Associate Professor

Name:	Antonia Navarro Tejero
Position:	Associate Professor
Research group:	Teoría y Estudios Culturales (HUM 409)
Telephone:	+34 957 21 21 12
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Address:	Facultad Filosofía y Letras (frente aula XV)

Antonia Navarro-Tejero, Ph.D. in English, has lived and lectured in the USA, India and Spain. She teaches Cultural Studies and South Asian Literature at Universidad de Córdoba (Spain), where she chairs the Permanent Seminar on India Studies. Among other awards and recognitions, she was a 2004-2005 Fulbright post-doctoral scholar at University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include Transnational Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Feminist Theory and Criticism with emphasis on India and its diaspora. She is the India Studies Series Editor for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and is the author of the books Globalizing Dissent: Essays on Arundhati Roy (Routledge, 2009), Gender and Caste in the Anglophone-Indian Novels of Arundhati Roy and Githa Hariharan: Feminist Issues in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005), Talks on Feminism: Indian Women Activists Speak for Themselves (Sarup and Sons, 2008), among other publications. She has presented papers at conferences around the world on issues of subalternity, and was Founder-President of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies. Prof Navarro currently leads work package "Embodiments" in the research project "Bodies in Transit 2"