Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, professor of English and coordinator of the Gender Studies Program at Linfield College, was interviewed by April Baer for Oregon Public Broadcasting’s “State of Wonder” program.
The Sept. 12 interview was included in a segment discussing Poet Sherman Alexie and a controversial inclusion of a poem in the “Best American Poetry 2015.” One of the poems selected for the volume was submitted under a Chinese pseudonym and selected for inclusion. Once the author was notified, he revealed himself to be a white man from the Midwest.
Read more about the controversy.
At Linfield, Dutt-Ballerstadt teaches postcolonial literatures, gender studies and creative writing. She is the author of a scholarly monograph, The Postcolonial Citizen: An Intellectual Migrant (2010), and has published in The Asian American Renaissance Journal, The South Asian Review, Saranac Review, The Rocky Mountain Review and other scholarly and creative journals. Dutt-Ballerstadt was born in India and has lived in the U.S. for 25 years.
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