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Sridevi Menon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Her research interests include Diaspora studies, Colonial and Cultural Studies, and ethnic/racial identity formation. She is the author of “Where is West Asia in Asian America? ‘Asia’ and the Politics of Space in Asian America,” (Social Text 86; Spring 2006) and "Reading with Edward Said: Representation and Other Disquieting Gestures," (forthcoming, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies). Dr. Menon is currently working on an ethnographic study of Indians who migrated to Borneo in the 1940s-60s to work for Shell Petroleum Company.

Education: Ph.D. in American Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her dissertation, “Discursive Realms and Colonial Practice: Contrapuntal Studies of Race in Colonial India and the United States,” focuses on processes of racialization in Colonial India and the United States, immigration to the United States (particularly South Asian and West Asian), and discourses of empire and nation.

Courses taught: National and Global Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity; Women of Color in the US; Race, Representation & Culture.

Email address: smenon@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Updated: 08/14/06