Reddy, Vanita
individual record
Associate Professor
Positions:
- Associate Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences
overview
My research interests include South Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultural Production; 20th and 21st Century U.S. Multi-Ethnic and Postcolonial Literatures; Visual and Material Cultures; Fashion and Beauty; Transnational Feminisms and Queer Theory; Critical Race Studies
education and training
- Ph.D. in English, University of California, Davis - (Davis, California, United States) 2009
- M.A. in English, University of California, Davis - (Davis, California, United States) 2002
- B.A. in English and Communications, Trinity University - (San Antonio, Texas, United States) 1998
selected publications
Academic Articles5
- Reddy, V. (2015). Afro-Asian Intimacies and the Politics and Aesthetics of Cross-Racial Struggle in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala. Journal of Asian American Studies. 18(3), 233-263.
- Reddy, V. (2015). Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia . By L. Ayu Saraswati. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2013.. Signs. 40(3), 781-783.
- Reddy, V. (2013). Beauty and the Limits of National Belonging in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine. Contemporary Literature. 54(2), 337-368.
- Reddy, V. (2013). Jhumpa Lahiri's Feminist Cosmopolitics and the Transnational Beauty Assemblage. Meridians. 11(2), 29-59.
- Reddy, V. (2006). THE NATIONALIZATION OF THE GLOBAL INDIAN WOMAN. South Asian Popular Culture. 4(1), 61-85.
Books1
- Reddy, V (2016). Fashioning Diaspora Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture. Temple University Press.
recent teaching activities
- ENGL228 Am Lit Civ War To Pres Instructor
- ENGL308 History Of Lit Criticism Instructor
- ENGL333 Gay And Lesbian Lit Instructor
- ENGL333 Lgbtq Literatures Instructor
- ENGL338 Amer Ethnic Literature Instructor
Email
vdreddy@tamu.edu
First Name
Vanita
Last Name
Reddy
mailing address
Texas A&M University; English; 4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227
USA