Gita Rajan, associate professor of English and director of literature at Fairfield (Conn.) University, has been appointed to the Jane Watson Irwin Visiting Professor of Women's Studies chair for the 2004-2005 academic year at Hamilton College.
The Irwin professorship supports the needs and interests of women at Hamilton. It was established by Jane Irwin Droppa, a 1975 Kirkland College graduate, in memory of her mother, and then transferred to Hamilton College when the two colleges joined in 1978.
Rajan earned her doctorate from the University of Arizona and master's degree from the University of Oklahoma. She is the recipient of several awards from the Humanities Institute and from the Mellon Foundation. Rajan is co-editor of English Postcoloniality: Literatures from Around the World (Greenwood, 1996); A Cultural Studies Reader: History, Theory, Practice (Longman, 1995); and Postcolonial Discourse and Cultural Contexts: Criticism and Theory (Greenwood, 1995). She has written numerous articles for Concerns, South Asian Review, South Asian Popular Culture and Woman, A Cultural Review.
