Manhattanville
College
Manhattanville
College
Binita Mehta, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of French
B.A. St. Xavier's College, Bombay, India
M.A. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Ph.D. City University of New York Graduate School, New York, New York
Office: Founders G-26B
Tel: (914) 323-5407 (x5407)
mehtab@mville.edu
Book: Widows, Pariahs, and ‘Bayadères’: India as Spectacle. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2002.
Entry
on “Prester John” in Medieval
Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs.
Eds. Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow.
Vol. 2. California: ABC-CLIO
Inc., 2000. 789-91.
Biographical
essay on the nineteenth-century French playwright Casimir Delavigne, Dictionary
of Literary Biography, volume 192: French
Dramatists, 1789 - 1914. Ed. Barbara T. Cooper.
Columbia, South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 1998.
65-70.
“Emigrants Twice Displaced: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala.” Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality. Eds. Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. 185-203. Reprinted in Screening Asian Americans. Ed. Peter X Feng. New Brunswick, New Jersey; London: Rutgers University Press, 2002. 217-34.
“La
Veuve du Malabar: une représentation de l’Inde dans le théâtre français.”
Francographies. Actes I.
Ed. Jean Macary. New York: SPFFA, 1995. 297-300.
Recent Conferences and Talks
"Comment peut-on être français?’: Negotiating Identities in Colline Serreau’s Chaos (2001) and Julie Bertuccelli’s Depuis qu’Otar est parti (2003).” Issues in Popular Contemporary French Cinema, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester in Manchester, England, January 12-13, 2006.
“Names, Places, Identities: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, Faculty Lecture Series, April 6, 2005. Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
“Haiti: 200 Years of Independence.” Co-organizer of joint Manhattanville College-SUNY Purchase Interdisciplinary conference on the 200th anniversary of Haitian independence, October 29, 2004. Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Panelist,
Faculty Lecture Series, “The US and the World Community,”
April 2 and 29, 2004, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
“Performing
India: Hélène Cixous’s and Ariane Mnouchkine’s L’Indiade ou l’Inde de leurs rêves,” for session entitled Performing
History. MLA Convention, 27-30 December 2002, New York, New York
Courses Taught at Manhattanville College
INS 1001: Introduction to Comparative Literature and
Culture
FRN 2001
Intermediate French I
FRN 2002: Intermediate French II
FRN 3003: Advanced French Language and Culture
FRN 3008 Contemporary French Culture
FRN 3012: Nineteenth-Century French Novel
FRN 3017: World Literatures in French
FRN 3021:
Twentieth-Century French Theater
FRN 3024: Introduction to the Analysis of French Texts
FRN 3027: French Comedy
FRN
3031: French and Francophone Culture through Literature and Film
IDS 1006- Preceptorial
IDS 1023: Preceptorial- The Search
for a Good World
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