About the Author
Nalini Natarajan is a Professor at the English Department, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico in the US, where she has been teaching at since 1987. Prior to this, she taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (1978 80) and Miranda House, Delhi (1984 86), and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University (1986 87). She obtained her Ph.D from University of Aberdeen, UK in 1984.She has written a book titled "Woman and Indian Modernity: Readings of Colonial and Postcolonial Novels "in 2002, and edited "Handbook of Twentieth Century Literatures of India "in 1996, which received the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. She has also contributed articles in many other books.Besides this book, she has also just completed a book published by Terranova Press, entitled The Resonating Island a series of intercultural essays on the Caribbean and South Asia. Through her background and domicile, she combines an interest in India and its many regions, local languages and cultures, British domestic and imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feminist theory, and Caribbean and Latin American issues. She has proposed innovative courses in these areas. Her interests are travel, memoir-writing, cooking and the promotion of popular forms of inter-cultural music and dance.
