The Postcolonial Body in Queer Space and Time. Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, England, August, 2006. (Paperback release, Fall, 2008).
“Refusing Migrant Subjectivity: Alternative Time and Space in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia.” Indiscretions: At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory. Ed. Murat Aydemir. Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex, and 'Race'. Series Ed. Ernst van Alphen. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. (July, 2011).
“Turtles Can Fly: Invasion, Influence and Inevitability Along the Frontier.” Projecting Words, Writing Images: Intersections of the Literary and the Visual in American Cultural Practice. Ed. Mark Paryz and John R. Leo. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. (forthcoming, October, 2011).
“But...Can the Subaltern Sing?” republished by invitation in Subaltern Studies, April, 2008.
“The Erasure of Language in the Globalization of Rock Music: Sigur Ros and the Politics of Hopelandic.” Politics and Culture (2003). Vol. 3 July, 2003.
Additional Information
Research and Teaching Interests
Twenty-first century World film; Low-tech film; The Middle-Eastern Youth film
Recent Conference Presentations & Guest Lectures
March, 2013: “Participatory Culture and Fan Fiction: Literature From iPhones and Twitter.”
2013: “Facebook Fiction, Twitter Literature, and the Cellphone Novel Roundtable." Northeastern MLA, Boston, MA.
September, 2011: Projecting Words, Writing Images. Read/Write Series. University of Rhode Island. (Invited)
April, 2011: “The End of the Bush Years and the Films of 2007: Powerlessness, Plague, and Politics.” Cinema and Demos. Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA
October, 2010: “History of Indian Film.” Guest Lecture. University of Rhode Island.
September, 2010: “Turtles Can Fly: Invasion, Influence and Inevitability Along the Frontier.” Guest Lecture (twice). University of Rhode Island.
