Dr. Tamara A. Bhalla
Associate Professor · Tenured
Department of American Studies
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
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About
Professor Bhalla’s research focuses on the social, cultural, and community-building uses and values of contemporary American popular fiction. Other research interests include South Asian American literary and cultural studies, Afro-Asian feminisms, ethnic American reading communities, and literary reception. She received her PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan.Teaching interests
Professor Bhalla teaches both introductory and upper-level core courses in the American Studies department on Asian American literature and culture, multiethnic literatures and cultures, and post-1965 narratives of immigration to the United States.Education
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Ph D, Language and Literature
— University of Michigan (2008) Between History and Identity: Reading the Authentic in South Asian Diasporic Literature and Community
- MA, Language and Literature — University of Michigan (2003)
- BA, English — Boston University (2000)