{"id":43792,"date":"2021-08-24T14:59:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=43792"},"modified":"2023-03-23T17:08:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T21:08:55","slug":"indu-ohri","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/indu-ohri\/","title":{"rendered":"Indu Ohri"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Research and Teaching Interests:<\/h3>\n<p><span>Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century British Literature, Transatlantic Women Writers, Global Anglophone Literature, Supernatural Fiction and the Gothic, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies, Digital Humanities, Neo-Victorianism, Community Engagement<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span>Articles<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018The Story Seems of an Almost Unbelievable Romanticism\u2019: Agatha Christie\u2019s Parodic Emptying of\u00a0\u00a0Wilkie Collins\u2019s Foreign Conspiracies.\u201d Forthcoming in\u00a0<\/span><span>The Wilkie Collins Journal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRecentering Nursing in Wartime\u201d Lesson Plan. Mary Seacole and the Caribbean Cluster.\u00a0<i>Undisciplining\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span><i>the Victorian Classroom<\/i>, April 2021,\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/undiscipliningvc.org\/html\/lesson_plans\/seacole_recentering_nursing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/undiscipliningvc.org\/html\/lesson_plans\/seacole_recentering_nursing.html<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cInhabiting the House of Edith Wharton\u2019s Fiction: Rewriting the Captive Woman in Deborah Noyes\u2019s The\u00a0<\/span><span>Ghosts of Kerfol.\u201d\u00a0<i>Adaptation in Young Adult Novels: Critically Engaging Past and Present<\/i>, edited\u00a0<\/span><span>by Dana Lawrence and Amy Montz, (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAccessibility, Equity, and Inclusion in Online Writing Instruction (OWI).\u201d I-WROTE (Inventory of Writing\u00a0<\/span><span>and Rhetoric Online Teaching Efficacy), University of Virginia, July 2020, <\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/writingrhetoric.as.virginia.edu\/i-wro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">https:\/\/writingrhetoric.as.virginia.edu\/i-wro<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018A Medium Made of Such Uncommon Stuff\u2019: The Female Occult Investigator in Victorian Women\u2019s Fin-de-<\/span><span>Si\u00e8cle Supernatural Fiction.\u201d\u00a0<i>Preternature<\/i>, vol. 8, no. 1, Fall 2019, 254-282.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDr. Anna Kingsford.\u201d\u00a0<i>The Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction<\/i>, edited by Kevin Morrison, (McFarland,\u00a0<\/span><span>2018).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018Far From the Haunts of British Tourists\u2019: Amelia Edwards\u2019s Ghostly Critique of English Tourism.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><i>Victorians Institute Journal Digital Annex<\/i><span>, vol. 42, 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018Their Friend, The Third Part of their Lives\u2019: Reconstructing Lost-at-Sea Narratives in Mary Butts\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span>Ghost Stories.\u201d Accepted for\u00a0<i>Mary Butts, Feminist Reconstructions<\/i>, edited by Joel Hawkes, <\/span><span>(Bloomsbury Publishing).<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span>Book Reviews and Editorial Projects\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span>Review of Juliette Wood\u2019s\u00a0<i>Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore<\/i>\u00a0(forthcoming in\u00a0<i>The Journal of\u00a0<\/i><\/span><i>the Fantastic in the Arts)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>Review of Melissa Makala\u2019s\u00a0<i>Women\u2019s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire, Gothic\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span><i>Studies<\/i>, vol. 23, no. 1, March 2021, pp. 15-17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Review of Russell Blackford\u2019s\u00a0<i>Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination: Visions, Minds, Ethics, SFRA\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span><i>Review, vol. 330, Fall 2019, pp. 173-176.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Assistant Editor,\u00a0<i>Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2019<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Best of the Journals in\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span><i>Rhetoric and Composition, 2020<\/i>\u00a0(Parlor Press, 2019 and 2020).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Conflict between Individuality, Science, and Theology in the Victorian Ghost Story.\u201d Review of\u00a0<i>Spirits\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span><i>and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction<\/i>\u00a0by Jen Cadwallader.\u00a0<i>Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies<\/i>, vol. 12,\u00a0<\/span><span>no. 3, Winter 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Review of \u201cEvery Bird, To You,\u201d by Sarah Marcus.\u00a0<i>Meridian<\/i>, vol. 33, May 2014, pp. 149-151.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Awards and Professional Accomplishments<\/h3>\n<p><span>Keats-Shelley Society of America\/Romantic Anti-Racist Pedagogy Colloquium Fellowship, 2021-2022<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Echols Fellow (in recognition of excellence in teaching), Department of English, University of Virginia, August 2020-May 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Community Engaged Learning Initiative (for combining community engagement and course design), Madison House, University of Virginia, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, and Spring 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Faculty Research Sprint for support in creating\u00a0<\/span><span>The Eternal Wanderer: The Lafcadio Hearn Project<\/span><span>, University of Virginia, May 2020-May 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Professional Development Funding, Teaching for Equity and Social Justice Learning Community, University of Virginia, Summer 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CGII Award Grant for\u00a0<\/span><span>The Eternal Wanderer: The Lafcadio Hearn Project<\/span><span>, Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation, University of Virginia, 2019-2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Course Design Institute (CDI) Teaching Grant, University of Virginia, Summer 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Gosnell Prize (for supervising the best first-year composition essay), University of Virginia, May 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Power, Violence, and Inequality (PVI) Collective Graduate Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2017-2018 (URL:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pvi.virginia.edu\/?page_id=476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">http:\/\/pvi.virginia.edu\/?page_id=476<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Graduate English Fellowship for Conference Travel, University of Virginia, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (INCS) Travel Grant, Spring 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Selected Conference Papers<\/h3>\n<p><span><b>Discussant<\/b>\u00a0(invited), \u201c<i>Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom:<\/i>\u00a0Dickens, Seacole, and the Afterlives of\u00a0<\/span><span>Care.\u201d Christmas in the Crimea: Mary Seacole and Communities of Care Roundtable, Dickens Universe 2021, July 28, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Roundtable Organizer and Discussant<\/b>, \u201c<i>Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom<\/i>: Teaching Interventions\u00a0<\/span><span>on Caribbean Authors.\u201d Victorian Popular Fiction Conference 2021, July 14, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Discussant (invited), \u201cZoomcast with Kira Braham,\u00a0<span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"markhe585iuth\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Indu<\/span>\u00a0Ohri, and Bre Simpson.\u201d Hosted by\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Adrian S. Wisnicki,\u00a0<i>Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom<\/i>, May 12, 2021,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/undiscipliningvc.org\/html\/zoomcasts\/braham-ohri-simpson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\">https:\/\/undiscipliningvc.org\/html\/zoomcasts\/braham-ohri-simpson.html<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Roundtable Co-Chair and Discussant<\/b>\u00a0(with Emily August, invited). Theory and Scholarship of Diversity\u00a0<\/span><span>and Inclusion, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Virtual Conference, March 13, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Discussant<\/b>, Diversity and Inclusion in Pedagogy Roundtable, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association\u00a0<\/span><span>Virtual Conference, March 11, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Panel Organizer and Participant<\/b>. \u201c\u2018The Power of Seeing Things to Others Mercifully Invisible\u2019: The Artist\u00a0<\/span><span>Heroine\u2019s Uncanny Vision in Late Victorian Women\u2019s Ghost Stories,\u201d Supernatural Visions Panel,\u00a0<\/span><span>British Women Writers Conference, Fort Worth, TX, March 5, 2020\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Panel Organizer and Participant<\/b>. \u201c\u2018The Fine Tools Refused to Obey the Master\u2019s Hand\u2019: Victorian\u00a0<\/span><span>Women\u2019s Representation of the Haunted Caribbean,\u201d Transnational Gothic Panel, Victorian Institute\u00a0<\/span><span>Conference, Charleston, SC, November 1, 2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018The Hidden Ghost that Has its Home in Me\u2019: Spectral Inquiry, Uncanny Humanity, and the Bront\u00eb\u00a0<\/span><span>Sisters,\u201d MLA Convention, New York, NY, January 5-7, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018He was Fighting the Child and Killing It\u2019: Traumatized Bodies, Youthful Victims, and Ghostly\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Revengers,\u201d Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 17,\u00a0<\/span><span>2017\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018Our Men of Science Foster the Fatal Tendency\u2019: Critiquing Scientific Masculinity in Charlotte Riddell\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span>Supernatural Fiction,\u201d Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Asheville, NC,\u00a0<\/span><span>March 11, 2016\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018A Fascination None of Us Could Resist\u2019: Female Servant Narratives in Victorian Women\u2019s Ghost Stories,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span>Victorians Institute Conference, Spartanburg, SC, October 3, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018There Must Be Some Magnetic Chain between Two Beings\u2019: Classifying Mesmeric Attraction in Mary\u00a0<\/span><span>Elizabeth Braddon\u2019s Ghost Stories,\u201d North American Victorian Studies Association Conference,\u00a0<\/span><span>London, Ontario, Canada, November 14, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018Far From the Haunts of British Tourists\u2019: Amelia Edwards\u2019s Ghostly Critique of English Tourism,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span>Victorians Institute Conference, Charlotte, NC, October 24, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16662,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/43792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/43792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43794,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/43792\/revisions\/43794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}