Laverne Nishihara
Associate Professor of English
Whitewater Hall 274
(765) 973-8414
lnishiha@iu.edu
Education
- PhD in English, University of Virginia, 1989
- MA in English, University of Virginia, 1982
- BA in English, University of Hawaii, 1981
Current Teaching and Research Interests
British Commonwealth and postcolonial literature, medicine and literature, British literature since 1900, women's and gender studies, composition
Selected Publications and Presentations
- “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)
Faculty Senate Leadership
- Faculty Senate President 2009-2013; 2019-2020
Selected Awards
- Outstanding HSS Faculty Award (2020)
- Helen Lees Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006)
- Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) (2002)