Brinda J Mehta - Mills College Oakland CA

Brinda Mehta is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mills College in Oakland, California, where she teaches postcolonial African and Caribbean literature, transnational feminist theory, and contemporary French literature. She is the author of four books: Notions of Identity, Diaspora and Gender in Caribbean Women’s Writing (forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2009); Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writing (Syracuse University Press, 2007), Diasporic (Dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani (winner of the Frantz Fanon Prize, University Press of the West Indies, 2004), and Corps infirme, corps infâme: la femme dans le roman balzacien (Summa Publications, 1992). She has also published numerous articles on postcolonial literatures in journals such as South Atlantic Quarterly, Meridians, Callaloo.