Snehal Shingavi
Associate Professor — PhD, University of California-Berkeley

Contact
- E-mail: snehal.shingavi@utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-8114
- Office: PAR 26
- Office Hours: MW 1-2 (Fall 2018)
- Campus Mail Code: B5000
Interests
Anglophone South Asian literature, 20th century literature, Hindi/Urdu literature, Literature in Translation and Translation Theory, Theories of “the nation” and/or postcolonialism, Classical Marxism, Ethnic and Third World Literature, Asian American Literature
Biography
Snehal Shingavi is associate professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin, where he teaches South Asian literatures in English, Hindi, and Urdu, as well as the literature of the South Asian diaspora, including Asian American literature. He received his PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley and has taught previously at Notre Dame de Namur University and the University of Mary Washington. He is the author of The Mahatma Misunderstood: the politics and forms of literary nationalism in India (Anthem Books, 2013). He has also translated Munshi Premchand’s Hindi novel, Sevasadan [The Orphanage] (Oxford, 2005), the Urdu short-story collection, Angaaray [Firebrands] (Penguin, 2014), and Bhisham Sahni’s autobiography, Today’s Pasts (Penguin, 2015). With Vasudha Dalmia, he has also published a translation of Agyeya’s Shekhar: A Life (Penguin, 2018). He is currently working on two book-length manuscripts (The Country and the City, the Jungle and the Slum: the neoliberal landscapes of South Asian literature and A Critical History of Hindi Literature) and several translation projects (Joginder Paul’s Urdu novel A Single Drop of Blood, Yashpal’s Hindi novella Geeta: Party Comrade, and Mannu Bhandari and Rajendra Yadav’s joint Hindi novel The Barest of Smiles).
Courses
UGS 303 • Bollywood India And After
62230-62255 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CLA 0.128
GC
ID
ANS 320 • Salman Rushdie
30759 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM PAR 304
GC
(also listed as E 349S)
E 397N • Theories/Lits Of Decolonizatn
34850 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM CAL 221
UGS 302 • Humanitarian Aid Worker Story
61240 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MAI 220C
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ID
UGS 303 • Bollywood India And After
61495-61520 • Fall 2015
Meets MW 3:00PM-4:00PM CLA 0.102
ID
E F314L • Banned Books And Novel Ideas
82520 • Summer 2015
Meets MTWTHF 1:00PM-2:30PM PAR 302
GCWr
AAS 320 • Global Indian Literature
35275 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM PAR 208
GC
(also listed as ANS 361, E 360L)
C L 386 • South Asian Novel
33175 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CAL 221
(also listed as E 397N)
ANS 361 • Contemporary Pakistani Fiction
31895 • Fall 2014
Meets MWF 12:00PM-1:00PM BEN 1.122
GC
(also listed as E 360L)
E 350R • Marx's Capital
35840 • Fall 2014
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM GAR 2.128
AAS 320 • Literature Of Islamophobia
36495 • Spring 2014
Meets MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM PAR 105
GC
(also listed as E 360S, ISL 372, R S 346)
UGS 303 • Bollywood India And After
64890-64900 • Spring 2014
Meets MW 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 203
ID
ANS 320 • Class And Indian Fiction
31795 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM CAL 323
IIWr
(also listed as E 379R)
E 393M • Marxism/Subaltern/Postcolonial
36180 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM CAL 200
AAS 320 • Global Indian Literature
36010 • Spring 2013
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM PAR 306
GC
(also listed as ANS 361, E 360L)
E 350R • Marxism And Literature
35535 • Spring 2013
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM PAR 306
AAS 320 • Literature Of Islamophobia
36035 • Fall 2012
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM PAR 206
GC
(also listed as ANS 361, E 360S, ISL 372)
ANS 361 • Contemporary Pakistani Fiction
31585 • Fall 2012
Meets MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM PAR 105
GC
(also listed as E 360L, ISL 372)
ANS 320 • Salman Rushdie
31459 • Fall 2011
Meets MWF 12:00PM-1:00PM PAR 105
GC
(also listed as E 349S)
E 397N • Slumdogs And Millionaires
35720 • Fall 2011
Meets MW 3:30PM-5:00PM MEZ 1.104
E S314L • Banned Books And Novel Ideas
83760 • Summer 2011
Meets MTWTHF 2:30PM-4:00PM PAR 210
GCWr
ANS 361 • Contemporary Pakistani Fiction
31845 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM PAR 105
(also listed as E 360L)
AAS 320 • Global Indian Literature
35595 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM PAR 105
(also listed as ANS 361, E 360L)
ANS 372 • Literary South Asian Islam
30772 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MEZ 1.122
IIWr
(also listed as E 379R, ISL 372, R S 341)
E 360L • Colonial Educ & Global Eng Lit
34905 • Spring 2010
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 105
E 379S • Senior Seminar-W
35325 • Fall 2009
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM MEZ 1.216
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Editorial & Articles
Books
The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India
Articles, Peer Reviewed
“Agyeya’s Unfinished Revolution: Sexual and Social Freedom in Shekhar: Ek Jivani,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (September 2016). (In preparation)
“Capitalism, Caste, and Con-games in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger,” Postcolonial Text 9.3 (2014)
“Premchand and Language: On Translation, Cultural Nationalism, and Irony.” The Annual of Urdu Studies 28 (2013): 149-64.
Book Chapters
“Bloomsbury Conversations that Didn’t Happen: Indian writing between British modernism and anti-colonialism.” Futility and Anarchy? British Literature in Transition, 1920-1940, ed. Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill. British Literature in Translation 2. London: Cambridge University Press, 2016. (forthcoming)
“When the Pen was Mightier than the Sword: The Radical Career of the Progressive Novel in India,” A History of the Indian Novel in English, ed. Ulka Anjaria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
“Slumdogs and Millionaires: facts and fictions of India’s economic (under)development.” The Slumdog Phenomenon: A Critical Anthology, ed. Ajay Gehlawat. London: Anthem Press, 2013. 91-105.
“Lavish Weddings and Nostalgic Delhis: Anticolonial Aesthetics in Ahmed Ali’s Fiction.” The Two Sided Canvas: Perspectives on Ahmed Ali, ed. Mehr Afshan Farooqi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013: 151-73.
“The Mahatma as Proof: the nationalist origins of the historiography of Indian writing in English.” Nationalist Ideology and the Historiography of Literature in South Asia. Ed. Hans Harder. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2010: 353-75.
“Palestinian Armed Struggle.” The Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Vol. 1. New York: Lynne Reiner Publishers, 2008. 114-29. [Co-authored with Phillip Gasper]
“Martin Espada.” The Facts on File Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry. Ed. Kimmelman, Cone, Huff. New York: Facts on File, 2007: 182-3.
“Telecom workers fight privatization.” The Great PTCL Strike against Privatization. Lahore: Shanakht Press, 2005: 20-30.