Former Members of Staff

	Dr. Pavan Malreddy

      Research and Teaching Interests

I teach both introductory and advanced level courses in literary and cultural theory. My current research focuses on the literary representations of post-9/11 terrorism, armed insurgencies in South Asia, Burma, and Nigeria.

Monograph

(2015) Postcolonial Predicaments: From Orientalism to Indigenism (under review).

Edited Collections

(2014) (with Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen and Janet Wilson): Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization: Labour, and Rights. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (under contract, final draft submitted; expected date of publication: February 2015)

(2014) (with Dieter Riemenschneider): Arun Joshi: Avant-Garde, Existentialism and the West. Special Issue of Journal of English and American Studies/ZAA: A Quarterly Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (Berlin: De Gruyter) 62 (1).

(2012) (with Birte Heidemann): Orientalism and Terrorism: Theory, Text, and Images after 9/11. Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 (3).

Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Reviews

Accepted/forthcoming

(2015) ‘(Dis)Arming the Nation’: The Fictions of the Naxalite Insurgency in India.’ In: Alex Tickell (ed.) South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

(2015) ‘Introduction: Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights.’ In: Pavan Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen and Janet Wilson (eds.) Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization: Labour, and Rights. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (pp. 14).

(2015) ‘Labour, Pleasure and the Sublime: The ‘work’ of the Dalitbahujans.’ In: Pavan Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen and Janet Wilson (eds.) Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization: Labour, and Rights. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (pp. 15).

Published

(2014) ‘Domesticating New Terrorism: The Case of Maoist Insurgency in India’. The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms 19 (5): 1-16.

(2014) ‘Arun Joshi: Avant-Garde, Existentialism and the West’. Journal of English and American Studies/ZAA: A Quarterly Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter) 62 (1): 3-12.

(2014) ‘Nekro-Nationalismus: Die Naxalit_inne-Aufstände in Indien’ (translated by Louise Lorenz) / ‘Necro-Nationalism: The Naxalite Insurgency in India.’ In: Lina Fricke, Elisabeth Nechutnys, Christoph Senft and Anna von Rath (eds.) Just Politics? – Ökokritische Perspektiven im postkolonialen Raum/ Just Politics? Ecocritical Perspectives in a Poscolonial Space. Münster: Unrast Verlag, 59-80.

(2013) ‘The Blueprints of Revolution? A Comparative Reading of Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought and Franz Kafka’s Fiction(s).’ Intertexts: A Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection 17 (1): 53-66.

(2013) ‘Pulp, Sci-Fi and the Politics of Other Fictions: Face to Face with Mohsin Hamid.’ In: Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann (eds.) ‘From Popular Goethe to Global Pop’: The Idea of the West between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 131-150.

(2012) ‘Introduction: Orientalism(s) after 9/11.’ In: Pavan Kumar Malreddy and Birte Heidemann (eds.) Orientalism and Terrorism: Theory, Text, and Images after 9/11. Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 (3): 233-240.

(2012) ‘Counterterrorism in Germany: Post 9/11.’ In: Frank Shanty (ed.) Counterterrorism: From the Cold War to the War on Terror. California: Greenwood Press ABC-CLIO, 79-81.

(2012) ‘Review of Anthony Carrigan’s Postcolonial Tourism and Robert Spencer’s Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature.’ Wasafiri (issue 71): 81-83.

(2012) ‘Pulp Orientalism: Endosmotic Banality, terra necro, and homo ludens in Dan Fesperman’s The Warlord’s Son.’ In: Pavan Kumar Malreddy and Birte Heidemann (eds.) Orientalism and Terrorism: Theory, Text, and Images after 9/11. Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 (3): 265-277.

(2012) ‘Review of Gerhard Stiltz and Ellen Dengel-Janic’s (ed.) South Asian Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources, vol l.’ Anglia: Journal of English Philology 130 (1): 139-142.

(2011) ‘Postcolonialism: Interdisciplinary or Interdiscursive?’ Third World Quarterly 32 (4): 653-672.

(2011) ‘Gender and Nation in Bombay Cinema.’ Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 26 (2): 191-195.

(2011) ‘“Cosmopolitanism Within”: The Case of R.K. Narayan’s Fictional Malgudi.’ In: Ines Detmers, Birte Heidemann and Cecile Sandten (eds.) Tracing the Urban Imaginary in the Postcolonial Metropolis and the “New” Metropolis. Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47 (5): 558-570.

(2011) ‘(An)other Way of Being Human: “Indigenous” Alternative(s) to Postcolonial Humanism.’ Third World Quarterly 32 (9): 1557-1572.

Reprinted in Shahid Qadir, Mart Berger and Heloise Weber (eds.) Third World Quarterly Reader: From Modernization to Globalization, a Continuing Conversation / Edition 1. London: Routledge (forthcoming May 2015)

(2010) (with Niven Kumar) ‘We Have Already Happened.’ Nebula 7 (3): 115-121.

(2009) ‘Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Postcolonial Analysis.’ AlterNative: International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship 5 (1): 43-56.

(2009) ‘Humanism and Its Other: Difference and Disjuncture in Postcolonial Theory.’ Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory 17 (2): 87-99.

(2007) ‘Imagining the Terrorist: Racialization of Asian Identities since 9/11.’ Kasarinlan: Philippines Journal of Third World Studies 22 (2): 4-21.

(2007) ‘New Sites of Transformation in Aboriginal Education.’ Policy Dialogue 15 (1): 8-10.

(2007) ‘Teacher Training for Graduate Students: A Self-Ethnological Approach.’ Bridges 6 (1): 3-5.

Encyclopedia Entries

(2012) ‘Resisting the Question: What is Avant-Garde?’ Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge.

(2011) ‘Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature.’ Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge.

(2011) ‘South Asian Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources, vol l.’ Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge.

(2011) ‘Is the “Post” in ‘Post-Secular’ the ‘Post’ in “Postcolonial”?’ Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge.

(2010) ‘The Place of India in Postcolonial Studies: Chatterjee, Chakrabarty, Spivak.’ Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge.

Commissioned Monograph Report

(2009) Seeing Ourselves in the Mirror: Giving Life to Learning. Ottawa: Canadian Council on Learning (ISBN 978-1-926612-06-5).

Commissioned Conference Report

(2008) Modern Knowledge, Ancient Wisdom: An Integration of Past and Present for a New Tomorrow. Saskatoon: Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre.

Other Conference Reports

(2011) (with Birte Heidemann) ‘Under Construction: Gateways and Walls: A Report on the Triennial EACLALS Conference, 26-30 April 2011 in Istanbul.’ EACLALS Newsletter (Winter Edition).

(2010) ‘Chotro Three: Local Knowledge and Global Transitions.’ EACLALS Newsletter (Winter Edition).