Publications

Monographs:
Rule of Sympathy: Sentiment, Race, and Power, 1760 – 1840, Palgrave-St. Martins Press, 2002.

Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage, Duke University Press, 2009.

Edited Volumes:
InterMedia in South Asia, co-edited with Rajinder Dudrah, Sangita Gopal, and Anustup Basu, Routledge.

Peer Reviewed Articles:

“Four Theses on Race and Deleuze” forthcoming in Women’s Study Quarterly.

“Perception and Mobility: Mobile Phone Cultures and the Globalization of India” submitted to Convergence.

“Perception and Digital Media in India,” The International Journal of E-Politics, Vol. 3, no. 4, Summer, 2012.

“For an Ethnography Toward the Virtual: Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism and Nonlinear ImMedia,” in South Asian Popular Culture, (Vol. 9, no. 3), Fall 2011, 313-326.

“Composite Photographs,” in South Asian Popular Culture (Vol. 8, no. 2), Fall, 2010, 195-201.

“Monstrous Mutations, Sympathetic Monsters” in Third Text (UK), Vol. 21, Issue 6, November, 2007, 745–759.

“’Every Citizen is a Cop without the Uniform’”: The Populist Outside in Bollywood’s New Angry Young Man Genre,” in Interventions (Vol. 8, no. 2), Summer 2006, 193-227.

“The Future is a Monster,” in Camera Obscura, 61 (vol. 21, no. 1), Spring 2006, 58-63.

“Haptic Bollywood,” (with Rajinder K. Dudrah, Senior Lecturer, Department of Theatre, University of Manchester) in New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 3:3 (2005), 143-158.

“The Promise of Monsters: Terrorism, Monstrosity, and Biopolitics,” in International Studies in Philosophy, 37:2 (2005), 81-92.

“Of Monsters and Terror-Tali-Tubbies: Biopower, Terrorism and Excess in Genealogies of Monstrosity,” in Cultural Studies, 18:4 (2004) 538-570.

“The Remaking of a Model Minority: Perverse Projectiles Under the Spectre of Counter-Terrorism,” (with Jasbir Puar, Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, Rutgers University) in Social Text, 80 (2004), 75-104.

“‘Start Narrative Here’: Excess and the Space of History in Asian Diasporic Films” in South Asian Popular Culture (UK), 1:1 (2003), 13-32.

“The Black Spectre of Sympathy: The Occult Relation in Jane Eyre,” in Literature, Interpretation, Theory, 14 (3), 2003, 243-268.

“Terrorist, Monster, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots,” (with Jasbir Puar, Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, Rutgers University) in Social Text, Fall (72), Vol. 20, no. 3, 2002, 117-148.

“`Thus Spake the Subaltern . . . ‘ Post-colonial Criticism and the Scene of Desire” in Discourse (USA), vol. 19, no. 2, 1997.
Rpt. in Special Collection on The Psychoanalysis of Race, edited by Chris Lane, published by Columbia University Press, 1998, 91-119.

“India On-Line: Electronic Bulletin Boards and the Construction of a Diasporic Hindu Identity” in Diaspora (USA), vol. 4, no. 1, 1995.

“An American Raj in Filmistan: Images of Elvis in Indian Films” in Screen (UK), vol. 35, no.1, Spring, 1994.

“A Lying Virtue: Ruskin, Gandhi and the Simplicity of Use Value” in South Asia Research (UK), vol. 13, no. 2, November 1993.

Reviews:

“Review of ‘Rasheed Araeen: Before and After Minimalism, 1959-1974’” in Art India (Mumbai, India, forthcoming.

“Review of ‘Synchronicity’ art exhibit” in Art India (Mumbai, India), forthcoming.

“Review of ‘Resemble Reassemble: An Exhibition Of Contemporary Art From Pakistan’ in Art India (Mumbai, India), forthcoming.

“Review of Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance, Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti, eds.” in Music, Sound and the Moving Image, forthcoming.

“Review of Shyon Baumann’s Hollywood Highbrow” in Cultural Sociology, forthcoming.

“Review of Painted Photography in India,” in Art India (Mumbai, India), 8:3 (2003) 22-23.

“Review of Post Independence Indian Art at the Robeson Gallery,” in Art India (Mumbai, India), 8:2, (2003), pp. 24-25.

Review of Darius Cooper’s The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity and Geeta Kapur’s When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India in Interventions, Vol. 4, no. 1, 2002.

Review of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Critique of Postcolonial Reason, in Criticism, vol. 42, no. 1, 2000.

“The Empire’s Last Stand” (book review) in Victorian Studies, vol. 40, no. 4, 1997.

“The King is Dead,” book review of Orientalism and the Post-colonial Predicament in Oxford Literary Review (UK), vol. 16, no. 1-2, 1994.

Other Publications:

“The Practice and Politics of Mobile Phones,” Opinion piece in Open Space, openspaceindia.org, Oct. 2010.

“Intermedia Emergence: The Fourth Screen,” with Rajinder Dudrah, Sangita Gopal, Anustup Basu, Editorial Introduction to special issue on Intermedia for South Asian Popular Culture, (Vol. 8, no. 2), 105-108.

“Mediating Secularism: Communalism and the Media Assemblage of Hindi-Urdu Film,” forthcoming in Secular Publicities: Visual Practices and the Transformations of National Publics in the Middle East and South Asia to be published by University of Michigan Press; edited by Srirupa Roy, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

“Race, Assemblage, Biopower,” in After Foucault, edited by Patricia Clough, forthcoming from Duke University Press.

“On the Purple Pleasures: Digitally Assembling Bollywood,” in South Asian Technospaces, Radhika Gajjala and Venkataramana Gajjala, eds., New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2008. 71-96.

“On the Media Assemblage of Bollywood: Time and Sensation in Globalizing India,” in The Bollywood Reader, Rajinder Dudrah and Jigna Desai, eds., London: Open University Press, 2008.

“An Aesthetics of Terror?” Lead Essay, Art India (Mumbai, India), 11:4 (2006), pp. 31-40.

“Reflection On the West Indian Carnival in New York,” Art India (Mumbai, India), 9:3 (2004), pp. 70-71.

“Patriotism and the Muslim Citizen in Hindi Films,” in Harvard Asia Quarterly, 7:3 (2003) http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/haq/200303/index.htm.

“Life, Debt and the Pitfalls of Romantic Resistance,” Shobak Outsider Asians http://www.shobak.org/media.php (November 2003).

“Going to the Pictures: Review of ‘Heat: Moving Picture Visions, Phantasms and Nightmares,’” in Art India (Mumbai, India), 8:4 (2003) 22-23.

“Bollywood through a Pedagogy of Crisis,” in Humanscape (Mumbai, India) August, 2003, pp. 23-25.

“The Pleasure and Politics of Hindi Film Culture,” in Samar: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection, Summer/Fall 2002, No. 15, pp. 44-49

“First Day, First Show,” in The Times of India, November 24, 2000.

“Global Bhopal,” in The Times of India, October 6, 2000.

“An Interview with Homi Bhabha” (with Maria Koundera) in The Stanford Humanities Review, vol. 3, no. 1, Winter 1993.

“A New Flower” (fiction) in Manushi: A Journal of Women and Culture (India), November, 1991.

“India’s New Brahmanism” in Z Magazine (USA), July/August, 1991.

“A footnote to translation” (fiction) in The Toronto South Asian Review (Canada), March, 1991.

“Western Plans” (fiction) in Z Magazine, January, 1991.