Subarno Chattarji
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Delhi
India
Biography
My research centred around and continues to focus on literary representations of the Vietnam War. While my first book dealt with American poetic responses to the war, I am now working on Vietnamese-American memorializations of that conflict. I am fascinated by the ways in which this body of immigrant/exile writing reconfigures Vietnam from predominantly conservative American points of view while attempting to recuperate specifically South Vietnamese histories. I have been writing on media and the war on terror as well as the mediatization of conflict in India and Pakistan. This seems to fit in with my general interest in war and conflict. I do occasionally deal with more cheerful subjects such as the impact of globalization in India or India’s obsessive relationship with China.
Research Interest
Nineteenth and twentieth century American fiction and poetry. American and Vietnamese representations of the Vietnam/American War and its aftermath. The Vietnamese refugee and immigrant experience in America. Violence studies; media and the 'war on terror'.
Publications
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'"The Chameleon War": Passing Time and the remembrance of the Vietnam War.' In The Last Time I Dreamed About the War : Essays on the Life and Writings of W D Ehrhart, edited, Jean-Jacques Malo (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc.2014), pp. 22-30
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‘Poetry by American women veterans.’ Alea: Estudos Neolatinos, Vol. 16, # 2 (July-Dec 2014), pp. 300-316.
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Co-author with Suman Gupta, Richard Allen, and Supriya Chaudhuri, Reconsidering English Studies in Indian Higher Education. London: Routledge, 2015.
