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Nalini Iyer

@niyerseattle

Academic, Postcolonial and South Asian Studies, Editor-in-Chief South Asian Review, dog mom. All views personal

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Global South Literature in and out of South Asia Explore South Asia as the subject of a new type of cultural internationalism.

Please consider submitting to this CFP think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

17.12.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Non-elite smaller private schools are struggling too in these times. Higher ed is not just Ivy League

15.03.2025 14:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So what are the Democrats doing about this? How are you organizing / strategizing to protect American democracy and American people?

02.03.2025 03:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe Rebel Face of Hope”: Palestine and South Asia Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

@niyerseattle.bsky.social and I co-edited a forum on "Palestine and South Asia" for South Asian Review with contributions by Tithi Bhattacharya, Ather Zia, Asma Abbas and Alia Yunis. Here's our intro:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

01.03.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! The response has been quite positive

24.02.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, I had one kid before tenure and the second one right after. 28 years ago I was a unicorn in academia

07.02.2025 00:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One goes to academic conferences not just for tenure but for one’s intellectual curiosity and engagement. I’ve been a Full Prof for 14 years and still attend conferences

06.02.2025 19:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE Off Campus! College Students and Workers Must Unite Against Right-Wing Attacks - Left Voice The Trump administration’s first week has been filled with attacks, especially on immigrants. College students and higher education workers must unite to fight back.

www.leftvoice.org/ice-off-camp...

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In the Shadow of Partition: Seventy-Five Years and Beyond This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond. The...

Announcing the publication of In the Shadow of Partition which was originally a special issue of South Asian Review that I co-edited with Debali Mookerjea-Leonard. www.routledge.com/In-the-Shado...

09.01.2025 17:55 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Review 17: Postmemory and the Partition of India by Shuchi Kapila (reviewer Aiswarya Sanath): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

20.12.2024 02:14 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Review 16: Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence by Tithi Bhattacharyya (reviewer: Sreyashi Ray):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

12.12.2024 14:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Review 14 (for 2024): Rebuilding Community by Shenila Khoja-Moolji. Reviewer:Tahsina Nasir: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

08.12.2024 13:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m teaching this brilliant novel this week. A couple of students cried as we opened discussion

26.11.2024 02:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please add me

25.11.2024 00:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the situation in so many places 😒

23.11.2024 19:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please add me. Thanks

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Please add me

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