Palak Taneja
Faculty, Literature and Writing
ABOUT
Course Areas
Literary analysis, writing, feminist literature
COURSES
- Epic Heroines: Feminist Retellings of Mythologies
- Setting Sail with Amitav Ghosh
- The Empire Writes Back
- Language, Power, and Computation: Algorithmic Text Analysis
- College Seminar: The World of Ms. Marvel
- Postcolonial Shakespeares
- Midnight’s Children
- College Seminar: Murder, Mystery, Mayhem: Women in Crime
EDUCATION
- PhD, English, Emory University
- MA, English, Emory University
- MA, English, University of Delhi, India
- BA (Honors), English, University of Delhi, India
HONORS & AWARDS
2019-20
QTM Advanced Graduate Completion Fellowship, Department of Quantitative Theory and Methods
Emory University
2019
Open Humanities Graduate Student Workshop
Emory University Libraries
2014-19
Laney Graduate School Fellow
Emory University
2018
Emory PDS (Professional Development Funds) for Partition Museum Research in Amritsar, India
Emory University
2017
Emory Center for Faculty Development and Excellence Teaching Mini-Grant
Emory University
2012-14
UGC Post Graduate Indira Gandhi Scholarship for Single Girl Child, Delhi, India
2009-12
College Topper Award, first rank among 50 students in English (honors) for three years
Ramjas College, University of Delhi, India
INTERESTS
My research interests include postcolonial literature and theory, digital humanities, with a particular focus on South Asia. My dissertation, titled “Material Memory and the Partition”, draws on the object-memory interactions in the Partition Literature of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
PUBLICATIONS
- “Partition: Oral Histories” Postcolonial Studies @ Emory (https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2018/05/02/partition-oral-histories/)
- “Book Review: This Side/That Side Restorying Partition, Graphic Narratives from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh curated by Vishwajyoti Ghosh” Postcolonial Studies @ Emory (https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2018/12/19/this-side-that-side-restorying-partition-graphic-narratives-from-pakistan-india-bangladesh/)