Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities

Shalini Puri is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is the author of The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and the award-winning The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity. Her edited collections include The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics, Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean, and (with Lara Putnam) Caribbean Military Encounters.  Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, USA. Her most recent books include Mexican Public Intellectuals (with Stuart Day) and Despite all Adversities:  Spanish American Queer Cinema (with Andrés Lema Hincapié).

• 1. Debra A. Castillo and Shalini Puri, Introduction: Conjectures on Undisciplined Research.- 2. Shalini Puri, Finding the Field: Notes on Caribbean Cultural Criticism, Area Studies, and the Forms of Engagement.- 3. Naminata Diabate, Women’s Naked Protest in Africa: Comparative Literature and its Futures.- 4. Kavita Panjabi, Aesthetics in the Making of History: The Tebhaga Women's Movement in Bengal.- 5. Jennifer Lynn Kelly, Locating Palestine within American Studies: Transitory Field Sites and Borrowed Methods.- 6. Neil Doshi, Absent Performances: Distant Fieldwork on Social Movement Theater of Algeria and India.- 7. Tori Holmes, Ethical Dilemmas in Studying Blogging by Favela Residents in Brazil.- 8. Rashmi Sadana, Reading Delhi, Writing Delhi: An Ethnography of Literature.- 9. Lara Putnam, Daily Life and Digital Reach: Place-Based Research and History’s Transnational Turn.- 10. Renato Rosaldo, Lessons from the Space between Languages: Notes on Poetry and Ethnography.- 11. Stephanie Newell, Researching the Cultural Politics of Dirt in Urban Africa.- Paul Youngquist, Accidental Histories: Among the Maroons of Jamaica.- Debra A. Castillo, Engagement and Pedagogy: Traveling with students in Chiapas, Mexico.