Kumkum Sangari

  • Vilas Professor of English and the Humanities, English

Education

PhD, Literature, University of Leeds

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ENGLISH 784-201 Topics in Transnational Literature Transnat'l Fict:(Un)settling & Gendering Territory W 4pm-6:40pm

Research Interests

  • Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Gender/Women's Studies
  • Feminist Theory Colonialism
  • Globalization and Transnational currents
  • 19th and 20th Century Transnational Fiction
  • The locations of modernity
  • World Literature
  • South Asian Studies

Selected Publications

Sangari, Kumkum. “"Cracks and luminosities: through the anthropocene and capital matters"” Arc Silt Dive: The Works of Sheba ChhachhiFirst. Ed. Sangari, Kumkum. Delhi: Tulika Books. (2016): 65-82.
. Arc Silt Dive: The Works of Sheba ChhachhiFirst. Ed. Sangari, Kumkum. Delhi: Tulika Books in Association with Volte Gallery. 2016: 352
Sangari, Kumkum, and Vaid, Sudesh. “Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History” Recasting Women:Essays in Colonial History10th edition, Zubaan Classics Series. Ed. Sangari, Kumkum, and Vaid, Sudesh. New Delhi: Kali/Zubaan. (2015).
Sangari, Kumkum. “"To market, to market: gendered contradictions"” Social Scientist43, nos 9-10. (2015): 29-40.
Sangari, Kumkum. Solid:Liquid: A (trans)national reproductive formationFirst. New Delhi: Tulika Books. 2015: 264 pages
Sangari, Kumkum. “"Patriarchy/patriarchies"” Marxism and FeminismFirst. Ed. Mojab, Shahrzad. London: Zed Books. (2015): 259-286.
Sangari, Kumkum. “"Aesthetics of Circulation: Thinking Between Regions'” Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature50.Special 50th Issue Ed. Panjabi, Kavita. (2014): 9-38.
Sangari, Kumkum. “"The blind traditional subject and suitcase patriarchies"” Arab Feminisms: A Critical PerspectiveEnglish edition. Ed. Makdisi, Jean S.London: I.B. Tauris. (2014).
Sangari, Kumkum. “"Ruptures, Junctures, Returns: (Un)lived Histories, Feminist Propositions, and Nilima Sheikh"” Trace Retrace: Paintings, Nilima SheikhFirst edition. Ed. Sangari, Kumkum. New Delhi: Tulika Books in association with Gallery Espace and Chemould Prescott. (2013): 114-183.
Sangari, Kumkum. “Trace Retrace: Paintings, Nilima Sheikh” Trace Retrace: Paintings, Nilima SheikhFirst edition. Ed. Sangari, Kumkum. New Delhi: Tulika Books in association with Gallery Espace and Chemould Prescott Road. (2013): 392.
Sangari, Kumkum. “"Gendered Violence, National Boundaries and Culture'” Women Contesting Culture: Changing Frames of Gender Politics in IndiaFirst edition. Ed. Panjabi, Kavita, and Chakravarti, Paromita. Kolkata: Stree Samya with School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University. (2012): 324-340.
Sangari, Kumkum. “"Politics of Diversity: Religious Communities and Multiple Patriarchies"” Mapping the Field: Gender Relations in Contemporary India2.First edition Ed. Banerjee, Nirmala , Sen, Samita, and Dhawan, Nandita. Kolkata: Stree Samya with School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University. (2012): 361-463.
Sangari, Kumkum. “Mirabai aur Bhakti ki Aadhyatmik Arthniti” Mirabai aur Bhakti ki Aadhyatmik ArthnitiFirst edition. New Delhi: Vani Prakashan. (2012): 139.
Sangari, Kumkum. “"Viraha: a Trajectory in the Nehruvian Era"” Poetics and Politics of Sufism and Bhakti in South Asia: Love, Loss and LiberationFirst. Ed. Panjabi, Kavita. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan. (2011): 256-87.
Sangari, Kumkum. Politics of the Possible: Essay on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial EnglishLondon: Anthem Press. 2002.

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