PhD Program in English
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Meena Alexander

Ph.D., Nottingham University, U.K.
Distinguished Professor, Hunter College. English.

Email: malexander@gc.cuny.edu

 

Courses:

  • Fall 2003: 'Wordsworth and Walcott: Traveling Texts'
  • Spring 2005: 'Migration and Memory: Invented Selves'
  • Fall 2007: 'Poetics of Dislocation'
  • Fall 2009: 'South Asian Writing: Body, Memory, Text'

Selected Publications:

  • The Poetic Self: Towards a Phenomenology of Romanticism (New Delphi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1979; paperback 1983; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1981).
  • House of a Thousand Doors (Washington DC: Three Continents Press, 1988).
  • Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley (London: Macmillan, 1989/Lanham. Md.: Barnes and Noble, 1989).
  • Nampally Road (San Francisco: Mercury House, 1991)
  • Fault Lines (New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1993; Penguin India, 1994). Publishers Weekly Best Books of 1993; new expanded edition 2003.
  • River and Bridge (Toronto South Asian Review Press, 1996).
  • The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience (Boston: Southend Press, 1996)
  • Manhattan Music (San Francisco: Mercury House, 1997).
  • Illiterate Heart (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2002). Winner of the PEN Open Book Award.
  • Raw Silk (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2004)
  • Indian Love Poems, editor. (Everyman's Library/Knopf, 2005).
  • Quickly Changing River (TriQuarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press, 2008).
  • Poetics of Dislocation (University of Michigan Press, Poets on Poetry series, 2009).

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  • 'Real Places or how Sense Fragments: Thoughts on Ethnicity and the Writing of Poetry', Asian Americans: Collages of Identity ed. Lee C. Lee (Cornell Asian American Studies Monograph Series #1, 1992)
  • 'Shelley's India: Territory and Text -- Some Problems of Decolonization', Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World eds. Stuart Curran and Betty T. Bennett (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)
  • 'Rights of Passage', Inaugural Issue, Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, (Oxford, 1998) Vol 1. No 1.
  • 'Diasporic Writing: Recasting Kinship in a Fragmented World', Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism (Vol 6, no 1 Fall 1999)
  • 'The Shock of Sensation: On Reading The Waves as a Girl in India and a Woman in North America', Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism (Inaugural Issue,Vol 1.No 1, Spring 2001)
  • 'In Whitman's Country', Virginia Quarterly Review, Special issue on Leaves of Grass, Spring 2005
  • 'Writing Space' Contemporary Women's Writing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) Vol l. no 1. Inaugural Issue