Dr. Shameem Black

Biography

Shameem Black integrates critical creative approaches from literary, gender, and cultural studies to illuminate the ethics and politics of cross-cultural encounters. Her work primarily focuses on the everyday power of culture within the Indian diaspora of the twenty-first century. She serves as the co-editor of 'South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies' and is a co-convener of MemoryHub@ANU. Her recent work delves into creative research methods and forms, questioning culturally diverse practices such as yoga to generate fresh modes of inquiry in academic life. Her upcoming book, 'Flexible India: Yoga's Cultural Political Tensions' (Columbia University Press, 2024), examines popular yoga practices as a lens for understanding competing ideas of Indianness in a global context of migration and capitalism. Additionally, her book 'Fiction Borders: Imagining Lives in Late Twentieth-Century Novels' critiques how novels from various parts of the world represent socially diverse populations, urging scholars and fiction writers to innovate new ways of depicting 'others'. Black's extensive work in memory studies focuses on global literature that addresses reconciliation and conflict aftermath, co-editing a special issue on memory studies and activism in the Asia Pacific.

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