Curriculum Vitae. 521 Loomis Court Carleton College Northfield, MN

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1 Curriculum Vitae Arnab Chakladar Dept. of English 521 Loomis Court Carleton College Northfield, MN One North College St Northfield, MN ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor, Department of English, Carleton College : Assistant Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature and Humanities, University of Colorado, Boulder. EDUCATION 2003 Ph.D in Literature, University of Southern California M.A in Literature, University of Southern California B.A in English (Honors), Delhi University. PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESS ARTICLES IN PRINT AND FORTHCOMING 2012 Garbo and Kuchela at the Palace Talkies in Malgudi: Women and Modernity in R.K Narayan s The Dark Room. Forthcoming in South Asian Review Language, Nation and the Question of Indian Literature. Postcolonial Text Meeting Online: Translation and Transmission on the Web. In Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in Indian Literature, Nalini Iyer and Bonnie Zare, Eds. Amsterdam: Rodopi Of Houses and Canons: Reading the Novels of Shashi

2 Deshpande. ARIEL The Postcolonial Bazaar: Teaching/Marketing Indian Literature. ARIEL WORK IN PROGRESS Review of Nancy Batty, The Ring of Recollection: Transgenerational Haunting in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande. Amsterdam: Rodopi (Solicited by ARIEL.) The Ethics of Mis/communication. A study of Upamanyu Chatterjee s novel, English, August, An Indian Journey and Mahasweta Devi s long story, Pterodactyl, Pirtha, and Puran Sahay. (Article.) The Translation of Culture: Language, Location and the Indian Novel. A comparative study of the twentieth century Indian novel through the lens of multilinguality and translation. (Monograph.) SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS AND ACTIVITY Selected to participate in yearlong faculty seminar on globalization at Carleton College A Country for Pregnant Women? Narrative and Detection in Two Films by the Coen Brothers. Annual SCMS Conference. Los Angeles. March Discussant for the panel Extreme Makeover? Colonial India Editions. Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, St. Olaf College, Northfield. October 10. Language/Perversion: The Novels of Upamanyu Chatterjee. Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Minneapolis. November 14. The View from the Web. Scholarly talk presented at a symposium on Comparative Indian and Diasporic South-Asian Literature and Culture, Cornell University. May 4-5. (Invited talk.) 2007 Discussant for the panel Screening Nostalgia, Picturing the Present: A Century of Cinephilia. Annual South Asia Conference, University of California, Berkeley.

3 2006 The Bombay Aesthetic on a Global Screen. Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota. November 3. (Invited talk.) 2006 Decoding Song and Dance Sequences in Bombay Cinema. South Asia Speaker Series, University of Colorado, Boulder. April Outside the Nation: Shashi Deshpande's Critique of Tradition. Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison The Elephant in the Living Room: Translation and the Question of Indian Literature. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Boulder Reading Globally, Teaching Locally. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Santa Fe I Don t Want To Be Postcolonial Anymore! - Indian Literature in the Academic Marketplace, Making and Unmaking History Conference, USC, Los Angeles Word Without End: Teaching in the Postcolonial Machine. Southland Conference on Transnationalism, UCLA, Los Angeles Is There An Indian-American in This Film? Being Indian in Mississippi Masala, MELUS Conference, U. of Hawaii, Manoa "Whose Story is it Anyway? The Subaltern in Some Novels of Indian Independence. Alternative Discourses Conference, USC Los Angeles. HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS POSTDOCTORAL: 2005 Graduate Council of Arts and Humanities Award, University of Colorado, Boulder. GRADUATE: 2002 College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Fellowship, University of Southern California: Merit Dissertation Fellowship for advanced students Feuchtwanger Merit Award, University of Southern California:

4 Dissertation Fellowship for Work on the Historical and Political Novel Graduate/Professional Award in Recognition of Excellence in Scholarship, Leadership and Service, University of Southern California Expository Writing Fellowship, University of Southern California. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Peer reviewer for Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Women s Studies International Forum. Evaluated monograph proposals for Routledge and Princeton University Press. Organized the visits to campus of the following writers and academics: Kiran Nagarkar (Fall 2007), Marcia Douglas (Fall 2008), Mahmud Rahman (Fall 2010), Nuruddin Farah (Fall 2011), Uday Prakash (Spring 2012), and James Kincaid (Fall 2012). Writing Advisory Committee, Carleton College, College Council, Carleton College, (elected). Various departmental subcommittees, including the speakers subcommittee, and subcommittees on evaluation of the department s integrative exercise. Participation in various campus-wide workshops and initiatives at Carleton College since 2007, including Viz., Quirk, WAC, Global Engagement Initiative, and Peace Studies. Carleton representative to the Associated Colleges of the Midwest s South Asia Program since Led faculty seminar on the work of Homi Bhabha prior to his visit to Carleton College in Spring Delivered guest lectures on Bombay cinema at St. Olaf College in March OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS South Asian Literature and Culture of the 20 th century, The Novel in India, Translation Studies, Marxist and Feminist Theory, Popular Indian Cinema, Web Publishing COURSES TAUGHT AT CARLETON COLLEGE English 100: Novel, Nation, Self English 111: British Literature from English 135: Imperial Adventures English 245: Bollywood Nation English 250: Modern Indian Fiction till 1980 English 251: Contemporary Indian Fiction English 252: Caribbean Fiction

5 English 335: (Post)Colonialism and Identity English 350: The Postcolonial Novel English 295: Critical Methods (scheduled ) English 395: Advanced Seminar on V.S. Naipaul (scheduled ) OTHER Founder, AnotherSubcontinent.com, an online journal and forum on South Asian Culture that seeks to highlight writing and art by South Asians, and to bridge the distance between academics working on South Asia and the general public. LANGUAGES SPOKEN English, Hindi, Bengali. Adept in HTML and related internet protocols.