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

Member of Academic Council of Homespun, the Smithsonian Initiative on Indian Americans (2011)

Norman Research Grant (2011)

Advertising Educational Foundation Fellow and Visiting Professor (2009)

Norman Research Grant, Brandeis University (2007)

Norman Fund Research Grant, Brandeis University (2006)

Courses Taught

AMST	55a	Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in American Culture
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
EL	94a	Experiential Learning Practicum

Scholarship

Davé, Shilpa, Edward Park and Xiaojian Zhao. "Asian Indians and American TV and Film." Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, and Political Change. 2012. (forthcoming)

Davé, Shilpa, by Edward Park and Xiaojian Zhao. "Asian Indian Women." America in Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, and Political Change. 2012. (forthcoming)

Davé, Shilpa. "From Immigrant to Raising the Third Generation: Grandparents and the Development of Indian American Identity." Indian Diaspora: Voices of Indian Diasporic Elderly. Ed. Amarjit Singh. Sense Publishers, 2012 (forthcoming)

Davé, Shilpa. "Spider-Man India: Comic Books and Translating/Trans-creating American Cultural Identity." Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads.. Ed. Shane Denson, Christina Meyer and Daniel Stein. Continuum Books, 2012 (forthcoming)

Davé, Shilpa. Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American TV and Film. University of Illinois Press, 2012. (forthcoming)

Davé, Shilpa. "Calling the Working South Asian: The Transnational Workplace and the American Accent in Outsourced.

Davé, Shilpa. "Matchmakers and Cultural Compatibility: Arranged Marriage, South Asians, and American Television." Journal of South Asian Popular Culture 10. No. 2 (2012).

Davé, Shilpa. "Calling the Middle Class South Asian: Outsourced and the Indian Sidekicks." In Media Res: A Media Commons Project (2011): <http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr>.

Davé, Shilpa. "Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Culture." Rev. of Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Culture, by James Chapman and Nicolas Cull. Screening the Past vol. 28 September 8, 2010

Davé, Shilpa. "The Poetics of Post-colonialism, and Reading Meena Alexander: A Review of Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander." Rev. of Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander, by Lopamudra Basu and Cynthia Leenerts. South Asian Diaspora vol. 3:2 2011: 233-34.

Davé, Shilpa. "Re-thinking Indian Arranged Marriage on American Television." FLOW TV Journal 11. 05 (2010)

Davé, Shilpa. "The Spelling Bee, Model Minorities, and American Citizenship." FLOW TV Journal 11. 10 (2010): <http://flowtv.org/?p=4856>.

Davé, Shilpa. "Ethnic Rock Stars and Asian American Stereotypes." FLOW TV Journal 11. 01 (2009)

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.