research overview
- Dr. Misri's research focuses on the relation between gender, violence, and representation in literary and cultural discourse in South Asia.
- Contact Info
Misri, Deepti
Positions
- Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- South Asia studies, feminist studies, literary studies, cultural studies, violence
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
- Critical Kashmir Studies: Settler Occupations and the Persistence of Resistance.. 1-16. 2022
- Disabling Kashmir. 72-80. 2022
- From Appropriative to Transnational Solidarities: #JusticeforAsifa and #MeToo in Kashmir. 2020
- Bollywood’s 9/11: Terrorism and Muslim Masculinities in Popular Hindi Cinema 2016
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journal article
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Thinking Beyond the Nation-State.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
627-628.
2025
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Kashmiri Futures A Beginning.
English Language Notes.
1-13.
2023
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Paradise Lost?.
Critical Times.
382-397.
2023
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Decolonizing Time, Knowledge, and Disability on the Tenure Clock.
Feminist Formations.
1-24.
2022
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Dark Ages and Bright Futures: Youth, Disability, and Time in Kashmir.
Public Culture.
539-565.
2020
- Relating Otherwise Forging Critical Solidarities Across the Kashmiri Pandit-Muslim Divide. Biography. 285-305. 2020
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Showing humanity: violence and visuality in Kashmir.
Cultural Studies.
527-549.
2019
- Geographies of Occupation in South Asia. Feminist Studies. 574-579. 2019
- “Gender, Sexuality, and Occupation in South Asia: A report from the feminist pre- conference at the Annual South Asia Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2017”. Feminist Studies. 2019
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Intimate Class Acts: Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women's Fiction.
Contemporary Literature.
404-411.
2018
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Introduction: Protest.
WSQ.
14-27.
2018
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Eve-Teasing.
South Asia.
305-307.
2017
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The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India.
Journal of Asian Studies.
502-504.
2015
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Queer resolutions: 9/11 and Muslim masculinities inNew York.
South Asian Popular Culture.
157-167.
2013
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"Are you a man?": Performing Naked Protest in India.
Signs.
603-625.
2011
- The Violence of Memory: Renarrating Partition Violence in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers. Meridians. 1-25. 2011
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Thinking Beyond the Nation-State.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
627-628.
2025
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2008
- M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2002
- B.A., Univ of Mumbai (India) 1997
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Canada Country
- India Country
- South Korea Country
- United Kingdom Country
- southern Asia Transnational Region