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...There isn’t always a native language that people can turn to for writing or cultural expression,” declares Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language Sharmila Sen ’92. “Instead, people learn to mold and shape the language that they have.” Such statements are indicative of Sen’s provocative method of examining text from a cultural and historical perspective. Through this inquiry into the choices in language and text, Sen’s work illuminates the space between what...
Students and faculty members voiced support for restructuring the South Asian Studies program in a roundtable discussion held last Friday, an event at the Barker Center chaired by Professor Sharmila Sen ’92 and sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Asia Center at Harvard.The seminar was part of the South Asia Humanities Seminar series and was entitled “Studying Asia at Harvard.” The discussion addressed many of the issues facing the expansion of the South Asian Studies program, including thesis resources for graduates and undergraduates, the future course offerings of the South...
...panel, moderated by Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language Homi K. Bhabha, also featured Assistant Professor Sharmila Sen ’92 and Professor Louis Menand, both from the Department of English and American Literature and Language...
...back to the cover. Mukherjee’s publisher seems to be drawing on the popularity of the exotic and on the willingness of the American public to shell out at even the suggestion of a curry-flavored tale. Assistant Professor of English and American Language and Literature Sharmila Sen has commented that books by Indian authors get placed on Literature shelves rather than in Fiction sections. Desirable Daughters has been coached to play this role. The saris on the cover seek to entice those readers seeking a little spice. The requisite quote from Amy Tan, the goddess...
...Paki’ really carries the weight of that kind of racist, anti-immigrant, anti-South Asian rhetoric,” said Sharmila Sen, an assistant professor in English and American Literature and Language, who specializes in Anglophone literature from South Asia...