Shalini Puri
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Associate Professor of English
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Shalini Puri works on postcolonial theory and cultural studies of the global south with an emphasis on the Caribbean. Her award-winning book The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity explores the relations amongst nationalisms, feminisms, and assesses various theories and histories of cultural hybridity. She continues to be interested in researching the cultural practices, conflicts, and solidarities which have arisen out of the overlapping African and Asian diasporas set in motion by slavery and indentureship.
She is completing a book entitled The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory, which studies the conflicting cultural memories of the Grenada Revolution as they surface in the arts, everyday life, landscape, and the diaspora. It explores the legacies of the Grenada Revolution for egalitarian politics in the region. She is also working on a second, collaborative book, entitled Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities. She is co-editor (with Kofi Campbell) of the Palgrave series New Caribbean Studies.
In 2009, for the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the 30th anniversary of the Grenadian Revolution, she organized a colloquium entitled “Remembering the Future: The Legacies of Radical Politics in the Caribbean,” which critically assessed the futures and limits of radical politics in the region. (See www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/rememberingthefuture/index.html) In 2005, she convened an international conference entitled "Comparative Postcolonialities: Aesthetics, History, Locality" held at the University of Pittsburgh.
Selected Publications
Editor, The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics. Routledge, 2010.
(Republication of Special issue Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 12.1 (March 2010) entitled Legacies Left: Radical Politics in the Caribbean.)
The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post/Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Editor, Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean (Macmillan, 2003).
Her essays have appeared in the anthologies Routledge Companion to Caribbean Literature (ed. Alison Donnell and Michael Bucknor), Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation (ed. Belinda Edmondson), and Matikor: The Politics of Identity for Indo-Caribbean Women (ed. Rosanne Kanhai). She has also published several essays in such journals as Small Axe, Cultural Critique, Interventions, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, and ARIEL.
Honors and Awards
Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, 2010
University Center for International Studies Faculty Fellowship, 2008
Gordon and Sybil Lewis Award for Best Book in Caribbean Studies, 2005
Teaching
Graduate Courses
* Seminar: Global Literature
* Seminar: Literature and Revolution
* Seminar: Global South
* Seminar: Postcolonial Globality
* Seminar: Postcolonial Discourse and Cultural Critique
* Seminar: Caribbean Literature
* Seminar: Diaspora and Trans/National Identities
* MA Core Course: Practices and Texts
Undergraduate Courses
* Senior Seminar
* Junior Seminar
* World Literature in English
* The Modernist Tradition
* Literature of the Americas
* Literature and Migration
* Introduction to Critical Reading
* Freshman Composition
* Honors Theses
