While my doctoral research lay at the intersection of postcolonial, migration, and transnational literary studies with a focus on South Asia and its diasporas, as well as film and disability studies, my postdoctoral work has expanded into law and literature, media politics, and environmental narratives. Uniting these strands is a concern with intermedial aesthetics, narrativization, and the ways questions of nation, home, identity, justice, and representation are negotiated across literature, cinema, and digital media.
Monograph
• Thinking Past ‘Post-9/11’ Home, Nation and Transnational Desires in Pakistani English Novels and Hindi Films. India and UK: Routledge und CRC Press (2021). https://www.routledge.com/Thinking-Past-Post-911-Home-Nation-and-Transnational-Desires-in/Jain/p/book/9781032000213.
Book Chapters
• “Poetry from the Camps: Deconstructing Eurocentric and Colonial Remains in Citizenship Laws”. Europa in Law and Literature: Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation. Edited by Laura A. Zander and Nicola Kramp-Seidel. Berlin: De Gruyter (2023). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111075693-034.
• “Citizenship, Nationalism and the Politics of Multiculturalism: Digital Networks of Indian Diasporas in Germany”. Media in Asia. Edited by Youna Kim. UK: Routledge (2022). Chapter 24. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003130628-29/citizenship-nationalism-politics-multiculturalism-jayana-jain.
• (Book Review) Shazia Rahman. Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism: Pakistani Women’s Literary and Cinematic Fictions. Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Edited by R. Ahrens, F. Klaeger, K. Stierstorfer und M. Tronicke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2021). 269-274. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110756456-016.
• “Filming Gendered Fantasies of Border Travels in Selected Contemporary Hindi Films”. In Diaspora Studies Series: Beyond Borders and Boundaries: Diasporic Images and Re-presentations in Literature and Cinema. Edited by N. E. Bharucha, S. Rajeswaran, K. Stierstorfer. Vol I. Mumbai: NavVishnu Publications (2018). 267-284. https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Borders-Boundaries-Re-presentations-Literature/dp/8193330765
• “Butterfly Metamorphosis: Deconstructing Orientalist Stereotypes in Madame Butterfly”, ITHAKA: Journal of the Department of English, Annual Issue (2009). St. Xaviers’s College, Mumbai. Chapter 17.
Journal Articles
• “Error ‘370’ Democracy is Missing or Corrupted! Digital Politics of Indian Diasporic Youth in Germany”. South Asia Journal (SAJ) Issue (Spring 2021). http://southasiajournal.net/error-370-democracy-is-missing-or-corrupted/.
• “Bit of Barfi, Sip of Margarita: Disability and Sexuality in Hindi Films”, ANTYAJAA: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change. USA: SAGE Publications (2018). Vol. 3.1. 107-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/2455632718778394.
Also published in Gender, race, and class in media: A critical reader sixth edition. Edited by B. Yousman, L.B. Yousman, G. Dines and J.M. Humez. SAGE Publications (2020). Chapter 38. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/gender-race-and-class-in-media/book267103.
• “Thinking Borderlessness: Alternative Forms of Embodiment and Reconfiguration of Spatial Realities in Emma Donoghue’s Room”. International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS) (2014). Vol. 1.3. 325-334. http://www.ijhcs.com/index.php/ijhcs/issue/view/6.
Magazine Articles
• “Is English fading into Younglish?”, X-Calibre Magazine: Bi-annual magazine, St- Xavier’s Institute of Education (2012-2014). 25.
• “Made in the World: A Report on the World Trade Centre in Mumbai”, X-Calibre Magazine: Bi-annual magazine, St- Xavier’s Institute of Education (2012-2014). 80.
Dr. Jayana Jain 