Publications: Mishra, Vijay

Journal Article

Mishra, V. (2017) Book Review: William Elison, Christian Lee Novetzke, and Andy Rotman, Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation. BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 8 (2). pp. 285-288.

Mishra, V. (2017) Manuscripts in an archive: Two unpublished Rushdie novels and a TV script. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 52 (3). pp. 422-438.

Mishra, V. (2017) “Numbers, too, have significance”: Annotating Salman Rushdie. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 52 (1). pp. 151-167.

Mishra, V. (2016) Archive fever and the genesis of secrecy in Salman Rushdie. Textual Practice, 30 (1). pp. 19-43.

Mishra, V. (2015) Book Reviews: Fiction, Film and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie's Novels and the Cinematic Imagination Florian Stadtler Routledge, Abingdon, 2013, hb 214pp ISBN 0 4158 0790 6 £85.00 Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema Rajinder Dudrah Routledge, Abingdon, 2012, hb 130pp ISBN 0 4154 4740 9 £85.00 Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat, ed Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2012, hb 352pp ISBN 0 1980 7598 1 £30.00 The Science Fiction Dimensions of Salman Rushdie Yael Maurer McFarland Books, Jefferson, 2014, pb 212pp ISBN 0 7864 7496 7 $40.00. Wasafiri, 30 (2). pp. 91-96.

Mishra, V. (2015) Postcolonialism 2010-2014. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 50 (3). pp. 369-390.

Mishra, V. (2014) Australia in the Salman Rushdie archive. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 14 (3).

Mishra, V. (2014) Bollywood: A guidebook to popular Hindi cinema (book review). Asian Studies Review, 38 (2). pp. 314-315.

Mishra, V. (2014) Edward Said, Salman Rushdie and spectres of humanism. Critical Race & Whiteness Studies, 10 (1). pp. 1-17.

Mishra, V. (2014) Plantation Diaspora Testimonios and the enigma of the Black Waters. Interventions, 17 (4). pp. 548-567.

Mishra, V. (2014) Tuneless soloists in Salman Rushdie: Cinema, sound and sense. Delhi University Journal of the Humanities & the Social Sciences, 1 . pp. 15-23.

Mishra, V. (2014) The return of the native: Reflections on the new order in Fiji. Landfall, 227 . pp. 87-100.

Mishra, V. (2013) Multiculturalism (2010-2011). The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 21 (1). pp. 1-22.

Mishra, V. (2013) Once we were a discipline: Stray thoughts on English. Australian Literary Studies, 28 (1-2). pp. 63-74.

Mishra, V. (2012) Salman Rushdie, aesthetics and Bollywood popular culture. Thesis Eleven, 113 (1). pp. 112-128.

Mishra, V. (2011) Memory and recall from beyond the troubled black waters. South Asian Review, 32 (3). pp. 89-108.

Mishra, V. (2011) Multiculturalism. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 19 (1). pp. 109-140.

Mishra, V. (2010) Multiculturalism. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 18 (1). pp. 155-183.

Mishra, V. (2009) Multiculturalism. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 17 (1). pp. 47-86.

Mishra, V. (2009) Rushdie-Wushdie: Salman Rushdie’s Hobson-Jobson. New Literary History, 40 (2). pp. 385-410.

Mishra, V. (2009) Spectres of sentimentality: the Bollywood film. Textual Practice, 23 (3). pp. 439-462.

Mishra, V. (2009) The aching joys of Bollywood song and dance. Postcolonial Studies, 12 (2). pp. 247-254.

Mishra, V. (2008) The influence of Kalidasa on Shakespeare: The genre of the key-note address and the story of the life. Double Dialogues, 9 .

Mishra, V. (2007) Multiculturalism (Review). The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 15 (1). pp. 146-164.

Mishra, V. (2006) Multiculturalism. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 14 (1). pp. 292-310.

Mishra, V. (2005) Book review: Minor transnationalism. Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih (editors) Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005. $US24.50, ISBN 0 8223 3490 9. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (13).

Mishra, V. (2005) Multiculturalism. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 13 (1). pp. 182-204.

Mishra, V. (2005) No boxed gifts. Overland, 181 . pp. 73-82.

Mishra, V. (2005) What was multiculturalism? Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2 (2). pp. 1-47.

Mishra, V. and Hodge, B. (2005) What was post colonialism? New Literary History, 36 (3). pp. 375-402.

Mishra, V. (2004) Multiculturalism. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 12 (1). pp. 180-198.

Mishra, V. (2003) Multiculturalism. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 11 (1). pp. 179-202.

Mishra, V. (2002) Lives in halves: A homage to Vidiadhar Naipaul. Meanjin, 61 (1). pp. 123-126.

Mishra, V. (2002) Multiculturalism. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 10 (1). pp. 226-258.

Mishra, V. (2002) Vidiadhar and I: A homage. Evam: A forum on Indian representations, 1 . pp. 248-255.

Mishra, V. (2001) Multiculturalism. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 9 (1). pp. 196-215.

Mishra, V. (2001) Multiculturalism. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 8 (1). pp. 227-246.

Mishra, V. (2001) Unfixed selves. Canadian Literature, 169 . pp. 169-172.

Mishra, V. (2000) Book Review: Gayatri Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), 448 pp., £30.95 (hardback), £15.50 softback). Textual Practice, 14 (2). pp. 412-421.

Mishra, V. (2000) The feudal post-colonial: The Fiji Crisis. Meanjin, 59 (3). pp. 146-165.

Mishra, V. (1999) Dismantling postcolonialism: A review of Arun Mukherjee's Postcolonialism: My living. The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad, 17 (3). pp. 91-95.

Mishra, V. (1998) And other stories. Canadian Literature, 158 . pp. 167-170.

Mishra, V. (1998) Book review: Ayrans and British India , by Thomas R. Trautmann. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997. xiv, 260pp., figures, maps, plates, notes, references, index. ISBN 0–520–20546–4 (hardback). Anthropological Forum, 8 (1-2). pp. 91-118.

Mishra, V. (1998) Book review: Harish Trivedi . Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India. Manchester: Manchester U P, 1995. Pp. xiv, 224. £40.00, £14.99 pb. Ariel: A review of international English literature, 29 (1). pp. 165-170.

Mishra, V. (1998) Reading India. Canadian Literature, 157 . pp. 129-131.

Mishra, V. (1996) (B)ordering Naipaul: Indenture history and diasporic poetics. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 5 (2). pp. 189-237.

Mishra, V. (1996) Book review: Kate Teltscher. India Inscribed. European and British Writing on India 1600–1800. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. 280 pp. Dedication, acknowledgments, plates, bibliography, index. £13.99. Asian Studies Review, 20 (2). pp. 191-220.

Mishra, V. (1996) Postmodern racism. Meanjin, 55 (2). pp. 346-357.

Mishra, V. (1996) The diasporic imaginary: Theorizing the Indian diaspora. Textual Practice, 10 (3). pp. 421-447.

Mishra, V. (1995) Postcolonial differend: Diasporic narratives of Salman Rushdie. Ariel: A review of international English literature, 26 (3). pp. 7-45.

Mishra, V. (1992) After Naipaul: An Indian journey. Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 34/35 . pp. 211-225.

Mishra, V. (1992) Decentering history: Some versions of Bombay cinema. East-West Film Journal, 6 (1). pp. 111-155.

Mishra, V. (1992) Satendra Nandan, The wounded sea. Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 32 .

Mishra, V. and Hodge, B. (1992) Semiotics and history : Entering a No-go zone with Patrick Wolfe. Meanjin, 51 (4). pp. 877-883.

Mishra, V. (1992) Temples of fire: The incomparable Tagore. Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 34/35 . pp. 97-108.

Mishra, V. and Hodge, B. (1991) What is post(‐)colonialism? Textual Practice, 5 (3). pp. 399-414.

Hodge, B. and Mishra, V. (1990) Book review: Mudrooroo Narogin, Writing from the Fringe. A Study of Modern Aboriginal Literature Melbourne, Hyland House, 1990. Westerly, 1990 (3). pp. 91-93.

Mishra, V. (1990) Little India. Meanjin, 49 (4). pp. 607-618.

Mishra, V. (1990) Satyajit Ray 1921 - 1992. Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, 5 (2).

Mishra, V. (1989) Ni Sa Moce/Salaam Fiji (for My Father, Hari K). Meanjin, 48 (3). pp. 481-494.

Mishra, V., Jeffery, P. and Shoesmith, B. (1989) The actor as parallel text in Bombay cinema. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 11 (3). pp. 49-67.

Mishra, V. (1989) The centre cannot hold: Bailey, Indian culture and the sublime. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 12 (1). pp. 103-113.

Mishra, V. (1988) Filmic narrative: Text and transformation in Bombay cinema. Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, 2 (1). pp. 9-43.

Mishra, V. (1988) The great Indian epic and Peter Brook. Meanjin, 47 (2). pp. 343-352.

Mishra, V. (1987) Aboriginal representations in Australian texts. Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, 2 (1).

Mishra, V. (1987) David Schulman and the laughter of south Indian kings and clowns*. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 10 (1). pp. 83-88.

Mishra, V. (1987) The formulaic text: The poetry of Bruce Dawe. English in Australia, 82 . pp. 37-46.

Mishra, V. (1987) The quiet coup. Arena, 80 . pp. 25-31.

Mishra, V. (1985) Critical practice and literary theory: An interview with Geoffrey Hartman. Southern Review, 18 (2). pp. 189-200.

Mishra, V. (1985) Sufis, Nath-yogis and Indian literary texts: Some lines of congruence. Religious Traditions, 6 (1). pp. 42-65.

Mishra, V. (1985) Text, textuality and interpretation: An interview with Michael Riffaterre. Southern Review, 18 (1). pp. 109-119.

Mishra, V. (1985) Towards a theoretical critique of Bombay cinema. Screen, 26 (3-4). pp. 133-146.

Mishra, V. (1984) White's poetics: Patrick White through Mikhail Bakhtin. Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 18 . pp. 54-75.

Mishra, V. (1983) Maithilisarana Gupta. Review Projector India, May-June . pp. 11-13.

Mishra, V. (1982) Another stubborn structure: The Gita as a literary text. The Journal of Studies in the Bhagavad, 2 . pp. 89-105.

Mishra, V. (1982) Negotiating an autobiography: Patrick Whites flaws in the glass. Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 14 . pp. 25-32.

Mishra, V.C. (1980) Rama's banishment: A theoretical footnote to Indo‐Fijian writing. World Literature Written in English, 19 (2). pp. 242-256.

Mishra, V. (1979) The dialectic of Maya and principles of narrative structure in Indian literature. ACLALS Bulletin, 5th Series (2). pp. 47-60.

Mishra, V. (1978) Charles Harpur's reputation 1853 - 1858: The years of controversy. Australian Literary Studies, 8 (4). pp. 446-456.

Mishra, V. (1978) In search of Kabir: A review essay. Journal of Studies in Mysticism, 1 (2). pp. 159-161.

Mishra, V. (1978) Mythic fabulation: V.S. Naipaul. New Literature Review, 4 . pp. 59-65.

Mishra, V. (1978) Ramacharitramanasa: The rewriting of a sanskrit epic. Indian Literature, 21 (3). pp. 89-108.

Mishra, V.C. (1978) Two truths are told: Tagore's Kabir. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 1 (2). pp. 80-90.

Mishra, V. (1977) Early literary responses to Charles Harpur. Westerly (4). pp. 88-93.

Mishra, V.C. (1977) Indo‐Fijian fiction: Towards an interpretation. World Literature Written in English, 16 (2). pp. 395-408.

Mishra, V. (1977) Medieval Hindi devotional poetry. Journal of Studies in Mysticism, 1 (1). pp. 1-39.

Mishra, V. (1976) The literary reputation of Charles Harpur, 1868-1900. Southerly, 36 (4). pp. 432-440.

Conference Paper

Mishra, V. (2017) Nadiya ke Paar. In: One Hundred Years After Indenture Conference, 22 - 24 March 2017, University of Fiji, Saweni

Mishra, V. (2014) Affective theory and Salman Rushdie. In: University of Sydney English Studies Conference, 1 - 4 July 2014, Sydney, NSW

Mishra, V. (2014) Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic Noir. In: Figurations of the Afterdeath in East and West Conference, 11 - 16 February 2014, Habitat Centre, Delhi

Mishra, V. (2014) Annotating the Postcolonial: The case of Salman Rushdie. In: (E)ACLALS Triennial Conference, 14 - 18 April 2014, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Mishra, V. (2013) Manuscripts in an archive: Unpublished Rushdie novels and a TV script. In: Salman Rushdie in the 21st Century: Swallowing the World Conference, 6 - 9 November 2013, Faculty of Letters. University of Lisbon

Mishra, V. (2008) Cinema and Literature. In: IACLALS Annual Conference: Performing the Postcolonial: Imaging/Imagining India through Theatre, Film, Music and Dance, 28 - 30 January 2008, Udaipur, India

Mishra, V. (2008) Rethinking Bollywood Cinema. In: The XIVth Biennial Conference of Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, 27 - 30 November 2008, University of Otago, Dunedin

Mishra, V. (2007) Indian Indenture and the Indian Mutiny. In: IACLALS Annual Conference: 1857 and After: Colonialism, Violence and Literature, 11 - 13 January 2007, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Mishra, V. (2007) The Influence of Kalidasa on Shakespeare: 'the story of a Lie’. In: Double Dialogues Conference: A Conference on Art, 2 July 2007, University of the South Pacific/Deakin University, Suva, Fiji

Mishra, V. (2006) Bollywood Cinema and Indian-ness. In: Defining South Asian-ness Conference, November 2006, University of Western Australia, Nedlands

Mishra, V. (2005) Bollywood Cinema: A Critical Genealogy. In: Occasional Lecture. Asian Studies Institute, 30 August 2005, Victoria University, Wellington

Mishra, V. (2005) Imagining the Nation: The Indo-Fijian Diaspora. In: Biculturalism/Multiculturalism Conference, 1 - 3 September 2005, University of Canterbury, Christchurch

Mishra, V. (2004) What was Postcolonialism? In: 13th Triennial Conference ACLALS, 4 - 9 August 2004, Hyderabad. India

Mishra, V. (2003) What was Postcolonialism? In: Open Book. Postgraduate Studies in English and Linguistics Conference, 19 - 21 October 2003, University of Otago, Dunedin

Mishra, V. (2002) Naipaul’s India. In: 14th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, 30th June - 3rd July 2002, Hobart, Australia

Mishra, V. (2001) The Subaltern Speaks: Diaspora Theory and Subramani’s Dauka Puran. In: 12th Triennial ACLALS Conference, 9 - 14 July 2001, Rydges Canberra Hotel, Canberra,

Mishra, V. (2000) Diasporas and the art of impossible mourning. In: Internal Conference on the South Asian Diaspora, 20 - 22 September 2000, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Mishra, V. (2000) Human Rights in Fiji. In: Future Directions for Human Rights Conference, 8 December 2000, Curtin University of Technology

Mishra, V. (1999) Diaspora and Film. In: Asian Globalization Conference, 22 - 24 April 1999, University of Victoria, British Columbia

Mishra, V. (1998) The pain of my woundings/the diaspora. In: Humanities Research Centre (HRC) Conference, 20 - 21 March 1998, Australian National University, Canberra

Mishra, V. (1997) Desire Diaspora and Bombay Cinema. In: The Local and the Global Conference, 14 - 15 November 1997, Delhi, India

Mishra, V. (1996) Bombay Cinema and Diaspora. In: Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Biennial Conference: Communications with/in Asia’, 20th anniversary, 8 - 11 July July 1996, La Trobe University, VIC

Mishra, V. (1994) Indian cinema after Ayodhya: The sublime object of fundamentalism. In: Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Conference: Environment, state and society in Asia: the legacy of the 20th century, 13 - 16 July 1994, Murdoch University

Mishra, V. (1994) Interrogating postcolonialism: The Diaspora Writes Back. In: IACLALS Seminar: Interrograting Postcolonialism: Theory, Text and Context, 3 - 5 October 1994, Shimla, India

Mishra, V. (1993) Theorising the Literature of the Indian Diaspora. In: The International Diaspora Conference, 14 - 27 August 1993, Mauritius

Mishra, V. (1992) Auteurship and the Lure of Romance: Raj Kapoor's Classic Phase. In: Film Symposium: Localism and Globalism in Cinema East and West, 30 November - 4 December 1992, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

Mishra, V. (1991) The Filmic Hero: The Case of Amitabh Bachchan. In: Dismantling Fremantle Conference, 21 - 23 June 1991, Fremantle, Perth

Mishra, V. (1991) Mary Shelley’s Apocalypse. In: AULLA Conference, 4 - 8 February 1991, Murdoch University/UWA

Mishra, V. (1991) Self and other in Indian Literary and filmic texts. In: East-West Center Self and Society Symposium, 5 - 9 August 1991, University of Hawaii

Mishra, V. (1990) De-centering History: Some Versions of Bombay Cinema. In: East-West Center Film Symposium, 24 November - 1 December 1990, University of Hawaii

Mishra, V. (1989) Theorising Australian Literature. In: Critical and Cultural Theory Seminars, November 1989, University of Wales, Cardiff

Mishra, V. (1986) Problems in the Literary and Filmic Representation of the Australian Aborigines. In: 7th Triennial Conference of the Association of Literative and Language Studies (ACLALS), June 1986, National University of Singapore

Mishra, V. (1984) Hermeneutic models, the precursor text and Bombay film. In: 6th Biennial Asian Studies Conference: Australia in Asia: Asia in Australia, prospects and problems of increasing interaction, 13 - 19 May 1984, University of Adelaide, SA

Mishra, V. (1983) The Gothic as signifying practice: A reading of William Godwin's Caleb Williams. In: XXII AULLA Congress, 29 August - 2 September 1983, Australian National University, Canberra

Mishra, V. (1981) Sanskrit Poetics and Indian Religious Texts. In: 6th Annual Conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions, 14 - 18 August 2018, Adelaide, SA

Mishra, V. (1981) White's Poetics: Some Preliminary Observations. In: 2nd SPACLALS Conference, 10 - 15 May 1981, University of Cantebury, NZ

Mishra, V. (1980) Devotional paradox and devotional verse. In: The Qur'an through Fourteen Centuries/Australian Association for the Study of Religions 5th Annual Conference, 8 - 13 May 1980, Australian National University, Canberra

Mishra, V. (1980) The girmit ideology re-examined. In: 5th Triennial Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference, 3 - 8 January 1980, Suva, Fiji

Mishra, V. (1978) Towards a theory of Indian narrative. In: 19th Australasian Language and Literature Conference (AULLA), August 1978, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Mishra, V. (1977) Literature and Ideology: Some notes on new writing from the Pacific. In: South Pacific Language and Literature (SPACLALS) Conference, May 1977, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Mishra, V. (1976) From Men to Gods: The Indian Vernacular Epic. In: The Australasian Association for the Study of Religions Conference, August 1976, Adelaide, SA

Conference Item

Mishra, V. (2017) Archival Modernism. In: Seminar. University of the South Pacific, 21 March 2017, Suva, Fiji.

Mishra, V. (2017) Postcolonial, transnational and world literatures: Contexts and Approaches. In: Course. Global initiative of Academic Networks, 11 - 17 January 2017, Dept. of English. Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur.

Mishra, V. (2017) Worlds at Home: On Cosmopolitan Futures. In: Interdisciplinary Conference. St. John’s College and Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, 16 - 17 March 2017, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Mishra, V. (2015) Postcolonialism. In: The Wolfgang Goethe University Address, 18 June 2018, Franfurt, Germany.

Mishra, V. (2015) Postcolonialism: An Exhausted Paradigm. In: Erich Auerbach Professorial Inaugural address, 16 June 2015, University of Tübingen, Germany.

Mishra, V. (2015) Theorizing the unpublished novel: The Case of Salman Rushdie. In: University of Münster Address, 16 June 2015, Münster, Germany.

Mishra, V. (2014) Edward Said and Humanism. In: English Seminar. Jawaharlal Nehru University, 13 February 2014, Delhi, India.

Mishra, V. (2013) Affective Theory and Salman Rushdie. In: English Departmental Seminar. University of Vienna, 7 April 2014, Vienna, Austria.

Mishra, V. (2013) The Bollywood Gothic Noir. In: Indian Cinema 100 Years On, 3 - 6 October 2013, University of Otago, Dunedin.

Mishra, V. (2013) The Genesis of Secrecy. In: Manchester Cultural Studies Series, 19 February 2013, University of Manchester.

Mishra, V. (2013) Ghostly spectres of the transnational. In: Invited Lecture. University of Northampton, 1 March 2013, Northampton, UK.

Mishra, V. (2013) Memory, recall and folk songs in the plantation diaspora. In: Public Lecture. University of Leeds, 21 February 2013, Leeds, UK.

Mishra, V. (2013) Researching the Rushdie Archive. In: Post Colonial Seminars, 29 January 2013, English Faculty. Oxford University.

Mishra, V. (2013) The Rushdie Archive. In: Invited Lecture. University of Sydney, 7 August 2013, Sydney, NSW.

Mishra, V. (2013) Rushdie and Bollywood Cinema. In: Humanities Seminar Series. University of the South Pacific, 28 August 2013, Suva, Fiji.

Mishra, V. (2013) Said and Rushdie. In: Edward Said Symposium, 2 October 2013, University of Otago, Dunedin.

Mishra, V. (2013) Salman Rushdie’s Shooting Texts. In: Film Studies Seminar, 12 February 2013, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Mishra, V. (2013) Writing a biography from an archive. In: Postgraduate Seminars, 5 February 2013, St. Catherine's College. Oxford.

Mishra, V. (2012) The “Biografiend” in the Salman Rushdie Archive’. In: Framing Lives: 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA), 17 - 20 July 2012, Australian National University, Canberra.

Mishra, V. and Nuttall, S. (2012) Lives Across the South: Vijay Mishra in conversation with Sarah Nuttall. In: Framing Lives: 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA), 17 - 20 July 2012, Australian National University, Canberra.

Mishra, V. (2012) Multiculturalism and a nation’s grand narrative. In: Workshop on Multiculturalism and its Discontents, 10 - 11 May 2012, University of Wollongong, VIC.

Mishra, V. (2012) The Rushdie archive. In: Invited Lecture. University of Auckland, 16 May 2012, Auckland, New Zealand.

Mishra, V. (2012) Salman Rushdie, Blasphemy and Literature. In: Literature and Censorship Conference, ADFA, 11 - 13 July 2012, University of NSW, Canberra.

Mishra, V. (2012) Western modernity and multiculturalism. In: Victoria University of Wellington, 22 May 2012, Kelburn, New Zealand.

Mishra, V. (2011) Archive Fever: The Salman Rushdie Papers. In: World Literature Conference (HRC Seminar), 15 - 16 July 2011, Australian National University, Canberra.

Mishra, V. (2011) Mediating the Gift of Death in Salman Rushdie. In: Rene Girard Symposium, 14 - 15 January 2011, St Paul's College, Sydney Univrsity.

Mishra, V. (2011) Piece-of-the-Moon: Annotating Salman Rushdie. In: Invited lecture. Emory University, 15 March 2011, Atlanta, Georgia.

Mishra, V. (2011) Postcolonial Dialogues: The Texts of Salman Rushdie. In: UTS Seminar Series, 29 September 2011, University Technology of Sydney, NSW.

Mishra, V. (2011) Rushdie, Bollywood and Popular Culture. In: Thesis 11 Conference, 8 - 10 June 2011, La Trobe University, VIC.

Mishra, V. (2011) The State of English. In: AAH Discipline Panel, 18 November 2011, University of Melbourne, VIC.

Mishra, V. (2010) Bollywood songs across troubled waters. In: UTS Cinema Colloquium, 19 - 20 November 2010, Sydney, NSW.

Mishra, V. (2010) Derrida, the Gift of Death and Salman Rushdie. In: Invited Lecture. University of Western Sydney, 18 August 2010, Sydney, NSW.

Mishra, V. (2010) Religion and the demonic form of sacralization: the case of Swami Vivekananda. In: Australian Academy of the Humanities – International Collaborative Workshop: Being Bengali: At home and in the world, 20 August 2010, University of Western Sydney, NSW.

Mishra, V. (2010) Salman Rushdie and the Religious Sublime. In: University of NSW English Seminars, 20 July 2010, Kensington, New South Wales.

Mishra, V. (2009) Hobson-Jobson, Vernacular Modernity and Salman Rushdie. In: Non-metropolitan Modernisms: An Interdisciplinary Conference of the Department of English, University of Delhi, 23 - 25 March 2009, University of New Dehli, India.

Mishra, V. (2009) In the Arcade of Hanuman House. In: India and the Diasporic Imagination, 1 - 4 April 2009, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier.

Mishra, V. (2009) Literature and Lies. In: Invited Lecture. Delhi University. South Campus, 24 September 2009, Delhi, India.

Mishra, V. (2009) On Salman Rushdie. In: Invited Lecture. University of Mauritius, 16 October 2009, Mauritius.

Mishra, V. (2009) On Transnationalism. In: CAPSTRANS Seminar, 8 - 9 June 2009, University of Wollongong, VIC.

Mishra, V. (2008) Annotating Rushdie. In: Invited Lecture. University of Konstanz, 3 November, 2008, Konstanz, Germany.

Mishra, V. (2008) 'A Flavour of Mortality': Lies in Literature. In: Invited Lecture. Universitat des Saarlandes, 6 November 2008, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Mishra, V. (2008) Lies in literature. In: Invited Lecture. University of Mauritius, 26 September 2008, Mauritius.

Mishra, V. (2008) The Religious Sublime. In: Invited Lecture. University des Saarlandes, 20 November 2008, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Mishra, V. (2008) Rushdie and Hobson-Jobson. In: Invited Lecture. University of Frankfurt, 19 November 2008, Frankfurt, Germany.

Mishra, V. (2008) Rushdie-Wushdie: Salman Rushdie’s Hobson-Jobson. In: Invited Lecture. Universitat des Saarlandes, 13 November 2008, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Mishra, V. (2008) The Sentimental Film. In: Invited Lecture. Universitat des Saarlandes, 13 November 2008, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Mishra, V. (2008) Spectres of Sentimentality: The Bollywood Film. In: Invited Lecture. Universitat des Saarlandes, 13 November 2008, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Mishra, V. (2008) Spectres of sentimentality. In: Invited Lecture. CAPSTRANS [Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies], 28 May 2008, University of Wollongong, VIC.

Mishra, V. (2008) The nature and uses of hybridity in cinema and literature. In: Invited Lecture. Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago, 28 November 2008, Dunedin, NZ.

Mishra, V. (2007) The Genre of the Keynote address. In: Invited Lecture. Jawaharlal Nehru University, October 2007, New Delhi, India.

Mishra, V. (2006) Bollywood Cinema: A Critical Genealogy. In: Media and Film Studies Seminar, 19 April 2006, University of NSW, Sydney.

Mishra, V. (2005) The Diasporic Imaginary and the Indian Diaspora. In: Asian Studies Institute Occasional Lecture 2, 29 August 2005, Victoria University, Wellington.

Mishra, V. (2002) Trauma Memory and V S Naipaul. In: Invited Lecture. Saarbrücken University, 29 August - 1 September 2002, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Mishra, V. (1999) Mourning and Melancholia in Diaspora. In: Invited Lecture. University of Calgary, 14 May 1999, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Mishra, V. (1997) The Indian sublime. In: English and Indian Literature: Reception and Resistance, 26 - 28 November 1997, University of Delhi, India.

Mishra, V. (1996) The Diasporic Imaginary. In: Invited Lecture. Green College. University of British Columbia, 15 April 1996, British Columbia, Canada.

Mishra, V. (1996) Theorizing Diasporas. In: Invited Lecture. English Dept. University of Alberta, 25 April 1996, Edmonton, Canada.

Mishra, V. (1996) V.S. Naipaul and the Indian Diaspora. In: Faculty Seminars. University of California, 3 December 1996, Santa Cruz, CA.

Mishra, V. (1996) V.S.Naipaul, Indenture History and Diasporic Poetics. In: Invited Lecture. Ontario Society for Studies in Indo-Caribbean Culture. York University, 21 April 1996, Toronto, Canada.

Mishra, V. (1995) Diasporic and multicultural approaches to South Asian studies. In: Humanities Research Centre (HRC) Seminar Series, 7 - 8 August 1995, Australian National University, Canberra.

Mishra, V. (1994) Margins, diasporas and borders. In: Empire Studies, 21 March 1994, University of California, Berkley.

Mishra, V. (1994) Postmodern ethnicity and Salman Rushdie. In: English Seminar Series, 31 March 1994, University of Auckland, NZ.

Mishra, V. (1994) The familiar temporariness': Diasporic theories. In: Feminist Studies/Cultural Studies Colloquium Series, 2 February 1994, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Mishra, V. (1992) Segmenting Indian Cinema: The Case of Baiju Bawra. In: South East Asian Studies Seminars, 19th August 1992, Curtin University of Technology.

Mishra, V. (1991) Ethnography and the Study of Literature. In: Public Lecture. Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, 6 December 1991, Georgetown, Guyana.

Mishra, V. (1991) Indian Philosophy, Shankara and Monism. In: Public Lecture, 2 December 1991, Paramaribo, Surinam.

Mishra, V. (1991) Researching the Diaspora. In: Invited Lecture. Mata Gauri Foundation, 1 December 1991, Paramaribo, Surinam.

Mishra, V. (1991) Theories of Postcolonialism. In: Humanities Seminar. University of the South Pacific, 13 August 1991, Suva, Fiji.

Mishra, V. (1991) Theorising Indian Cinema. In: Humanities Seminar. University of the South Pacific, 14 August 1991, Suva, Fiji.

Mishra, V. (1991) What can we do with the Girmit Ideology? In: Public Lecture. University of the South Pacific, 15 August 1991, Suva, Fiji.

Mishra, V. (1985) The Semiotics of Indian Cinema. In: Invited lecture. Balliol College, Oxford University, March 1985, Oxford, UK.

Mishra, V. (1985) Some Early Gothic Texts and their Literary Reception. In: Invited Lecture.St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, February 1985, Oxford, UK.

Book Chapter

Mishra, V. (2018) Literary Theory, Salman Rushdie, and the Global South. In: West-Pavlov, R., (ed.) The Global South and Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 250-263.

Mishra, V. (2018) Transforming Continuum of South Asian Diaspora: In Conversation with Vijay Mishra [by Asis De]. In: Chaubey, A.K. and De, A., (eds.) Mapping South Asian Diaspora: Recent Responses and Ruminations. Rawat Publications, Jaipur, India, pp. 19-29.

Mishra, V. (2018) Writing Indenture History through Testimonios and Oral Narratives. In: Sahoo, A.K. and Hedge, R.S., (eds.) Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora. Routledge, New York, NY, pp. 39-50.

Mishra, V. (2017) Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic Noir. In: Davison, C.M., (ed.) The Gothic and Death. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 174-188.

Mishra, V. (2017) Salman Rushdie: Archival Modernism. In: Acheson, J., (ed.) The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 129-139.

Mishra, V. and Somers, K. (2016) The Odyssey of Indenture. In: Kumar, P.P., (ed.) Contemporary Issues in the Indian Diaspora of South Africa. Serials Publications Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, India, pp. 38-51.

Mishra, V. (2015) Cosmopolitanism and the sonic imaginary in Salman Rushdie. In: Anjaria, U., (ed.) A History of the Indian Novel in English. Cambridge University Press, pp. 177-192.

Mishra, V. (2015) Literary and Cultural Studies: the Early Years. In: Bolton, G., (ed.) Murdoch Voices: The First Forty Years at Murdoch University. Murdoch University, Perth, W.A., pp. 70-75.

Mishra, V. (2014) Bollywood. In: Thrift, N., Tickell, A., Woolgar, S. and Rupp, W.H., (eds.) Globalization in Practice. Oxford University Press, pp. 194-198.

Mishra, V. (2014) Ethical responsibility and the spectres of demonic sacralisation in Swami Vivekananda. In: Chakraborty, M.N., (ed.) Being Bengali: At Home and in the World. Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 114-139.

Mishra, V. (2014) The religious sublime. In: Brown, F.B., (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Religion and The Arts. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 57-76.

Mishra, V. (2013) Plantation culture, Naipaul and the house. In: Bharat, M., (ed.) A House for Mr Biswas. Critical Perspectives. Pencraft International, New Delhi, pp. 53-72.

Mishra, V. (2012) Rene Girard, Jacques Derrida's: The gift of death, and Salman Rushdie. In: Cowdell, S., Fleming, C. and Hodge, J., (eds.) Violence, desire, and the sacred: Girard's mimetic theory across the disciplines. Continuum International Publishing Group, New York, U.S.A, pp. 129-149.

Mishra, V. (2012) The diasporic imaginary and the Indian diaspora. In: Sahoo, A.K., Baas, M. and Faist, T., (eds.) Indian diaspora and transnationalism. Rawat Publications, New Delhi, India.

Mishra, V. (2012) The gothic sublime. In: Punter, D., (ed.) A new companion to the Gothic. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, West Sussex, UK, pp. 288-306.

Mishra, V. (2011) In the arcade of Hanuman House: Ghostly spectres in the diaspora. In: Christian, R. and Misrahi-Barak, J., (eds.) India and the diasporic imagination = L'Inde et l'imagination diasporique. Presses universitaires de la Mediterranee, Montpellier, France, pp. 53-73.

Mishra, V. (2011) Understanding Bollywood. In: Fortner, R.S. and Fackler, P.M., (eds.) The handbook of global communication and media ethics. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, pp. 577-601.

Mishra, V. (2010) Diasporas, nation-states and the self: (1996). In: Stilz, G. and Dengel-Janic, E., (eds.) South Asian Literatures. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Mishra, V. (2010) Hinduism and film: Bollywood. In: Jacobsen, K., Basu, H., Malinar, A. and Narayanan, V., (eds.) Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume II: Sacred texts, ritual traditions, arts, concepts. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 636-651.

Mishra, V. (2010) The gothic sublime. In: Morley, S., (ed.) The Sublime: Documents of Contemporary Arts. Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, pp. 151-157.

Mishra, V. (2009) Perception, convention, expectation and transformation: Representations of Aboriginies in Australian texts. In: Sarwal, A. and Sarwal, R., (eds.) Creative nation: Australian cinema and cultural studies reader. SSS Publications, pp. 253-277.

Mishra, V. (2008) Bollywood. In: Donsbach, W., (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Wiley-Blackwell.

Mishra, V. (2008) Race, speight and the crisis in Fiji. In: Lal, B. and Pretes, M., (eds.) Coup: Reflections on the political crisis in Fiji. ANU E Press, Canberra, ACT, pp. 60-64.

Mishra, V. (2008) Re-mapping Bollywood cinema. In: Donald, J. and Renov, M., (eds.) The SAGE handbook of film studies. SAGE publications Ltd., London, England, pp. 471-492.

Mishra, V. (2008) Towards a theoretical critique of Bombay cinema. In: Dudrah, R. and Desai, J., (eds.) The Bollywood Reader. Open University Press, Berkshire, England, pp. 32-44.

Mishra, V. (2008) 'The familiar temporariness' - Naipaul, diaspora and the literary imagination: A personal narrative. In: Rai, R., (ed.) The South Asian diaspora: Transnational networks and changing identities. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 193-208.

Mishra, V. (2007) Rushdie and Bollywood cinema. In: Gurnah, A., (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, pp. 11-28.

Mishra, V. (2006) Cool Britannia. In: Lal, B.V., (ed.) The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora. University of Hawaii Press, Singapore, p. 344.

Mishra, V. (2006) Traumatic memory, mourning and V.S. Naipaul. In: Ghosh-Schellhorn, M. and Alexander, V., (eds.) Peripheral centres, central peripheries: India and its diaspora(s). Transaction Publishers, Berlin, Germany, pp. 129-155.

Mishra, V. (2006) Voices from the diaspora. In: Lal, B.V., Reeves, P. and Rai, R., (eds.) The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora. University of Hawaii Press, Hawaii, U.S.A, pp. 120-139.

Mishra, V. (2004) Dilkusha. In: Lal, B., (ed.) Bittersweet: An Indo-Fijian experience. Pandanus Books, Canberra, ACT, pp. 141-162.

Mishra, V. (2004) Postmodern racism. In: Robbins, D., (ed.) J-F Lyotard: SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought Series. Sage Publications.

Mishra, V. (2003) Postcolonial differend: Diasporic narratives of Salman Rushdie. In: Bloom, H., (ed.) Salman Rushdie. Chelsea House Publishers, Broomall, PA, pp. 63-98.

Mishra, V. and Hodge, B. (2001) Crimes and punishments. In: Castle, G., (ed.) Postcolonial discourses: An anthology. Blackwell Publishers Ltd, Oxford, England, pp. 331-356.

Mishra, V. (2001) Diasporas and the art of impossible mourning. In: Paranjape, M., (ed.) In diaspora: Theories, histories, texts. Indialog Publications Pvt Ltd, pp. 24-51.

Mishra, V. (2001) The feudal post-colonial: The Fiji Crisis. In: Paranjape, M., (ed.) In diaspora: Theories, histories, texts. Indialog Publications Pvt Ltd, pp. 319-340.

Mishra, V. (1999) Mourning becomes diaspora. In: Lo, J., Beard, D., Cunneen, R. and Ganguly, D., (eds.) Impossible selves: Cultural readings of identity. Australian Scholarly Publishing, pp. 46-71.

Mishra, V. (1999) Postcolonial differend. In: Childs, P., (ed.) Post-colonial theory and English literature: A reader. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 429-438.

Mishra, V. (1998) Introduction to Jane Chong. In: Chong, J., (ed.) My love, why cry: Love in Jane's poetry. Singapore Association of Writers, Singapore.

Mishra, V. (1996) Defining the self. In: Dissanayake, W., (ed.) Narratives of agency. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, U.S.A., pp. 117-150.

Mishra, V. (1996) New lamps for old: Diasporic theory. In: Trivedi, H. and Mukherjee, M., (eds.) Interrogating post-colonialism: Theory, text, and context. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India, pp. 67-85.

Mishra, V. (1994) Criticism[Pacific Writing]. In: Benson, E. and Conolly, L.W., (eds.) The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English. Routledge, London, England, pp. 309-311.

Mishra, V. and Hodge, B. (1993) What is post(-)colonialism? In: Frow, J. and Morris, M., (eds.) Australian cultural studies: A reader. Allen and Unwin, Sydney, Australia, pp. 30-46.

Mishra, V. (1992) The Girmit ideology revisited. In: Nelson, E.S., (ed.) Reworlding: Essays on the literature of the Indian Diaspora. Greenwood Press, New York, U.S.A, pp. 1-12.

Mishra, V. (1992) Kabir and the Bhakti tradition. In: Bailey, G.M. and Kesarcodi-Watson, I., (eds.) Bhakti Studies. Sterling Publishers, Delhi, India, pp. 182-235.

Mishra, V. (1992) Kabir's devotionalism: A translation with extensive notes of P.N.Tiwari's "Kabir ka Sadhna". In: Bailey, G.M. and Kesarcodi-Watson, I., (eds.) Bhakti Studies. Sterling Publishers, Delhi, India, pp. 159-181.

Mishra, V., Salusinszky, I. and Roughley, A. (1991) Making revolutionary act now. In: Denham, R.D., (ed.) A world in a grain of sand : Twenty-two interviews with Northrop Frye. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc, New York, U.S.A, pp. 249-257.

Mishra, V. (1991) The great Indian epic and Peter Brook. In: Williams, D., (ed.) Peter Brook and the Mahabharata: Critical perspectives. Routledge, London, England, pp. 195-205.

Mishra, V. (1989) The texts of 'Mother India'. In: Tiffin, H. and Slemon, S., (eds.) After Europe: Critical theory and post-colonial writing. Dangaroo Press, Sydney, Australia, pp. 119-137.

Mishra, V. (1987) Two truths are told: Tagores Kabir. In: McLeod, W.H. and Schomer, K., (eds.) The Sants: Studies in a devotional tradition of India. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, India, pp. 167-180.

Mishra, V. (1986) The burning bride: Suffering in union. In: Tiwari, K.N., (ed.) Suffering: Indian perspectives. South Asia Books, Delhi, India, pp. 237-261.

Mishra, V. (1983) The Girmit ideology re-examined. In: Nandan, S., (ed.) Language and Literature. The University of the South Pacific/Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Suva, Fiji, pp. 240-253.

Mishra, V. (1978) Indo-Fijian fiction and the Girmit ideology. In: South Pacific Images. South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 53-67.

Book

Mishra, V. (2018) Annotating Salman Rushdie: Reading the Post Colonial. Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis group.

Mishra, V. (2012) What was multiculturalism? A critical retrospect. Melbourne University Press, Carlton, VIC.

Mishra, V. (2007) The literature of the Indian diaspora: Theorizing the diasporic imaginary. Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, Oxon.

Mishra, V. (2002) Bollywood cinema: Temples of desire. Routledge, London, England.

Mishra, V. (1998) Devotional poetics and the Indian sublime. State University of New York, Albany, New York.

Mishra, V. (1994) The gothic sublime. Suny Press, Albany, New York.

Hodge, B. and Mishra, V. (1991) Dark side of the dream : Australian literature and the postcolonial mind. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, Australia.

Mishra, V. (1979) Rama's banishment : A centenary tribute to the Fiji Indians 1879 - 1979. Heinemann Educational, Auckland, New Zealand.

Mishra, V. (1976) A companion to Waves: An anthology for teachers and students. Heinemann Educational, Auckland, New Zealand.

Mishra, V. (1975) Waves: An anthology of verse for schools. Heinemann, Auckland, New Zealand.

Working Paper

Mishra, V. (2006) Bollywood cinema: A critical genealogy. 2006 Victoria University of Wellington. Asian Studies Institute, Wellington, New Zealand.

Others

Mishra, V. (2005) The diasporic imaginary and the Indian diaspora. Asian Studies Institute Occasional Lecture, 2 . pp. 1-30.

Hodge, B. and Mishra, V. (1993) Anthropology and/or/as ‘cultural studies'? A response to Trigger. Anthropological Forum, 6 (4). pp. 614-618.