Zambare, Aparna

Selected Publications:

• Zambare, Aparna. “An Na.” Dictionary of Literary Biography 391: Young Adult Novelists, Second Series, edited by Anne Hiebert Alton, Gale, 2022, pp. 196-202.
• Zambare, Aparna. “Epic Theatre, Folk Form, and Liminal Space in Satish Alekar’s Mahanirvan (The Dread Departure).” Art and Resistance: Studies in Modern Indian Theatres, edited by Dorothy M Figueira, Peter Lang, 2019, pp. 211-235.
• Zambare, Aparna. “From Rural Punjab to Rural Iowa: A Reading of Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine.” MidAmerica, vol, 42, 2015, pp. 109-16.
• Zambare, Aparna. “Rushdie’s Metafictional Extravaganza: Storytelling in The Enchantress of Florence and Midnight’s Children.” Interpreting Great Classics of Literature as Metatheatre and Metafiction: Ovid, Beowulf, Corneille, Racine, Wieland, Stoppard, and Rushdie, edited by David Gallagher, Edwin Mellen Press, 2010, pp. 99-116.
• Zambare, Aparna, Casey, Anne Marie, Fierst, John, David Ginsburg, O'Dell, Judith, Peters, Timothy. “Assuring Access: One Library’s Journey from Print to Electronic Only Subscriptions.” Serials Review, vol. 35, no. 2, 2009, pp. 70-74.
• Zambare, Aparna. “Hypertext Theory and Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography.” Serials Review, vol. 31, no. 1, 2005, pp. 3-13.
• Zambare, Aparna. “Grant-Writing Experience: A Learning Process.” College and Research Libraries News, vol. 65, no.11, December 2004, pp. 673-6.
• Zambare, Aparna. “The Orality of Information Culture: An Interface between Hypertextual and Postcolonial Narrative.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, vol. 10, no, 2, 2003, pp. 55-71.

 Selected Presentations:

• “Epic Theatre, Folk Form, and Satish Alekar’s Mahanirvan,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, Harvard University, 2016.
• “From Rural Punjab to Rural Iowa: A Reading of Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine,” Annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), Michigan State University, June 2015.  
• “Theodore Roethke and Central Michigan: A Digital Humanities Project,” Annual Symposium of SSML, Michigan State University, May 2014.  
• “Travel Narrative of Mughal India: An Analysis of Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence,” ACLA Annual Meeting, University of Toronto, Canada, 2013.
• "Dance, Music, and Trauma in Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghashiram Kotwal," ACLA Annual Meeting, Brown University, 2012.
• “Masked Rituals in the Dashavatari Theatre of India,” ACLA Annual Meeting, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2011.
• “Rushdie’s Metafictional Extravaganza: Storytelling in The Enchantress of Florence and Midnight’s Children,” ACLA Annual Meeting, Harvard University, 2009.
•  “Talking Theory: Postcolonial Approaches, Essential Starting Points” American Library Association Annual Conference, 2008.
• “Authorship: Oral and Digital Narrative,” ACLA Annual Meeting, April 2008.
• “Nonlinear Trajectories Linear Divergence: A Thousand and One Nights and Hypertext,” ACLA Annual Meeting, Puebla, Mexico, 2007.
•  “Lost and Found in Translation: Effective Ways to Handle Problem Situations and Cross-Cultural Miscommunication,” Michigan Library Association (MLA), 2006. (Invited speaker)
•  “The Animal Other in the Panchatantra,” ACLA Annual Meeting, Princeton University, 2006.
• “The Imitation of Non-literary Discourse in Taslima Nasrin’s Lajja,” ACLA Annual Meeting, Penn State University, 2005.
• “Hypertext and Globalization,” Globalization and Diaspora Studies Roundtable, CMU, April 2003. (Invited speaker)
• “Backgrounds, Barriers, and Competence: Teaching English Literature to Indian Students,” The 11th International Oxford Conference on Literature Teaching Overseas, co-hosted by Oxford University and the British Council, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England, 1996. 

• Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), University of Western Ontario, Canada.
• Master of Arts (MA) in English, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada. (Emphasis: Literary Theory)
• Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in English-Education, University of Poona, Pune, India.
• French Certificate Course, University of Poona.
• Master of Arts (MA) in English, University of Poona. (Emphasis: Literature)
• Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English, University of Poona. (Emphasis: Literature)

Aparna’s research interests mainly include Bibliography, Postcolonial Theory, Narrative Theory, Theatre, and Digital Humanities and she has published articles and presented papers in all these fields.  She is currently working on a research project focusing on a section of archived manuscripts of the East India Company.