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Gay Rights and Sochi: Boycott or Protest? 14 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
I have been trying to catch up a bit on the emerging discussions regarding a possible boycott of the Sochi Winter Olympics that are scheduled to take place in February 2014. There are growing calls a...
Wrap Up from Spring Teaching: "Writing for the Internet" 25 Apr 2013 | 12:37 am
Writing for the Internet: A Wrap Up from Spring 2013 Earlier I had mentioned I would be debuting a new course called "Writing for the Internet" this spring. Below are my reflections on the course as ...
Fall Teaching: Global Cities 22 Mar 2013 | 03:05 pm
[This fall I will be teaching a new graduate course on postcolonial literature that I am calling "Global Cities." The following is the "short" course description.] English 479: Global Cities (For Fal...
Consequences Day: A Modest Proposal for the 19th of March 19 Mar 2013 | 07:52 pm
The U.S. has a number of important civic holidays: Veterans Day (equivalent to the British Armistice Day), Memorial Day, Labor Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and of course, Independence Day. In the...
An Open Letter to Narendra Modi 11 Mar 2013 | 06:34 pm
[Cross-posted from 3 Quarks Daily. The following essay is intended as a satire.] Dear Chief Minister Modi, You don’t know me, but I’ll spare you a Google search: I am one of your loyal subjects! I’m...
Narendra Modi @ Wharton: is Freedom of Speech the Issue? 7 Mar 2013 | 03:42 am
As many readers will already know, this week the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania had to retract a speaking invitation to Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the Indian St...
Text for Lehigh Valley THATcamp 1 Mar 2013 | 01:57 am
[Lehigh is hosting its first digital humanities conference -- a THATcamp -- Friday and Saturday. I am facilitating the session on "Academic Blogging" that will occur on Friday. Below are my notes for ...
Melodrama in Milwaukee: a Review of "American Dervish" 22 Feb 2013 | 10:31 pm
[Cross-posted at The Aerogram] When the topic of South Asian diaspora fiction came up on blogs like Sepia Mutiny (or now, happily, The Aerogram) the conversation would inevitably come around to Jhump...
On Teaching Blogging in a College Classroom (a Response to Gawker) 19 Feb 2013 | 11:44 pm
Gawker has one of those sneering snark-spasms that seems to be giving everyone on my Facebook feed a good chuckle this morning: So then, it's a new academic program straight outta Duke University: "W...
The Killing of Sunando Sen Was Not a "Hate Crime" 10 Jan 2013 | 12:12 am
The death of Sunando Sen was tragic. For people who ride the subway everyday in New York City or other cities, the second incident of a subway pushing in a month is also frightening -- an Erika Menend...
