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Title: Bridging gaps through Feminist Pedagogy: teaching abjection in a postcolonial literature course
Vol. 2, 2017, pp. 85-91.
DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.007
Author: Antonia Navarro-Tejero
About the author: Antonia Navarro-Tejero, PhD has lived and lectured in the USA, India and Spain. She has been teaching Cultural Studies and South Asian Literature at Universidad de Córdoba (Spain), where she has chaired the Permanent Seminar on India Studies and has been the Director of the research line Literatures in English in the Ph.D. program Languages and Cultures, since 2003. Among other awards and recognitions, she was a 2004-2005 Fulbright scholar at University of California, Berkeley, with Professor Bharati Mukherjee, and will conduct research at Syracuse University during the Spring and Summer semesters in 2021 with Professor Chandra T. Mohanty. She has been a visiting professor at Leiden University (The Netherlands), University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka), Dublin City University (Ireland), Jagiellonian University (Poland), University of Lisbon (Portugal), Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), and University of Dhaka (Bangladesh). Her research interests include Transnational Feminist Studies, Women’s Movements, Body Politics, Postcolonial Theory and Criticism, South Asian Literature and Cultures, and Biomedical Discourse from a feminist perspective. She is the India Studies Series Editor for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and is the author of the books Globalizing Dissent: Essays on Arundhati Roy (Routledge, 2009), Gender and Caste in the Anglophone-Indian Novels of Arundhati Roy and Githa Hariharan: Feminist Issues in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005), Talks on Feminism: Indian Women Activists Speak for Themselves (Sarup and Sons, 2008), among more than one hundred publications (articles in periodical scientific journals, refereed book chapters, monographs and co-edited collections). She has presented papers at international conferences and been invited to deliver lectures around the world on issues of subalternity, and has been convenor of the AEEII conferences at several occasions. She has served as a peer-reviewer for scientific journals for the last 15 years and has been a member of evaluation panels for Ph.D, Master and Bachelor dissertations as well as for professorship tenure positions. She is Founder-President of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies, and is currently the team leader of cluster Embodiments in the MINECO research project Bodies in Transit and leading researcher at the FEDER research project Embodiments, Genders and Difference: Cultural Practices of Violence and Discrimination.
e-mail: antonia.navarro@uco.es
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9170-3470
Researcher ID: J-9106-2017
Citation (APA style): Navarro-Tejero, A. (2017). Bridging gaps through Feminist Pedagogy: teaching abjection in a postcolonial literature course. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2, 85-91. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.007
Link: https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2017/SILC_2017_2_085_091_7_EN.pdf
Abstract: This paper engages with teaching gender, caste, and sexuality in the context of Spanish Higher Education. I will examine my experience of teaching Githa Hariharan’s “The Remains of the Feast,” Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Shobha Dé’s Strange Obsession to conclude by reflecting on the value of teaching these issues and texts from a feminist perspective.
Key words: feminist pedagogy, abjection, South Asian women writers
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