Asha Varadharajan
Associate Professor
PhD Saskatchewan
- postcolonial literatures and studies in globalization and culture
- literary theory (Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism and psychoanalysis)
- cultural studies
- critical race theories and multiculturalism
- Adorno and the Frankfurt School
- violence
- civil society
- the bio-politics of citizenship
- Website / CV
Contact
- 613-533-6000, ext. 74420
- varadhar@queensu.ca
- office: Watson Hall, Room 433
2019-20 Courses
- ENGL 271 001-9/3.0 Issues and Themes: Special Topics I – Writing from "Other" Worlds
- ENGL 421 002-5/3.0 Topics in Renaissance Literature I – Shakespeare & Film: Celluloid Shakespeare
- ENGL 878 Topics in Postcolonial Literature: "Inglan is a Bitch": An Introduction to the Postcolonial Condition
Recent Publications
“‘The world is spoilt in the white man’s time’: Imagining Postcolonial Temporalities.” Co-authored essay with Tim Wyman-McCarthy. In After Colonial Governmentality: Biopolitics and Memory in the Postcolony. Ed. Michael Griffiths. Ashgate Press, 2016.
“Subjectivity.” Intercultural Discourse - Key and Contested Concepts. Eds. Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Gita Dharampal-Frick, and Minou Friele (Hg.). Verlag Karl Alber, 2012. 112-121.
“‘The Wordshop of the Kitchen’: Impressions of Austin Clarke and Paule Marshall.” The Puritan (Spring 2017). http://puritan-magazine.com/membering-austin-clarke-puritan-special-issue/
“‘half sick of shadows’: Figure and Ground in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Imagination of the Subaltern.” Cultural Studies 30.4 (2016): 730-753.
“Edward Said and the (Mis)fortunes of the Public Intellectual.” College Literature. 40.4 (Fall 2013): 52-74.
“Michael Ignatieff, Romeo Dallaire, Stephen Lewis, and the Making(s) of a Canadian Global Conscience.” University of Toronto Quarterly. 82.2 (Spring 2013): 352-374.
Scholarly Tribute to Helen Tiffin in Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing & Culture. 34.2 (2012): 215-25.
“Between Securocratic Historiography and the Diasporic Imaginary: Framing the Transnational Violence of Air India Flight 182.” With Raji Singh Soni. TOPIA: Journal of Canadian and Cultural Studies 27 (Spring 2012): 177-195.
Current Supervisions
Sarah Kent, Amelia Labenski, Dani MacDonald (about students)