Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute

Tulane University

Supriya M. Nair

Associate Professor - English

Degrees

  • B.A., St. Joseph's College-Visakhapatnam, 1982
  • M.A., Central University of Hyderabad, English, 1984
  • M.A., Baylor University, English, 1987
  • Ph.D., University of Texas, English, 1992

Academic Experience

  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1998-
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1992-1998
  • Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, 1987-1992

Research & Teaching Specializations: Caribbean Literature; Cultural Studies; Postcolonial Literature; Feminist Theory

Related Experience

  • Director, Women’s Studies, 2005-2008
  • Executive Committee, African and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University, 2002-2003
  • Executive Committee, Women’s Studies, Tulane University, 1999, 2003-2005
  • Director of Graduate Studies, English Department, Tulane University, 1997-2000
  • Manuscript and Proposal Reviewer, University of the West Indies Press, Michigan University Press, Indiana University Press, University of Virginia Press

*Distinctions

  • Simon Rodriguez Award for Best Undergraduate Teacher, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 2009
  • Clare Hall Fellow, Cambridge University, 2004
  • Newcomb Seminar Grant, Tulane University, 2003
  • Humanities Fellow, Deep South Regional Humanities Center, Tulane University, 2002-2003
  • Tulane University Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1997

Selected Publications

  • 2005. Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism. Editor, with Gaurav Desai. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
  • 2002. "The Caribbean Unbound: Cross-Atlantic Discourses on Slavery and Race." American Literary History. 14: 566-79.
  • 2001. “Diasporic Roots: Imagining a Nation in Earl Lovelace’s Salt.” South Atlantic Quarterly. 100 (1): 259-286.
  • 2000. “Creolization, Orality and Nation Language in the Caribbean.” In A Companion to Postcolonial Studies. Henry Schwartz and Sangeeta Ray, eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell Press.
  • 1996. Caliban’s Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning of History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: Caribbean Literature; Anglophone Literature; The Cultures of Food; Feminist Literary Theory; Magical Realism

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 1

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Rethinking State-Society Relations in Contemporary Latin America

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The emergence, crisis, and collapse of neoliberalism gave way to new types of political regimes that set themselves the task of redefining state-society relationships to promote more socially inclusive polities. The accomplishments and shortcomings of those processes need yet to be evaluated, particularly from an encompassing, historically-informed perspective that is not afraid of challenging established assumptions and mainstream understandings of Latin America to do justice to current developments. What are the continuities/ discontinuities in terms of state-society linkages that the various processes of change experienced since the return to democracy introduced in the Latin American landscape? Is Latin America moving towards a more democratic and inclusive society? What is the nature of the new patterns of state-society interaction? Have they drastically altered the legacy of populism, bureaucratic-authoritarianism, and neoliberalism?, in which specific ways? Are emerging regimes promoting new patterns of exclusion or novel forms of authoritarianism?

A group of scholars from different disciplines, country expertise drawn from Latin America, the US and Europe will meet on May 24th at Tulane University to debate empirically and theoretically informed articles that address these questions.

SCHEDULE
10:00 AM-10:15 AM – Introduction and welcoming

10:15 AM-10.45 AM – Justice and politics: the dialogic alternative by Roberto Gargarella

10:45 AM-11:15 AM – The political economy of post-neoliberal Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay development regimes by Christopher Wylde

11:15 AM-11:45 AM – The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: a synthesis of results by Nora Lustig, George Gray-Molina, Sean Higgins, Miguel Jaramillo, Wilson Jiménez, Veronica Paz, Claudiney Pereira, Carola Pessino, John Scott, and Ernesto Yañez

12:00 PM -1:30 PM – LUNCH

1:45 PM -2:15 PM – Participatory developments and democratic representation in South America by Leonardo Avritzer and Enrique Peruzzotti

2:15 PM -2:45 PM – The second wave of incorporation and territorialized politics in Argentina and Brazil by Federico M. Rossi

2:45 PM -3:15 PM – Indigenous-state relations in Ecuador and Bolivia: challenges and opportunities by Roberta Rice

3:15 PM-3:30 PM – COFFEE BREAK

3:30 PM -4:00 PM – Gender, power, and women's political inclusion in Argentina and Chile by Susan Franceschet

4:00 PM -4:30 PM – Viral politics, the post-liberal imaginary and #Yosoy132 in Mexico by Benjamín Arditi

Two-week Public Service summer program in Ecuador

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Center for Public Service: International Programs
Ecuador: Tropical Field Biology and Conservation
Chocó Rainforest, Ecuador | Tentative dates: August 9 – August 23, 2013

Application deadline: January 28, 2013
Deadline extended!

All majors are welcome to apply to spend two weeks in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. Ecuador: Tropical Field Biology and Conservation gives students the opportunity to apply the theory and knowledge they have acquired in the classroom to the real world. Students will travel with Dr. Karubian and Dr. Duraes to Ecuador for a two-week intensive field course. While on the course, students will experience first-hand the challenges and rewards of conducting field research and implementing conservation activities in tropical environments. These activities will take place within a context of community engagement based on active collaboration and interaction with Ecuadorian local residents in a variety of contexts.

For more information, click here to visit the Center for Public Service’s page on this program.

Call for Papers: Radical Caribbeans

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Read the official Call for Papers here.

We welcome papers that address any facet of the Caribbean radicalis and radical approaches to Caribbean identity, culture and social practices. Papers may focus on one country or invoke comparative strategies of any regions contained in the greater Caribbean, beyond the confines of the Caribbean sea, northeast of the Florida straits and into the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans, and south, along the Atlantic coast, past Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil. Papers may be in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese, though English is preferred.

If you are interested in participating, please send a 250 word abstract as an attachment to either of the email addresses listed below by June 15th, 2013. Include the title of your paper, your name (and the names of any co-presenters), institutional affiliation, phone number, mailing and email address. Papers for presentation should be no more than than 20 minutes and may be considered for publication. If submitting a panel for consideration, please include a top sheet with panel title, participant names and a brief abstract of the panel topic in addition to the individual paper proposals.
Notification of acceptance to the conference will be made by July 5, 2013.
For more information on the conference, location and arrangements, visit the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute website for updates at cuba.tulane.edu.

Submit abstracts by June 15 to:
lopez_AT_tulane.edu
icaballe_AT_tulane.edu