Marian Aguiar Bio

Dr. Marian Aguiar is interested in how concepts travel in a global context. Her current project explores cultural representations of modernity by looking at the imagination of space in colonial, nationalist and postcolonial contexts. In her book in progress, Tracking Modernity: Secularism, Identity and the Image of the Railway in South Asia, she examines the way colonial and postcolonial writers in India re-imagined modernity through the emblem of the railway. Her work spans the fields of literary and cultural studies, social geography, globalization studies and the history of technology. Marian received her doctorate in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught on numerous topics related to her interests, including Culture and Globalization, Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Literature and Film, and Race and Ethnicity in a Global Context. Several of her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Cultural Critique, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, and Rethinking Marxism, as well as in edited book collections.

	*Marian Aguiar, Assistant Professor, Literary & Cultural Studies*
	Dr. Marian Aguiar is interested in how concepts travel in a global context. Her current project explores cultural representations of modernity by looking at the imagination of space in colonial, nationalist and postcolonial contexts. In her book in progress, Tracking Modernity: Secularism, Identity and the Image of the Railway in South Asia, she examines the way colonial and postcolonial writers in India re-imagined modernity through the emblem of the railway. Her work spans the fields of literary and cultural studies, social geography, globalization studies and the history of technology. Marian received her doctorate in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught on numerous topics related to her interests, including Culture and Globalization, Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Literature and Film, and Race and Ethnicity in a Global Context. Several of her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Cultural Critique, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, and Rethinking Marxism, as well as in edited book collections.