks and Workshop on Salman Rushdie as a Writer of the Indian Diaspora, Resource Person, UGC sponsored Refresher Course, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 18-20th August 2003.

36. Talk on Values in Indian Cinema, UGC Sponsored Orientation Course, Mumbai University, 10th March 2003.

37. Workshop on the Short-Fiction of Rohinton Mistry, UGC Sponsored Refresher Course for Techers of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 20th February 2003

38. Talk on The Indian Novel in the Post-1980s, UGC Sponsored Refresher Course for Teachers of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 19th February 2003

39. Paper on Behramji Malabari: The Minority Figure as an Agent of Social Change, National Seminar on The Literatures of the Indian Renaissance, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, 25-27 December, 2002.

40. Paper on Living and Writing Multiple Diasporas: The Long Journey of Rohinton Mistry, International Conference on The Literatures of the Indian Diaspora, North Gujarat University, Patan, 21-24 December, 2002.

41. Talks on Postcolonial Literary Theories, UGC sponsored Refresher Course for Teachers of English, University of Saurashtra, Rajkot, 10-11 October 2001.

42. Workshop on The Language of Cinema:Film Appreciation, Academic Staff College, University of Mumbai, 3 March 2001

43. Presentation on the film, Dr. Ambedkar: An Untold Story: New Hegemonies and Dominations?, Symposium on the Ambedkar film, Mumbai Univerity, 7 February 2001

44. Hamid Lakhani Memorial Lecture on Contemporary Indian Fiction in English, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, 6 January 2001

45. Talk on Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man as Ethnocentric Discourse, Department of English, Saurashtra, University, Rajkot, 5 January 2001

46. Talk on Teaching English Overseas, Bombay English Association, Government Law College, Mumbai, 15 December 2000

47. Workshop on Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Ferozsha Baag, UGC sponsored Refresher Course for Teachers of Englilsh, University of Mumbai, 2 December 2000

48. Talk on Rohinton Mistry: Ethnocentric Texts, UGC sponsored Refresher Course for Teachers of English, University of Mumbai, 1 December 2000

49. Talk on From Postcolonial to Global?: Literatures in the Decolonised World, UGC sponsored Refresher Course for Teachers of English, University of Mumbai, 29 November 2000

50. Talk on Rohinton Mistry: Ethnocentric Texts, Refresher Course for Teachers of English, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, 8 November 2000

51. Workshop on Salman Rushdie: Postcolonial/Postmodern Discourse, Refresher Course for Teachers of English, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, 8 November 2000

52. Talk on An Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures, Refresher Course for Teachers of English, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, 7 November 2000

53. Paper on Politics, Ideology and English Studies: Time for a Paradigm Shift?, UGC Seminar on Syllabus Design, Dr. Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, 28-30 March 2000.

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54. Paper on Writing from the Margins: Parsi Literature in Postcolonial India, Seminar on Literature of the Margins, Department of English, University of Mumbai, 27 March 2000.

55. Paper on From the Midnight to the Millennium: Parsi Literature in PostcolonialIndia, Seminar on The Contribution of Parsis to India 1920-2000, Department of Civics and Politics, University of Mumbai, 5 March 2000.

56. Talk-cum-presentation on The Comic Tradition in English Poetry, jointly with Dr. Sridhar Rajeswaran, Somaiya College, Mumbai, 16 February 2000

57. Paper on Writing across Borders: Indian Literature in English, Seminar on Goethe and World Literatures, Max Mueller Bhavan Bombay and the University of Mumbai, 30 September-1 October 1999.

58. Talks on Designs for Materials Production and Preparing Materials for ESP Courses, UGC Refresher Course for English Teachers, University of Mumbai, 18 February 1999.

59. Talk on How to Read Films, UGC Refresher Course for History Teachers, University of Mumbai, 17 February 1999.

60. Talk on Antonia Byatt as a Feminist Writer, British Council Seminar in collaboration with the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, 12 February 1999.

61. Talk on Contemporary British Fiction, British Council Seminar in collaboration with the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, 11 February 1999.

62. Talk on Incorporating Postcolonial Perspectives in the teaching of Literature at theSchool Level, Orientation for School Teachers of English in Contemporary Language and Literature theories, Academic Staff College, University of Mumbai, 16 January 1999.

63. Talk on Salman Rushdie as a Writer of the Indian Diaspora, UGC Refresher Course, Calcutta University, 5 January 1999.

64. Talk on From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: An Overview , UGC Refresher Course, Calcutta University, 4 January 1999.

65. Talk on Orientalist Images of India in German Cinema, Panel Discussion on Images of India in German Cinema, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, 12 December 1998.

66. Paper on Gender and the English Literature Curriculum, Workshop on Gender Perspectives in the Academic Curriculum, Department of Adult and Extension Education, University of Mumbai, 10 November 1998.

67. Talk on Expanding the Eng.Lit. Canon, Refresher Course in English Literature, University of Mumbai, 14 March 1998.

68. Talk on Applying Edward Said’s Theories to Postcolonial Literatures, Refresher Course in English Literature, University of Mumbai, 7 March 1998.

69. Paper on German Students and Indian Literature in English, Seminar on Indo-German Perspectives on Indian Literature in English, University of Mumbai and the Max Mueller Bhavan, 6 February 1998.

70. Paper on Antonia Byatt: Possessing Angels, Insects,Djins and Nightingales, Seminar on Contemporary British Literature, University of Goa and the British Council, Goa, 31 January 1998.

71. Paper on From the End-of-Empire to the End-of-the-Millennium: An Overview ofContemporary British Fiction and Drama, Seminar on Contemporary British Literature, University of Goa and the British Council, Panaji, Goa, 30 January 1998.

72. Workshop on Orientalist Images of India in Western Cinema, UGC Orientation Programme for College teachers, Academic Staff College, University of Mumbai, December 1997.

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73. Talk on Materials Production for Teaching English for Specific Purposes, H.M. Patel Institute of English, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, 28 November 1997.

74. Talk on Western Imaging of India in the Fiftieth Year of her Independence, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, 28 November 1997.

75. Valedictory talk on Materials Production for English Language Teaching, at the workshop on Materials Production organised by the Department of English, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat and the British Council, Mumbai at Vallabh Vidyanagar, 27 November 1997.

76. Talk on Bombay to Mumbai: A Change for the Better?, Rotary Club of South Bombay, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, 14 August, 1997.

77. Paper on Repossessing History: The Raj Plays, presentation at the Prithvi Theatre Festival of Play-Reading, Mumbai, 8 March 1997.

78. Paper on Contribution of Parsis to Literature and Journalism in Western India: 1820-1920, Seminar on Parsi Contribution to Western India: The First Hundred Years, University of Mumbai, 15 February 1997.

79. Talk on The Indian Novel in English, UGC Refresher Course for Teachers of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, February 1997.

80. Paper on From Commonwealth to Postcolonial: Old Wine in New Bottles?, Seminar on Commonwealth Literatures, Satara, 7 February 1997.

81. Paper on Imaging the City: Texts and Culture, Annual Conference, Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Hyderabad, 23 January 1997.

82. Talks/Workshops on Postcolonial Literatures and Theories, Refresher Course in English Literatures, Department of English and the Academic Staff College, University of Bombay, 28 November - 21 December 1996.

83. Talk on The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English, Literature Seminar, British Council, Lonavala, 5 September 1996

84. Talk on From Bombay to Mumbai: Narratives of Repossessions and Appropriations, India International Centre, Delhi, 24 July 1996.

85. Workshops on Postcolonial Theories, Follow-up Programme to the Refresher Course in English Literature and Theories, Academic Staff College, University of Mumbai, 4-6 July 1996.

86. Paper on Inhabiting Enclosures and Creating Spaces: Women’s Writing in IndianLiterature in English, Seminar on Inner Worlds: Introspection and Art Forms, College of Vocational Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi, March, 1996.

87. Paper on Contemporary British Women’s Fiction: An Overview, Seminar on Contemporary British Women’s Fiction, University of Bombay and the British Council, Bombay, 6 March 1996.

88. Talks/Workshops on From the Colonial to the Postcolonial - Literatures andTheories, Refresher Course in English Literatures, Department of English and the Academic Staff College, University of Bombay, 1 - 23 February 1996.

89. Paper on Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay as Postcolonial Fiction, Annual Conference of the Indian Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies, Utkal University, Bhuvaneshwar, 22 January 1996.

90. Talk on Rushdie’s Children: Contemporary Indian Fiction in English, Orientation Course for College Teachers, Academic Staff College, University of Bombay, 15 January 1996.

91. Talk on Politics, Ideology and English Language Education, Orientation Course for College Teachers, Academic Staff College, University of Bombay, 12 December 1995.

92. Talk on Post-1950s Drama in Britain, Ruparel College, Bombay, 2 December 1995

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93. Talk on Postcolonial Practice and Theory, Bhavan’s College, Andheri, Bombay, 18 November, 1995

94. Guest Lecture on Diasporic Parsi Fiction, IIT, Delhi, 27 October, 1995. 95. Talk on Bombay in Recent Indian English Fiction, Association of British Council

Scholars, British Council, Bombay, 5 August 1994. 96. Paper on The Double Bind of Patriarchy and Colonialism: Women Writers of

the Raj, International Seminar on Commonwealth and American Women’s Discourse, Mysore, 10-14 January 1994.

Radio Programmes and Audio-Cassettes: 1. Scripted and participated in three radio programmes for teachers of English, Bangalore

Kendra of the All India Radio, 1986-88. 2. Jointly prepared audio-cassettes to accompany correspondence courses in Spoken

English, Regional Institute of English, Bangalore, 1986-88. National Social Service(NSS) and National Adult Education Programme(NAEP): National Social Service Programme Officer, Maniben Nanavati Women’s College, 1975-86. Adopted a slum and organised vocational programmes for women and girls. Organised health camps and nutritional cooking classes for women and girls. Organised summer camps for women and children. Organised Afforestation and Village Improvement Camps. NAEP Coordinator at the Maniben Nanavati Women’s College, 1978-1986. Started ten Literacy Centres for women and girls at the adopted slum. Over a 100 women and girls from these centres passed the literacy test. Attended training programmes for NSS Officers and NAEP Coordinators conducted by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay. Other Co-curricular Activities Faculty Advisor for the cultural organisation, Kalanjali, at the Kalina Campus of the University of Bombay from 1992 onwards. Organised lecture-cum-demonstrations in Hindustani Classical Music by Pandit Dinkar Kaikini(Vocalist); Smt. Shobh Gurtu (Thumri Artiste); Shri Yogesh Shamsi (Tabla Artiste). Organised talks/workshops on theatre by Mr.Shashi Kapoor and Mr. Feroz Khan (Theatre Director). Organised performances/dramatised readings of plays by students, Department of English, Univesity of Mumbai. Organised lecture-cum-demonstration on the Chau dance form by Ms.Prakriti Kashyap. Organised a Hiking Club for the Maniben Nanavati Women’s College and coordinated with the SNDT Women’s University, Student’s Welfare Department, to conduct hikes in the Western Ghats and Mountaineering Training Programmes in the Himalayas.

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Hobbies and Interests Watching Films, Theatre-going and listening to Classical Indian and Western Music Hiking and Trekking: Participated in the Youth Hostels Association of India’s National Himalayan Trekking Programme in the Kulu-Manalai section of the Himalayas. Participated in the Manchester University’s Hiking Club treks in the Yorkshire Dales, the Peak District and the Welsh hills. Travel: Travelled extensively in India, Nepal, the U.S.A., U.K., Italy, Greece, France, Switzerland and Germany.

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