Associate Professor

Chair, Department of English

University of Puget Sound
1500 N. Warner St
Tacoma, WA 98416-1045
253-879-3515
pjoshi@ups.edu

Office: Wyatt 338

Fall 2010 Office Hours: Tues and Thurs 3:30-5pm

                                and by appointment

I have been at the University of Puget Sound, on and off, since 1999 (between 2002-2004, I taught at San Diego State University).  I received a Ph.D. in Literature from Rutgers University in New Jersey.  Prior to that I attended the University of Maryland, College Park and high school in Bethesda, MD; even further back, I was educated at the glamorously-named Scindia Kanya Vidhlayah in Gwalior, India, and even before that I was a pupil of the the Irish-trained nuns at St. Joseph's Convent in Bhopal.  Given this trajectory, it is but natural that my scholarly area of inquiry would  be 19^th century British literature and culture!  My areas of interests in the period are: industrialism, gender, and empire; travel and colonialism; filth and disease; feminism and masculinity; and the English novel, especially George Eliot, the Brontes, Dickens, and my latest interest, Wilkie Collins.    

Gender Studies Program