Publications: Gairola, Rahul

Journal Article

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2021) Finding our way home: A theory and pedagogy of anti-colonial Q-mapping. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities . Art. fqab098.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339, Courtis, S. and Flanagan, T. (2021) Liminal diasporas in the era of COVID-19. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 57 (1). pp. 4-12.

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) Tools to dismantle the Master’s DH(ouse): Towards a genealogy of partition, digital necropolitics and Bollywood cinema. Postcolonial Studies, 22 (4). pp. 446-468.

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, 7 (1). pp. 76-96.

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).

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (1999) Review of Sut Jhally's Material Witness: Race, identity and the politics of gangsta rap. Literature and Psychology: a journal of psychoanalytic and cultural criticism, 45 (4). pp. 94-96.

Non-refereed Article

Rathee, S. and Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Book Review: Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diasporas by Gayatri Gopinath, Durham, Duke University Press, 2018, 248 pp, $25.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4780-0035-8. South Asian Review, 40 (4). pp. 356-358.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Book Review: Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh After Empire, by Deepika Bahri, Minnesota, University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 199pp., $27.00(Paperback), ISBN 978-0-8166-9836-3. South Asian Review, 39 (3-4). pp. 427-430.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Book Review: Shashi Tharoor. An Era of darkness: The British Empire in India. Aleph, 2016. (Hardcover) 333 pp. $14.77. South Asian Review, 38 (3). pp. 107-110.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) The efficacy of modern democracies at and beyond home. Jaggery: A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal, Summer 2017 .

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Book Review: Shyam Selvadurai. The Hungry Ghosts. New Delhi: Penguin/ Viking Books, 2013. (Hardcover) 373 pp. INR 599. South Asian Review, 37 (1). pp. 233-247.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Book review: Geeta Patel. Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finances. New Delhi: Women Unlimited Press, 2016. (Hardcover) 373pp. INR795. South Asian Review, 37 (3). pp. 153-156.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339, Bhatt, A. and Wattenbarger, M. (2016) Like Father, Like Son: A dialogue with Professor Kamal Verma & Ambassador Richard Verma. Salaam: the newsletter of the south Asian literary association, 40 (2). pp. 12-16.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Make America home again? Expats in India wonder. DNA India, Nov. 30 2016 .

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 and Datta, A. (2015) Portable India: A vision of responsible literacy in digital democracy. Advocate, 7 October 2015 .

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 and Franceschini, R. (2015) Two Years Later: Catching up with Kshama Sawant. Salaam: the newsletter of the south Asian literary association, 39 (1). pp. 14-20.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2015) Wikipedia Ohne Internet (Wikipedia Without Internet). Kulturaustausch (Culture Exchange). Ich und die Technik (Technology and I) special issue. .

Gajjala, R., Risam, R. and Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2014) “What is Postcolonial Digital Humanities(#DHpoco)?”. Salaam: the newsletter of the south Asian literary association, 38 (1). pp. 7-11.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2010) President Obama and fellow Democrats rock the UW. Seattle Gay News, 38 (44).

Gairola, R.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2006) Bombay dreaming and the class configurations of home: A review and interview on Bombay Dreams. Popmatters, 04 Oct 2006 .

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2004) Book review: Passwords by Jean Baudrillard. Verso. 92pp. $20. Popmatters, 20 Jan 2004 .

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2004) Tying the Knot(2004). Popmatters, 28 Oct 2004 .

Gairola, R.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2003) Book Review: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. The Scandal of the State: Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. 336pp. $64.95 (cloth), $21.95 (paperback). South Asian Review, 24 (2). pp. 223-226.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2002) Book review: Salman Rushdie’s Fury and Step Across This Line, 1992 – 2002. Random House. September 2002, 320 pages, $25.95 (US). Popmatters, 09 Oct 2002 .

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2000) WILL & Grace: Watching with ambivalence. Popmatters, 16 Sept. 2000 .

Conference Paper

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Peering outside of the Pink Tent: Mapping postcolonial digital humanities along the Queer Rim of the Indian Ocean. In: Gender, Bodies, & Technology Conference, 25 - 27 April 2019, Virginia Tech Women's & Gender Studies Program. Roanoke, VA

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) The Digital Divide: South Asia in Crisis. In: 2018 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association of America, 7 January 2018, New York City, USA

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Digital Homes: Discourses of digital humanities in contemporary South Asia. In: Digital Resistance, Annual Conference of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, 19 - 21 October 2017, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Identity and belonging in Desi cyberspace. In: The Word in the World: Culture, Technology, and Discourse in the 21st Century, 2 April 2017, Texas Technological University, Lubbock, TX

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) India Rising: Digital Humanities in Millennial South Asia. In: 2016 Annual International Convention of the Association of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), 11 - 16 July 2016, Krakow, Poland

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Re-thinking gender and identity in online India.”. In: Persons and Sexualities conference, 10 - 12 July 2016, Mansfield College, Oxford University

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2013) Heterotopic queerness and indigenous disidentification in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters. In: Annual Conference. Association for Asian American Studies. The Afterlives of Empire, 18 - 21 April 2013, Seattle, WA

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2012) Partitions of subjectivity: Gender & nation in Tagore’s The Home & the World.”. In: International Conference. Revisiting Tagore, 15 - 17 March 2012, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2011) Engendering Cuisines: Ideological ingredients of gender in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.”. In: Annual Conference. South Asian Literary Association (SALA): Transnational Realisms & Post Realisms in South Asian Literature & Culture, 7 - 8 January 2011, Los Angeles, CA

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2009) Representations of Anti-Capitalist Resistance in Danny Boyle’s & Loveleen Tandan’s Slumdog Millionaire. In: MLA Annual Convention 2009: The Tasks of Translation in the Global Context, 27 - 30 December 2009, Philadelphia, PA

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2009) Spatializations of Diasporic Queerness in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy. In: Annual Conference. American Comparative Literature Association: Global Languages, Local Cultures, 26 - 29 March 2009, Harvard University, Cambridge

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2007) Blow That Horn! Female Masculinity in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet (1998). In: Creolising Europe: Conference of Migration & Diaspora Cultural Studies Network, 6 - 8 September 2007, University of Manchester, UK

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2007) Queer domesticity and meritocracy in the diasporic films of Hanif Kureishi. In: 14th Triennial Conference of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) 2007: Literature of our Times, 17 - 22 August 2007, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2007) Queering Home: Passing & commodity fetishism in the fiction of Jackie Kay. In: Interdisciplinary Conference. Masculinity & the Other, 29 - 30 August 2007, Balliol College. Oxford University

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2006) Capitalist Houses, Queer Homes: Sexuality & South Asian Diasporas in Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Launderette.”. In: Global States Conference, 5 - 6 May 2006, University of California, Irvine

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2005) Deterritorialisations of desire: Transgressive sexuality as Filipino Anti-Imperialist resistance in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters.”. In: AHRB conference: Aesthetics & Politics in Postcolonial Studies, 17 - 19 April 2005, University College, Northampton

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2004) The Hybrid Homos of Adonis and Powhattan. In: Annual Conference. British Association for American Studies (BAAS), 16 April 2004, Manchester Metropolitan University

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2004) Terror and Pedagogy in the Post-9/11 Era. In: Minority States: Violence, Nation-States, Multiculturalism conference, 18 June 2004, Wadham College, Oxford University

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2004) White Skin, Red Masks: ‘Playing Indian’ in Queer American Physique Pictorial Images from the 1960s. In: Disciplinary Bodies Conference, 13 - 14 September 2004, Cornell University, USA

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2002) Like a Geisha: Racial drag in the music videos of Madonna. In: 2002 Design History Society Conference: Situated Knowledges: Consumption, Production and Identity in a Global Context, 3 - 5 September 2002, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2002) Re-Worlding the Oriental: Critical perspectives on Madonna as Geisha. In: 3rd Conference of MELUS-India: Politics of Location in Literatures of the Americas, 3 - 5 January 2002, Indo-American Centre for International Studies. Osmania University, Hyderabad

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2002) Teaching as other: Pedagogical tension and spectres of the terrorist in the college composition classroom. In: 19th Annual Conference of MELUS, the Society for the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US, 11 - 14 April 2002, Seattle, WA

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2001) Burning with Shame: Symbolisms of fire and South Asian patriarchy in Gayatri Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak? and Deepa Mehta's Fire. In: Literary Studies and Global Culture: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 16 - 17 March 2001, University of Victoria, Canada

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2001) The kitchen as Liberatory Space: the Un-Gendering of Tita in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate. In: Second Annual Interdisciplinary Conference. Gendered Spaces/ Espacios De Genero, 9 - 11 May 2001, University of Huelva, Spain

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2000) Western Experiences: Hegemony and 'Third World' women in Tsitsi Dangaremba's Nervous Conditions and Meena Alexander's Manhattan Music. In: Ninth Annual Global Justice/ Women's Rights! Conference 1999, 1 - 2 October 1999, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (1999) 'Always Historicize!' - The dialectics of narrative in Toni Morrison's Sula. In: 30th Annual College English Association (CEA) Conference, 1 - 3 April 1999, Philadelphia, PA

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (1999) From Material Girl to Veronica Electronica: Skating the Edge of Music in Madonna's Ray of Light, or Madonna as Postmodern Signifier. In: The California American Studies Association (CASA) On Edge Conference, 30 April 2 May 1999, University of California, Santa Cruz

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (1999) A diasporic view of partition fictions: Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day & Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan. In: 12th Annual Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies conference (IACLALS): Postcolonial Translations, 11 - 13 January 1999, University of Pune, India

Conference Item

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Cybergaysia: Online Communities Redefining Feminism and Queerness. In: Seminar. Cybergaysia, 24 April 2019, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Department of Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies Program..

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Digital pedagogy and data visualisation in the Global South. In: Digital Research in Action symposium, 14 - 15 October 2019, University of Melbourne. The Digital Studio and Faculty of Arts..

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Digital research tools for higher degree research students. In: Postgraduate Training Program., 11 March 2019, Postgraduate Training Program. College of Arts, Business, Law, and Social Science (ABLSS), Murdoch University.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Influence and applications of digital Humanities. In: ART 202: The Weight of Data, 11 April 2019, College of Arts, Business, Law, and Social Science (ABLSS), Murdoch University.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Introduction to Digital Humanities. In: ART 202: The Weight of Data, 4 April 2019, College of Arts, Business, Law, and Social Science (ABLSS), Murdoch University.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) An Introduction to Postcolonial Digital Humanities. In: Symposium on Blended and Online Teaching and Learning for Languages, Literature and Media Studies (BLOSA), 25 March 2019, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa..

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Mahatma Gandhi and the partition of British India. In: When Empire Strikes: Imperial Expansion, Rights, and Resistance from Europe to Australasia Unit, 12 March 2019, University of Western Australia.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Postcolonial digital humanities: The intersection of humanistic inquiry, technology, and historical power relations. In: International Webinar. Organised Higher Academics in South Asia: Changing Perspectives, 26 February 2019, Sarsuna College, University of Calcutta..

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Setting the stage for participation and positive experiences. In: Workshop. Engaging Diverse Learners: Staff Development Session, 19 July 2019, Murdoch University. School of Arts.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Technology for Surveillance/ Technology for Sustenance. In: Community Conversations Series, 24 April 2019, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Blacksburg, VA..

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Towards a model for postcolonial digital humanities. In: Lecture. Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi., 4 February 2019, New Delhi, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) What is/ are the Digital Humanities. In: ART 102: Inventing the Future, 5 March 2019, College of Arts, Business, Law, and Social Science (ABLSS). Murdoch University.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) The legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and the partition of the India Today. In: Talk. South Perth Learning Centre., 24 May 2019, Perth, Western Australia.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Digital homes and identity in contemporary India. In: Seminar. Institute for Human Studies (IHS). George Mason University, 10 January 2018, Arlington, VA.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Gender and sexuality in Australian and American popular media. In: Australian Literature and Media seminar, 31 May 2018, Murdoch University. School of Arts.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Gender and sexuality in Indigenous cultures of Australia and America. In: Global Communication seminar, 9 October 2018, Murdoch University. School of Arts.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) The Language of Curses: Caliban as Cannibal in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. In: Shakespeare Seminar, 24 October 2018, Murdoch University. School of Arts.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Literary monsters from Michael Jackson’s Thriller to Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. In: A Day in the Life of a Murdoch University English Major, 26 September 2018, Murdoch University. School of Arts.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Literature reviews and background research. In: Advanced Research in the Arts seminar, 7 August 2018, Murdoch University. School of Arts.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Of Monsters and Men: From Frankenstein to Wolverine. In: A Day in the Life of a Murdoch University English Major, 26 April 2018, Murdoch University. School of Arts.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Peering outside of the pink tent: Mapping postcolonial digital humanities along the Queer Rim of the Indian Ocean. In: Digital Humanities Australasia 2018, 25 - 28 September 2018, Adelaide, South Australia.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Peering outside of the pink tent: Mapping postcolonial digital humanities along the Queer Rim of the Indian Ocean. In: Where’s Your Asia? Symposium, 22 November 2018, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Research methodologies for postgraduate research. In: Postgraduate Research Seminar. School of Arts, 10 May 2018, Murdoch University. School of Arts.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Said, Orientalism, and East-West Dualism. In: Indigeneity, Critical Theory, and Social Justice., 4 September 2018, Murdoch University. School of Arts.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) South Asian Diasporas and Digital Humanities. In: Lecture. D.A.V. Postgraduate College, Banaras Hindu University (BHU)., 19 - 20 December 2018, Varanasi, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Towards a genealogy of postcolonial Digital Humanities. In: School of Arts Research Seminar, 24 May 2018, Murdoch University. School of Arts.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Towards a postcolonial genealogy of South Asian Digital Humanities. In: EMORY DIGITAL HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM: DH for the Study and Teaching of South Asia, 6 - 7 April 2018, Atlanta, GA..

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) What’s next in humanities and social sciences. In: Digital Humanities Pathways Forum, 18 May 2018, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Curtin University.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Across the thresholds of the sexual and the spiritual in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at night. In: Crossing Borders seminar, 22 - 23 August 2017, University of Delhi. Department of English.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Challenges for digital humanities in contemporary India: Infrastructure, climate, and the gender divide. In: 8th European Summer University in Digital Humanities, 18 - 28 July 2017, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Changing the Narrative: APIs in the Media. In: Seattle Asian American Film Festival (SAAFF) and Japanese American Citizens’ League (JACL), 14 July 2013, Seattle University, WA.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Digital Humanities and South Asian Studies. In: Recent Advances and Applications in Computer Engineering (RAACE) 2017 conference, 23 - 25 November 2017, St. Xavier's College, University of Rajasthan..

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Dykes and Duppies: Sexuality and the supernatural in Michelle Cliff's Abeng and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night. In: 2017 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, 5 - 8 January 2017, Philadelphia, PA.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Judge. Hush, Hush! Breaking the Taboo on Sex in India. In: Cognizance 2017 Techfest, 26 April 2017, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 and Saint, T.K. (2017) Literary and cultural returns to partition. In: Workshop. Memorializing Partition. Center for Studies in Violence, Memory, & Trauma. The 1947 Partition Archive, 22 - 23 February 2017, University of Delhi, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Long Partitions: Comparative divisions from Middle East to South Asia. In: South Asian Literary Association. Annual Conference, January 2017, Philadelphia, PA.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Major theories of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes in an economic and cultural frame. In: Seminar. Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, 5 April 2017, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2017) Tyger Tiger: Animal allegories and Post-Empire blues in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger. In: 2017 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, 5 - 8 January 2017, Philadelphia, PA.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Broken homes and insecure homelands. In: Invited talk. Indian Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, 17 April 2016, Delhi, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Digital Homes: Identity and Agency in Postmillennial India. In: Digital Humanties (DH) Winter School 2016, 10 - 11 December 2016, Yashada, Pune.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Digital humanities in India: Tools, texts, and theory. In: Invited talk: Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)/ Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), 12 March 2016, Government of India. Indian Institute of Technology.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Forming a model of the Digital Humanities Alliance of India. In: Invited talk. Shrishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, 6 - 7 August 2016, Bangalore, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) India Rising: South Asian Digital Humanities, Online Advertising Critique, and & Rural Literacy. In: Guest Lecture. Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, 5 February 2016, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Mahatma Gandhi: His influence and impact panelist. Centre for Stories and the Swan Festival of Lights. In: Centre for Stories and the Swan Festival of lights, 1 December 2018, State Theatre of Western Australia, Perth.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Process, structure, and theory for Doctoral Research in the Humanities & Social Sciences. In: Guest Lecture. Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, 30 March 2016, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Research and publishing in today’s global academic market. In: Quality Improvement Program. Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, 16 June 2016, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Strategies for a strong research proposal. In: Seminar. Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, 3 August 2016, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2016) Why Humanities Matters for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fields. In: Invited talk. Jaypee University of Information Technology, 3 - 5 October 2016, Solan, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2015) Gender, literacy, & computer chip technology in rural India. In: Invited talk. University of Maryland. Dresher Center for the Humanities, 8 December 2015, Baltimore, Maryland.

Khan, S. and Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2015) Hide and Seek. In: Talks at Google, 23 July 2015, London, England.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2015) How to write a strong PhD thesis. In: Guest Lecture. Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, 4 August 2015, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2015) India Rising: South Asian Digital Humanities and Rural Literacy. In: Invited talk. Indian Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, 9 November 2015, Bombay, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2015) Migrations in Absentia: Partition, Trauma, and Digital Marketing in the 21st Century. In: Invited talk. Postcolonial Studies Doctoral Research Group, 27 March 2015, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2015) Migrations in Absentia: Partition, trauma, and digital marketing in the 21st Century. In: Film Studies Lecture Series, 4 December 2015, Seattle University, WA.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2015) The role of Humanities & Social Sciences in the STEM fields. In: IIT Roorkee Orientation Program: Making of a Professional, 25 July 2015, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2014) British (Di)visions: Transreligious alliances in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan. In: Modern South Asia Workshop, 5 - 7 April 2014, Yale University, New Haven.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2014) Partition as profit: Digital advertising and manipulation of South Asian trauma in the 21st Century. In: Tracking Notions of Progress in South Asia: From the Colonial to the Postcolonial, 16 June 2014, Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2013) “British (Di)visions: Transreligious alliances in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day and Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan.”. In: Partition Narratives and South Asian Diasporas pre-conference, 17 - 20 October 2013, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2013) South Asian-izing the Digital Humanities. In: The 128th Annual MLA Convention: Avenues of Access Presidential Theme, 3 - 6 January 2013, Boston, MA.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2012) Between Meritocrats & Aristocrats: South Asian Diasporic Identity and the Politics of “Home” in Hanif Kureishi’s Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987). In: Art & Lives: Studies in the History & Representation of Sexualities, 4 - 7 July 2012, Christ's College, University of Cambridge.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2012) The Cooptation of Racism in the Rhetoric of ‘Marriage Equality. In: Keynote Lecture. Student Leadership Conference. Nassau Community College, 25 April 2012, Garden City, NY.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2012) Queering the Art Museum. In: Interdisciplinary Panel. Henry Art Gallery/Simpson Center for the Humanities, 12 May 2012, University of Washington. Seattle.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2012) Re-presenting Poverty: The music of M.I.A. in Slumdog Millionaire. In: Film Studies Lecture Series, 10 October 2012, Seattle University, WA.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2010) Queering Home: Neoliberal nationalism and diasporic genealogies in Hanif Kureishi’s Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. In: The CUNY Graduate Center Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series 2009-2010, 19 March 2010, New York.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2008) Are There Angels in America? In: Panel Forum. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches., 10 July 2008, Seattle Public Library (Capitol Hill branch).

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2007) Dialogue facilitation of Sridhar Rangayan’s Yours Emotionally (2006). In: Fourth Annual Independent South Asian Film Festival, 5 October 2007, Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle, WA..

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2004) Counter-mapping America: Resistive reading practices in the era of ‘Terror’ & transnational capital. In: Invited talk. Panjab University, 12 March 2004, Chandigarh, India.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2002) Constitutional: Comparative articulations of transgressive sex in landmark US Supreme Court cases. In: Summer Session. School Criticism & Theory, 12 July 2002, Cornell University, New York.

Book Chapter

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 and Jayawickrama, S. (2021) The “Asian Pandemic”: Re-thinking memory and trauma in cultural narratives of Asia. In: Gairola, R.K. and Jayawickrama, S., (eds.) Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, and Orientalism in Contemporary Narratives. Routledge, London, pp. 1-28.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2021) Threads of identity. In: Sethi, R. and Alterno, L., (eds.) Reading India in a Transnational Era. Routledge India, pp. 59-73.

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: 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, pp. 236-247.

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.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2003) Pankaj Mishra 1969. In: Sanga, J.C., (ed.) South Asian Novelists in English: An A-toZ Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 158-161.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2001) Alterity. In: Hawley, J., (ed.) Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Greenwood Press.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2001) Meena Alexander. In: Hawley, J., (ed.) Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Greenwood Press.

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2001) Primitivism. In: Hawley, J., (ed.) Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Greenwood Press.

Book

Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 and Jayawickrama, S. (2021) Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, and Orientalism in Contemporary Narratives (1st ed.). Routledge, London.

Nauriyal, D.K., Negi, N.S. and Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2019) Migration, Gender and Home Economics in Rural North India. Routledge India, New Delhi, 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

Supple, J. and Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2018) Have India and Pakistan found common ground on their border? [Radio Broadcast] [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]