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Publications: Gairola, Rahul
Journal Article
Gairola, R.K.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339, O’Mahony, L., Merchant, M.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0923-1561 and Order, S.
(2022)
Viral stagings across the globe: Performing identity in the era of COVID-19.
Journal of Intercultural Studies
.
pp. 1-13.
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
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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
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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]