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Binod Paudyal

Lecturer

bpaudyal@umd.edu

 

Bio

Binod Paudyal is a lecturer in the Asian American Studies Program. 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. Dr. Paudyal also taught Asian American studies courses for the Ethnic Studies Program and literature and writing courses for the English Department at the University of Utah.

Dr. Paudyal’s research and teaching interests include Asian American studies, comparative race and ethnic studies, Asian American literature and film, as well as global diaspora and postcolonial studies. He is currently working on his first book-length monograph, The Trouble with Identity: Asian American Literature in the 21st Century, which investigates new ways of thinking about and understanding the identities in the 21st century, marked by the “global war on terror,” migrant and refugee crisis, and the complex global conditions, in order to expand the geographical and thematic scope of Asian American literary studies.

Education

Ph.D. English (American Studies emphasis), University of Utah (2017)
M.A. American Studies, Utah State University (2010)
M.A. English and American Literature, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (2006)
B.A. English & Economics, Tribhuvan University, Butwal, Nepal (2002)

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, Taylor & Francis, Routledge UK (forthcoming)

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, Options for Teaching Series (forthcoming)


Courses

  • AAST200: Introduction to Asian American (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)

  • AAST355: Asian Americans in Film (Fall 2021)

  • AAST351: Asian Americans and Media (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)

  • AAST498A South Asian American Literature and Culture: Transnationalism and Diaspora (Spring 2022)