Malini Johar Schueller

Malini Johar Schueller is currently teaching in the Department of English, at the University of Florida. Her research interests include U.S. empire studies, Asian-American studies, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, and postcolonial women of color. She received her MA from Panjab University, India, in 1979 and her PhD from Purdue University in 1986.

She is the author of several books. Her first book, The Politics of Voice: Liberalism and Social Criticism from Franklin to Kingston (SUNY, 1992) was a Bakhtinian reading of selected American autobiographies. Her second book, U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790–1890 (Michigan, 1998), was a postcolonial analysis of the construction of the Orient in American culture during the 18th and 19th centuries. She has edited a special issue of Prose Studies titled “U.S. Personal Narratives and the Subject of Multiculturalism” and has published a scholarly edition of a slave’s travel narrative, A Colored Man Round the World, by David F. Dorr (Michigan, 1999). She has co-edited three essay collections, Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies (with Edward Watts, Rutgers, 2003), Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (with Ashley Dawson, Duke University Press, 2007), and Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and Labor ( with Ashley Dawson, University of Michigan Press, 2009). Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-Colonial Citizenship, critiqing theories and fictions of globalization, and examining forms of Post-Colonial citizenship formulated by Asian-Americans, African-Americans and Native-Americans, was published by SUNY Press in 2009.

In 2015 she made a documentary, In His Own Home, about campus militarization and police brutality against Blacks. The film was based on a 2010 on campus police shooting at the University of Florida. Watch the trailer at https://vimeo.com/26297523 . The film is available on Amazon prime and Indiepix Films. http://www.indiepixfilms.com/film/6147#.YSOpm98pBPY

(Best Documentary Short Award, 14th Urban Mediamakers Film Festival, Atlanta, October 2015

Short Film Special Recognition Award, (In)Justice For All Film Festival, Chicago, April 2015

Award for Best Local Film, Cinema Verde Film Festival, Gainesville FL April 2015)

Her latest book, Campaigns of Knowledge: U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan (http://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000009893 was published by Temple University Press in 2019. A new edition of the book with a foreword was published by Ateneo de Manila University in 2021. http://www.ateneo.edu/ateneopress/product/campaigns-knowledge-us-pedagogies-colonialism-and-occupation-philippines-and-japan

Reviews of Campaigns of Knowledge https://static.primary.prod.gcms.the-infra.com/static/site/alh/document/ALH_Online_Review_Series_24/8._Oh.pdf?node=f4fd914d38fb55cb12e2&version=121738:8eeb0badcb621a830d7e

https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/126/1/337/6244027?rss=1

Her essays have appeared in a journals such as American Literature, American Literary History, Journal of Asian American Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, SIGNS, Cultural Critique, Genders, and Criticism.

See Campaigns of Knowledge book launch by Ateneo de Manila University. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DvZVObCnbDBI&d=DwMFaQ&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=Ghz59C-zIo3AmAZ0nZTHqA&m=hTstU7xxn1D0zT2odUt57wFwJi9C4jBF_sZI7B8GJgw&s=EAc1uA4iuilLUY6meloElomrYP2pG5GOZZqN_q57XQY&e=

See panel discussion on Academic and Cultural Boycott: Colonialism, Orientalism, and Eurocentrism at the American University of Beirut (2012).