Office Location: 315A Allen Building
Office Phone: 919-684-8705
Email Address: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu
Web Page: http://aarthivadde.wordpress.com/

Office Hours:

Spring 2012
Wednesdays 4:05-6:00pm

Education:

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Specialties:

Modern to Contemporary
Postcolonial Literature
The Novel
Critical Theory

Aarthi Vadde works in the overlapping fields of British and Anglophone literature with a particular interest in the novel, transnational modernism, and contemporary issues of migration and globalization. Her current book project, tentatively titled “Genres of Collectivity: The Modernist Novel and Transnational Thought” analyzes modernist and contemporary novels that collect, mix, and reorder multiple genres and cultural vocabularies as a way of shifting perceptions of connectedness from a national to a global terrain. Tracing convergences between formal experimentation and transnational thought in works that circulate across Britain, South Asia, South Africa, and the Caribbean, this study also diversifies the practices and practitioners usually associated with modernism’s evolution and its legacies. Vadde joins Duke from a postdoctoral fellowship in the English Department at Harvard and currently serves as book reviews editor (British and Anglophone literature division) for the journal Contemporary Literature. A list of her publications can be found below.

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. A. Vadde. "Guidance in Perplexity: Recasting Postcolonial Politics in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello." ARIEL: A Journal of International English Literature 41.3-4 (2010): 231-249.  (appeared 2011)
2. A. Vadde. "The Backwaters Sphere: Ecological Collectivity, Cosmopolitanism, and Arundhati Roy." Modern Fiction Studies 55.3 (2009): 522-544.
3. A. Vadde. Review of Laura Doyle. Freedom’s Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940.  Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 11.1 (2009): 115-117.