Shalini Puri

Associate Professor of English & Director of the Literature Program, UPitt

Shalini Puri works on postcolonial theory and cultural studies of the global south with an emphasis on the Caribbean.  Her award-winning book The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity explores the relations amongst nationalisms, feminisms, and assesses various theories and histories of cultural hybridity.  She continues to be interested in researching the cultural practices, conflicts, and solidarities which have arisen out of the overlapping African and Asian diasporas set in motion by slavery and indentureship. 

She has just completed a book entitled The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory, which studies the conflicting cultural memories of the Grenada Revolution as they surface in the arts, everyday life, landscape, and the diaspora.  It explores the legacies of the Grenada Revolution for egalitarian politics in the region. More information can be found at www.urgentmemory.com