Faculty Profile

Associate Professor of English
2019-2020 Faculty Senate President
Whitewater Hall 274
(765) 973-8414
lnishiha@iue.edu

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

“Heart Disease and the South Asian Experience in Physician-Writer Sandeep Jauhar’s Heart: A History” at the 28th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (February 2019)
“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)
“Medicine and Activism in the Memoirs of Feminist Physician-Writers Nawal El Saadawi and Sayantani DasGupta” at the 26th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (February 2017)
“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)