Babli Sinha is a Professor of English at Kalamazoo College. She received a PhD in English literature from The University of Chicago, a MA in French literature from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a BA in French and English literatures from Washington and Lee University. She is the author of The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production: Signifying Colonial Trauma (Routledge 2024); Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India: Entertaining the Raj (Routledge, 2013) and editor of South Asian Transnationalisms: Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2012). Articles include “Empire films and the dissemination of Americanism in colonial India,” (South Asian History and Culture, 2011), “Dissensus, Education, and Lala Lajpat Rai’s Encounter with W.E.B. DuBois,” (South Asian History and Culture, 2015), “’Lowering our Prestige’: American cinema, mass consumerism, and racial anxiety in colonial India.” (Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 2009), “Trauma, Realism, and the Bengal Famine of 1943,” (Cultural Dynamics, 2020), “Collective Suffering and the possibility of empathy in Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss(Commonwealth Literature, 2018), “The BBC Eastern Service and the Crisis of Cosmopolitanism.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, 2018), “Managing Orientalism: Biography, Performance, and the Films of Sabu and Merle Oberon.” (South Asian Diaspora, 2016), and “A “strangely un-English actress”: Race, legibility, and the films of Merle Oberon.” Journal of Popular Film and Television, 2016).

ENGL 221: African Literature

ENGL : African Cinemas of Belonging