CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Asha Sen Home Address: 1404, Park ...

Name: Asha Sen
Home Address: 1404, Park Avenue
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Home Telephone: (715) 559 3868
Office Address: 422, Hibbard Hall
Eau Claire, WI 54702
Office Telephone: (715) 836-2732
E-Mail Address: sena@uwec.edu
Rank: Professor
EDUCATION:
CURRICULUM VITAE
PhD in English Literature, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 1996
M.A. in English Literature, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 1989
M.A. in English Literature, Bangalore University, India, 1986
B.A. (Hons). in English Literature, St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, India, 1984
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2010-2011 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC), Professor
2010-2011 Sabbatical (book project on Spirituality and Postcolonial Literature),
Professor
2005-2009 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC), Associate Professor
2003-2004 Sabbatical “Towards a National Culture: India and its Diaspora” (wrote a
number of peer-reviewed articles)
2002-2003 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC), Associate Professor
1996-2001 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC), Assistant Professor
1989-1996 Purdue University, Teaching Assistant
1988-1989 Jyoti Nivas College, India, Lecturer
1987-1989 Purdue University, Teaching Assistant
1986-1987 Jyoti Nivas College, India, Lecturer
1984-1986 Media Centre, India, Assistant Director

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Modern Language Association of America
Midwest Modern Language Association
South Asian Literature Association
AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS:
10-11 Sabbatical (Book Project on Postcolonial Spirituality)
Summer Stipend for book project
UWEC University Research and Creative Activity grant (URCA), Fall 2010-
Spring 2011
05 Recognized at the Tenth Anniversary of the Annual Women of Color Awards
ceremony at UW-Madison, 2005, and invited to propose a session for the
conference.
03-04 Sabbatical
2002 UWEC Woman of Color Honoree (UW System Award). Fall 2002.
2001 Faculty Reading Seminar Proposal. UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity.
Spring 2001.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Forthcoming. “Looking Back, Looking Forward: Examining Pre-Colonial Identities in
Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like a Man.” ARIEL: A Review of International English
Literature 41.2 (2011).
Forthcoming. “(Post) Colonial Allegories in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines.
New Literatures Review. 9. December 2009.
“Re-Visioning Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India in a Post-National Age.” Kunapipi.
General issue. 9. (2009): 66-82.
“None of Her Lord’s Blessings Would She Deny: Towards a Feminist Reading of Monica
Ali’s Brick Lane.” (short article) NAWCHE: National Association for Women in
Catholic Higher Education newsletter. Women’s Studies Dept., Dept. of
Sociology. Boston College, Massachusetts.
“From National to Transnational: Three Generations of South Asian American Women
Writers.” Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature. Vol. 4 No.
1 (June 2009).
“Feminist Ethnographies of Desire and Resistance in Lalithambika Antherjanam’s “The
Goddess of Revenge” and Ismat Chugtai’s “Lihaaf.” South Asian Review.
XXVIII. 2. 2007. 165-181.
“Allegories of Nation, Woman, and Empire in Salman Rushdie’s East, West Stories.”
Kunapipi 13.2 (2001): 121-44.
“Rewriting History: Hanif Kureishi and the Politics of Black Britain.” Passages: A
Journal of Transnational and Transcultural Studies. 2.1 (2000): 61-80.
“Locating South Asian Feminisms within the Context of Postcolonial Theory.”
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the University of
Wisconsin Systems Women’s Studies Consortium. Ed. Rhoades and Statham. WI:
Madison, 1999: 244-56.

Book manuscript on Postcolonial Spirituality currently in progress.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS:
Forthcoming. Presentation on Interleaves by Lata Mani. Annual Postcolonial and
Commonwealth Studies Conference. Savannah, Georgia. 2012.
Presentation on The Reluctant Fundamentalist. For the Professional Development
Reading Salon in Global and Multicultural Literature. The Eau Claire
School District and the Unviersity of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. November 12 th
2008.
“Feminist Ethnographies of Desire and Resistance in Lalithambika Antherjanam’s “The
Goddess of Revision” and Ismat Chugtai’s “Lihaaf.” Invited Presentation. U of Hawaii
at Manoa. November 2007.
“Is There Nowhere Else That We Can Meet?: Overlap and Distinctiveness within the Emerging
South Asian Literary Canon” Roundtable Organizer and Participant. 35 th Annual South
Asian Studies Conference. UW-Madison, October 2005.
Invited Talk on Modern Indian Literature. High School Teachers conference. UW-Madison,
June 5, 2005.
“Situating Dance like a Man alongside Indian Regional Language Productions.” Session #3.
Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS).
May 26-31, 2005.
“Teaching about Non-Western Women in an Age of Imperialism.” Roundtable Organizer
and Participant. 29 th Annual UW System Women’s Studies conference. Madison, WI,
April 2005.
“(Re)Examining Race and Gender in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Chitra Divakaruni’s
Arranged Marriage.” Race, Gender and Immigration. Seattle University. Seattle,
March 2005.
“None of Her Lord’s Blessings Would She Deny: Towards a Feminist Consciousness
in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane.” 33 rd Annual South Asian Studies Conference. UW-
Madison, October 2004.
“Women’s Bodies and Discursive Sites: Situating Women Writers from India.” Second Annual
South Asian Literary Association Conference. New Orleans, December 2001.
Invited Presenter and Moderator. “Globalizing Curricula: Challenges and Strategies.” The
Impact of Globalization on Literature. Globalization and India Symposium. Neenah,
WI, October 2001.
Presenter. “Postcolonial Feminism in the US Classroom.” Global Pedagogies in the US
Women’s Studies Classroom. Twenty-Second Annual National Women’s Studies
Conference. Minneapolis, June 2001.
COURSES TAUGHT:
New Courses Developed:
English 430/630 (Postcolonial Spirituality) (Fall 2011)
English 459 (Literature of Black Britain) (Spring 2009)

English 330 (Empire and the Postcolonial Novel) (Fall 2008)
English 330 (Postcolonial Novel) (Fall 2007)
Postcolonial Feminisms (English 430) (Spring 2005, 2006). Advised capstone students in each
section.
Empire and the Twentieth Century British Novel (English 359) (Fall 2006)
Introduction to English Studies (English 210) (Fall 2006)
Introduction to World Literatures (FYE) (English 131): Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
Representations of Women in Postcolonial Literature (Hons. 304)
Introduction to World Literatures (English 331): Women Writers of the Indian Subcontinent
Salman Rushdie (English 370): Major Author umbrella
Postcolonial Literature and Theory (English 379/579)
National Narratives of South Asia (English 733)
Graduate Seminar in a Major Figure (English 780): Salman Rushdie
Other New Courses Taught:
Women in African Literature (English 332) (Fall 2008)
English 284 (Spring 2009)
Other Courses Taught:
Introduction to College Writing (English 110)
Introduction to College Writing (FYE) (English 110)
Introduction to College Writing (Hons) (English 110)
Introduction to Literature (English 150)
Introduction to English Studies (English 200)
World Literature II (English 230)
Introduction to the Novel (English 275)
Images of Women in Contemporary Literature (English 290)
Taught a section of Responses to Colonialism class (HUMS 301)
Twentieth-Century British Literature (English 377/577)
Several directed and independent studies on assorted topics
THESIS ADVISOR:
Reader for Lindsey Bush’s thesis on the Black Panthers.
Jackie Bailey: “The Hero Must Hang: The Postcolonial Swerve and the Re-Visioning of Homer’s
Odyssey in Hanif Kureishi’s Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.” April 2005
Sarah Adams: “Colonial Discourse Analysis and Euripides’ Medea.” December 2002
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE:
Served on the following committees:

DPC Secretary (Fall 2011-Spring 2012) Chair Curriculum Committee (2008-2009), Chair
Literature Committee (2008-2009), American
Poetry Search Committee (2008), Global History Search Committee (2008)
Served on the following committees:
Linguistics Committee (2007-2008), DPC Secretary (2005-2006), Executive DPC (2002-2003),
Curriculum Committee (1997-1999, 2002-2003, 2004-2005), Schedules Committee (2001-2003)
Composition Committee (2000-2002), Long Range Planning Committee (2000-2002), Media
Resources Committee (1999-2001), Graduate Review Committee (1997-1999), Multiethnic
American Literature Search Committee (1998-1999), Technical Writing Search Committee
(1997-1998)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
Served on the following committees:
Nominating Commtitee (2005-2006), University Research and Creative Activity Council (2000-
2003), Fulbright Selection Committee (1997-2003), Women’s Studies Program Committee
(2000-2002), Women’s Studies Curriculum (2000-2001), Advising panel for New Faculty
Orientation (1999), Ad Hoc committee of Project 2008 (1999), Discussion Panel for NET at the
Movies (1998)
Served on the Council for Assessing and Advancing Student Learning
UW SYSTEM SERVICE
Served on the advisory committee for the recognition of the 10 th Anniversary of Outstanding
Women of Color Awards at the UW 2005 Women’s Studies Conference at UW-Madison, 2005.