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Gayatri Devi

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., English, University of North Dakota
  • M.A., English language and literature, University of Kerala
  • B.A., English language and literature, University of Kerala

Credentials

  • Professor of liberal arts, August 2021–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, SCADnow
  • Associate professor of English, Fall 2015–August 2021
    Assistant professor in English, 2005–15
    Coordinator, Women and Gender Studies, 2011–14, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA
  • Senior lecturer, Departments of Literary Studies/Communication, 2002–05, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
  • Lecturer of English, 1998–2001, Richland College, Dallas, TX
  • Residential manager, 1995–97, Dual Diagnosis Home, Grand Forks, ND
  • Graduate teaching assistant, English, 1991–95, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
  • Freelance journalist, 1993–present

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Honorary mention, "Best American Essays," August 2017
  • Winner, APSCUF Spotlight Award for HOPE Center Executive Board, 2019
  • Winner, Center for Rural Pennsylvania Rural Research Grant, 2015
  • Winner, President’s Award for Distinguished Work in the Advancement of Women's Issues, Fall 2012

Organizations

  • North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
  • Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM)
  • Association for the Study of American Indian Literature (ASAIL)
  • Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)
  • PASSHE Women's Consortium
  • Popular Culture Association (PCA)
  • The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)

Publications and presentations

Professional writing/review services

  • Contributing Editor, North Dakota Quarterly
  • Feature writer, Kalakaumudi magazine
  • Feature writer, Feminism in India magazine
  • Member, Reading Committee, Regards - Revue d'arts du Spectacle, Journal of the Institute of Scenic, Audiovisual and Cinematic Studies, University of Saint Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon
  • Subject expert, English Education, Leadership and Research in Education: The Journal of the Ohio Council of Professors of Educational Administration (OCPEA)
  • Subject expert, Humanities, PASSHE Faculty Professional Development Committee
  • Reviewer, World Literature Today, University of Oklahoma Press
  • Reviewer, Women's Review of Books, Wellesley College
  • Reviewer, EAPSU Online Journal
  • Contract Content Writer, EBSCO Academic Research Databases

Conferences/seminars

  • "Atanarjuat and the Post Indian Arctic film.," presented at PCA/ACA conference, Boston Marriot Copley Place, June 2–5, 2021.
  • "Sterlin Harjo's Mekko and Indigenous Noir," presented at Northeast Modem Language Association conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 11–14, 2021.
  • "Gender Stereotypes and Reshaping the Society through Social Psychology," presented at 2020 Research Conclave, REVA University, Bangalore, India, Oct. 9, 2020.
  • "Public and Private Spheres: The Question of Gender," presented at Bangalore University, India, May 23, 2020.
  • "The Alcatraz Palimpsest in Tommy Orange's There There," presented at In the Wake of the Red Power Movement International Conference, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK, May 15–16, 2020.
  • With Laura Gardner, Tiffany Bowman, and Denise Chaytor-Zugarek. "Anxious, Depressed and Overwhelmed: Mental Health, Student Retention and Student Success," presented at 2019 PASSHE Women's Consortium Conference, Dixon University Center, Harrisburg, PA, Oct. 4, 2019.
  • "The Promiscuous Squaw and the Innocent Princess: Native American Women's Representation in Television and Film in the 21st Century Revisited," presented at PCAIACA 2019 National Conference, Washington D.C., April 17–20, 2019.

Workshops and colloquies

  • "The History of Anti-Violence Movements in the United States," presented at Clinton County Women's Center, Lock Haven, PA, 2012–20.

Books

  • Indigenous Films in North America in the Twenty-First Century: 'post Indian' storytelling. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2021.

Articles

  • "Post Indian Wars and Warriors in Tommy Orange's There There," North Dakota Quarterly, Winter 2020.
  • "Season of Love: Translations from Kamala Das," Malayalam Literary Survey, April–June 2020, pp. 88–92.
  • "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Joker: Laughter Without an Echo Chamber," Bright Lights Film Journal, March 4, 2020.
  • "Facing Ultraviolence: Blindness as Insight in Birdbox," Bright Lights Film Journal, February 10, 2019.
  • Co-published with Tara Mitchell, Nicole Burkholder-Mosco, Lisette Schillig, Holle Canatella, and Katie Ely, "Analysis of Domestic Violence Services in Rural Pennsylvania," Center for Rural Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, September 2016.
  • "When Hellhounds Became Horses: Robert Johnson Seeks Medicine in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues." North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 2014.
  • "Some Mechanical Inventions for the Benefit of Mankind." In "The Reflections of a Hen in Her Last Hour and Other Stories," Paul Zacharia. New Delhi, India: Penguin Books, 1999.

Journalistic writings

  • "America's International Students are Facing Deportation: This is a Disaster," UK Guardian, July 9, 2020.
  • "Mainstreaming Racial Slurs: White Nationalism Comes Home to Roost," North Dakota Quarterly, June 1, 2020.
  • "Meghalaya Woman Trinity Saioo Receives Padma Shri for Turmeric Farming," Feminism in India, Feb. 11, 2020.
  • "Indians of Alcatraz: 50th Anniversary of the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz (1969-1971)," North Dakota Quarterly, Nov. 20, 2019.
  • "Women and Work in Regional Cinema: Mahanagar, Anweshichu Kandethiyilla, and Umbartha," Feminism in India, Dec. 10, 2019.