Womens Studies
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Anita Mannur
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Anita Mannur , Assistant Professor she earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin Madison and master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She joined the English department in 2005. She teaches courses on Asian American literature, the South Asian diaspora, ethnic literature and writing about food. She is editor of a special issue of the literary journal, Massachusetts Review (Fall, 2004) on "Food Matters" and the coeditor of Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader (Blackwell, 2003). Her work on food in Asian American literature appears in several antholgies including Asian American Studies After Critical Mass (2004), East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (2005), Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English (2005) as well as well as the The Journal Of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. She is currently completing a book length manuscript on gastronomic multiculturalism in South Asian American literature and culture.
