Nandini Bhattacharya
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- School: Texas A&M University
- Campus: College Station
- Department: English
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College Station, TX - Dates at Texas A&M University: May 2015 - May 2020
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Would take again: Yes
For Credit: Yes
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Good
I had a great time in ENGL 374 with Prof. Nandini! The books she chose were intriguing, and the class requirements were typical for a high school English class. For all of us, the move to an online class (due to Covid-19) was a little difficult, but I would take this class again in a heartbeat.
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Would take again: Yes
For Credit: Yes
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This is a simple A, but Prof. Nandini is very disorganized. She'd forget to post discussion forums or quizzes, or she'd take a long time to grade exams. She can be frustrating to deal with, but this class is well worth it in my opinion. There are no difficult quizzes or discussions, and there is only one final test at the end of the semester.
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Would take again: No
For Credit: Yes
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I think this was the first time Professor Bhattacharya taught a large English class. I don't think it really worked. We had group debates, but it didn't work good because of the large class. It was a hot mess. Also, there were unclear instructions and mass confusion on GroupMe. Books were all about dystopias as well. She's nice though, so maybe try her out in a smaller class.
Biography
Nandini K Bhattacharya is a/an Lecturer in the University Of California department at University Of California
Texas A&M University College Station - English
Professor of English at Texas A&M University
Higher Education
Nandini
Bhattacharya
College Station, Texas
My fields of expertise are Postcolonial Studies and Colonial Discourse Analysis, South Asia Studies, Gender Theory, Film Studies, and Transnationalism. I am Professor of English at Texas A&M University and an affiliate of the Women's and Gender Studies, Africana Studies and Film Studies programs here. I also founded (2007) and direct the South Asia Working Group of the Humanities Center at Texas A&M University. From 2012 -2014 I was Graduate Director of the English department at Texas A&M University. Between 2003-2006 I served as chair of the department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Toledo. I have taught and published on film, feminism and visual culture, colonial and postcolonial discourse analyses of literature from the eighteenth century onwards, gender in South Asia, world literature, and travel writing. Now, after thirty years of education, teaching, writing and service in the US academe, I would also like to consider opportunities in education administration, freelance journalism, creative writing, nonprofit sectors, as well as educational consulting.
Author of
Reading the Splendid Body: Gender and Consumerism in Eighteenth-Century British Writing on India (1998)
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Splendid-Body-Consumerism-Eighteenth-Century/dp/0874136121
https://books.google.com/books/about/Reading_the_Splendid_Body.html?id=eqfaSJSS6T0C
Slavery, Colonialism and Connoisseurship: Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism (2006)
http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Colonialism-Connoisseurship-Eighteenth-century-Transnationalism/dp/0754603539
https://books.google.com/books/about/Slavery_Colonialism_and_Connoisseurship.html?id=XntlAAAAMAAJ
Hindi Cinema: Repeating the Subject (2012)
http://www.amazon.com/Hindi-Cinema-Repeating-Intersections-Postcolonial/dp/0415698677
https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415698672
https://books.google.com/books?id=tkwZl-yAJSAC&dq=hindi+cinema+repeating+the+subject&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Experience
Texas A&M University
Professor of English
I came here as Associate professor of English, and affiliated myself with Women's and Gender Studies, Africana Studies, Film Studies and Race and Ethnic Studies programs at Texas A&M. I am an outspoken advocate for diversity, have worked tirelessly as a graduate director to increase diversity and multicultural approaches in the English department, have founded the vibrant and flourishing South Asia Working Group at the University, and passionately mentor and educate undergraduate and graduate students. I have published three academic monographs on colonialism and postcolonial studies, South Asia, feminism, film and transnationalism. I see myself as a life-long learner, writer and innovator. I am now a Full Professor of English at the University.
Valparaiso University
Assistant/Associate Professor of English
I was assistant professor and then tenured associate professor of English during 1992-2003. During this time I published one book and several articles, taught several courses in literature, language and interdisciplinary humanities, womb two major external research fellowships, served as a co-chair of the Annual MLK Day Observance committee, and directed the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Valparaiso from 1999 to 2003.
Birla Educational Research Foundation
Research Associate
Researched and wrote entries for a planned Cultural History Encyclopedia under the guidance of Dr. Anada Lal, now professor at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Team work and collaboration were crucial, as well as scholarly ability, and I was commended for all three.
The University of Toledo
Associate Professor and Chair of Women's and Gender Studies
I joined the WGST department at the University of Toledo in 2003, and when I left in 2006, I had won a major University developmental grant for my program as well as made the way for my faculty to win another equivalent grant the year after mine. These grants enabled far-sighted public programming including a year-long symposium in Global Women's Issues to which visitors included South Asian Scholar-activist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, empowerment speaker Shakti Butler, Indigenous Rights activist Winona LaDuke, and others. I increased the number of student majors two-fold, as well.
Hindusthan Times, India
Advertisement Executive
Selling advertising space, client contacts, pr, newspaper content promotion,
Education
University of Rochester, NY, MA, PhD
MA, PhD
English Language and Literature/Letters
Wrote a dissertation -- one of the firstt in academe -- on Colonial discourse analysis of the British Empire using postcolonial and gender theory, and taught writing, composition and literature surveys.Presidency College
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
English HONS
Recieved my B.A. Hons in English -- stood second topper in the entire Calcutta University system in the B.A. Hons Part II (final) exam (1985)durgapur carmel convent
ICSE
Publications
Slavery Colonialism and Connoisseurship: Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism
Ashgate Press
Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who redefined ideas about value and taste. She explores the circumatlantic redefinition of Taste and Value as cultural and moral concepts in gender and racial discourses in slave-owning, colonizing and connoisseurial Britain, and demonstrates how values and aesthetics were redefined in late eighteenth-century England, with particular focus on the language of slavery, trade and connoisseurship. She delineates the workings of transnational consciousness and experience of race, class, gender, slavery, colonialism and connoisseurship in the late eighteenth-century circumatlantic rim. Writers re-presented the ethical debate on value and trade through aesthetic metaphors and discourse, thus disguising the distasteful nature of the ownership and exchange of human beings and mitigating the guilt associated with that traffic. Throughout the study, Bhattacharya rereads late eighteenth-century British literature as a stage for the articulation of theories of difference and domination.
Slavery Colonialism and Connoisseurship: Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism
Ashgate Press
Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who redefined ideas about value and taste. She explores the circumatlantic redefinition of Taste and Value as cultural and moral concepts in gender and racial discourses in slave-owning, colonizing and connoisseurial Britain, and demonstrates how values and aesthetics were redefined in late eighteenth-century England, with particular focus on the language of slavery, trade and connoisseurship. She delineates the workings of transnational consciousness and experience of race, class, gender, slavery, colonialism and connoisseurship in the late eighteenth-century circumatlantic rim. Writers re-presented the ethical debate on value and trade through aesthetic metaphors and discourse, thus disguising the distasteful nature of the ownership and exchange of human beings and mitigating the guilt associated with that traffic. Throughout the study, Bhattacharya rereads late eighteenth-century British literature as a stage for the articulation of theories of difference and domination.
Hindi Cinema: Repeating the Subject
Routledge Press
My book discusses about seventy years of Hindi films -- also known in recent decades as Bollywood -- to discuss how films reflect historical events as well as social systems in ways that capture the aspirations of a nation and its people. I discuss trends and codes in Indian filmmaking that have never received attention before. The book has been re-issued in an Indian edition by Manohar Books, India, in 2013. Enjoy!
Slavery Colonialism and Connoisseurship: Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism
Ashgate Press
Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who redefined ideas about value and taste. She explores the circumatlantic redefinition of Taste and Value as cultural and moral concepts in gender and racial discourses in slave-owning, colonizing and connoisseurial Britain, and demonstrates how values and aesthetics were redefined in late eighteenth-century England, with particular focus on the language of slavery, trade and connoisseurship. She delineates the workings of transnational consciousness and experience of race, class, gender, slavery, colonialism and connoisseurship in the late eighteenth-century circumatlantic rim. Writers re-presented the ethical debate on value and trade through aesthetic metaphors and discourse, thus disguising the distasteful nature of the ownership and exchange of human beings and mitigating the guilt associated with that traffic. Throughout the study, Bhattacharya rereads late eighteenth-century British literature as a stage for the articulation of theories of difference and domination.
Hindi Cinema: Repeating the Subject
Routledge Press
My book discusses about seventy years of Hindi films -- also known in recent decades as Bollywood -- to discuss how films reflect historical events as well as social systems in ways that capture the aspirations of a nation and its people. I discuss trends and codes in Indian filmmaking that have never received attention before. The book has been re-issued in an Indian edition by Manohar Books, India, in 2013. Enjoy!
Reading the Splendid Body: Gender and Consumerism in Eighteenth-Century British Writing on India
Associated Universities Press
This book allowed me to introduce to academic scholarship a long neglected subject: that of the woman of another race and color and her treatment by white colonial cultures. I looked at the Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the four tot the Mughal emperor Jahangir, the voyages of European travelers to Africa and Asia and their "ethnographic" observations on local people, and at British women's writing on India in the 19th century, as well as plays and novels by major British writers of the 18th century. I drew the conclusion that colonialism at least in part succeeded by creating watertight compartments about race and worth based on the systematic feminization and disempowerment of non-western populations.
Positions
MLA
Executive Committee Chair for Comparative 18th Century Studies, 2007-2010
MLA
Executive Committee Chair for Comparative 18th Century Studies, 2007-2010
MLA
Executive Committee Chair for Comparative 18th Century Studies, 2007-2010
MLA
Executive Committee Chair for Comparative 18th Century Studies, 2007-2010
MLA
Executive Committee Chair for Comparative 18th Century Studies, 2007-2010
MLA
Executive Committee Chair for Comparative 18th Century Studies, 2007-2010
MLA
Executive Committee Chair for Comparative 18th Century Studies, 2007-2010
MLA
Executive Committee Chair for Comparative 18th Century Studies, 2007-2010
MLA
Executive Committee Chair for Comparative 18th Century Studies, 2007-2010
MLA
Executive Committee Chair for Comparative 18th Century Studies, 2007-2010
