Shalini Puri is Professor of English at the University Pittsburgh, where she works on the literatures and cultures of the Global South, with an emphasis on the Caribbean. Her research spans memory studies, feminism, marxism, nationalism, fieldwork,..
Shalini Puri is Professor of English at the University Pittsburgh, where she works on the literatures and cultures of the Global South, with an emphasis on the Caribbean. Her research spans memory studies, feminism, marxism, nationalism, fieldwork, the arts, everyday cultural practices, and activism. Her book The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory (2014) seeks to expand the settings, resources, and reach of humanities scholarship. Puri is also the author of The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity, which won the Gordon and Sybil Lewis Award for best book in Caribbean Studies in 2005. She has edited and co-edited several multidisciplinary books: Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South (2016, with Debra Castillo, Comparative Literature, Cornell University); Caribbean Military Encounters (2017,with Lara Putnam, History, University of Pittsburgh); The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics (2011); and Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures in the Caribbean (2003).
She is a member of the University of Pittsburgh’s Race, Poetics, and Empire research group and she co-edits the Palgrave Macmillan series “New Caribbean Studies,” which features interdisciplinary humanities-informed scholarship.
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