Shuchi Kapila

I teach postcolonial literature from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia and the settler colonies of New Zealand and Australia. I have also taught the Victorian novel with an emphasis on colonialism and gender.  Once in three years, I have been able to teach a course on transnational feminism moving from the literary to social movements and feminist socio-political debates in the global South.  My scholarly work focuses on nineteenth-century England, nineteenth and twentieth-century British colonialism in South Asia, and literary and cultural production in postcolonial South Asia.  In my book, Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule (Ohio State Univ Press, 2010), I analyze Anglo-Indian romances written by British colonials who lived in India during a period of indirect colonial rule. I am currently working on a project on the memory of the Indian partition of 1947, which created the two South Asian nations of India and Pakistan. I am interested in how memory travels and what kinds of cultural practices of memorialization are progressive and have been successful in South Asia.