Laura R. brueck
Education
University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures 2006
University of Texas at Austin
M.A. in Asian Languages and Cultures 2002
Smith College
B.A. in Religion and Comparative Literature 1999
Areas of Specialization
Dalit Studies, Modern Hindi Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, South Asian Cinema, Translation, Modern Indian
Culture, Society, and Politics
Recent Courses
Power of the Word:
Subversive and Censored 20th Century Indo-Pakistani Literature
The History of Modern Hindi Cinema
Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature
and South Asian Studies
Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations
University of Colorado at Boulder
Contact
Email:
laura.brueck@colorado.edu
Phone:
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(303) 492-7241
selected Publications
Mainstreaming Marginalized Voices: the Dalit Lekhak Sangh and the Negotiations over Hindi Dalit Literature in Claiming Power from Below: Dalits and the Subaltern Question in India Eds. Anne Feldhaus and Manu Bhagavan (Oxford University Press July 2008)
Dalit Chetna in Dalit Literary Criticism in Seminar no. 558 (April 2006)
Translations of three Dalit poems by Kusum Meghval
in Primavera Vol. 26, p. 77-82 (Nov. 2003)
forthcoming
At the Intersection of Gender and Caste:
Re-scripting Rape in Dalit Feminist Narratives in South Asian Feminisms Eds. Ania Loomba and Ritty Lukose
Marking the Boundaries of a New Literary Identity:
The Assertion of Dalit Consciousness’ in Dalit Literary Criticism in Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle Ed. Steven Lindquist (Firenze University Press)
Works in Progress
Books:
Writing Resistance: Dalit Literary Identities in Contemporary India
Genre, Aesthetics, and Style in Hindi: A Literary Reader (with Rupert Snell, University of Texas)
Working the Margins of Nationalism: Dalit Writing in Hindi (selected and translated with Christi Merrill, University of Michigan)
Subcontinent and Other Stories: the works of Ajay Navaria (translated from Hindi)
