Meghnad desai priyamvada gopal biography

Prof Priyamvada Gopal, Churchill

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Biographical Information

Born in Newborn Delhi, India, Schooling in Colombo, Sri Lanka; Thimpu, Bhutan;  Delhi, India; Vienna, Austria. Subsequent education at Delhi Installation, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Purdue University (USA) and Cornell University (USA, PhD 2000).

Member of the Institute for Advanced Learn about, Princeton, 2023-24.

Currently Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the Faculty of English, Sanatorium of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow, Writer College. 

Elected as Fellow of the Talk Society of Literature in 2024.

Research Interests

My present interests are in the literatures, politics, and cultures of empire, colonialism and decolonisation. I have related interests in the novel,  South Asian literature,  and postcolonial cultures.  Published work includes Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Financial credit and the Transition to Independence (Routledge, 2005),  After Iraq: Reframing Postcolonial Studies (Special issue of New Formations co-edited with Neil Lazarus) , The IndianEnglish Novel: Nation, History and Narration (Oxford University Press, 2009) and, most newly, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and Country Dissent (Verso, 2019) which was shortlisted for the British Academy Prize on the side of Global Cultural Understanding and the Food and Roses Prize. My writing has also appeared in The Hindu, Coming India, India Today, The Independent,  Aspect Magazine, The New Statesman, The Protection, Al-Jazeera English (AJE) and The Check account (USA). I've contributed occasionally to justness BBC's Start the Week and Newsnight as well as programmes on NDTV-India,  Al-Jazeera, National Public Radio and Mel Broadcasting Corporation. 

I am currently on walk out on as the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship working on unmixed new project called Decolonization: the Beast and Times of an Idea which examines a range of thinkers, contexts and struggles across the Global South.  I will be taking on uncomplicated small number of new PhD session while on leave. 

Areas of Graduate Supervision

Colonial and Postcolonial Studies; Empire and Ligament in 18th Century, Romantic and Fine Literature; Anticolonial Thought; Cultures of Decolonisation; South Asian and British Asian literatures; African American, Native American and Asiatic American literatures; Critical Race Studies; Allied Postcolonialisms; Decolonisation; Indigenous Studies; Critical Class Studies. 

Selected Publications

    • 'On Decolonisation and the University' in Textual Practice,35:6,873-899,DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2021.1929561 (open access)

    • "Of Capitalism and Critique: 'Af-Pak Fiction squeeze up the Wake of 9/11" in Alex Tickell (ed.) South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations. Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, pp 21-36.

    • "Redressing anti-imperial amnesia" in Race instruction Class, January–March 2016 vol. 57 maladroit thumbs down d. 3, pp.18-30.

    • "The Limits of Hybridity: Power of speech and Innovation in Anglophone Postcolonial Poetry" in The Routledge Companion to Cautious Literature,
      Routledge, 2012
    • The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration, Oxford Forming Press (2009)
    • "The 'Moral Empire': Africa, Globalization and the Politics of Conscience", New Formations: a Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics, precisely. Priyamvada Gopal and Neil Lazarus 59, 2006, 81-97
    • Literary Radicalism in India: Union, Nation and the Transition to Independence, Routledge, 2005, 173
    • "Reading Subaltern History", Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, Closetogether. Neil Lazarus, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 139-161
    •  "Amitav Ghosh", World Writers in English, Ed. Jay Parini, New York: Big, 2004
    • "Sex, Space and Modernity in high-mindedness Work of Rashid Jahan, 'Angareywali'", Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonialism, Cambridge University Weight, 2002, 150-66
    • "Frantz Fanon, Feminisim and character Question of Relativism", New Formations 47 (Summer 2002), 2002, 38-43
    • "'Curious Ironies: Concern and Meaning in Bhabani Bhattacharya's Narration of the 1943 Bengal Famine", ARIEL: A Review of International English Literatures 32:3, July 01, 2001, 61-88
    •  'Nationalist dark and the Postcolonial world', Review, Textual Practice Spring 2001, 2001, 173-79
    •  "Dangerous Bodies: Masculinity and Morality in Manto's 'Cold Meat'", The Partitions of Memory: Integrity Afterlife of the Division of India, Permanent Black Press and Indiana Doctrine Press, 2001, 242-268
    • Women Writing in India'", 16 Nos 1-2, 1994