Courses Taught
English 241 Modern Poetry
English 246 The Short Story
English 247 The British Novel
English 273 Film as Literature
English 274 (for Campus Honors Program) Literature in Society (various topics)
English 296 The Politics and Poetics of Imperialism
English 297 English Literature in its Political Contexts
English 341 Modern British Literature
English 342 Contemporary British Literature
English 362 Women Writers in British and American Fiction
English 463 Fiction and Imperialism
English 463 Colonial and Post Colonial Narratives of Empire
English 443 Postcolonial Literature and Theory
English 493 Professional Seminar in the Teaching of Literature
Asian Studies 298 The Family in South Asia and the Diaspora
English 285 Postcolonial Literature
English 361 Contemporary Diasporas in History and Literature
English 361 Globalization and Empire
English 274 (Study Abroad) London Diaspora: The Empire Writes Back
English 112 The Literatures of Global Culture (for the Global Studies Initiative)
Areas of Interest
Modern British Literature; colonial and postcolonial studies; the literature of diaspora.
Teaching Accomplishments
Robert Schneider Award, 1995
Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching for Faculty, 1994
The Harriet and Charles Luckman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, 1994
Select Publications
Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling. Cambridge University Press, 1993
Exiled Memories: Stories of Iranian Diaspora. Temple University Press, 2001
Kim: Norton Critical Edition. W.W. Norton & Company, 2002
"Race, Gender and Imperial Ideology in the Nineteenth Century," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 13:1 (1989), 19-32.
"Theory for the Untheoretical: Rereading and Reteaching Austen, Bronte, and Conrad," College English, 53:5 (1991), 571-9.
"The Post-Colonial African Novel and the Dialogic Imagination." in Approaches to Teaching Achebe's THINGS FALL APART. ed. Bernth Lindfors. New York: Modern Language Association, 1991, 101-107.
"Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modern: Transformations in 20th Century Iran," in Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle-East, ed. Lila Abu-Lughod (Princeton UP, 1998), 215-242.
"Returning to Tehran," Suitcase: A Journal of Transnational Traffic, 3(Summer 1998), 28-48.
"Identity, Geography, and Postcolonial Diaspora," Routes of the Roots: Geography and Literature in the English-Speaking Countries, ed. Isabella Maria Zoppi. Roma: Bulzoni, 1998, 431-441.
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