Dr Louise Harrington
BA (Trinity College Dublin); MA, PhD (SOAS)
Overview
- Name:
- Dr Louise Harrington
- Email address:
- lh11@soas.ac.uk
Research
Comparative partitions; South Asian literature and film; Irish literature and film; colonial and postcolonial studies; transnational migration and diaspora studies.
Publications
Book Chapters
Harrington, Louise (2012) '“Fragmentary Evidence”: the Struggle to Narrate Partition.' In: Dwivedi, Om Prakash, (ed.), The Other India: Narratives of Terror, Communalism and Violence. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 75-89.
Harrington, Louise (2011) 'An-Other Space: Diasporic Responses to Partition in Bengal.' In: Christian, Rita and Misrahi-Barak, Judith, (eds.), India and the Indian Diasporic Imagination. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, pp. 237-250.
Harrington, Louise (2007) 'The Train Nation: the Railway as a Leitmotif in South Asian Literature.' In: Lurdos, Michèle and Misrahi-Barak, Judith, (eds.), Transport(s) in the British Empire and the Commonwealth. Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, pp. 289-307.
Articles
Harrington, Louise (2012) 'What's in a Name?' The Irish Indian, 3 . pp. 25-26.
Harrington, Louise (2012) 'Ireland, India and Cultures of Exchange.' The Irish Indian (2). p. 24.
Harrington, Louise (2011) '“Fragmentary Evidence”: the Struggle to Narrate Partition.' South Asian Review, 31 (1). pp. 262-276.
Harrington, Louise 'Women and Resistance in West Bengal and Bangladesh: 1967 – 1971.' The Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures and Societies, Special Edition: Women and Terrorism . (Forthcoming)
Conference or Workshop Items
Harrington, Louise (2012) The Emergence of the South Asian Irish. In: South Asia by the Bay, 9-11 May 2012, Stanford University.
Harrington, Louise (2010) Struggling with Partition: Ghatak’s and McMullen’s violence through a lens. In: The Enemy Within: Cultures of Terror in South Asian Literature and Film, ESSE 2010, 24-28 August 2010, University of Turin.
Harrington, Louise (2009) An-Other Space: Diasporic Responses to Partition in Bengal. In: India and the Indian Diasporic Imagination, 1-4 April 2009, Paul Valery University, Montpellier.
Harrington, Louise (2008) Travelling without Moving: the Existence of Place in The Shadow Lines and A Golden Age. In: On the Road: Writing Travel and Travellers, 6-8 November 2008, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Harrington, Louise (2005) The Train Nation: the Railway as a Leitmotif in South Asian Literature. In: Transport(s) in the British Empire and the Commonwealth, 3-5 November 2005, Paul Valery University, Montpellier.
