# overview
My research interests include South Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultural Production; 20th and 21st Century U.S. Multi-Ethnic and Postcolonial Literatures; Visual and Material Cultures; Fashion and Beauty; Transnational Feminisms and Queer Theory; Critical Race Studies

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University of California, Davis - (Davis, California, United States)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
University of California, Davis - (Davis, California, United States)

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Trinity University - (San Antonio, Texas, United States)

# publications[].label
Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia                     . By L. Ayu Saraswati. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2013.

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Fashioning Diaspora Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture

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Jhumpa Lahiri's Feminist Cosmopolitics and the Transnational Beauty Assemblage

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THE NATIONALIZATION OF THE GLOBAL INDIAN WOMAN

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Afro-Asian Intimacies and the Politics and Aesthetics of Cross-Racial Struggle in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala

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Beauty and the Limits of National Belonging in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

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Texas A&M University; English; 4227 TAMU