J. VIJAY MAHARAJ: CURRICULUM VITAE CONTACT J. VIJAY MAHARAJ: INFORMATION Email: [email protected] or CURRICULUM VITAE [email protected] Skype ID: Vijay Maharaj Twitter: @VijayMaharaj1 WORK: c/o Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies Faculty of Humanities and Education The University of the West Indies St Augustine Telephone (Work): (868) 662-2002 Ext 83039 or 82035 (message) JVijayMaharaj Fax: (868) 663-5059 Email: [email protected] November 5, 2019 1 J. VIJAY MAHARAJ: CURRICULUM VITAE QUALIFICATIONS Granting Institution: The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine 2009 PhD Literatures in English Dissertation Title: ‘A Caribbean Katha: Re-visioning the ‘Indo- Caribbean’ ‘Crisis of Being and Belonging’ through the Literary Imagination. Examines twelve works published between 1877 and 1998 and traces changes and continuities in representations of indentured labourers from India and their Caribbean descendants. Analyzes these changes and continuities in terms of the defining frameworks in which they are embedded – broadly speaking, colonial, anti-colonial / nationalist/ modernist, and finally the postmodernist and postcolonial which include discourses of ethnic re/construction. Engages with the various manifestations of the Caribbean creolisation discourse by examining how ideas of cultural, genetic and other perceived forms of mixing are articulated within the frameworks mentioned above The research is informed by and organized in terms of an indigenous discursive/ story-telling form – the Asian kathaa November 5, 2019 2 J. VIJAY MAHARAJ: CURRICULUM VITAE re created in the Caribbean by the descendants of the indentured labourers. This move is an attempt to own the theoretical space of aesthetic analysis as per the concept of the ‘organic intellectual.’ This was posited internationally by Antonio Gramsci and appropriated via Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze by Caribbean and postcolonial intellectuals such as Stuart Hall, Edouard Glissant, Edward Said and others. But it has also always been articulated independently in Caribbean writing by Wilson Harris. George Lamming, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, V.S Naipaul, Sylvia Wynter and others. December 2006 Certificate in (University) Tertiary Level (CUTL) Teaching (See https://sta.uwi.edu/cetl/teaching/cutl/main.asp for programme composition) August 2001 Certificate in Language Teaching and Learning February 2000 B.A (Hons) - Majors - Literatures in English, Sociology Granting Institution: Corinth Teachers College July 1996 Teachers’ Diploma November 5, 2019 3 J. VIJAY MAHARAJ: CURRICULUM VITAE PUBLICATIONS I - Chapters in Academic Monographs: Introduction - The First Naipaul Seven: From The Mystic Masseur to The Middle Passage and Beyond Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 (forthcoming). ‘A Case of Too Many Mystic Masseurs” Chapter in The First Naipaul Seven: From The Mystic Masseur to The Middle Passage and Beyond Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 (forthcoming). Introduction - Memories of India ed. J Vijay Maharaj and Radica Mahase Delhi: Manohar, 2019 (forthcoming). Introduction - Seepersad and Sons: Naipaulian Synergies. Peepal Tree Press, 2019 ‘The Mustard Seed’ Chapter in Seepersad and Sons: Naipaulian Synergies. Peepal Tree, 2019 ‘Unknown Protagonists of Independence’ Chapter in Fires of Hope: Fifty Years of Independence in Trinidad and Tobago ed Debra Mc Collin Kingston, Jamaica: The UWI Press, 2016. November 5, 2019 4 J. VIJAY MAHARAJ: CURRICULUM VITAE ‘Cascadura Lovesongs: Displacing Indo-, Afro-, and Other Centricities in Selvon’s Romance’ - Chapter in Beyond Calypso: Re-reading Samuel Selvon ed. Malachi McIntosh. Kingston Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, 2016. ‘The Nation in the Literary Imagi-Nation: A Question of Human Dignity’ - Chapter in Contemporary Caribbean Dynamics: Reconfiguring Caribbean Culture ed. Beatrice Boufoy-Bastick and Savrina Chinien. Kingston Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, 2015. ‘A Study of the Imperial Gaze: Jenkins’s Lutchmee and Dilloo’ - Chapter in Postscripts: Caribbean Perspectives on the British Canon from Shakespeare to Dickens ed. Barbara Lalla and Giselle Rampaul. Kingston, Jamaica: The UWI Press, 2014. ‘Mr Biswas: Paragon of Creole Virtues’ - Chapter in V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas: Critical Perspectives ed. Meenakshi Bharat. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2013. ‘Caribbean Politics and Poetics’ - Chapter in Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature ed. Mariam Pirbhai and Joy Mahabir. New York and London: Routledge, 2012. ‘A Mala in Obeisance: Hinduism in Select Works by V. S. Naipaul’ - Chapter in Created in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul ed. Jennifer Rahim and Barbara Lalla. Kingston, Jamaica: The UWI Press, 2011. November 5, 2019 5 J. VIJAY MAHARAJ: CURRICULUM VITAE II - Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals “The Politics and Aesthetics of Recognition: A Case of Too Many Masseurs?” Tout Moun: A Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies May 2019 Review of Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought in The Journal of West Indian Literature November 2017 ‘The Trials of Becoming a Man in Cyril Dabydeen’s The Wizard Swami’ in Journal of West Indian Literature Vol 21 Nos. 1&2 November 2012 ‘Negotiations of Multiculturalism through Mimicry and Hybridity’ in Journal of the Department of Behavioural Sciences UWI St Augustine Vol. 1 No 1 March 2012 ‘Banal Violence: Abject Plantation Legacies’ in Tout Moun: A Journal of Caribbean Cultural Studies Vol l No 1 August 2011 ‘A Mala in Obeisance’ Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Vol 5 No 2 2007. III – edited collections Seepersad and Sons: Naipaulian Creative Synergies ed. J. Vijay Maharaj Peepal Tree Press, 2019 November 5, 2019 6 J. VIJAY MAHARAJ: CURRICULUM VITAE Memories of India ed. J Vijay Maharaj and Radica Mahase Delhi: Manohar, 2019 (forthcoming). The First Naipaul Seven: From The Mystic Masseur to The Middle Passage and Beyond Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 (forthcoming). Other Publications 1. “Seepersad & Sons Conference to explore the role of the Naipaul family” UWI Today Sunday 3rd May, 2015 p. 14 2. “Seepersad & Sons: The Debunking of Myths” UWI Today Sunday 7th June, 2015 p. 21 3. “Shiva in the Naipaul Dynasty” UWI Today Sunday 5th July, 2015 p. 17 4. “The Plenitude of VS Naipaul” UWI Today Sunday 6th September, 2015 p. 15 5. “A Writer’s People for V.S. Naipaul: Created in the West Indies” UWI Today Sunday 6th September, 2018 pp. 8-9. See https://sta.uwi.edu/uwitoday/pdfs/UWItodayseptember2018.pdf 6. “Teaching V.S. Naipaul in the Caribbean” Conversations August 28, 2018. See https://theconversation.com/teaching-v-s-naipaul-in-the-caribbean- 101653 November 5, 2019 7 J. VIJAY MAHARAJ: CURRICULUM VITAE SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS October 2019 “Naipaulian Aesthetics: From Fact to Fiction in ‘The Killings in Trinidad and Guerrillas” presented at the 48th Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin at Madison August 2019 “Caribbean Aesthetics in Guerrillas” presented at CARIFESTA 2019 held at the University of the West Indies St Augustine June 2019 “The Question of Reparation in the work of Earl Lovelace” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association held at Brown University Rhode Island USA November 2018 – “The View from the Shoulders on which I Stand: On Ryhaan Shah’s A Silent Life” presented at the 25th Anniversary Celebrations of the Institute of Gender and Development Studies The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus September 2017 – ‘ISBN: Caribbean Theory and Faction’ presented at the 36th Annual West Indian Literature Conference, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine. May 2017 – ‘Interrogation of “Common Sense” in Ralph de Boissiere’s Rum and Coca-Cola’ presented at the second annual Stuart Hall conference The University of the West Indies, Mona campus November 5, 2019 8 J. VIJAY MAHARAJ: CURRICULUM VITAE October 2015 – ‘Under the Sign of Unhappiness: Future Theoretical Directions for Reading the Naipauls’ Writing’ presented at the conference Seepersad and Sons: Naipaulian Creative Synergies at the UWI St Augustine campus May 2015 – ‘Beyond Words: The Mixed-up Life of the Indo-Caribbean Woman’ presented at the Indian Diaspora Conference hosted by the Department of History at the UWI St Augustine campus November 2014: ‘Hinduism in Caribbean Literature: Moments with V. S. Naipaul’ presented at the annual International Conference on Caribbean Literature (ICCL) Curacao March 2013: ‘Joining the Calls for Reparations for Enslavement: Earl Lovelace’s Call in Salt’ presented at the Annual Conference of the National Council for Black Studies at IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana October 2012: ‘The Nation in the Literary Imagination: A Question for Human Dignity’ presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the West Indian Literature Conference ‘Imagined Nations, 50 Years Later: Reflections on Independence and Federation in the Caribbean’ Hosted by: Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Miami Coral Gables, Miami, Florida May 2012: ‘Antyesthi Samskara: Messages from Experiences of Death’ Indian Diaspora Conference hosted by Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) in St Vincent June 2011: ‘Hum na Jani; Kuch na Bol: Being and Becoming Indo-Caribbean’ Global South Asian Diaspora Conference, UWI, St Augustine November 5, 2019 9 J. VIJAY MAHARAJ: CURRICULUM VITAE April 2011: ‘Kathaa: A New Research Methodology’ New Geographies: Globalization Conference. University of the West Indies St Augustine June 2010: ‘Indo-Caribbean Women on the Political