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Professor Brueck specializes in modern and contemporary Hindi literature, with a particular focus on literatures of resistance, popular literatures, and translation studies. Her work for the last decade has focused on Hindi Dalit literature, or resistance writing by those formerly known as “untouchables.”
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Education/Academic qualification
Asian Cultures and Languages, PhD, University of Texas at Austin
… → 2006
Asian Cultures and Languages, MA, University of Texas at Austin
… → 2002
Religion and Comparative Literature, BA, Smith College
… → 1999
Research interests keywords
- Literatures of resistance
- Literatures of the oppressed
- Modern and contemporary Hindi literature
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Support for Establishment of Professorship - Korean Studies
Brueck, L. R. (PD/PI) & Brueck, L. R. (PD/PI)
9/1/21 → 8/31/26
Project: Research project
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Introduction: Decolonizing Futures
Brueck, L., Jan 1 2024, The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature. Taylor and Francis, p. 1-12 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
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The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature
Gopinath, P. & Brueck, L., Jan 1 2024, Taylor and Francis. 420 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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CRITICAL CASTE STUDIES AND THE POLITICS OF TRANSLATING DALIT LITERATURE
Brueck, L., 2023, In: Massachusetts Review. 64, 3, p. 32-49 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Translation/adaptation: The vernacular storyworld of Byomkesh Bakshi
Brueck, L., Feb 23 2023, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures. Oxford University Press, p. 605-617 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Crime Fiction in South Asia
Brueck, L. & Orsini, F., Jan 1 2022, The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction. Cambridge University Press, p. 141-159 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
1 Scopus citations