Sharleen Mondal

Education
Ph.D. in English Literature with Graduate Certificate in Women Studies, University of Washington
M.A. in English Literature, University of Washington
B.A. in English with minor in Women's Studies, Texas A&M University
Research and Teaching Interests
Nineteenth and twentieth-century British and South Asian literature and culture (especially of the British Empire), gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial studies.

Current Research
Dr. Mondal is working on a book-length project on the work and writing of the late nineteenth-century Indian social reformer and Hindu convert to Christianity, Pandita Ramabai. In particular, Dr. Mondal's book manuscript focuses on Ramabai's conversion to Christianity, her travels to England and the United States to gain support for her feminist work in India, and her subsequent unique reformulation of Christian evangelism and worship in India as these experiences were shaped by the imperial context of the period.

Selected Publications
“Developing a Collaborative Faculty-Librarian Information Literacy Assessment Project.” Co-authored with Jackie Belanger and Rebecca Bliquez. Library Review 61.2 (2012): 68-91.
“Reading The Namesake: The Politics of Community Dialogue.” Awaaz: The Voice of South Asia (2011).
Review of Padma Anagol’s The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920. Women’s History Review 19.5 (2010).
“Racing Desire and the New Man of the House in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 5.1 (2009).
Review of The Scandal of the State: Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India in South Asian Review 24.2 (2003). Co-authored with Rahul Gairola.
Courses Taught Include
South Asian Literature
18th-Century British Literature
Victorian Writers
Gender and Literature
Postcolonial Literature
Composition
“Dangerous” Bodies in Media, Art, and Literature
Heroes and Villains: The Writing and Rewriting of History