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With a doctorate from Northwestern University, Bishnupriya Ghosh teaches postcolonial theory, literature, and media studies in the English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published essays on literature, film and visual culture in boundary 2, Postcolonial Studies, and Screen; a monograph on the literary political imagination in new global markets, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers UP, 2004); and a co-edited volume, Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women’s Fiction and Film (Garland, 1997). She is currently completing a manuscript on the “icon” as a hieroglyphic for reading not only the reach of political power, but also the eclipsed presence of collective affect and desire. In Corporeal Intimations: the Material Life of South Asian Female Icons Ghosh attempts to theorize modern global icons as new mutations of traditional artifacts when she tracks the rapid transformation of a Mother Teresa or an Arundhati Roy from local legend to global fetish. Her third book project will focus on the political potentials of spectrality in British and Indian colonial and postcolonial literatures (some English texts, but mostly Bengali-language short fiction).

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