PROF. MADYA DR. SHANTHINI PILLAI
email: spillai2900@gmail.com
Area of Expertise: I have a keen research interest in the intersections of Language, Culture and the Media in cultural productions, with particular emphasis on diasporic communities and the journey towards nation building. These range from literary texts, sociological enquiries and popular media. My research specialty is further strengthened by a substantial number of publications in international refereed and indexed journals as well as scholarly academic books that centre on the diasporic imaginary and inter-ethnic engagement. Key among this is research that repositions the established tables of value judgments of the South Indian diaspora and the the ways in which South Asian diasporic communities set into sequence a reterritorialised Indian self that engages with the nation.
Education : PhD IN Literary Studies (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE), 2004; MA IN Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures in English (UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, 1996; B.A. (Hons.) English (UNIVERSITY MALAYA) 1995
Involvement in Research Projects as Lead Research Investigator : Nativisation and the constructions of Nationhood in the Cultural Narratives of the Malaysian Catholic Community ( Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Visiting Senior Research Fellowship
Transnational Malaysian Fiction: Outsider-insider Perspectives (FRGS 2010-2012), Developing Understanding and Appreciation of Literature and Critical Reading Concepts through Multimodal Approaches (UKM 2009), Homeliness in Contemporary Australian Writing: The Intersecting Passages of Migration, Nationhood and Gender (Australia-Malaysia Institute Fellowships 2007)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Shanthini Pillai. 2013. Syncretic Cultural Multivocality and the Malaysian Popular Music Imaginary. Kajian Malaysia : Journal of Malaysian Studies 31(1) : 1-18
- Shanthini Pillai. 2012. “Memory and the Diasporic Creative Imagination: Preeta Samarasan’s Evening is the Whole Day” 2012. Kritika Kultura. 18 : 44-56
- Shanthini Pillai. 2012. ‘Resignifying “Coolie”: Amitav Ghosh’s the glass palace’. In Chitra Sankaran (Ed.), History, Narrative, And Testimony In Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction. Albany, NY : SUNY
- Chitra Sankaran and Shanthini Pillai. 2011 “Transnational Tamil Television and Diasporic Imaginings”. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 14(3)277-289.
- Shanthini Pillai and Sharenee Philomena Paramasivam. 2011. From the Fringes of the Diasporic Garment Creative Pageants of Indian Christian Identity from Malaysia and Singapore. South Asian Diaspora 3:1, 71–88)
- Shanthini Pillai. 2010. Essentialism And The Diasporic Native Informant: Malaysia In Hsu Ming Teo’s Love And Vertigo. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 10 (1), pp. 3-15
- Ganakumaran Subramaniam & Shanthini Pillai. 2009. Reconciling Malaysian Chinese Identity: Multiple Passages to Nationhood. SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English. No. 48, pp. 56-74
- Shanthini Pillai. 2008. “Reterritorialising Literary Studies: Deconstructing the Scripts of Empire” in 3L : Language, Linguistics and Literature. The South East Asian Journal of English Language Studies 14(149-168)
- Shanthini Pillai. 2007. “Occidental Echoes: Beth Yahp’s Ambivalent Malaya” in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Womens Liberation , 33 (1), Pp. 174-189.
- Shanthini Pillai. 2004. In Gendered Chambers: The Figure of the Indian Immigrant Woman of Colonial Malaya in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation, 30.1,. Pp.141-160
- Shanthini Pillai. 2004 “Reclaiming Space on a Transforming Plantocratic Chequerboard: Pierre Boulle’s Sacrilege in Malaya” in The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol 5:1 (Spring)
- Shanthini Pillai . 2000 “A Portrait of the Imagination as a Malleable Kolam: KS Maniam’s In a Far Country” in Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol 5: 1 (Autumn)
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