https://www.sgooptu.com/home daily 1.0 2022-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611c465f3fc7f91f187fad58/1629415992491-R4SWVVM1210M25KPGNBT/Cai+Guo-Qiang+Borrowing+Your+Enemy%27s+Arrows+1998 Home Cai Gui Qiang, Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows, 2016 (MoMA, NY) https://www.sgooptu.com/research daily 0.75 2022-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611c465f3fc7f91f187fad58/1629496140927-WEEZ7WXSYZRGJK6DZ6JW/IMG-1797.JPG research - My dissertation project, Stories Women Carry: Labor and Reproductive Imaginaries of South Asia and the Caribbean, assembles contemporary fiction and nonfiction, alongside archival documents to focus on the history of labor, specifically indentured servitude, in South Asia and the Caribbean after Emancipation and its enduring resonances and afterlives in diasporic formations. It examines contemporary literary representations of women’s experiences of indentureship and plantation labor, as resistant to archival accounts of their subjectification. I contend that paying attention to the ways that the figure of the coolie- woman was produced by colonial discourses of race, caste and sexuality, not only shows how contestations over reproduction and reproductive capacities served as sites for innovating resistance tactics while experiencing indentureship, but also, unveils the enduring resonances and afterlives of colonial regimes in contemporary patterns of labor and migration. Drawing from feminist subaltern histories and Black Diaspora studies, I engage with silences and absences in the colonial archive by bringing them into conversation appositionally with contemporary fiction and non-fiction that re-imagines histories of indentureship and colonialism. Thus, by focusing on how fiction and nonfiction chafes against historical accounts, I examine contemporary Anglophone literature about labor, race and caste in Trinidad, Guyana and India alongside memoirs, biographies, journals and government reports from British colonial archives. Currently revising this project into a book manuscript. (Art by Nalini Malani, Gamepieces, 2016. MoMA, NY) https://www.sgooptu.com/teaching daily 0.75 2022-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611c465f3fc7f91f187fad58/1629419463276-KT7RCZXCXGNV57SZW71J/IMG-2848.jpg teaching Barkley L. Hendricks, 'What's Going On,' 2019. (deYoung Museum, San Francisco) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611c465f3fc7f91f187fad58/1629419424907-MDDSJPZHYEMDWDSQSWXF/IMG-5332.jpg teaching Hew Locke, For Those in Peril on the Sea, 2013. (Pérez Art Museum, Miami) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611c465f3fc7f91f187fad58/1629419531117-CZM4FLP6N0QV1790DTZ7/IMG-4965.jpg teaching Shahzia Sikander, Separate Working Things I, 2021 (Morgan Library, NY) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611c465f3fc7f91f187fad58/1629419567986-1644CEVLPSL4LTHBKTVO/IMG-5048.jpg teaching Betye Saar, To the Manor Born, 2021 (Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC) https://www.sgooptu.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611c465f3fc7f91f187fad58/1662149849206-ZOSRDP5QGSZJQAN5OYHK/458F9896-0A47-4878-8C02-40C241E30A04.jpeg contact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611c465f3fc7f91f187fad58/1662150351915-L3EM1CKGE87T9E9Q47OF/IMG_6363.JPG contact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611c465f3fc7f91f187fad58/1662150537042-WEH2E2KR5XIVTITYZJ8H/IMG_97985265E29A-1.jpeg contact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611c465f3fc7f91f187fad58/1662150741713-YXV2PIW8MA74V36CJJNB/18689473-8267-49c3-8ebf-9fe1a197c513.JPG contact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611c465f3fc7f91f187fad58/1662150810260-FQYDC2DM48YO1FM98787/8CBA298A-8CB4-4985-BA61-292D28422FF5.JPG contact https://www.sgooptu.com/about daily 0.75 2022-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611c465f3fc7f91f187fad58/8672d521-3952-42b1-8927-b6794915680d/Macmillan+Learning+MLA+Convention+Friday1363.jpg about - Subhalakshmi Gooptu, is an Assistant Professor of World Literature at Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY). She completed her PhD in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2022. She specializes in Postcolonial and Anglophone literatures with a focus on South Asia and the Caribbean, Asian diasporic studies, histories of labor migration in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, critical race studies, transnational gender/sexuality studies, and postcolonial theory. She has additional teaching strengths in first and junior-year composition as well as writing across curriculum. She is currently revising her dissertation project, titled Stories Women Carry: Labor and Reproductive Imaginaries of South Asia and the Caribbean, into a book manuscript.