MA Nehru, PhD Madras, Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
Chair (European Languages & Studies)
Convenor, French Studies
Arts Building, Room 2.16
Ph: (+61 8) 6488 2176
Fax: (+61 8) 6488 1182
Email: sravi@arts.uwa.edu.au
QUALIFICATIONS
1991: PhD, Department of French, University of Madras, Chennai, India. Title of thesis: "L'Inde dans le genre romanesque français depuis 1947-Images et stéréotypes" ("Images and Stereotypes of India in French novels since 1947").
1981: MA in French Literature and Civilization, School of Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
1979: BSc. Physics, Women's Christian College, University of Madras.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
VISITING FELLOWSHIP
2007 (March-May): Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Research School of Humanities, ANU, Canberra.
VISITING LECTURESHIP
2006 (June-July): University of Koblenz.
POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
1986-1990: University Grants Commission Research Fellowship, India.
AWARDS/PRIZES
2001: Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques for Research in France-Asia literary and cultural relations.
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
2007: Rainbow Colours-Literary ethno-topographies of Mauritius. Lanham: Lexington books.
1997: L'Inde romancée: L'Inde dans le genre romanesque français depuis 1947. New York, Bern, Peter Lang.
Edited Volumes
2004: with Mario Rutten and Beng Lan Goh. Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia, Srilata Ravi, IIAS, Leiden and ISEAS, Singapore, 2004.
2003: Asian Journal of Social Science, special issue on “Travel and Text”, Vol. 31(1). Bril: Leiden, Singapore.
2003: with Pierre Lagayette. Frontières 10, “Géopolitique et Mondialisation: la relation Asie du sud-est/Europe”, Paris, Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne.
Refereed Articles in International Journals
“Tamil Identity and Diasporic Desire in a Kollywood comedy: ‘Nala Damayanti’ (2003)” in South Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 2008. In press.
with Phil Weinstein. “The failure of colonial ‘distancing’: changing representations of the 2005-6 Chikungunya virus epidemic in Réunion”, Singapore Journal of Tropical geography. 2008. In press.
“Gender and ‘métissage’: ‘métisse’ stories and the ambivalent desire for cultural belonging”, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol. 28, no. 1 (2007) Special issue on “Pigments of the Imagination” 15-25.
“Religion, Health and the Hindu woman in Mauritius”, Kunapipi, Vol. XXVIII, no. 1 (2006).
“Consuming Alterity-Writing Vietnam in French”, in Francophone Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 3, no. 2 (2005) 51-76.
“Cultural Relativism, Colonial Collecting and Travel”, in Francophone Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 3, no. 1 (2005) 69-82.
“Staging Alterity: Pondichéry in French imagination”, in Essays in French Literature, Vol. 41 (2004) 128-141.
“Adventure in Malaya-Fauconnnier and French Orientalism”, in Asia-Europe journal 1 (2003) 419-32.
“Towards a progressive sense of spatial issues: Linda Lê’s Calomnies”, in Frontières, Vol. 10, Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne (2003) 55-68.
“Revisiting Vietnam-Locating Home in Kim Lefevre’s Retour à la saison des pluies”, in International Journal for Francophone Studies 5.1 (2002) 39-46.
“Gender, Family and Empire: Régis Wargnier’s Indochine”, in Studies in French Cinema 2.2 (2002) 74-82.
“Literature, Imperialism and Imagined Geographies - Reassessing André Malraux’s La Voie royale and Henri Fauconnier’s Malaisie”, in Asian Journal of Social Science 29.2 (2001) 219-33.
“Exotic Reminiscences-The Feminine Other in French Fiction on Southeast Asia”, in French Cultural Studies 11.1. (2000) 53-74.
“Marketing Devi, Indian Women in French Imagination”, in Alif-Journal of Comparative Poetics, Vol. 19 (1999) 131-50. (Special issue on Gender and Knowledge.)
“Images of Malaysia and Singapore in French novels”, in Tengarra, Vol. 38 (1996) 134-47.
Refereed Chapters in books
“Ambiguity and Indigeneity in Hasluck’s The Country without Music”, in Diaspora: The Australasian Experience. Ed. Cynthia vanden Driesen and Ralph Crane. New Delhi: Prestige, 2007, 205-212.
“Métis, Métisse and Métissage, Representations and Self Representations” in Srilata Ravi, Mario Rutten, Beng Lan Goh (eds) in Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia. IIAS, Leiden and ISEAS, Singapore: 2004, 299-321.
“French East India Company”, The Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia. London: Routledge-Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003.
“Antivoyages-Reflections on Women Travellers' Writings”, Rethinking creative processes, in M. Royer, F. Grauby (eds.). New York, Bern, Peter Lang, 2001, 275-300.
“In the Name of the Mother… a Feminist Reading of Githa Hariharan’s Thousand Faces of Night and Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen’s Daughters of the House” in 50 years of Indian Writing, R.K. Dhawan (ed.). New Delhi, Indian Association for English Studies, 1999, 76-93.
“La construction de l’espace exotique: L’Asie dans la fiction française”, in Identités culturelles en Europe et en Extrême Orient, Actes du Colloque de l’Université d’été francophone des pays d’Asie du Sud-Est. RELC/French Embassy, Singapore, 1998, 231-252.
Forthcoming
“Cook Cook Hota Hai: Indian Cinema, Kitchen Culture and Diaspora” in Bollywood in Australia: Transnationalism and Cultural Production. Edited by Andrew Hassam and Makarand Parnjpaye. Perth: UWA Press, 2008.
“Cultivating Indianness-the Indian Labourer in Mauritian Imaginary” in E-France. Edited by Julia Waters (date of acceptance 1 Aug 2007).
Review essays
“Figuring the East, Marie-Paule Ha”, in European Legacy, Vol. 7, no. 6, Carfax publishing, UK, 2002.
“Colonial Myths-History and Narrative, Azzadine Hazour”, Asian Journal of Social science, Vol. 30, no. 2, 2002.
“Creating the Creole island, Megan Vaughan”, Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 10, no. 2, 2007.
