Purnima Bose (Email; phone 812-855-5334)

Associate Professor of English
Director of Cultural Studies
Adjunct Professor of American Studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and India Studies
PhD: Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Post-colonial literature, feminist studies, and cultural studies.

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PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India . Duke University Press, 2003.

"The Colonel's Secret: Corporation Fetishism and KFC." With Laura. E. Lyons. Against the Current. Vol. XVII. No. 3 (July-August 2002)

" Mississippi Masala, South Asian Activism and Agency." With Linta Varghese. Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real". Ed. by Wendy Kozol and Wendy Hesford. University of Illinois Press, 2001.

"A Three Point Plan for a Big Ten University: Pedagogy, Politics, and Activism." Concerns. Vol. 27, No. 1-2. (Spring 2000).

"The Scent of a Conflict: Kashmir, Transnationalism, and the National Imaginary." Passages. Vol. 1, No. 2 (1999).

"Dyer Consequences: The Trope of Amritsar, Ireland, and the Lessons of the 'Minimum' Force Debate." With Laura E. Lyons. boundary 2. Vol. 26. No. 2 (Summer 1999).

ADDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Editorial Board Member: Genders, SAGAR, and SAMAR