Faculty Profile

Associate Professor of English
Whitewater Hall 274
(765) 973-8414
lnishiha@iu.edu

British Commonwealth and postcolonial literature, medicine and literature, British literature since 1900, women's and gender studies, composition

“A Postcolonial Chronicle of Medicine and Art in Kerala: Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water” at the 33rd Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (February 2024)
“Michael Ondaatje, Narrative Medicine, and the South Asian Physician-Writers” at the 32nd Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (online) (February 2023)
“South Asian Physician-Writers in the time of Covid-19” at the 30th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (online) (February 2021)
“Mortality and the Sense of an Ending in the Memoirs of Physician-Writers Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi” at the 27th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (February 2018)
“Sayantani DasGupta, Feminist Physician-Writer of the South Asian Diaspora” at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference (November 2015)
“Resistance in South Asian American Medical Narratives” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference (March 2013)
“Oppositions of East and West, Female and Male in Medical Narratives of the South Asian Diaspora” at the 22nd Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (February 2013)
“‘The Fetters of That Strange Freedom’: Boundary as Regulating Technique in Lord Jim” in Conradiana: An International Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies (Spring 1996)