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Manisha Basu

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Research Interests

Postcolonial Theory and Literatures, Nationalism and Philology, Secularism, Globalization, African Literatures, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, South Asian Literatures and Cultures, Language and Imperialism.

Education

Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh

Courses Taught

Postcolonial Theory and Literatures, Nationalism, Secularism, Globalization, African Literatures, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, South Asian Literatures and Cultures.

Courses

  • Postcolonial Literature in English
  • Critical Approaches to Literature
  • Introduction to Criticism and Research
  • Introduction to Modern African Literature
  • Modern African Fiction

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, English
Director of Graduate Studies, English
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Associate Professor, Center for African Studies

Recent Publications

Basu, M. (2024). Thick as Thieves: Mothers, Gypsies, & Criminals in Enola Holmes’ Victorian England. Victoriographies, 14(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2024.0515

Basu, M. (2018). Hungry; or, human? In A. Ulanowicz, & M. Basu (Eds.), The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger (pp. 1-24). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47485-4_1

Ulanowicz, A., & Basu, M. (2018). The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47485-4

Basu, M. (2016). The Rhetoric of Hindu India: Language and Urban Nationalism. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316576540

Basu, M. (2013). A Battle of the Books: Linguistic Antagonisms and the Crisis of Postcolonial Secularism. The Comparatist, 37(May 2013), 105-121. https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2013.0022

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