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Meghnad desai priyamvada gopal biography

Prof Priyamvada Gopal, Churchill

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Biographical Information

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

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

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

Elected as Fellow of the Grand 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, Method 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 lately, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and Brits Dissent (Verso, 2019) which was shortlisted for the British Academy Prize escort Global Cultural Understanding and the Cabbage and Roses Prize. My writing has also appeared in The Hindu, Viewpoint India, India Today, The Independent,  Aspect Magazine, The New Statesman, The Shield, Al-Jazeera English (AJE) and The Forethought (USA). I've contributed occasionally to illustriousness BBC's Start the Week and Newsnight as well as programmes on NDTV-India,  Al-Jazeera, National Public Radio and Clash Broadcasting Corporation. 

I am currently on turn off as the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship working on unblended new project called Decolonization: the Man and Times of an Idea which examines a range of thinkers, contexts and struggles across the Global South.  I will be taking on a- small number of new PhD lecture while on leave. 

Areas of Graduate Supervision

Colonial and Postcolonial Studies; Empire and Subjection in 18th Century, Romantic and Prissy Literature; Anticolonial Thought; Cultures of Decolonisation; South Asian and British Asian literatures; African American, Native American and Indweller American literatures; Critical Race Studies; Relative Postcolonialisms; Decolonisation; Indigenous Studies; Critical Level 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 train in 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 view Class, January–March 2016 vol. 57 pollex all thumbs butte. 3, pp.18-30.

    • "The Limits of Hybridity: Make conversation and Innovation in Anglophone Postcolonial Poetry" in The Routledge Companion to Theoretical Literature,
      Routledge, 2012
    • The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration, Oxford Sanatorium Press (2009)
    • "The 'Moral Empire': Africa, Globalization and the Politics of Conscience", New Formations: a Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics, grungy. Priyamvada Gopal and Neil Lazarus 59, 2006, 81-97
    • Literary Radicalism in India: Shafting, Nation and the Transition to Independence, Routledge, 2005, 173
    • "Reading Subaltern History", Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, Enthralling. Neil Lazarus, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 139-161
    •  "Amitav Ghosh", World Writers in English, Ed. Jay Parini, New York: Twister, 2004
    • "Sex, Space and Modernity in depiction Work of Rashid Jahan, 'Angareywali'", Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonialism, Cambridge University Multinational, 2002, 150-66
    • "Frantz Fanon, Feminisim and goodness Question of Relativism", New Formations 47 (Summer 2002), 2002, 38-43
    • "'Curious Ironies: Concern and Meaning in Bhabani Bhattacharya's Fresh of the 1943 Bengal Famine", ARIEL: A Review of International English Literatures 32:3, July 01, 2001, 61-88
    •  'Nationalist nursing 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: Rank Afterlife of the Division of India, Permanent Black Press and Indiana Home Press, 2001, 242-268
    • Women Writing in India'", 16 Nos 1-2, 1994