Modern British and American Fiction; Modernist Literature; World Literature; Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Post-War American Literature; Methodology of Literary Research; English Language Teaching; Professional Communication.

 

 

• Textualizing the Self: Adultery, Blatant Fictions, and Jewishness in Philip Roth's Deception." Ed. Jay L. Halio, Shofar, 19. 1 (Fall 2000): 40- 47. Reprinted in Turning up the Flame: Philip Roth's Later Novels, eds. Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005, 58-67.

• Beast in Chicago: Saul Bellow's Apocalypse in The Dean's December. International Fiction Review, 30 (Spring 2003): 67- 76.

• Monster in Newark: Philip Roth's Apocalypse in American Pastoral. Special Issue on Philip Roth in Studies in American Jewish Literature 23 (2004): 55-66.

• Philip Roth's Nostalgia for the Yiddishkayt and the New Deal Idealisms in The Plot Against America." Philip Roth Studies Vol. 4.2 (Fall 2008): 125- 136.

• Philip Roth's Heroic Ideal in Indignation and Nemesis. Philip Roth: Critical Insights. Ed. Aimee Pozorski. Massachusetts: Salem Press, 2013. 200-19.

• Fiction as Faith: Philip Roth's Testament in Exit Ghost. Philip Roth Studies 10.2 (Fall 2014): 31-45.

 

 

• International Association of University Professors of English, Switzerland.

• Consulting Editor. Philip Roth Studies. Purdue University Press.

• Rahul and Namita Gautam Chair at IIT Kanpur.

• Distinguished Teacher Award conferred by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (2013).

 

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