The 20th & 21st Century Colloquium and the South Asian Studies Council welcome Priya Joshi of Temple University.
Priya Joshi is Professor of English at Temple University and, for 2019-20, Director of the Margins and Minorities lecture series sponsored by the Global Studies Program. She is a scholar of narrative who publishes on the history and theory of the novel and Bollywood cinema. Joshi works in the areas of book history, the sociology of culture, and postcolonial modernities in order to study the social work of narratives from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. She received the Ph.D. with distinction in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
Joshi is the author of In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India (Columbia UP, 2002 and Oxford UP, 2003), which received the MLA’s Prize for the Best First Book, the Sonia Rudikoff Prize for Best First Book in Victorian Studies, a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; Bollywood’s India: A Public Fantasy (Columbia UP, 2015); and co-editor of The 1970s and its Legacies in India’s Cinemas (Routledge 2014). Her research has appeared in Book History, South Asian Popular Culture, Yearbook of English Studies, The Novel (Princeton), and A History of the Indian Novel in English (Cambridge), among others.