Expertise

Global Novel, Bollywood Film, Narrative Theory, Book History

 

Biography 

Priya Joshi is a Professor of English at Temple University and, for 2016-17, Director of the “Narratives of Global Culture” series sponsored by the Global Studies Program. She is a scholar of narrative who publishes on the history and theory of the novel and, more recently, on Bollywood cinema. Joshi works in the areas of book history, the sociology of culture, and postcolonial modernities from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. She received the Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and prior to joining Temple, she was at the University of California, Berkeley. Joshi is the author of In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India (Columbia UP, 2002 and Oxford UP, 2003), which received the MLA’s Prize for the Best First Book, the Sonia Rudikoff Prize for Best First Book in Victorian Studies, a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; Bollywood’s India: A Public Fantasy (Columbia UP, 2015); and co-editor of The 1970s and its Legacies in India’s Cinemas (Routledge 2014).

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Selected Publications

• Bollywood’s India: A Public Fantasy
(Columbia UP, 2015; ISBN: 978-0231169615)
• In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture and the English Novel in India (Columbia UP, 2002; Oxford UP, 2003; ISBN: 978-0231125857)
• The 1970s and its Legacies in India’s Cinemas (co-edited with Rajinder Dudrah, Routledge 2014; ISBN: 978-0415836586)

Courses Taught

• English 0857: “Detective Fiction in the World” (gen ed)
• English 2512: “Dysfunctional Families and Unspeakable Desires in the Modernist Novel”
• English 2521: “Lovers and Madmen in the Contemporary Global Novel”
• English 4098: “Fabricating ‘Englishness’” (capstone)
• English 5032: “Studies in Book History” (graduate)
• English 9100: “Narrative Theory, Novel Theory” (graduate)