Subhalakshmi Gooptu, PhD
Business and Liberal Arts Center, Room B613
Education
BA, St. Stephen's College
MA, Jadavpur University
PhD, University of Massachusetts
Biography
Subhalakshmi Gooptu specializes in Postcolonial and Global Anglophone literatures with a focus on South Asia and the Caribbean, Asian diasporic studies, histories of labor migration in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, transnational gender and sexuality studies. Her doctoral project, Stories Women Carry: Labor and Reproductive Imaginaries of South Asia and the Caribbean, examined literary representations of women’s experiences of indentureship and plantation labor, as resistant to archival accounts of their subjectification. Subhalakshmi joined FIT as an Assistant Professor of World Literature in Fall 2022 and she will be taking on the role of Writing Program Coordinator in Spring 2023. She received her PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Publications
“Watery Archives: Transoceanic Narratives in Andil Gosine’s Our Holy Waters, And Mine” in Feminist Review, “Oceans” special issue, Volume 130, Issue 1, April 2022.
“Teaching Memoirs: Forging Nonfiction as Public Discourse in South Asian Diasporas,” Teaching Anglophone South Asian Diasporic Literature, MLA Press. Forthcoming.
“Transnational Feminism,” co-authored with Asha Nadkarni. Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory (ed. Eugene O’Brien), Oxford University Press, 2020
“Making Queer Worlds,” review of The World That Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia eds. Akhil Katyal & Aditi Angiras. The Massachusetts Review’s MR Online, 2020