While my doctoral research lay at the intersection of postcolonial, migration, and transnational literary studies with a focus on South Asia and its diasporas, 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 