CURRICULUM VITAE - ABRIDGED Professor and Chair, Department of English Huron University College Professional Profile As a feminist scholar and university professor for over 20 years, Teresa Hubel has received numerous awards and grants from various international, national, and local institutions. Her work on post-colonial and gender studies has been published in a multitude of books and journals, and her book, Whose India? The Independence Struggle in British and Indian Fiction and History, has been favourably reviewed in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies and Signs. Areas of Specialization Modern Indian History Indian literature in English English literature about India Postcolonial literature and theory Feminist theory and gender studies Class theory and working-class literature Contact Details Huron University College 1349 Western Rd London, Ontario, Canada N6G 1H3 (519) 438-7224, ext. 219 tdhubel@huron.uwo.ca Education 1992 Ph.D. in English Literature University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 1987 M.A. in English Literature Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada 1985 B.A. (hons) in English Literature Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Scholarships & Distinctions 2014-15 - SSHRB Award University of Western Ontario, co-applicant with Nandi Bhatia 2014 - Faculty of Arts and Social Science Award for Excellence in Teaching Huron University College 2011-13 - SSHRC Research Development Initiatives Grant University of Western Ontario, Principal Investigator 2008-10 - Shastri Indo-Canadian Collaborative Research Project, Canadian Partner 2006-09 - SSHRC Research Grant - University of Western Ontario, sole applicant Various Years - Huron University College Research Grant 1996-99 - SSHRC Research Grant - University of Western Ontario, sole applicant 1995-96 - University Students Council Teaching Honour Roll: Certificate of Excellence - University of Western Ontario
CURRICULUM VITAE - ABRIDGED (Page 2) Scholarships & Distinctions (cont d) 1994 - Senate Research Award - St. Mary s University 1993 - Manuscript Grant - Canadian Federation for the Humanities (declined) 1991-92 - Marty Memorial Scholarship - Queen s University 1991 - McIntosh Award: Best Paper - University of Western Ontario 1990-91 - Graduate Research Fellowship - University of Western Ontario 1987-91 - SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship - University of Western Ontario 1987-91 - Special University Scholarship - University of Western Ontario 1990 - Graduate Research Award - University of Western Ontario 1990 - Ruse Travel Award - University of Western Ontario 1987-88 - Admissions Scholarship - University of Western Ontario 1986-87 - Ontario Graduates Scholarship - Queen s University 1986-87 - McLaughlin Scholarship - Queen s University Academic Employment 2015-Present - Professor, Department of English - Huron University College 2014-Present - Chair, Department of English - Huron University College 1991-15 - Associate Professor, Department of English - Huron University College 2010-14 - Affiliate Member, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies: Women s Studies and Feminist Research - University of Western Ontario 2007-14 - Affiliate Member, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies: Comparative Literature - University of Western Ontario 1997-01 - Associate Profesor, Department of English - Huron University College 1994-95 - Assistant Professor, Department of English and Centre for Women s Studies - University of Western Ontario 1993-94 - Honorary Adjunct Professor, Department of English - Dalhousie University 1992-94 - Assistant Professor, Department of English - St. Mary s University Research/Publications: Books With Neil Brooks, editors. Literature and Racial Ambiguity. New Delhi: Elpis Press, First Indian Edition, 2011. (Originally published by Rodopi Press). With Neil Brooks, editors. Literature and Racial Ambiguity. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. Whose India?: The Independence Struggle in British and Indian Fiction and History. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996.
CURRICULUM VITAE - ABRIDGED (Page 3) Research/Publications: Articles Dutiful Daughters (or not) and the Sins of the Fathers in Iqbalunnisa Hussain s Purdah and Polygamy. Postcolonial Text, forthcoming Remembering the Devadasis. Muse India 58 (Nov - Dec 2014). Web. http://www.museindia.com/ viewarticle.asp?myr=2014&issid=58&id=5349 A Mutiny of Silence: Swarnakumari Devi s Sati. Ariel: A Review of International English Literature. 41.3-4 (July October 10) 2011: 167-190. Dr. Balachandra Rajan: From India to Canada, Fragments in Search of a Narrative, In Memoriam. South Asian Review 30.2 2009: 59-68. In Pursuit of Feminist Postfeminism and the Blessings of Buttercup. English Studies in Canada 31. 2-3. (June-September 2005): 17-21. In Search of the British Indian in British India: White Orphans, Kipling s Kim, and Class in Colonial India. Modern Asian Studies. 38.1 (Feb 2004): 227-251. Tommy Atkins in India: Class Conflict and the British Raj. Kunapipi. 22.1 (2000): 95-105. When the Middle Class is Not Enough: The Working-Class Subaltern and the Curriculum. Dalhousie Review. 74.2 (Summer 1994): 163-69. Devadasi Defiance and The Man-eater of Malgudi. Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 29.1 (1994): 15-28. Devadasis--Didn t Fit West s Morals. Hinduism Today. January 1994. 16:1. 3. Charting the Anger of Indian Women Through Narayan s Savitri. Modern Fiction Studies. 39.1 (Spring 1993): 113-130. `The Bride of His Country : Love, Marriage, and the Imperialist Paradox in the Indian Fiction of Sara Jeannette Duncan and Rudyard Kipling. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 21 (January 1990): 3-19. Research/Publications: Chapters An Ethics of Remembering: Air India and the Creative Archive. The Art of Public Mourning: Remembering Air India. Eds. Amber Dean, Angela Failler, and Chandrima Chakraborty. Edmonton: U of Alberta P, forthcoming From Tawa if to Wife: Making Sense of Bollywood s Courtesan Genre. The Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad. Ed. Anjali Gera Roy. New Delhi: Sage, 2012. 213-233.
CURRICULUM VITAE - ABRIDGED (Page 4) Research/Publications: Chapters (cont d) The High Cost of Dancing: When the Indian Women s Movement Went After the Devadasis. Bharatanatyam: A Reader. Delhi: Oxford UP, 2010. 160-184. (Originally published in Intercultural Communications and Creative Practice: Dance, Music and Women s Cultural Identity.) Tommy Atkins in India: Class Conflict and the British Raj. Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature. Vol. 91. Ed. Michelle Lee. Detroit: Gale, 2009. 145-151. (Originally published in Kunapipi). The High Cost of Dancing: When the Indian Women s Movement Went After the Devadasis. Intercultural Communications and Creative Practice: Dance, Music and Women s Cultural Identity. Ed. Laura B. Lengel. Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger, 2005. 121-140. Liberal Imperialism as a Passage to India. Postcolonial Literature and Theory: A Reader. Ed. Peter Childs. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999. 351-362. (Originally published in Whose India? by Duke UP) The Politics of the Poor and the Limits of Feminist Individualism in Nayantara Sahgal s Rich Like Us. Essays on Nayantara Sahgal. Ed. Ralph Crane. Delhi: Sterling, 1998. 78-96. The Missing Muslim Woman in Indo-Anglian Literature: Iqbalunnisa Hussain s Purdah and Polygamy. Perspectives on South Asia at the Threshold of the 21st Century. Ed. Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay. Montreal: Canadian Asian Studies Association, 1997. 141-51. Excavating the Expendable Working Classes in Duncan s The Imperialist. The Imperialist. by Sara Jeannette Duncan. Ed. Thomas E. Tausky. Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1997. 437-56. Sati, Satyagraha, and Swarnakumari Devi s `Mutiny. Enriched by South Asia: Celebrating Twenty Five Years of Scholarship on South Asia in Canada. Eds. Elliot L. Tepper and John R. Wood. Montreal: CASA, 1994. 279-89. Invited Papers and Conference Presentations Tracking Obscenities: Dalit Women, Devadasis, and the Linguistically Sexual. At the Contemporary Approaches to the Analysis of Dalit Literature Conference, Nottingham, U.K., June 2014 with Nandi Bhatia, Shakespeare in Bollywood: Imperialist Icon or Mad Local Hero? Stratford Syposium, Huron University College, May 2014 From India through Siam to Canada: Anna Leonowens in Pursuit of Imperial Respectability. At the Triennial ACLALS Conference, St. Lucia, August 2013 Tracking Obscenities: Dalit Women, Devadasis, and the Linguistically Sexual. At the Contemporary Approaches to the Analysis of Dalit Literature Conference, Nottingham, U.K., June 2014
CURRICULUM VITAE - ABRIDGED (Page 5) Invited Papers and Conference Presentations (cont d) With Nandi Bhatia, Shakespeare in Bollywood: Imperialist Icon or Mad Local Hero? Stratford Symposium, Huron University College, May 2014 From India through Siam to Canada: Anna Leonowens in Pursuit of Imperial Respectability. At the Triennial ACLALS Conference, St. Lucia, August 2013 Dancing down history: Substituting Bharatanatyam for Sadir and Ethnicity for Art. At Performing South Asia at Home and Abroad. South Asian Literature Association. MLA. Seattle, Washington. January 2012 Bharatanatyam: Analyzing the History of a Fetish (oops, I mean Dance ). At the Solodance: Perspectives from South Asia and Beyond. Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto, Ontario. June 2010 The Courtesan Film: Making Sense of Bollywood s Exotic. At the Triennial ACLALS (Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Conference. Nicosia, Cyprus. June 2010 The Courtesan Film: Making Sense of Bollywood s Exotic. At Bollywood s Soft Power Seminar. IIT, Kharagpur, India. December 2009 Yaari with Angrez: Whiteness for a New Bollywood Hero. At The Comparative Literature Research Forum. UWO. November 2009 Not Sahib Enough to be Memsahib: Disreputable Females at the Inner Edges of Empire. Faculty Colloquia, Huron University College. February 2007 Not Sahib Enough to be Memsahib: Disreputable Females at the Inner Edges of Empire. Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class and Gender in African and Asian Colonial Settings International Conference. Humboldt University, Institute for Asian and African Studies. Berlin, Germany. September 2006 Colloquium paper presented with Srividya Natarajan. Mother India s Discarded Daughters: When Feminism Silences Women. Faculty Colloquium Series, Huron University College. February 2005 Dancing in the Diaspora, Remembering the Devadasis. The 13th Commonwealth Triennial Conference on Literature and Language (ACLALS). Hyderabad, India. August 2004 Paper presented with Srividya Natarajan. Mother India s Discarded Daughters: When Feminism Silences Women. The International Women s Day Speaker Series. Women s Issues Network, University of Western Ontario. London, Ontario, Canada. March 2004 Recouping the working classes while re-reading Kipling s Kim. Sociology Colloquium, Department of Sociology. University of Western Ontario. January 2004
CURRICULUM VITAE - ABRIDGED (Page 6) Invited Papers and Conference Presentations (cont d) The High Cost of Dancing: Looking Behind Bharatanatyam. Memory, Representation, and Performance: Gendering the South Asian Diaspora. Birbeck College, University of London. London, UK. October 2003 The Feminist Vs. the Dancer, or How the Indian Women s Movement Went After the Devadasis. Seeing Things, an Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Conference, Centre for Women s Studies and Feminist Research, University of Western Ontario. London, Ontario, Canada. May 2003 Sahib, Pukka Sahib, and Gora: Hierarchies of Whiteness in Middle-class Representations of British India. Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Annual Cultural Studies Conference. Birmingham, U.K. June, 2000 Scapegoating the White Working Classes: Imperialist Racism in the Fiction of Sara Jeannette Duncan and Rudyard Kipling. CACLALS (Canadian Association of Commonwealth Languages and Literatures), Learned Societies Conferences. Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. June 1999 Tommy Atkins in India: Class Conflict and the British Raj. The 11th Commonwealth Triennial Conference on Literature and Language, (ACLALS). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. December 1998 The Missing Muslim Woman in Indo-Anglian Literature: Iqbalunnisa Hussain s Purdah and Polygamy. The South Asia Council of the Canadian Asian Studies Conference, Learned Societies Conference. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. June 1995 Paper presented with Brian Patton, Middle Class Alliances and Working-Class Exclusions in Canadian Universities. The Atlantic Association of University Teachers of English (AUTE) conference. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. October 1994 Paper presented with Wendy Hayton Russell, Infiltrating the Middle Class: The Problems of Class in and out of the Classroom. Knowing Politics: Between Feminist Theory and Feminist Activism. London, Ontario, Canada. October 1994 Paper presented with Deepika Bahri, Telling Tales or the Radical Potential of Realism in a Post- Modernist Age: Postcolonial Strategies in Salman Rushdie, Bapsi Sidhwa, and Bharati Mukherjee. The 1994 International Conference on Narrative Literature. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. April/May 1994 Kim and A Passage to India and Confounding Orientalism. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. March 1994 The Middle Class is Not Enough: the Working Class Subaltern and the Curriculum. The AUTE conference. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. October 1993
CURRICULUM VITAE - ABRIDGED (Page 7) Invited Papers and Conference Presentations (cont d) Paper presented with Wendy Hayton Russell, Infiltrating the Middle Class: The Problems of Class in and out of the Classroom. Knowing Politics: Between Feminist Theory and Feminist Activism. London, Ontario, Canada. October 1994 Paper presented with Deepika Bahri, Telling Tales or the Radical Potential of Realism in a Post- Modernist Age: Postcolonial Strategies in Salman Rushdie, Bapsi Sidhwa, and Bharati Mukherjee. The 1994 International Conference on Narrative Literature. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. April/May 1994 Kim and A Passage to India and Confounding Orientalism. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. March 1994 The Middle Class is Not Enough: the Working Class Subaltern and the Curriculum. The AUTE conference. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. October 1993 Indian Nationalism in Swarnakumari Devi s `Mutiny : Finding a New Way to Fight an Old Empire. The jointly sponsored conference of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Canadian Asian Studies Association, and the Canadian Council of the Association for Economic and Development Studies on Bangladesh, Learned Societies Conference. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. June 1993 The Devadasis, the Indian Women s Movement, and the Connection Never Made. The International Dance Festival and Conference, `New Directions in Indian Dance. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. February 1993 The High-Caste Hindu Woman: A Site of Contest in Indo-Anglian Writing of the Colonial Period. CACLALS, Learned Societies Conference. Kingston, Ontario, Canada. May 1991 Miscellaneous Publications Expanding the Archive. Book Review of Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender by Betty Joseph. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 185 (Summer 2005): 160-161. Internet version April 26, 2005. http://www.canlit.ca/reviews/unassigned/6359_hubel.html
CURRICULUM VITAE - ABRIDGED (Page 8) Work In Progress My personal research project at this time involves the research and writing of a book-length project which theorizes class from the experience and perspective of `working-classness. My subject is the British working classes who went to India during the two centuries of British imperialism. The poor whites, about whom Rudyard Kipling had much to say, have been neglected in recent recoveries of modern British and Indian history and entirely ignored in literary scholarship. I suspect that the recorded impressions of these people (their diaries, letters, works of fiction, and so on) will contribute some new ideas to our ever-expanding image of the British Raj and will help us to understand the workings of class in a highly-stratified colonial culture. I am also one of the principal investigators for a collaborative project, entitled Performing on the Margins of India, This project follows from some earlier work on the history of the temple dancers of colonial India and from my research on Bollywood film. This is a collaborative project involving scholars, dancers, a playwright/director, and filmmakers from India and Canada, and it seeks to build new theories and historical methodologies through which to understand the performance traditions of contemporary India. Its focus is on the dance, music, and theatre created by practitioners from traditional performing families, specifically those who have inherited the devadasi and tawa if repertoire. Recently, I ve also completed essays on fiction written during the colonial period by two Indian women authors as well as a commentary for a volume of essays on the Air India tragedy of 1985, and I have begun work on language in South Indian Dalit literature.