Publications: Gairola, Rahul

Journal Article

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 and Roth, M. (2019) Cyber Zones: Digital spatialities and material realities across Asia. Asiascape: Digital Asia, 6 (1-2). pp. 4-16.

Risam, R. and Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) South Asian Digital Humanities Then and Now. South Asian Review, 40 (3). pp. 141-154.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) The X factors of sex: Hijras, Victorian law, and digital porn in postcolonial India. Porn Studies . In Press.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Brooms of doom: Notes on domestic bodies gendered to death in Mughal-e-Azam, fire, and earth. South Asian Review, 39 (3-4). pp. 283-297.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Sounds like resistance: Digital music collaboration as a politics of Desi people in Slumdog millionaire. Asian Quarterly: An International Journal of Contemporary Issues, 15 (4). pp. 14-40.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 and Ali, A. (2017) Ambivalence and Security in the Anglo-American Empire: A Critical Dialogue with Professor Homi K. Bhabha. Journal of Narrative Theory, 47 (1). pp. 143-162.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Android matters: Apocalyptic technology and hegelian dystopia in Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner (1982). Journal of the Humanities and the Social Sciences, 4 . pp. 17-32.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Bastardly Duppies and Dastardly Dykes: Queer sexuality and the supernatural in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng (1984) and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night (1996). Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies, 18 . pp. 15-54.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Exclusionary Education(s): An ongoing dialogue with Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Journal of Exclusion Studies, 7 (1). pp. 1-10.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2014) Engendering Cuisines: Food as a ‘Magico-Realist agent’ in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. JSL: Journal of the School of Language, Literature, & Culture Studies, 17 . pp. 43-55.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2014) Limp wrists, inflammatory punches: violence, masculinity, and queer sexuality in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy. South Asian History and Culture, 5 (4). pp. 475-489.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2012) White Skin, Red Masks: Queer images from Physique Pictorial, 1957-67. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 8 (4).

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2011) A critique of Thatcherism and the queering of home in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. South Asian Review, 32 (3). pp. 123-137.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2009) Capitalist houses, queer homes: National belonging and transgressive erotics in My Beautiful Laundrette. South Asian Popular Culture, 7 (1). pp. 37-54.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2005) Deterritorialisations of Desire: “Transgressive” Sexuality as Filipino Anti-Imperialist Resistance in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters. Philament: A Journal of Literature, Arts and Culture, 7 . pp. 22-41.

Gairola, R.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2005) Queering Orientalism: Sexual Otherness & Asian American Studies. Amerasia Journal, 31 (1). pp. 27-31.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2003) Filmic negotiations between postcoloniality & queerness: An interview with Nisha Ganatra. Journal of Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies, 10 (1). pp. 226-238.

Gairola, R.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2002) Burning with Shame: Desire and South Asian patriarchy, from Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" to Deepa Mehta's Fire. Comparative Literature, 54 (4). pp. 307-324.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2000) Western Experiences: Education and "Third World Women" in the Fictions of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Meena Alexander. Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 4 (2).

Book Chapter

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Caliban's Verses and Curses: The Dialect(ic)s of Subordination in Shakespeare's The Tempest, from Text to Film. In: Kumar, R. and Prakash, O., (eds.) Text, Context and Construction of Identity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 28-42.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339, Gaur, R. and Fatma, E. (2019) Engendering Islam: Religio-Cultural Violence and Trauma in Qaisera Shahraz’s The Holy Woman (2001). In: Jayawickrama, S., (ed.) Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Asian Literature and Culture. Routledge as part of Taylor & Francis.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 and Fatma, E. (2018) Conjugal homes. In: Kanwal, A. and Aslam, S., (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing. Routledge as part of Taylor & Francis, pp. 236-247.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 and Fatma, E. (2018) Conjugal homes: Marriage culture in contemporary novels of the Pakistani diaspora. In: Kanwal, A. and Aslam, S., (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing. Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis group, London, England.

Gairola, R.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Digital Closets: Post-millenial Representations of Queerness in Kapoor & Sons and Aligarh. In: Dasgupta, R.K. and Dasgupta, D., (eds.) Queering Digital India: Activisms, Identities, Subjectivities. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 54-71.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Digital Closets: Post-millennial representations of queerness in Kapoor & Sons and Aligarh. In: Dasgupta, R.K. and Dasgupta, D., (eds.) Queering Digital India: Activisms, Identities, Subjectivities. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 54-71.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) From Bombay Dost to Global Host: Mobile Imaginings of Cybergaysians in Contemporary, Queer India. In: Kurian, A. and Jha, S., (eds.) New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film, and Literature. Routledge as part of Taylor & Francis, pp. 85-104.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) A Manifesto for Postcolonial Queer Translation Studies. In: Castro, O. and Ergun, E., (eds.) Feminist Translation Studies. Routledge as part of Taylor & Francis, pp. 70-79.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) A partition without borders: Diasporic readings of Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day & Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan. In: Basu, T. and Shahnaaz, T., (eds.) Crossing Borders: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press FDU Press Facebook, pp. 119-134.

Singh, A., Iyer, N. and Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Introduction: The long partition and beyond. In: Singh, A., Iyer, N. and Gairola, R.K., (eds.) Revisiting India's Partition New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics. Lexington Books, xiii-xxxv.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Migrations in Absentia: Partition, trauma, and digital marketing in the 21st Century. In: Singh, A., Iyer, N. and Gairola, R.K., (eds.) Revisiting India's Partition New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics. Lexington Books, pp. 53-70.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2004) Re-Worlding the Oriental: Critical perspectives on Madonna as Geisha. In: Fouz-Hernandez, S. and Jarman-Ivens, F., (eds.) Madonna’s Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Her Cultural Transformations (1983 – 2003). Ashgate Publishers, pp. 104-119.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2004) The kitchen as liberatory space: The un-gendering of Tita in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate.”. In: Villegas-Lopez, S. and Dominguez-Garcia, B., (eds.) Literature, Gender, Space. University of Huelva Press, pp. 115-124.

Book

Nauriyal, D.K., Negi, N.S. and Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Migration, Gender, & Home Economics in Rural North India. Routledge as part of Taylor & Francis (India).

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas & Transatlantic Belonging. Rowman & Littlefield International.

Singh, A., Iyer, N. and Gairola, R.K. (Eds)ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Revisiting India's Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics. Lexington Books.

Creative Output

Spivak, G.C. and Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2012) Occupy Education: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. [Sound Recording] [Creative Output]