Urmila Seshagiri

Selected Publications

"Modernist Ashes, Post-Colonial Phoenix: Jean Rhys and the Evolution of the English Novel in the 20th Century"; "Modernity's (Yellow) Perils: Dr. Fu-Manchu and English Race-Paranois." Cultural Critique. Vol. 62 (January 2006): 162-94
Forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity. Vol. 13. No. 3 (September 2006)
"Michael Whitworth's Virginia Woolf." Book review. Woolf Studies Annual. Vol. 12. New York: Pace University Press, 2006. 278-82
“Racial Politics, Avant-Garde Poetics: Wyndham Lewis’s BLAST and Modernist Form,” forthcoming in Modernism. Eds. Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (28 pp.)
“Patricia Laurence’s Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China.” Book review. Modern Fiction Studies. Fall 2005. vol 51: no. 3
“A Cultural History of Lanford Wilson’s Burn This.” The Huntington Theatre Company Literary Guide. Ed. Ilana Brownstein. Boston: Huntington Theatre Company, 2004. 22-29.
“Orienting Virginia Woolf: Aesthetics, and Politics in To the Lighthouse”, Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 50: No. 1 (Spring 2004): 58-84
“At the Crossroads of Two Empires: Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala and the Limits of Hybridity” Journal of Asian American Studies Vol. 6 no. 2 (June 2003): 177-198
“Misogyny and Anti-Imperialism in George Orwell’s ‘Burmese Days,’” The Road from George Orewell. ed. Alberto Lázaro. (Bern: Peter Lang, 2001): 105-119.

Urmila Seshagiri
Assistant Professor
Department of English
317 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6941
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: sesha@utk.edu

B.A., Oberlin College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois

British Modernism, Colonial / Post-Colonial Studies