Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of American Studies

American Studies

Expertise

Asian American Studies, South Asians in the U.S., Race and Gender issues, immigration narratives and literature, comparative race and ethnic studies, popular culture, television and film, cultural studies.

Awards and Honors

Norman Research Grant, Brandeis University (2007)

Norman Fund Research Grant, Brandeis University (2006)

Courses Taught

AMST	100a	Classic Texts in American Culture to 1900
AMST	116b	Race and American Cinema
AMST	127b	Women and American Popular Culture
AMST	140b	The Asian American Experience
AMST	142b	Love, Law, and Labor: Asian American Women and Literature
AMST	144b	Signs of Imagination: Gender and Race in Mass Media
AMST	169a	Ethnicity, Immigration, and Race in the United States
USEM	80a	Alienation, Isolation, and Difference in Cultural Studies

Scholarship

Davé, Shilpa. "Apu's Brown Voice: Cultural Inflection and South Asian Accents (reprint)." Asian American Studies NOW: A Critical Reader. Ed. Jean Wu. Rutgers University Press, 2009 (forthcoming)

Davé, Shilpa. "Ethnic Performance in America: The Miss India Georgia Beauty Pageant and Regional Identity." Asian Americans and the New South. Ed. Jigna Desai and Khyati Joshi. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009 (forthcoming)

Davé, Shilpa. "Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar." In Media Res: A Media Commons Project (2008)

Davé, Shilpa. "No Life Without Wife: Masculinity and Moderned Arranged Meetings for Indian Americans." Catamaran: South Asian American Writing 5. (2006): 53-66.

Davé, Shilpa. "Teaching Race and Ethnicity: Color Blindness and Asian American Studies" in "Teaching Texts: Unexpected Sites of Knowledge and Practice." Journal of Asian American Studies 9. 2 (2006): 181-202.

Davé, Shilpa, LeiLani Nishime & Tasha Oren. East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture. NYU Press, 2005.

Davé, Shilpa. ""Apu's Brown Voice:" Cultural Inflection and South Asian Accents in." East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture. Ed. Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime & Tasha Oren., 2005

Davé, Shilpa. "Celebrity Sightings and Sensationalist Mysteries: Chinese Americans, Inter-Racial Borders and Being American in Popular Culture." Journal of Asian American Studies 8. 3 (2005): 309-12.