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Faculty: Nalini Natarajan
Brief introduction:
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Academic Degree:
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PhD, University of Aberdeen (1984)
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| Areas of Expertise: |
19th Century British Fiction,
Women's Literature,
Cultural Studies,
Post-colonial Theory |
Contact Information |
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| Office location: |
English Department, Office #PED-6
Basement of Pedreira Building, College of Humanities |
| Office hours: |
Not available at this moment |
| Phone: |
(787) 764-0000 ext. 2301
Messages: (787) 764-0000 ext. 2553 (at the English Department office) |
Email: |
NNatarajan@msn.com |
Brief biography |
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Nalini Natarajan was born in Madras (now Chennai) and raised in New Delhi and Bombay (now Mumbai). Upon graduation with an MA from Delhi University, she taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. She obtained her Ph.D as a British Council Scholar and a recipient of the Fellowship from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the United Kingdom from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. Thereafter, she was hired into a tenured faculty position at Miranda House, Delhi, and taught there for a while. After a short stint as a postdoctoral scholar at Yale University, she moved to Puerto Rico in 1987 with her husband, tropical ecologist John Parrotta. Through her background and domicile, she combines an interest in India and its many regions, local languages and cultures, British domestic and imperial culture in the Nineteenth Century, feminist theory, and Caribbean and Latin American issues. She has proposed innovative courses in these areas, including her latest ones focusing on the city. She is the author/editor of two books and numerous articles. She is working on a book scheduled for publication with Callejon Press entitled THE RESONATING ISLAND, a series of intercultural essays on
the Caribbean and South Asia. She currently divides her time between San Juan
and Washington DC where she helps coordinate the panels on a yearly South Asia Literary festival of new authors in conjunction with the Smithsonian. Travel, syncretic and intercultural modes of music and dance and cooking- especially pickle making- are her hobbies.
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Last update:
December 15, 2007 17:09 |
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