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Binod Paudyal

Senior Lecturer

bpaudyal@umd.edu

 

Bio

Binod Paudyal is a senior lecturer in the Asian American Studies Program and at the University of Maryland. He is also an affiliate fellow in the Honors College. Prior to joining the University of Maryland in 2021, he developed and taught a range of courses in Asian American studies and general ethnic studies in the Ethnic Studies Program at Northern Arizona University.

Binod’s research and teaching interests include Asian American studies, Asian American literature and film, and South Asian diaspora and postcolonial studies. He is primarily interested in examining the dynamics of identity politics, shaped by social constructions of caste, religion, sexuality, gender, class, and national status, by looking at the intersectional relationships between US race relations, an Asian American critique of American imperialism, and the diverse Asian migratory trajectories to the United States. His current research projects focus on issues of invisibility and undesirability in twenty-first century South Asian American literature and culture, influenced by the global war on terror, migrant and refugee crises, and complex global conditions.

Education

PhD, English (American Studies emphasis), University of Utah
M.A., American Studies, Utah State University
M.A., English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
B.A., English & Economics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Research and Publications

Paudyal, Binod. “Reimagining Transnational Identity in Lahiri’s The Namesake.” South Asian Review 36.2 (2015): 195-214. DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2015.11933025

Paudyal, Binod. “Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-Cosmopolitan Fiction.” Special Issue on “Borders, Boundaries, and Margins.” South Asian Review 36.3 (2015): 15-32. DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2015.11933031

Paudyal, Binod. “Beyond Identity Politics: Transcultural and Multiple Allegiances in Parajuly’s Land Where I Flee.” Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Critical Essays on Literature and Culture, edited by Anwar Waseem, Routledge, 2022.

Paudyal, Binod. “Resisting New Racialization: Teaching Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist in Ethnic Studies Courses.” Teaching South Asian Diasporic Literature, edited by Nalini Iyer and Pallavi Rastogi, Modern Language Association of America, 2024. Options for Teaching Series.

Courses

  • AAST200: Introduction to Asian American Studies

  • AAST298Q: Displaced Lives: War, Memory, Globalization, and Transmigration in Asian American Literature and Culture

  • HNUH268Q: Displaced Lives and Stolen Identities in Asian American Literature and Culture

  • AAST350: South Asian American Experiences

  • AAST351 Asian Americans and Media

  • AAST355: Asian Americans in Film

  • AAST440: South Asian American Literature and Culture