Asha Sen, Ph.D.

Publications:                           

Monographs:                           

Postcolonial Yearning: Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Study Guide for Nectar in a Sieve and The God of Small Things.  Knowing the World through Reading.  South Dakota Humanities Council.  Fall 1998.     

Book Chapters:                       

“Seeking the Sacred in Postcolonial Travel Writing.”  The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing.   Ed. Robert Clarke.  Cambridge UP, 2017. 177-94. (Solicited chapter)

Current Scholarship:               

As of January 2023, I have started serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Global and Postcolonial Studies.  (By invitation).  The journal is brought out by the University of Florida press; this is one of the oldest and most respected postcolonial journals in the US.

In April 2022 I was invited to edit a special topics issue on South Asian Women Writers for the online peer-reviewed open access journal Humanities. I completed this project in December 2023.

 I am also by invitation curating a postcolonial literature and religion website for the Religion and Literature digital project run by a scholarly collective of internationally renowned scholars.  I used my Fall 2023 URCA to complete much of the project.  It has since gone live.       

Peer-Reviewed Articles:        

 “’Touch vs. Technology: Towards a Politics of Affect in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017).”  Journal of Global and Postcolonial Studies. 9. (Spring 2021): 47-60.

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

“Re-Visioning Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India in a Post-National Age.”  Kunapipi General Issue. 9.  66-82.

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

“Feminist Ethnographies of Desire and Resistance in Lalithamabika Antherjanam’s ‘The Goddess of Revenge’ and Ismat Chughtai’s ‘Lihaaf.’”  South Asian Review. XXVIII. 2. 2007.

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

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

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

  “Rohinton Mistry: A Profile.”  Post-War Literatures in English. The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff uitgeivers. 45 (June 1999): 1-9 +A-1+B-1.

 “Child Narrators in The Shadow Lines, Cracking India, and Meatless Days.”  World Literature Written in English 37.1 & 2 (1998): 190-206.

 “Crossing Boundaries in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines.”  Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.  5.1 (Fall 1998): 46-58.

  “Hanif Kureishi: A Profile.”  Post-War Literatures in English.  The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff uitgeivers.  39 (March 1998): 1-12+ A-1+ B-1+.

Short Article:                           

“Community Radio is Countering Voice-Poverty in Bangladesh.”  With AHM Bazlur Rahman and Ashish Chandra Sen.  Centre for Research and Information (CRI).  September 18, 2021.

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

Local Lit:                                  

“’Dearest Ma’: Letters from an Immigrant daughter to her Mother back Home.”  Volume One.  August 18, 2020.

“Crossing the Artificial Divide between Academic and Creative Writing.”  Interview with Krisany Blount.  Writing the Valley.  Chippewa Valley Writers Guild.  October 29, 2020.

“In the Mix: Finding Peace.”  Volume One.  October 16, 2021.

Entries and Reviews:              

“The Promise of Postcolonial Postsecularism.”  Journal of Global Postcoloial Studies 10.1 (2022): 78-89. (published December 2023)     

Contributed entries on Bharati Mukherjee and “Jasmine” for Twentieth Century Literature (ABC-CLIO, Inc.), 2018.  E-book. Publd. 2021.    

Entries on Ravinder Randhawa, Gurinder Chadha, Suniti Namjoshi, and the Asian Women Writers’ Collective for the Routledge Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture.  Ed. Alison Donnell.  London: Routledge, 2000.

Review of David Punter’s Postcolonial Imaginings.  Modern Fiction Studies 48.4 (Summer 2003): 398-400.

Review of The Good Parsi.  Passages: A Journal of Transnational and Transcultural Studies.  1.2 (1999): 307-09.

Review of M. Keith Booker’s Colonial Power, Colonial Texts: India in the Modern British Novel.  Modern Fiction Studies.  44.4 (Winter 1998): 1035-37.

Review of A Map of Where I Live.  India Current (Spring 1998): 32.

Review of Teresa Hubel’s Whose India?: The Independence Struggle in British and Indian Fiction.  Modern Fiction Studies.  43.2 (Spring 1997): 535-37.

 Review of Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia.  “Enlightenment Comes to Postcolonial England: Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia.”  SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection 4 (Winter 1994): 29-30.

 Review of Sudhir Chandra’s The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in India and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan ed. The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India.  Modern Fiction Studies 39.1 (Spring 1993): 215-18.