Joel Kuortti

Joel Kuortti works as Professor of English at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests are in post-colonial theory, Indian literature in English, transnational identity, diaspora, hybridity, gender and cultural studies. His most important publications include The Salman Rushdie Bibliography (1997), Place of the Sacred: The Rhetoric of the Satanic Verses Affair (1997), Fictions to Live In: Narration as an Argument for Fiction in Salman Rushdie’s Novels (1998), Indian Women’s Writing in English: A Bibliography (2002), Tense Past, Tense Present: Women Writing in English (2003), Writing Imagined Diasporas: South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity (2007), Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-colonial Studies in Transition (co-ed. with J. Nyman 2007), Changing Worlds, Changing Nations: The Concept of Nation in the Transnational Era (co-ed. With O. P. Dwivedi 2012), Critical Insights: Midnight’s Children (ed. 2014), and Transculturation and Aesthetics: Ambivalence, Power, and Literature (ed. 2015).