Samir Dayal

Author of Dream Machine: Realism and Fantasy in Hindi Cinema (2015); Co-editor with Margueritte Murphy of Global Babel: Questions of Discourse and Communication in a Time of Globalization. Author of Resisting Modernity: Counternarratives of Nation and Masculinity. Editor, with an introduction, of Julia Kristeva's Crisis of the European Subject, Franois Rachline's Don Juan's Wager, Lucien Gubbay's Jews under Islam, Patricia Gherovici's The Puerto Rican Syndrome, Robert Rushing's Resisting Arrest: Desire and Enjoyment in Detective Fiction, Sanjay Subrahmanyam et al's Textures of Time, and Barbara Christian's Belief in Dialogue, among other books. Contributed chapters to several edited collections and published articles in journals, including Amerasia Journal, Angelaki: A Theoretical Journal of the Humanities, Colby Quarterly, College English, Contemporary South Asia Review, Critical Asian Studies, Cultural Critique, Genders, Gradiva, The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, MELUS, Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Postmodern Culture, Socialist Review, Weber: The Contemporary West. Also published short fiction. Interests include philosophy, psychoanalysis, film studies and the cultural aspects of globalization.