Kamakshi Pappu Murti is a retired professor of German Studies and Cultural Studies. She is an author of scholarly monographs and articles, as well as fiction. Her scholarly writing is devoted to multi-cultural issues, as well as gender studies. She has conducted and participated in workshops covering a wide range of topics, from Service Learning to Deliberative Dialogue.
During almost five decades of teaching, Murti’s focus has consistently been on supporting underrepresented groups in the classroom. At the University of Arizona, she was a member of the institution’s Diversity Action Council, chairing the sub-committee on Education and Outreach. At Middlebury College, where she chaired the German Department, she was chair of a sub-committee on Coalition Building as member of the college’s diversity committee. Although her home department was German, she introduced courses that caught the attention of minority populations. These courses became highly multi-cultural communities, requiring new teaching strategies that would reach all students, supporting each of them individually while at the same time reaching the overall goals of the courses. Her participation in diversity workshops at the college helped her transfer this experience to the German classroom as well by introducing the model of “Deliberative Dialogue” to her advanced courses.
When she retired in 2008, Murti began volunteering as a storyteller to the clients at two centers for adults with disabilities (MVLE).
Murti’s scholarly writing is devoted to multi-cultural issues, as well as gender studies. Monographs include “Die Reinkarnation des Lesers als Autor: Ein rezeptionsgeschichtlicher Versuch über den Einfluss der altindischen Literatur auf deutsche Schriftsteller” (de Gruyter, 1990) “India: The Seductive and Seduced ‘Other’ of German Orientalism” (Praeger, 2000) and “To Veil or not to Veil: Europe’s Shape-shifting ‘Other’” (Peter Lang, 2012). She has also published several articles in journals, as well as chapters in books.
Murti is an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA), Modern Language Association (MLA), and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
Murti is presently working on two projects:
1) A paper for the journal published by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association entitled “Bengali Harlem Project: the overarching significance of lost histories,” that addresses a group of immigrants from South-Asian in the late 19th century who jumped the British ships that brought them to the US, and traveled to New Orleans, where they married black women and raised families. Their history has been silenced until 2013, when Vivek Bald, a filmmaker and writer, published a book about them entitled “Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America”;
2) A murder mystery entitled “MURDERS MOST TRANS-GRESSIVE”, that focuses on how transgender people in India are brutalized, and how caste and class issues, as well as islamophobia, are increasingly gaining the upper hand there.
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