| Visiting Scholars for 2009-2010 |
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NERCHE is pleased to welcome "Bonie" Bagchi Williamson as a returning Visiting Scholar for 2009-2010:  Nivedita "Bonie" Bagchi Williamson received her Ph.D. in English from Boston University, where she specialized in postcolonial literature, focusing on Africa and the Caribbean. She received her Masters from Purdue University and her Bachelors from St. Xavier's College in Kolkata, India. Her forthcoming book, Reinscribed Genres and Hybrid Representations in Nadine Gordimer's Later Novels (1979-1994), examines the ways in which cultural, racial, and social hybridity and "in-betweenness" construct and deconstruct Apartheid in the context of genre in Gordimer's works. Dr. Williamson's article on South Asian novelist Amitav Ghosh was published in the peer-reviewed journal Modern Fiction Studies. She also serves on the editorial board of the NASPA Journal (which will soon be replaced by the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice).
Most recently, Dr. Williamson served as Vice President for Co-Curricular Life at Fisher College. She also worked for several years at Boston University in Residence Life and at the Educational Resource Center (ERC), where she headed the Writing Center. Her intellectual interests span both literature and higher education, including world, postcolonial, and modern literature; race, class, and gender; narrative and genre; the dynamics of disempowerment and empowerment; diversity; college student development; college effects; student success; and faculty issues. At NERCHE, Dr. Williamson will be exploring faculty development and workload issues. She also hopes to research and explore issues surrounding South Asian women in Higher Education, particularly in Student Affairs. |
