My work focuses on transnational feminist theory, studies of colonialism, imperialism and culture, and anti-racist education.  Growing up as a part of the post-independence generation In India,  questions of decolonization and economic and social justice have always been at the center of my research, activism and teaching. My intellectual preoccupations in the 1980s focused on the way the “West” colonizes gender, and in particular, its colored, racial and class dimensions.  In 2005/6 I am centrally concerned with the way that gender matters in the racial, class, and national formations of globalization.  My scholarship focuses on the politics of difference and solidarity, the crossing of borders, the relation of feminist knowledges and scholarship to organizing and social movements, mobilizing a transnational feminist anti-capitalist critique, decolonizing knowledge, and theorizing agency, identity and resistance in the context of feminist solidarity.  My current work examines the politics of feminist anti-imperialist praxis in the academy and in social movements. VIEW FULL CV (PDF)



EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1987: Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A.1980: in the Teaching of English, Department of English, University of Illinois
M.A. 1976: English, University of Delhi, India
B.A. 1974: Honors in English, University of Delhi

COURSES TAUGHT
WS 101: Introduction to Women's Studies
WS 400.5/600.5: Feminism and Postcolonial Studies
and WS 495/695: The Practice of Transnational Feminism

UPCOMING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS


EDITORIAL & ADVISORY BOARDS
National Advisory Board, Signs, A Journal Of Women in Culture and Society

Editorial Board, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (West Indies)

Advisory  Board, Peer Review , Association of American Colleges and Universities

National Advisory Board, Perspectives in Education, (South Africa) Board Co-Chair, Grassroots Leadership of North Carolina

Advisory Board, Center for Immigrant Families (New York City)

Advisory Board, Solidarity Work, University of California, Riverside

PUBLICATIONS
Books
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing SolidarityDurham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. South Asian edition published in 2004 by Zubaan Books, Kali for Women, New Delhi, India. Translated into Korean, 2005.

Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, co-edited with M. Jacqui Alexander, New York: Routledge, 1997

Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, co-edited with Lourdes Torres andAnn Russo, Indiana University Press, 1991

Essays/Chapters:
Forword” to Playing With Fire, Feminist Thought Wrapped in Seven Lives, by Richa Nagar and the Sangtin Writers Collective, University of Minnesota Press (forthcoming 2006)

Towards an Anti-Imperialist Politics: Reflections of a Desi Feminist” in South Asian Popular Culture, Vol. 2, No. 1, April 2004

Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through Anti-Capitalist Struggles,” SIGNS, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 28, no. 2, Winter 2003; Reprinted in Women’s Studies for the Future, Rutgers University Press, 2005

Transnational Pedagogy: Doing Political Work in Women’s Studies,” Interview in Atlantis: AWomen’s Studies Journal, Vol. 26.2, Spring/Summer 2002

Race-ing Class and Gender (and Nation): Reconciling the Either Or,” in Race and Public Policy, edited by Makani N. Themba, Applied Reseach Center, CA, 2000

Series Editor:Gender, Culture and Global Politics” Garland Publishing, New York (1996—2002} Books published in this series:
Volume 1, Interventions: Feminist Dialogues in Third World Women’s Literature and Film, ed. by Bishnupriya Ghosh & Brinda Ghosh, 1997

Volume 2: Women’s Movements and Public Policy in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. by Geertje Lycklama a Nijeholt, Virginia Vargas, and Saskia Wieringa, 1998

Volume 3: Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, and Poetry, ed. by Sharon Hom, 1999

Volume 4: Gender, Religion and “Heathen Lands,” American Missionary Women in South Asia (1860s-1940s), by Maina Chawla Singh, 2000

Volume 5: Frontline Feminisms, Women, War and Resistance, ed. by Marguerite Waller and Jennifer Rycenga, 2000

Series Editor: “Comparative Feminist Studies” Palgrave/Macmillan (2003---) Books published thus far:
Volume 1, Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India by Charu Gupta, 2002

Volume 2, Twentyfirst Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference, edited by Amie Macdonald and Susan Sanchez-Casal, 2002

Volume 3, Reading Across Borders, Storytelling and Knowledges of Resistance, by Shari Stone-Mediatore, 2003

Volume 4, Made in India: Queer Sexualities, Decolonization, and Transnational Projects, by Suparna Bhaskaran, 2004

Volume 5, Difference and Dialogue: Feminisms Contest Globalization, edited by M. Waller and S. Marcos, 2005

Volume 6, Engendering Human Rights, Cultural and Socio-Economic Realities in Africa, edited by Obioma Nnaemeka and Joy Ezeilo, 2005