天美传媒

Colonialism, Romanticism, and nineteenth-century French and Francophone culture

PhD University of Pennsylvania

• Forthcoming. Disruptive Narratives: Slavery and Fiction in the French Indian Ocean (1831-1848). Liverpool University Press. Sole-authored monograph.
• Forthcoming. Ourika, Édouard, and Olivier by Claire de Duras. Oxford University Press, World’s Classics Series. Translation and critical edition with Chris Miller.
• Pratima Prasad Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Service 2022
•  2020. “Inclusion and Equity in the University: Reflections of a Teacher-Scholar-Administrator.” H-France Salon 12.1. Invited essay.
• 2020. (Paris: L’Harmattan, Autrement Mêmes collection). Edited anthology with the collaboration of Roger Little.
• 2020. Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (24.1: 1-16). Sole-authored refereed journal article.
• 2019. In Douthwaite, Julia, Antoinette Sol, and Catriona Seth, eds. Teaching Representations of the French Revolution (NY: PMLA, 2019, 78-86). Sole-authored essay in refereed edited volume.
• 2016. (NY: PMLA). Co-edited volume with David Powell.
• 2015. In Bernard-Griffiths, Simone, and Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, eds., Dictionnaire George Sand (Paris: Honoré Champion). Sole-authored dictionary entry.
• 2013. Lingua Romana (11.1: 9-24). Sole-authored invited journal article.
• 2009. (NY: Routledge). Sole-authored monograph.
• 2007. (Newark: University of Delaware Press). Co-edited volume with Susan McCready.
• 2007. L’Esprit Créateur (47.4: 1-15). Sole-authored refereed journal article.
• 2006. In Laporte, Dominique, ed. L’Autre en mémoire (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 147-165). Sole-authored essay in refereed edited volume.
• 2004. Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (3: 34-54). Sole-authored refereed journal article.
• 2004. (1: 1-4). Sole-authored invited journal article.
• 2003. Etudes littéraires (35.2&3: 71-85). Sole-authored refereed journal article.
• 2001. “Uncovering Narrative Convention in Sand’s Lélia.” (George Sand Studies 20.1&2: 7-20). Sole-authored refereed journal article.
• 2000. “Displaced Performances: The Erotics of George Sand’s Theatrical Space.” Romance Notes (40.2: 223-33). Sole-authored refereed journal article.
• 1999. “Deceiving Disclosures: Androgyny and George Sand’s Gabriel.” French Forum (24.3: 331-51). Sole-authored refereed journal article.
• 1997. “(De)masking the Other Woman in George Sand’s Indiana.” Romance Languages Annual (8: 104-09). Sole-authored article in conference proceedings.

In her current research, she studies the Indian Ocean as it has been imagined, mythologized, observed, and examined by French and francophone writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has published a  of nineteenth-century novels and short stories about marronnage in the Reunion Island of the Indian Ocean. Her ongoing book project (forthcoming with The Liverpool University Press) uncovers the literary history of the French Indian Ocean during the July Monarchy (1830-1848). In addition to several article-length writings, she has published two co-edited books: first explores  the second is a collection of essays on  Notable professional service roles include Book Review Editor for Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Board Member of the Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French, and Vice-President of the George Sand Studies Association.

Professor Prasad has been teaching at the 天美传媒 since 2002. She has taught classes at all levels of the French program, including introductory and intermediate language courses, literary surveys, and seminars on nineteenth-century culture and French and francophone cinema. She has occupied several leadership roles at UMass Boston, including Chair of the MLLC Department, Associate Dean of CLA, and currently, Dean of CLA.