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HTTP/1.1 200 OKDate: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 05:22:14 GMTServer: ApacheUpgrade: h2,h2cConnection: UpgradeLast-Modified: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:13:14 GMTAccept-Ranges: bytesContent-Length: 17464Vary: Accept-Encodinghost-header: c2hhcmVkLmJsdWVob3N0LmNvbQContent-Type: text/html !doctype html>html langen>head> meta charsetutf-8> title>Dr. Asha Varadharajan/title> meta namedescription contentHome page of Asha Varadharajan, race theorist, public speaker, professional mind-blower.> meta nameauthor contentRyan Melsom> meta nameviewport contentwidthdevice-width, initial-scale1> link relstylesheet hrefhttps://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css> script srchttps://use.fontawesome.com/9c7b73cd16.js>/script> !-- slick carousel style --> link relstylesheet typetext/css hrefslick/slick.css/> !--mobile enable--> script srchttps://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui-touch-punch/0.2.3/jquery.ui.touch-punch.min.js>/script> link relstylesheet typetext/css hrefcss/style.css> !--if lt IE 9> script srchttps://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html5shiv/3.7.3/html5shiv.js>/script> !endif-->/head>body> header> div classrow> div classhidden-xs col-sm-1 main-title> img srcimages/asha.jpg classprofile-pic /> /div> div classcol-xs-12 col-sm-5 main-title> h1> Dr. Asha Varadharajan /h1> /div> div classcol-xs-12 col-sm-6 contact-info> p> varadhar@queensu.cabr/> 613 533 6000 extension 74420br/> Watson 433 /p> /div> div classtop-quote> p>“One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly. - T. W. Adorno/p> /div> /div> /header> div classcontainer-fluid> main> section> div classrow> div classcol-12 top-title> h2>Biographical span classassemblage>Assemblage/span>/h2> /div> /div> div classrow> div idquote1 classcol-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-offset-1 col-md-5 color stylebackground-color: rgb(158, 141, 184);> p>“Asha’s insistence on explaining the inspiration or the impact of a particular theory as well as her own irreverent reactions to the works invigorated my own understanding and memory of them. - Ruth Emode, undergraduate student/p> /div> div idquote2 classhidden-xs col-sm-6 col-md-5 color stylebackground-color: rgb(146, 203, 157);> p> “To relieve my bouts of homesickness for the Philippines, Asha would sometimes give me a dose of tiger mom tough love; however, her version entails throwing you in the deep end of the murky waters of thought and insisting that you are actually waving and not drowning. - Dr. Jeremy De Chavez, doctoral supervisee /p> /div> /div> div classrow> div idquote3 classhidden-xs hidden-sm col-md-offset-1 col-md-5 color stylebackground-color: rgb(192, 195, 205);> p>“She’s the kind of erudite literary investigator who can get you out of a hard turn of phrase with a well-aimed shot of eloquence, and who can just as easily crack foxy with you, using all the critical angles. - Dr. Jessica Moore, doctoral supervisee/p> /div> div idquote4 classhidden-xs hidden-sm col-md-5 color stylebackground-color: rgb(201, 255, 176);> p>“I identify Ashas substantial eclecticism with a certain style of curiosity that doesnt collapse rigor into specializations or disciplinary subfields, necessary and important as these remain. - Dr. Raji Singh Soni/p> /div> /div> div classrefresher> div classrefresher-button>p>Refract/p>/div> /div> div classsection-divider/>/div> /section> section> div classrow> div classcol-12> h2>Profile/h2> p classalign-center>a hreffiles/cv.pdf target_blank>Curriculum Vitae/a> | a hreffiles/kp.pdf target_blank>Key Publications/a> | a hreffiles/cvh.pdf target_blank>CV Highlights/a> /p> /div> /div> div idlarge-profile classrow> div classcol-sm-offset-1 col-sm-10> div classrevolver> div classprofile> div> h3>An Overview of Whats to Be Undone/h3> p>I am by turns (post)colonial, migrant-settler, Canadian citizen, liberal-bourgeois, educated elite, radical pedagogue, conservative and erudite scholar, racialized, heterosexual, feminist, pop culture aficionado, anti-whatever. I am, in short, all of these things and none of them except when they trip me up or presume to name and categorize. I want to avoid an empty self-positioning that merely ensures rather than challenges business as usual or that remains sentimental rather than sceptical. Such fluidity and self-invention may well be a function of privilege but merely acknowledging that to be the case isn’t going to improve matters either./p> p>Nominated for the W.J. Barnes Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching./p> /div> /div> div classprofile> div> h3>Expertise/h3> p classexpertise>cosmopolitanism/p> p classexpertise>syncretism/p> p classexpertise>creolization/p> p classexpertise>modernity/p> p classexpertise>development/p> p classexpertise>migration/p> p classexpertise>human rights/p> p classexpertise>religion and secularism/p> p classexpertise>Enlightenment against Empire/p> p classexpertise>orientalism/p> p classexpertise>subalternity/p> p classexpertise>Frankfurt School/p> p classexpertise>critical Marxism/p> p classexpertise>race/p> p classexpertise>gender and sexuality studies/p> /div> /div> div classprofile> img srcimages/wordcloud.png /> div> h3>Passions andbr/> Curiosities/h3> /div> /div> div classprofile> img srcimages/heroes.png /> div> h3>Culturalbr/>Heroes/h3> /div> /div> div classprofile> div> h3>Hot off the press/h3> p>a hrefhttps://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2019.1665693 target_blank>Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me”: Rethinking the Humanities in (Times of) Crisis/a> with Jeremy De Chavez in Special Issue of em>Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies/em>. 2019./p> p>Straight from the Heart: A Pedagogy for the Vanquished of History in em>Decolonisation and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning/em>. Routledge, 2018./p> p>ideas with broken wings: Critical Theory and postcolonial theory in em>The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory/em>. Sage Publishing, 2018./p> p>How to Kick Ass when Life’s a Bitch: A Human Rights Bulletin from India. em>The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary/em>. ibidem-Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2018./p> h3>br>a hreffiles/cv.pdf target_blank>See the whole shebang/a>/h3> /div> /div> /div> /div> /div> div idlittle-profile classrow> div classcol-sm-offset-1 col-sm-10> div classrevolver> div classprofile> div> h3>An Overview of Whats to Be Undone/h3> p>I am by turns (post)colonial, migrant-settler, Canadian citizen, liberal-bourgeois, educated elite, radical pedagogue, conservative and erudite scholar, racialized, heterosexual, feminist, pop culture aficionado, anti-whatever. I am, in short, all of these things and none of them except when they trip me up or presume to name and categorize. I want to avoid an empty self-positioning that merely ensures rather than challenges business as usual or that remains sentimental rather than sceptical. Such fluidity and self-invention may well be a function of privilege but merely acknowledging that to be the case isn’t going to improve matters either./p> p>I am a Nominee for the W.J. Barnes Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching./p> h3>Brimful of Asha: words that shape, express, inspire/h3> p>ambiguity, irony, “heresy of paraphrase, ambivalence, enchantment, deracination, curiosity, surprise, speculation, rigour, defamiliarization, overdetermination, erudition, anomaly, aporia, incongruity, irreverence, intellectual retro-chic/p> /div> /div> div classprofile> div> h3>Expertise/h3> p classexpertise>cosmopolitanism/p> p classexpertise>syncretism/p> p classexpertise>creolization/p> p classexpertise>modernity/p> p classexpertise>development/p> p classexpertise>migration/p> p classexpertise>human rights/p> p classexpertise>religion and secularism/p> p classexpertise>Enlightenment against Empire/p> p classexpertise>orientalism/p> p classexpertise>subalternity/p> p classexpertise>Frankfurt School/p> p classexpertise>critical Marxism/p> p classexpertise>race/p> p classexpertise>gender and sexuality studies/p> /div> /div> div classprofile> div> h3>Hot off the press/h3> p>a hrefhttps://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2019.1665693 target_blank>Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me”: Rethinking the Humanities in (Times of) Crisis/a> with Jeremy De Chavez in Special Issue of em>Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies/em>. 2019./p> p>Straight from the Heart: A Pedagogy for the Vanquished of History in em>Decolonisation and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning/em>. Routledge, 2018./p> p>ideas with broken wings: Critical Theory and postcolonial theory in em>The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory/em>. Sage Publishing, 2018./p> p>How to Kick Ass when Life’s a Bitch: A Human Rights Bulletin from India. em>The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary/em>. ibidem-Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2018./p> h3>br>a hreffiles/cv.pdf target_blank>See the whole shebang/a>/h3> /div> /div> /div> /div> /div> /section> div classsection-divider/>/div> section> div classrow> div classcol-12> h2> Supervision /h2> /div> /div> div classrow> div classcol-sm-offset-1 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 information> h3>Statement on Supervision/h3> p> My sustained attention to scholarly self-fashioning rather than merely to the dissertations race to the finish line has played no small part in the remarkable success of my graduate students and post-doctoral supervisees. /p> ul> li>Several graduate students I have worked with have been nominated for the A.C. Hamilton Prize and have had their dissertations published as well-regarded monographs./li> li>Almost all the students and postdoctoral fellows hold tenure-track positions or are otherwise gainfully employed in academic and non-academic jobs./li> li>One won the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship./li> li>I have supervised 16 doctoral candidates, 2 Master’s students, 4 postdoctoral fellows, and 3 Honors research students./li> /ul> h3>Past Areas/h3> strong>Doctoral/strong> ul> li>postcolonial studies broadly speaking with writing from Africa, the Caribbean, India, Pakistan, and Australia/li> li>diasporic and travel writing/li> li>American: 19thC, modernism, postmodern and contemporary, post 9/11/li> li>Canadian: Africadian Literatures/li> li>British: post-Thatcher contemporary fiction/li> li>Literary and Cultural Theory/li> /ul> p> strong>Post-doctoral/strong>: Grey Owl, Imperial Boyhood, Arab Novel in English, Fetishism in Contemporary American fiction /p> p> strong>Undergraduate and Masters/strong>: South African, Canadian, and Cambodian writing /p> h3>Themes/h3> p> cosmopolitanism — creolization — mourning and melancholia — tripping — love, nostalgia, and affect — nation and narration — crowds and processions — hardboiled detective fiction — the discourse of mental health — em>agape/em> and emancipation — authorship in the age of terror — cynicism and modernity — the travails of whiteness /p> /div> div classcol-xs-12 col-sm-4 pull-quote> div> p stylemargin-top: 30px;>“Working with Asha is like being in a Charles Olson poem. She is “a high-energy construct and, at all points, an energy-discharge.” She does not abide conventional logical paths, and learning from her is more like venturing into an open field than following a map. One does not “receive guidance” but rather is encouraged to constellate—to put into conversation, to restring, often to redefine. It’s a heady experience–sometimes baffling, sometimes humbling, always exhilarating./p> p classalign-right>– Dr. Lindsey Banco, doctoral supervisee/p> /div> div> p>“I seldom remember first day of class exercises, but it has been seven years since I first entered Asha Varadharajan’s postcolonial theory seminar, and over the years I have thought of that first day often. We responded to the text of “Strange Fruit” — I found the piece extraordinarily difficult, so I wrote about feeling unable to fully analyze the song’s text. I would return to recordings of it (Billie Holiday’s is my favourite) and think about the intellectual and ethical imperatives of scholarly analysis. Somewhere along the way, a poem emerged about it. But it is the process that Asha made so much space for that has stayed with me. Her class was an invitation to sit with the difficult — theory, literature, history, writing — and spend time, to make a companion of it../p> p classalign-right> – Anna Thomas, undergraduate student /p> /div> /div> /div> /section> div classsection-divider/>/div> section> div classrow> div classcol-12> h2>Courses/h2> /div> /div> div classrow> div classcol-sm-10 col-md-offset-1> h3>Recent/h3> h4>Engl 883: Black Lives Matter: African American Culture and Politics/h4> h4>Engl 865: The Refugee Crisis: Migration, Human Rights, Citizenship/h4> h4>Engl 817: Publishing Practicum/h4> h4>Engl 876: Postcolonialism: Hopes and Impediments/h4> h4>Engl 290-003: (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue: Toni Morrisons em>The Bluest Eye/em>/h4> h4>Engl 476: em>Terra Australis/em>: An Introduction to Australian Literature and Culture/h4> h4>Engl 223: Selected Women Writers Post-1900/h4> /div> /div> div classrow> div classcol-sm-10 col-md-offset-1> h3>Curricular development/h3> h4>“The Souls of Black Folk: African American Literature and Culture/h4> h4>Selected Women Writers Post-1900/h4> h4>The Bard is Still with Us: The Cultural Hegemony of the Plays of William Shakespeare/h4> /div> /div> /section> /main> footer> div classrow> div classcol-12> p> varadhar@queensu.cabr/> 613 533 6000 extension 74420br/> Watson 433 /p> p classdesigned-by> Like this site? 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HTTP/1.1 200 OKDate: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 05:22:14 GMTServer: ApacheUpgrade: h2,h2cConnection: UpgradeLast-Modified: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:13:14 GMTAccept-Ranges: bytesContent-Length: 17464Vary: Accept-Encodinghost-header: c2hhcmVkLmJsdWVob3N0LmNvbQContent-Type: text/html !doctype html>html langen>head> meta charsetutf-8> title>Dr. Asha Varadharajan/title> meta namedescription contentHome page of Asha Varadharajan, race theorist, public speaker, professional mind-blower.> meta nameauthor contentRyan Melsom> meta nameviewport contentwidthdevice-width, initial-scale1> link relstylesheet hrefhttps://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css> script srchttps://use.fontawesome.com/9c7b73cd16.js>/script> !-- slick carousel style --> link relstylesheet typetext/css hrefslick/slick.css/> !--mobile enable--> script srchttps://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui-touch-punch/0.2.3/jquery.ui.touch-punch.min.js>/script> link relstylesheet typetext/css hrefcss/style.css> !--if lt IE 9> script srchttps://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html5shiv/3.7.3/html5shiv.js>/script> !endif-->/head>body> header> div classrow> div classhidden-xs col-sm-1 main-title> img srcimages/asha.jpg classprofile-pic /> /div> div classcol-xs-12 col-sm-5 main-title> h1> Dr. Asha Varadharajan /h1> /div> div classcol-xs-12 col-sm-6 contact-info> p> varadhar@queensu.cabr/> 613 533 6000 extension 74420br/> Watson 433 /p> /div> div classtop-quote> p>“One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly. - T. W. Adorno/p> /div> /div> /header> div classcontainer-fluid> main> section> div classrow> div classcol-12 top-title> h2>Biographical span classassemblage>Assemblage/span>/h2> /div> /div> div classrow> div idquote1 classcol-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-offset-1 col-md-5 color stylebackground-color: rgb(158, 141, 184);> p>“Asha’s insistence on explaining the inspiration or the impact of a particular theory as well as her own irreverent reactions to the works invigorated my own understanding and memory of them. - Ruth Emode, undergraduate student/p> /div> div idquote2 classhidden-xs col-sm-6 col-md-5 color stylebackground-color: rgb(146, 203, 157);> p> “To relieve my bouts of homesickness for the Philippines, Asha would sometimes give me a dose of tiger mom tough love; however, her version entails throwing you in the deep end of the murky waters of thought and insisting that you are actually waving and not drowning. - Dr. Jeremy De Chavez, doctoral supervisee /p> /div> /div> div classrow> div idquote3 classhidden-xs hidden-sm col-md-offset-1 col-md-5 color stylebackground-color: rgb(192, 195, 205);> p>“She’s the kind of erudite literary investigator who can get you out of a hard turn of phrase with a well-aimed shot of eloquence, and who can just as easily crack foxy with you, using all the critical angles. - Dr. Jessica Moore, doctoral supervisee/p> /div> div idquote4 classhidden-xs hidden-sm col-md-5 color stylebackground-color: rgb(201, 255, 176);> p>“I identify Ashas substantial eclecticism with a certain style of curiosity that doesnt collapse rigor into specializations or disciplinary subfields, necessary and important as these remain. - Dr. Raji Singh Soni/p> /div> /div> div classrefresher> div classrefresher-button>p>Refract/p>/div> /div> div classsection-divider/>/div> /section> section> div classrow> div classcol-12> h2>Profile/h2> p classalign-center>a hreffiles/cv.pdf target_blank>Curriculum Vitae/a> | a hreffiles/kp.pdf target_blank>Key Publications/a> | a hreffiles/cvh.pdf target_blank>CV Highlights/a> /p> /div> /div> div idlarge-profile classrow> div classcol-sm-offset-1 col-sm-10> div classrevolver> div classprofile> div> h3>An Overview of Whats to Be Undone/h3> p>I am by turns (post)colonial, migrant-settler, Canadian citizen, liberal-bourgeois, educated elite, radical pedagogue, conservative and erudite scholar, racialized, heterosexual, feminist, pop culture aficionado, anti-whatever. I am, in short, all of these things and none of them except when they trip me up or presume to name and categorize. I want to avoid an empty self-positioning that merely ensures rather than challenges business as usual or that remains sentimental rather than sceptical. Such fluidity and self-invention may well be a function of privilege but merely acknowledging that to be the case isn’t going to improve matters either./p> p>Nominated for the W.J. Barnes Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching./p> /div> /div> div classprofile> div> h3>Expertise/h3> p classexpertise>cosmopolitanism/p> p classexpertise>syncretism/p> p classexpertise>creolization/p> p classexpertise>modernity/p> p classexpertise>development/p> p classexpertise>migration/p> p classexpertise>human rights/p> p classexpertise>religion and secularism/p> p classexpertise>Enlightenment against Empire/p> p classexpertise>orientalism/p> p classexpertise>subalternity/p> p classexpertise>Frankfurt School/p> p classexpertise>critical Marxism/p> p classexpertise>race/p> p classexpertise>gender and sexuality studies/p> /div> /div> div classprofile> img srcimages/wordcloud.png /> div> h3>Passions andbr/> Curiosities/h3> /div> /div> div classprofile> img srcimages/heroes.png /> div> h3>Culturalbr/>Heroes/h3> /div> /div> div classprofile> div> h3>Hot off the press/h3> p>a hrefhttps://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2019.1665693 target_blank>Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me”: Rethinking the Humanities in (Times of) Crisis/a> with Jeremy De Chavez in Special Issue of em>Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies/em>. 2019./p> p>Straight from the Heart: A Pedagogy for the Vanquished of History in em>Decolonisation and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning/em>. Routledge, 2018./p> p>ideas with broken wings: Critical Theory and postcolonial theory in em>The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory/em>. Sage Publishing, 2018./p> p>How to Kick Ass when Life’s a Bitch: A Human Rights Bulletin from India. em>The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary/em>. ibidem-Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2018./p> h3>br>a hreffiles/cv.pdf target_blank>See the whole shebang/a>/h3> /div> /div> /div> /div> /div> div idlittle-profile classrow> div classcol-sm-offset-1 col-sm-10> div classrevolver> div classprofile> div> h3>An Overview of Whats to Be Undone/h3> p>I am by turns (post)colonial, migrant-settler, Canadian citizen, liberal-bourgeois, educated elite, radical pedagogue, conservative and erudite scholar, racialized, heterosexual, feminist, pop culture aficionado, anti-whatever. I am, in short, all of these things and none of them except when they trip me up or presume to name and categorize. I want to avoid an empty self-positioning that merely ensures rather than challenges business as usual or that remains sentimental rather than sceptical. Such fluidity and self-invention may well be a function of privilege but merely acknowledging that to be the case isn’t going to improve matters either./p> p>I am a Nominee for the W.J. Barnes Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching./p> h3>Brimful of Asha: words that shape, express, inspire/h3> p>ambiguity, irony, “heresy of paraphrase, ambivalence, enchantment, deracination, curiosity, surprise, speculation, rigour, defamiliarization, overdetermination, erudition, anomaly, aporia, incongruity, irreverence, intellectual retro-chic/p> /div> /div> div classprofile> div> h3>Expertise/h3> p classexpertise>cosmopolitanism/p> p classexpertise>syncretism/p> p classexpertise>creolization/p> p classexpertise>modernity/p> p classexpertise>development/p> p classexpertise>migration/p> p classexpertise>human rights/p> p classexpertise>religion and secularism/p> p classexpertise>Enlightenment against Empire/p> p classexpertise>orientalism/p> p classexpertise>subalternity/p> p classexpertise>Frankfurt School/p> p classexpertise>critical Marxism/p> p classexpertise>race/p> p classexpertise>gender and sexuality studies/p> /div> /div> div classprofile> div> h3>Hot off the press/h3> p>a hrefhttps://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2019.1665693 target_blank>Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me”: Rethinking the Humanities in (Times of) Crisis/a> with Jeremy De Chavez in Special Issue of em>Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies/em>. 2019./p> p>Straight from the Heart: A Pedagogy for the Vanquished of History in em>Decolonisation and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning/em>. Routledge, 2018./p> p>ideas with broken wings: Critical Theory and postcolonial theory in em>The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory/em>. Sage Publishing, 2018./p> p>How to Kick Ass when Life’s a Bitch: A Human Rights Bulletin from India. em>The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary/em>. ibidem-Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2018./p> h3>br>a hreffiles/cv.pdf target_blank>See the whole shebang/a>/h3> /div> /div> /div> /div> /div> /section> div classsection-divider/>/div> section> div classrow> div classcol-12> h2> Supervision /h2> /div> /div> div classrow> div classcol-sm-offset-1 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 information> h3>Statement on Supervision/h3> p> My sustained attention to scholarly self-fashioning rather than merely to the dissertations race to the finish line has played no small part in the remarkable success of my graduate students and post-doctoral supervisees. /p> ul> li>Several graduate students I have worked with have been nominated for the A.C. Hamilton Prize and have had their dissertations published as well-regarded monographs./li> li>Almost all the students and postdoctoral fellows hold tenure-track positions or are otherwise gainfully employed in academic and non-academic jobs./li> li>One won the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship./li> li>I have supervised 16 doctoral candidates, 2 Master’s students, 4 postdoctoral fellows, and 3 Honors research students./li> /ul> h3>Past Areas/h3> strong>Doctoral/strong> ul> li>postcolonial studies broadly speaking with writing from Africa, the Caribbean, India, Pakistan, and Australia/li> li>diasporic and travel writing/li> li>American: 19thC, modernism, postmodern and contemporary, post 9/11/li> li>Canadian: Africadian Literatures/li> li>British: post-Thatcher contemporary fiction/li> li>Literary and Cultural Theory/li> /ul> p> strong>Post-doctoral/strong>: Grey Owl, Imperial Boyhood, Arab Novel in English, Fetishism in Contemporary American fiction /p> p> strong>Undergraduate and Masters/strong>: South African, Canadian, and Cambodian writing /p> h3>Themes/h3> p> cosmopolitanism — creolization — mourning and melancholia — tripping — love, nostalgia, and affect — nation and narration — crowds and processions — hardboiled detective fiction — the discourse of mental health — em>agape/em> and emancipation — authorship in the age of terror — cynicism and modernity — the travails of whiteness /p> /div> div classcol-xs-12 col-sm-4 pull-quote> div> p stylemargin-top: 30px;>“Working with Asha is like being in a Charles Olson poem. She is “a high-energy construct and, at all points, an energy-discharge.” She does not abide conventional logical paths, and learning from her is more like venturing into an open field than following a map. One does not “receive guidance” but rather is encouraged to constellate—to put into conversation, to restring, often to redefine. It’s a heady experience–sometimes baffling, sometimes humbling, always exhilarating./p> p classalign-right>– Dr. Lindsey Banco, doctoral supervisee/p> /div> div> p>“I seldom remember first day of class exercises, but it has been seven years since I first entered Asha Varadharajan’s postcolonial theory seminar, and over the years I have thought of that first day often. We responded to the text of “Strange Fruit” — I found the piece extraordinarily difficult, so I wrote about feeling unable to fully analyze the song’s text. I would return to recordings of it (Billie Holiday’s is my favourite) and think about the intellectual and ethical imperatives of scholarly analysis. Somewhere along the way, a poem emerged about it. But it is the process that Asha made so much space for that has stayed with me. 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