Deepti Misri
Featured Publications
“The Violence of Memory: Renarrating Partition Violence in What the Body Remembers.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism.
Vol. 11, No. 1, 2011
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“‘Are you a Man?’: Performing Naked Protest in India.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Spring 2011.
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“Queer Resolutions: 9/11 and Muslim Masculinities in New York.” Submission under preparation.
“‘A Family’s Shame Made Flesh’: Violence and the Body in Salman Rushdie’s Shame.” States of Trauma: Gender and Violence in South Asia. Eds. Piya Chatterjee, Manali Desai and Parama Roy. New Delhi: Zubaan Books. 2009.
Selected Awards
Fellow at The Center For Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2009-10.
Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellow, 2007-2008.
Deepti Misri, Assistant Professor
Office: Hazel Gates Woodruff Cottage Room 208
Telephone: 303-492-0845
E-mail: Deepti.Misri@colorado.edu
Dr. Deepti Misri joined our faculty in fall 2008, after completing her PhD in English and a graduate minor in gender and women’s studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of interest span transnational feminist studies, feminist theory and criticism, South Asian fiction and cinema, and postcolonial studies. She has taught courses on feminist theory, women in Islam, and gender and violence. Her project, Reading Violence, focuses on the relation between gender, violence, and representation in South Asian literary and cultural discourse.
Spring 2012 Courses
WMST 3710 Global Topics: Gender, Violence, Representation
WMST 6290 Grad Topics: Gender, Violence, Representation
Spring 2012 Office Hours
Tuesdays, 3:30 – 5:30 pm
