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Mason, Mondita

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(212) 772-4039
nmason@hunter.cuny.edu

Nondita Mason earned her Ph. D. in English literature from New York University in 1980.

Her primary research interest is in colonial and postcolonial literature. Her book, The Fiction of V. S. Naipaul, was published in 1986 by World Press. In 1994, Professor Mason, along with Professor George Otte of Baruch College, published Writers' Roles: Enactment of the Process (Harcourt Brace), which focused on her other area of interest and expertise: rhetoric and writing. Between 1993 and 1995, Professor Mason coordinated the research of the United States Team of the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRRAG) with a grant from the MacArthur Foundation. In the fall of 1995, she traveled to Beijing, China, to present IRRRAG's research findings at the International Women's Conference. The U. S. team's findings were incorporated in Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives Across Cultures and Countries, edited by Rosalind P. Petchesky and Karen Judd, and published in 1998 by St. Martin's Press.

She is currently undertaking research for a project, "Colonial Relations and Social Construction of Gender: The World of the Memsahib," which investigates the lives of British women in India, mostly from the lower ranks of the imperial hierarchy, as expressed in their own writings.