Priya Menon, Ph.D. - Troy University

Priya Menon, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of EnglishTroy University, Troy, Al 36081==============================Current Faculty Research G.W.F. Hegel’s Phenomenology in Transnational LiteratureRecent Research Publications and PresentationsPublications: Menon, Priya. “Rewriting The Archive: Arundhati Roy'ʹs The God of Small Things,”in Another Life, Mélanie Joseph-­‐‐Vilain & Judith Misrahi-­‐‐Barak, eds. Coll.Horizons Anglophones, Series "ʺPoCoPages"ʺ. Montpellier: Pulm, Summer2012. Print. (Chapter in a Book) Menon, Priya. “To be Thirty, Female and Single”: Body as Place in DorisLessing’s The Grass is Singing” Language, Literature and Cultural Studies. vol. 4(2): 2012. Print. (Refereed Journal Article) Menon, Priya. “Surmounting (Third) Worlding: A Spivakian Reading of BharatiMukherjee’s “Ja(smi)ne” Impressions: A Refereed Bi-­‐‐Annual E-­‐‐Journal ofEnglish Studies. vol. 4 (1). July 2011. Web. (Refereed Journal Article) Menon, Priya. “Asserting the Local: White Subversions in Arundhati Roy’s TheGod of Small Things” Revista Atenea. vol. xii, forthcoming 2012. Print.(Refereed Journal Article) Contributed to ABES (Annotated Bibliography of English Studies; Routledge) –postcolonial section by publishing annotations on:1. Lewis MacLeod’s “They Just Won’t Do, You Know”: PostcolonialDiscourse and Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour” (ABES, Routledge2012).2. Salah M. Hassan’s African Modernism: Beyond AlternativeModernities Discourse” (ABES, Routledge 2011).

3. Harish Trivedi’s “Colonial Influence, Postcolonial Intertextuality:Western Literature and Indian Literature” (ABES, Routledge 2010).4. Margery Sabin’s “In Search of Subaltern Consciousness” (ABES,Routledge 2009).Presentations: Presented paper entitled “Rethinking the Performative Power of Whiteness inIndia” at the MLA sponsored SALA—South Asian Language Association Conference(Seattle, January 2012). Presented paper entitled “Surmounting (Third) Worlding: A Spivakian Readingof Bharati Mukherjee’s “Ja(smi)ne” at 2011 SAMLA—South Asian ModernLanguage Association Convention (Atlanta, November 2011). Presented paper entitled “Almost, but Not Quite: (De)centering Whiteness in theAnglo Indian and Indian English Context” at The Eighteenth Annual BritishCommonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (Savannah, February 2009). Presented paper entitled “Faculty: Off the Beaten Path: Traversing Academe” atthe New Voices Conference (Atlanta, September 2007). Presented paper entitled “Postcolonialism in Feminism” at the New VoicesConference (Atlanta, September 2006). Presented paper entitled “Teaching English for Special Purposes” at the FirstAnnual National ELT Conference (Oman, March 2001).