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Profile Dr BANERJEE Bidisha Qualifications: BA(Hons.) Presidency College, Calcutta University MA (English) Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India MA (English) Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California PhD (English), University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

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Selected Publications

• Banerjee, B. (2011). The native as “(an)other” self: Colonial anxiety in Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King. Kipling Journal, 85(344), 7-20.

• Banerjee, B. (2011). Exoticized heroine or hybrid woman? Diasporic female subjectivity in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala. Asian Cinema, 22(2), 417-432.

• Banerjee, B. (2010). Diaspora’s dark room: Photography and the vision of loss in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Story Hema and Kaushik. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 45(3), 443-456.

• Banerjee, B. (2010). Identity at the margins: Queer diasporic film and the exploration of same-sex desire in Deepa Mehta’s Fire. Studies in South Asia Film and Media, 2(1), 19-39.

• Banerjee, B. (2009). Revisions, reroutings and return: Reversing the teleology of diaspora in Sunetra Gupta’s Memories of Rain. Postcolonial Text, 5(2), 1-15.

• Banerjee, B. (2009). Traveling bodies: Gender, nationalism and diasporic identity formation in Gurinder Chadha’s Bhaji on the Beach. Asian Cinema, 20(2), 18-38.

• Banerjee, B. (2007). No nation woman: The diasporic woman's quest for home. In M. Lai, & S. P. Kumar (Eds.). Interpreting homes in South Asian literature (pp.168-179). India: Pearson Education.

• Banerjee, B. (2004). [Review of the book Gendered realities, human spaces: The writing of Shashi Deshpande by J. Jain]. South Asia Review, 25(3), 231-233.

Paper Presentations at Conferences

• Banerjee, B. (2012, March). Caricatures with integrity: Subverting Anglo Indian stereotypes in Indian cinema. Paper presented at the Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• Banerjee, B. (2011, November). Living in No Man’s Land: Notions of home, belonging and the double displacement of Anglo Indians in Bow Barracks Forever. Paper presented at the II Biennial Conference of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies: “Other” Indias: The Richness of Indian Multiplicity, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canaries, Spain.

• Banerjee, B. (2011, September). Politicising the pictorial: A postcolonial reading of images in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival. Paper presented at the 11th Biennial European Association for Studies on Australia (EASA) International Conference. Crossing the Borders: Reality, Desire and Imagination in Australian, New Zealand and the Pacific Lives, Literatures and Cultures, University of Presov, Slovakia.

• Banerjee, B. (2011, June). Exoticized heroine or hybrid woman? Diasporic female subjectivity in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala. Paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.

• Banerjee, B. (2010, June). Understanding the Self as the Other: Geopolitics and the dramatic monologue in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Paper presented at the 15th Triennial ACLALS Conference: Strokes Across Cultures, Nicosia, Cyprus.

• Banerjee, B., & Wong, N. Y. B. (2010, April). Embattled lives in marginal spaces: Portrayals of Tin Shui Wai in Hong Kong cinema. Paper presented at the Cinema and Landscape 2010, University of Sheffield, UK.

• Banerjee, B. (2009, September). Memory and mourning: Photography and the vision of loss in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth. Paper presented at the Glocal Imaginaries Conference, University of Lancaster, UK.

• Banerjee, B. (2009, May). Capturing impermanence, finding the Self: The trope of photography and diasporic identity formation in Jhumpa Lahiri’s story, Hema and Kaushik. Paper presented at the 20th Annual GNEL/ASNEL Conference: Postcolonial Translocations, University of Munster, Germany.

• Banerjee, B. (2009, May). Will she, won’t she? Gender, violence and the female suicide bomber in Santosh Sivan’s film, The Terrorist.  Paper presented at the IV International Interdisciplinary Conference: Experiencing Gender. University of Huelva, Spain.

• Banerjee, B. (2008, April). Silencing the Westerner: First person narration in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Paper preseted at the 3rd International IDEA Conference: Studies in English, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

• Banerjee, B. (2008, February). Framing lesbian desire: Alternative viewing practices in queer cinema. Paper presented at Lesbian Lives XV: Writing Lesbian Culture: Theories and Praxis, Women's Education Research and Resource Centre, University College Dublin. Dublin, Ireland.

• Banerjee, B. (2007, July). Revisions, reroutings and return: Reversing the teleology of diaspora in Sunetra Gupta’s Memories of Rain. Paper presented at Rerouting the Postcolonial, University of Northampton, UK.

• Banerjee, B. (2006, June). Redefining discourses: Queer desire and the appropriation of heteronormative spaces. Paper presented at Space, Haunting, Discourse, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.

• Banerjee, B. (2005, December). Silenced voices: Critique of heteronormative sexuality articulated within the spaces of diaspora. Paper presented at the 2nd Global Conference: Critical Issues in Sex and Sexuality, Vienna, Austria.

• Banerjee, B. (2005, July). Creating a lesbian utopia: Reading the queer subtext of Mira Nair’s India Cabaret. Paper presented at Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia: First International Conference of Asian Queer Studies, Bangkok, Thailand.

• Banerjee, B. (2004, October). Female friendships or queer desire: Reading the queer subtext of fire. Paper presetned at the First International Conference on Discourse and Cultural Transformation, Hangzhou, China.

• Banerjee, B. (2004, April). Recreating homes in foreign spaces: Resistance and subjectivity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s story, Mrs. Sen’s. Paper presented at the Annual Jeffrey Campbell Graduate Fellows’ Lecture, St. Lawrence University, Canton, US.

• Banerjee, B. (2004, February). Gender bending brides: Regulating queer desire. Paper presented at the 14th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannah, US.