UMass Boston

PhD, University of Rhode Island

• The Postcolonial Body in Queer Space and Time. Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, England, August, 2006. (Paperback release, Fall, 2008).
• “Refusing Migrant Subjectivity: Alternative Time and Space in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia.” Indiscretions: At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory. Ed. Murat Aydemir. Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex, and 'Race'. Series Ed. Ernst van Alphen. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. (July, 2011).
• “Turtles Can Fly: Invasion, Influence and Inevitability Along the Frontier.” Projecting Words, Writing Images: Intersections of the Literary and the Visual in American Cultural Practice. Ed. Mark Paryz and John R. Leo. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. (forthcoming, October, 2011).
• “But...Can the Subaltern Sing?” republished by invitation in Subaltern Studies, April, 2008.
• But...Can the Subaltern Sing?” Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture. CLC Webjournal. July, 2005.
• “Kielen poispyyhkiminen rockmusiikin globalisoitumisessa Sigur Rós ja hopelandicin poliittisuus” (“The Erasure of Language in the Globalization of Rock Music: Sigur Ros and the Politics of Hopelandic”). Trans. Mikko Jakonen. Megafoni (Finland). 19 Nov 2003.
• “The Erasure of Language in the Globalization of Rock Music: Sigur Ros and the Politics of Hopelandic.” Politics and Culture (2003). Vol. 3 July, 2003.

Research and Teaching Interests

• Twenty-first century World film; Low-tech film; The Middle-Eastern Youth film

Recent Conference Presentations & Guest Lectures

• March, 2013: “Participatory Culture and Fan Fiction: Literature From iPhones and Twitter.”
• 2013:  “Facebook Fiction, Twitter Literature, and the Cellphone Novel Roundtable." Northeastern MLA, Boston, MA. 
• September, 2011: Projecting Words, Writing Images.  Read/Write Series.  University of Rhode Island. (Invited)
• April, 2011: “The End of the Bush Years and the Films of 2007: Powerlessness, Plague, and Politics.”  Cinema and Demos.  Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA
• October, 2010: “History of Indian Film.” Guest Lecture. University of Rhode Island.
• September, 2010: “Turtles Can Fly: Invasion, Influence and Inevitability Along the Frontier.”  Guest Lecture (twice).  University of Rhode Island.

Courses Taught

• ENGL 101: Composition I
• ENGL 102: Composition II
• ENGL 181G: 21st Century Youth in Novels and Film
• ENGL 200: Understanding Literature
• ENGL 201: Five British Authors
• ENGL 258: World Cinema
• ENGL 262G: Art of Literature
• ENGL 324: The Short Story
• ENGL 329: Narrative Forms in Novels and Film
• HON 101: 21st Century Writing