Deepika Bahri

assistant professor, English, Emory University

Deepika Bahri is Associate Professor in the English department at Emory University. Her research focuses on Post-Colonial literature, culture, and theory. She is the author of *Native Intelligence: Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature* (2003) and co-editor of *Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality and Realms of Rhetoric*. Bahri has written several articles on Post-Colonial issues in journals and book collections. She is currently working on the representation of Anglo-Indians, Eurasians, and racial hybrids in Post-Colonial literature. HIV/AIDS in developing countries is a secondary research interest. Based on preliminary research in this area, she has written a report entitled "AIDS Prevention and Control in Tamil Nadu" for USAID/CDC. She earned her Ph.D from Bowling Green State University in 1992 and taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology before joining the English department faculty at Emory University in 1995.