Convener

Dr. Shalini Puri
Associate Professor
English Department
University of Pittsburgh

Shalini Puri works on comparative Caribbean studies and literatures and cultures of the global south.  She is currently researching two books: one on the cultural memory of the Grenadian Revolution and its legacies for egalitarian politics in the region, and a second collaborative book that theorizes the role of fieldwork in the humanities.  Her book The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity (2004) won the CSA’s Gordon and Sybil Lewis Prize in 2005 for best book on the Caribbean.  She edited Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean (Macmillan, 2003). Her work has appeared in Cultural Critique, Small Axe, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, ARIEL, and various anthologies.  She also continues to work on the cultural practices, conflicts, and solidarities which have arisen out of the overlapping diasporas set in motion by slavery and indentureship.

Sponsors 

• Center for Latin American Studies
• School of Arts and Sciences
• Department of History
• Department of English
• Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
• Cultural Studies Program
• Women’s Studies Program
• Department of French and Italian
• Department of Political Science