Priya Joshi (Ph.D., Columbia) is Associate Professor in the English department.  Prior to joining Temple in 2005, Joshi was Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught since 1995. 

Joshi is the author of In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003). The book is a cultural history of the consumption and production of the English novel in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. It won numerous awards including the Modern Language Association's First Book Prize; the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for best first book in Victorian studies by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association; a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; and honorable mention for the SHARP Book History Prize. Joshi is currently at work on a book-length project entitled Crime and Punishment: Nationalism and Public Fantasy in Bollywood Cinema in which she studies popular Hindi film and the fabrication of national identities in postcolonial India. The volume is something of a sequel to In Another Country in its exploration of popular forms, public cultures, and postcolonial modernities in South Asia.

Professor Joshi has recently appeared as a guest on public radio shows on Bollywood, including on Forum in San Francisco, Chicago's Odyssey, Cityscape in St. Louis, and University of  the Air in Madison, Wisconsin.  Recent lectures have included "Enid Blyton, Julie Andrews, and Bollywood:  The Transnational Fabrication of Indian Girliness" at Jadavpur University, Calcutta; and "Bollywood:  A People's History of India" at the Harvard Humanities Center.

During her year as a Faculty Fellow, Professor Joshi will be working on her Bollywood project and continuing as convener of Temple's New India Seminar, which she founded in 2006 with support from CHAT, CLA, and the Fox Business School's CIBER program.

Photo by Sipra Das.