SHWETHA CHANDRASHEKHAR

• 2024, World Studies Interdisciplinary Project Mellon-Decolonial Global Studies Summer Dissertation Fellowship, $8000
• 2024, Office of Inclusion and Engagement Travel Award, $600
• 2023, English Department Conference Travel Award, $500
• 2023, Office of Inclusion and Engagement Travel Award, $600
• 2023, College of Humanities and Fine Arts Summer Dissertation Fellowship, $7500
• 2022, Interdisciplinary Studies Institute Fellowship, $1100
• 2022, English Department Conference Travel Award, $400
• 2021, English Department Conference Travel Award, $350
• 2019, English Department Conference Travel Award, $400
• 2018 - 2022, Research Enhancement and Leadership Fellowship, $18000
• 2023, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Graduate Student Travel Award, $400

2023, Reviewer, Men and Masculinities, 

2022 - 2023, Elected Student Representative, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, 

2020 - 2022, Elected Co-chair, English Graduate Organization, Department of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, 

2019 - 2022, Peer Mentor for New Graduate Students, Department of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

1. Forthcoming, Beyond Disability and Disaster: The Affect of Debilitation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature

2. 2024, Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino, Minnesota University Press, 2022, Critical Inquiry, https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/shwetha_chandrashekhar_reviews_side_affects/

3. 2023, The Spatiality of Unpleasant Feelings in Manu Joseph’s Serious Men, South Asian Review, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02759527.2023.2203579

4. 2023, Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh by Elora Halim Chowdhury, Temple University Press, 2022, South Asian Review, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02759527.2023.2213929

5. 2023, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India by Akshya Saxena, Princeton University Press, 2022, South Asian History and Culture, 14.3, 373-375, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19472498.2023.2164986

6. 2023, Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India by Stacey Balkan, West Virginia University Press 2022, South Asian Review, 44.1, 64-67, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02759527.2022.2087767

• Asha Nadkarni, Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, W335 South College, 150 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA, 01003, nadkarni@english.umass.edu
• Malcolm Sen, Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, E449 South College, 150 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA, 01003, msen@english.umass.edu
• Svati Shah, Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, W413 South College, 150 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA, 01003, svatipshah@wost.umass.edu