Dr. Ubaraj Katawal
Professor of English
- Ph.D. of English
Binghamton University (2012) - M.A. of English
Clark University (2007) - B.A. of English
Tribhuvan University (1999)
Teaching Fields:
Ubaraj Katawal received his Ph.D. from Binghampton University in 2012. His areas of interest are Contemporary British and Anglophone literatures, including South Asian literature. He is also interested in ethnic American literature.
His work has appeared in Boundary 2, Postcolonial Text, and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. He has presented at the Modern Language Association (MLA) conferences, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conferences, South Asian Literary Association (SALA), and Multi-ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) conferences, among others. In his current book project, Dr. Katawal examines postcolonial violence through contemporary South Asian fiction. He was also the recipient of a Faculty Seed Grant in 2014.
Authored:
"Reader-Response Theory." Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications. Ed. Puspa Damai. Routledge, 2026. 43-50
"Local Traditions, Colonial Modernity and the Politics of PressuresL Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things," Symploke 32.1-2 (2024): 261-276.
"The Price of Honor and 'Evental Truth'": Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown," South Atlantic Review (2023): 140-156. Also Winner of SAR Essay Prize in 2024.
"Maoist Revolution and Trauma: Fight or Flight in Manjushree Thapa's Seasons of Flight." Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature. Eds. Gautam Kamrakar and Zeenat Khan. Routledge, 2023. 181-190.
He believes that a teacher “should not foist his bias on students, but objectivity should not create the impression that value judgements are unimportant” (Louise M. Rosenblatt).