KIRAN MASCARENHAS
[email protected]
Department of English
Seattle Pacific University
3307 3rd Ave W,
Seattle, Washington 98119
TEACHING
Teaching interests
Composition and Rhetoric; Colonial and Postcolonial Literature; World Literature; Victorian
Studies; Nineteenth-Century novel; Non-Canonical Novels and Poetry, specifically Women’s
Writing; Composition and Academic Writing; Interdisciplinary Work; Theory; Cultural Studies;
Colonial History; South Asian Studies; History of English Literature, History of Indian
Literature; African literature; Media Studies; Digital Humanities; Pop Culture; Film Studies;
Ecocriticism
Courses Designed and Taught:
Seattle Pacific University
Winter 2016: Freshman Composition
Theme: Working the Word in the World: the Rhetoric in Pop Culture Forms and Politics.
Fall 2015: The Sentence
Grammar and Style for advanced students
Fall 2015: Freshman Composition
Piloting a newly re-designed writing curriculum
Spring 2015: Freshman Composition
Theme: Works in Progress
Winter 2015: Freshman Composition
Theme: African Writing
Fall 2014: Freshman Composition
Theme: Writing across academic disciplines
University Beyond Bars at Monroe Correctional Complex
Spring 2016: Introduction to Fiction
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Spring 2015: College Preparedness
Theme: Internet Culture
Fall 2014: Research Writing.
Theme: Resilience. Texts include Malcolm X’s “Learning to Read” and excerpts from
Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Freedom Education Project, Puget Sound at the Washington Correctional Complex for
Women
Spring 2015: Writing about Literature
British and American short fiction, poems and plays.
Fall 2014: College Preparedness
Theme: Families. Texts included Daniel Gilbert’s “Does Fatherhood Make You Happy?” and
Adrienne Rich’s “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”
Baruch College, New York
Fall 2006: Writing I (Introduction to College Writing, including the research essay)
Theme: What It Means to Be an American. Texts included writing by Josiah Strong, Michael
Dukakis and Aldous Huxley.
Spring 2007: Writing II (Introduction to Literature)
Theme: The History of British Literature from Beowulf to Zadie Smith: A Survey
Fall 2008: Writing II
Theme: History’s Losers. Students researched individuals or ideas that have been marginalized.
Spring 2009: Writing I
Theme: All about Me. Students centered their writing on their individual passions.
Spring 2009: Writing II
Theme: Gender and Sexuality. Texts for this course included excerpts from Jane Eyre and
Adrienne Rich’s “Compulsory Heterosexuality”
Fall 2009: Writing I
Theme: Happiness. Students engaged with a variety of definitions and applications of the term
“Happiness,” including a study of contemporary Bhutan, whose preferred “economic indicator”
is Gross National Happiness.
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TEACHING, CONTINUED
Fall 2009: Writing II
Theme: The Gothic. Readings included Rudyard Kipling’s “The Mark of the Beast” and excerpts
from Bram Stokers Dracula.
Spring 2010: Writing I
Theme: The Victorians. Texts included excerpts from Ruskin, excerpts from Jane Eyre and
excerpts from The Madwoman in the Attic
Spring 2010: Writing II
Theme: Images of Africa. Texts included writing by Robert Kaplan, Ama Ata Aidoo and Chinua
Achebe
Fall 2010: Writing II
Theme: Fairy Tales. Readings included Vladimir Propp’s “Morphology of the Folk Tale,”
excerpts from Bruno Bettelheims The Uses of Enchantment, and tales from the brothers Grimm,
Hans Christian Andersen and The Arabian Nights.
Fall 2010: Great Works of World Literature
Texts included the Bhagavad Gita, the Pillow Book and As You Like It.
Spring 2011: Writing II
Theme: Environmentalisms. Students were introduced to Rob Nixon’s concept of “Slow
Violence” in conjunction with Indra Sinha’s “Animal’s People”
Spring 2011: Great Works of World Literature
Texts included Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Hamlet, and Milton’s Paradise Lost
EDUCATION
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)
Ph.D., Postcolonial Literature (2015)
M.Phil., English Literature (2011)
Montclair State University
B.A., English (2005), summa cum laude
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University, India
B.A., Communications (2001), gold medalist (highest GPA)
DISSERTATION
Works in Progress: Representations of the Child in Victorian and Postcolonial Fiction
Dissertation Directors: Ashley Dawson, Talia Schaffer
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2015
2013-14
2007-2010
2006-2008
2005-2006
2001
AND
HONORS
Robert Adams Day Prize for Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work
CUNY Graduate Center Dissertation Year Fellowship
University Fellowship, CUNY
CUNY Tuition Fellowship
Dean’s List, Montclair State University
Gold Medalist, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, India
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
“Since You Taught Me about Heaven, I Have Thought No More of India:” Saving the
Native in Mary Martha Sherwood’s Little Lucy”
forthcoming in Saving the World, an edited anthology, Robin Cadwallader and Allison
Giffen, eds.
“Little Henry’s Burdens: Colonization, Civilization, Christianity and the Child” (June
2014) Victorian Literature and Culture.
“ ‘The Half-Caste’: A Half-Told Tale” Women’s Writing 20.3. (2012). Print and Online. P.
344-357
“John Halifax Gentleman: A Counter Story.”Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel. Ed.
Tamara Wagner. New York: Cambria Press, 2009. P. 255-270
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“The Backward-Facing Indian Serial”
ACLA 2016
“Lingua-Franca English in the International Workplace”
MLA 2016
“Democratizing Justice: Lessons from the Global South” (Session Leader)
Seattle Pacific University Day of Common Learning
“Time, Space and Modernity in Victorian India”
Long, Wide Ninteenth Century Conference at the Dickens Universe, Santa Cruz, CA: August
2015
“Kedgeree: A Genealogy”
North American Victorian Studies Association Conference: July 2105
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, CONTINUED
“A Different Sort of Happy Ending: Antifeminist Resistance to the Marriage Plot”
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Vancouver WA: October 2013
“ ‘Of One Blood?’ Man and Animal in Kipling’s Jungle Book”
Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada Conference, Victoria BC: April 2013
“Little Henry’s Burdens: Missionary Fiction in Colonial India”
Pacific Modern Language Association Convention, Seattle WA, October 2012.
“Dickens and the Domestic Thing Gone Wrong”
Pacific Modern Language Association Convention, Scripps College, Claremont CA: November
2011.
“Midnight’s Children: A History of Unpopular Ideas”
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, New Brunswick, NJ: April 2011.
“Fashion Crimes and Domestic Violence: Dickens’s Mothers”
Dickens Society Symposium, Providence College: Providence, Rhode Island, 2009.
“Reading Spivak”
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Boston University: Boston, MA: February
2009.
Self-Writing: Genre Interventions (Panel Chair)
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Boston University: Boston, MA, February
2009.
“Ursula Halifax: Gentlewoman”
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, State University of New York, Buffalo,
NY: April 2008
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
2009-10
2006-11
2006-11
Member, Admissions Committee
Coordinator, Postcolonial Studies Group
Member, Long Nineteenth Century Student Colloquium
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LANGUAGES
German, Hindi: Reading and speaking
French: Reading
Kannada, Tamil: Speaking
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
North American Victorian Studies Association, Modern Language Association, Pacific Modern
Language Association, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Northeast Modern
Language Association, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
2005-present Copy Editor, Proofreader, Postcolonial Text http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct
2002-2010
Web Producer/ Community Moderator/ News Assistant, The New York Times
2000
Intern, Voices, a nonprofit magazine
REFERENCES
Ashley Dawson, Professor of English, The Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island,
CUNY: [email protected]
Talia Schaffer, Professor of English, The Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY:
[email protected]
Tim Alborn, Professor of History, The Graduate Center and Lehman College, CUNY:
[email protected]
Frank Cioffi, Writing Director, Baruch College, CUNY: [email protected]
Paula Berggren, Coordinator, Great Works Program, Baruch College, CUNY:
[email protected].
Peter Hitchcock, Professor of English, The Graduate Center and Baruch College, CUNY:
[email protected]
Christine Chaney, Director, Writing Program at Seattle Pacific University: [email protected]
Gillian Harkins, Associate Professor, University of Washington: [email protected]