{"id":433,"date":"2023-02-26T14:15:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T14:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/ingles\/?page_id=433"},"modified":"2023-08-10T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:47:29","slug":"nalini-natarajan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/ingles\/?page_id=433","title":{"rendered":"Nalini Natarajan, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Natarajan-Photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-374\" style=\"width:181px;height:181px\" width=\"181\" height=\"181\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phone:&nbsp;<\/strong>(787) 764-0000 ext. 89611 (English Department)<strong><br>Email:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:nalini.natarajan@upr.edu\">nalini.natarajan@upr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Academic Degree<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ph.D., University of Aberdeen (1984)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Areas of Expertise:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19th Century British Fiction,&nbsp;Women\u2019s Literature, Cultural Studies,&nbsp;Post-colonial Theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nalini Natarajan was born in Madras (now Chennai) and raised in\u00a0New Delhi and\u00a0Bombay (now Mumbai). Upon graduation with an MA from Delhi University, she taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. She obtained her Ph.D\u00a0as 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.\u00a0Thereafter, 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 is author of 6 books and her recent books are\u00a0<em>Atlantic Gandhi: The Mahatma Overseas<\/em>\u00a0(Sage, 2013) and\u00a0<em>The Resonating Island: The Caribbean in Postcolonial Dialogue<\/em>\u00a0(Terranova, 2014);\u00a0<em>The Unsafe Sex: The Female Binary and public violence against women<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press,\u00a0 2016) and <em>Romance and Power in the Hollywood Eastern<\/em> (Palgrave, 2020). Her work has been anthologized in pathbreaking collections such as <em>Feminist Theory and the Body (<\/em>Routledge<em>),\u00a0Scattered Hegemonies:\u00a0Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (<\/em>Minnesota). <em>Signposts: Gender issues in post independence India (<\/em>Rutgers<em>) and The Postcolonial Jane Austen (<\/em>Routledge<em>) <\/em>as well as published in numerous journals. She is currently editing a book titled <em>Femicide<\/em> with Palgrave.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phone:&nbsp;(787) 764-0000 ext. 89611 (English Department)Email:&nbsp;nalini.natarajan@upr.edu Academic Degree: Ph.D., University of Aberdeen (1984) Areas of Expertise: 19th Century British Fiction,&nbsp;Women\u2019s Literature, Cultural Studies,&nbsp;Post-colonial Theory About:&nbsp; Nalini Natarajan was born in Madras (now Chennai) and raised in\u00a0New Delhi and\u00a0Bombay (now Mumbai). 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