Samir Dayal

Samir Dayal

Teaching Interests

Film: International and South Asian; Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Film, Culture
South Asia; Cultural Studies; Expository Writing

Research Interests

Film Studies; Globalization; South Asian Studies; Psychoanalysis; Cultural Studies; Postcolonial Literature, Film & Culture

Consulting/Practice Interests

Member of the Board for Society for the Psychological Study of the Arts (PSYART); Editorial Board Member, PSYART Journal; Member, Development Committee, Advanced Placement Exam: English Literature
Advisory Board, 2010-2015; Assistant Chief Reader, Advanced Placement Exam Reading for English Literature; The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas

Bio

Author of Dream Machine: Realism and Fantasy in Hindi Cinema (2015); Co-editor with Margueritte Murphy of Global Babel: Questions of Discourse and Communication in a Time of Globalization. Author of Resisting Modernity: Counternarratives of Nation and Masculinity. Editor, with an introduction, of Julia Kristeva's Crisis of the European Subject, Franois Rachline's Don Juan's Wager, Lucien Gubbay's Jews under Islam, Patricia Gherovici's The Puerto Rican Syndrome, Robert Rushing's Resisting Arrest: Desire and Enjoyment in Detective Fiction, Sanjay Subrahmanyam et al's Textures of Time, and Barbara Christian's Belief in Dialogue, among other books. Contributed chapters to several edited collections and published articles in journals, including Amerasia Journal, Angelaki: A Theoretical Journal of the Humanities, Colby Quarterly, College English, Contemporary South Asia Review, Critical Asian Studies, Cultural Critique, Genders, Gradiva, The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, MELUS, Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Postmodern Culture, Socialist Review, Weber: The Contemporary West. Also published short fiction. Interests include philosophy, psychoanalysis, film studies and the cultural aspects of globalization.

Professional Memberships

  • College Board 2021-06-01 - Present
  • American Studies Association 2018-01-01 - Present
  • Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2016-08-01 - Present
  • The PsyArt Foundation 2016-08-01 - Present

    • Awards and Honors

  • Bentley Summer Research Grant, Bentley University
  • Sabbatical, Bentley University
  • Invited to participate in Valente Seminar on Intersectionality. 2018-2019., Valente Center, Bentley University
  • Sabbatical, Bentley University
  • Invited to participate in Valente Humanities Honors Seminar, 2017 on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Valente Seminar, Bentley University
  • Invited to participate in Valente Humanities Research Seminar, 2017: “The Uses of Evidence”, Valente Center, Bentley University
  • Elected Editor-in-Chief of PsyArt Journal, PsyArt Organization
  • Invited to participate in Valente Humanities Research Seminar, 2016: “Seeking Solutions to Gender-Related Career Barriers”, Valente Center
  • Invited to participate in Valente Center’s Humanity Research Project, 2014: “The World’s Largest Biometric Identity Initiative: India’s Unique Identity Project.”, Valente Center
  • Awarded Funding to attend "The Art and Craft of Discussion Leadership" seminar at Harvard Business School, October 24, 2008 - Saturday, October 25, 2008, Wilder Teaching and Learning Initiative
  • Elected to the Advisory Board of PSYART, July 2009.
  • Elected to the Advisory Board, The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA)
  • Elected to the Editorial Board of the PSYART Journal, an online Journal of the Association for the Psychological Study of Literature and the Arts, July 2009.
  • Dean's Fund for International Travel, 2007
  • Elected to the Advisory Board, The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA), 2008
  • Grant to support registration for Harvard Seminar on "The Art and Craft of Discussion Leadership," Oct. 24-25, 2008, Wilder Program for Teaching and Learning Initiatives
  • Invited to be a member of the Editorial Board of Asian Diaspora Literatures
  • Rauch Grant for Research, Summer 2007
  • Founding Member of the Board, South Asia Consortium, an interdisciplinary group of scholars from Brandeis, Tufts, Harvard, MIT, Wellesley, the MFA and other Boston-area institutions engaged in the study of South Asia and its cultures.
  • Elected Fellow of the Center for Arts and Sciences, 2006
  • Rauch Grant awarded for Summer 2006
  • Chair, Grant to fund Feasibility Study for Media Studies Program, Bentley College Dean's Fund, 2005.
  • Patrina Foundation and Bentley College Grant
  • Rauch Grant for Research in India
  • Faculty Affairs Grant, Bentley College, for travel to India, Singapore and Malaysia, 2002.
  • Summer Research Grant, Bentley College, 2003
  • Bentley College Publication Awards
  • Bentley College Publication Awards, 2002
  • Bentley College Publication Awards
  • Summer Research Grant, Bentley College
  • Bentley College Publication Award
  • Summer Research Grant, Bentley College
  • Bentley College Publication Award
  • Elected Chair of the new Postcolonial Literature Discussion Group, Modern Language Association of America (MLA) for 1999
  • Bentley College Publication Award
  • Faculty Development Grant, 1998,
  • Bentley College Publication Award
  • Faculty Development Grant
  • Rauch Grant, Bentley College, 1997
  • Summer Research Grant, Bentley College
  • Maurice and Rose Johnson Chair in Humanities, Franklin College
  • Invitation to Join Editorial Board of Genders
  • Invitation by the University of Evansville to teach at Harlaxton College, England
  • First Prize in International Underwriters/ Brokers Scholarship Essay Competition
  • Marie Christine Kohler Dissertation Fellowship
  • Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship

    • Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

    Journal Articles

  • Dayal, S. (2026). "The Question of Self-Consciousness: Human Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence". (In Progress)
  • Dayal, S. (2025). "Against Immunity: American Ethnic Writing in Times of Crisis". Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación (Culture, Language, and Representation), (Vol. XXXVII) 27-44.
  • Dayal, S.Sokolowska-Paryz, M. (Ed.), Paryz, M. (Ed.) (2024). "The Traumatic Mirror and the Asymptote.". Journal of War and Culture Studies, (17) 2 111-137.
  • Dayal, S. (2024). The Traumatic Mirror and the Asymptote: Cinematic Representations of American Intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. Journal of War and Culture Studies, (17) Issue 2 (Link)
  • Dayal, S. (2023). “Artificial Flesh: Rights and New Technologies of the Human in Contemporary Cultural Texts.”. Literature
  • Berdrow, I., Dayal, S., Hauserman, S., Schlegel, N., Bentley, L., Schuller, L. (2021). "The XX Global Experience Initiative : An Application of Assessment Data towards Pedagogical Development".
  • Berdrow, I., Dayal, S., Hauserman, S., Schlegel, N., Schuller, L. (2021). The Bentley Global Experience Initiative: An Application of Assessment Data towards Pedagogical Development.. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad Special Issue on Assessment as Pedagogy in Education Abroad, (33) 1 43-62.
  • Dayal, S. (2016). "Amygdala, Or Coming Through Trauma". Postcolonial Interventions, (Postcolonial Interventions) 1.1000000000000001 33-74. (Link)
  • Dayal, S. (2011). 'Hinglish' Films and Identity in Indian Cinema". Intercultural Education
  • Dayal, S. (2010). Bollywood Brokeback Bromance: India’s First Onscreen Gay Kiss.. In Media Res (Link)
  • Dayal, S. (2010). The Inadequately Violent State?. In Media Res 1. (Link)
  • Dayal, S. (2009). A Small Place: Introducing a Special Issue on Sri Lanka. Catamaran
  • Dayal, S. (2008). Professing Spirituality: Bollywood Fantasies and the Return of Religion. Weber Studies, (24) 2 74-97.
  • Dayal, S. (2007). Re-Positioning India: Tagore's Passionate Politics of 'Love'. Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, (15 (Spring 2007)) 1 165-2.
  • Dayal, S. (2007). Repositioning India: Tagore's passionate politics of love. Positions, (15) Issue 1 (Link)
  • Dayal, S. (2002). Inhuman Love: Jane Campion's The Piano. Postmodern Culture 12.2 (January, 2002) (Link)
  • Dayal, S. (2001). Managing Ecstasy: A Subaltern Performative Of Resistance. Angelaki: Theoretical Journal of the Humanities. Special Issue on "Subaltern Affect."
  • Dayal, S. (1999). Constructing Nation as Family: Gandhi, Ambedkar, and Postnationality. Socialist Review 99. 1+ 2 (1999): 97-142
  • Dayal, S. (1998). Otherings of Nation and Gender: Salman Rushdie's Shame. Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Special issue on "Changes.", (31) 2 (Winter 1998) 39-62.
  • Dayal, S. (1998). The Efficient Fiction: A Reading of Ash Wednesday. Colby Quarterly, (34.1 (M arch 1998)) 55-73.
  • Dayal, S. (1996). Diaspora and Double Consciousness. The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, (29) 1 46-62.
  • Dayal, S. (1996). Postcolonialism's Possibilities: Subcontinental Diasporic Intervention. Cultural Critique, (33 (Spring 1996)) 113-150.
  • Dayal, S. (1992). Talking Dirty: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. College English, (54.4 (April 1992)) 431-445.
  • Dayal, S. (1992). The Subaltern Does Not Speak: Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay! as a Post-Colonial Text. Genders, (14 (Fall 1992)) 16-32.
  • Dayal, S. (1988). On Leadership. Span, (19.1 (Jan. 1988)) 47-48.
  • Dayal, S. “Precarity And Planetarity: Anthropocene Literacy and the Task of Representation,”. (In Progress)
  • Dayal, S. “The Traumatic Mirror and the Asymptote: Cinematic Representations of American Intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan”. the Journal of War and Culture Studies (Forthcoming)
  • Dayal, S. Artificial Flesh: Rights and New Technologies of the Human in >>> Contemporary Cultural Texts. Literature (In Progress)
  • Dayal, S. The Traumatic Mirror: Films about America’s Military Interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Journal of War & Culture (Forthcoming)
  • Dayal, S. “The Pandemic and Risk Communication in India: What Is To Be Done?”. (In Progress)
  • Dayal, S. Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal: The Taj Mahal. (Link) (Forthcoming)
  • Dayal, S. "Youth in Diasporic Hindi Cinema: Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Perspectives". Frankfurt Verlag, Germany (Forthcoming)
  • Dayal, S. Love, the Home, and the World: Theorizing an Alternative Globalism. Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique (Forthcoming)
  • Dayal, S. Artificial Intelligence and (Self-)Consciousness in Contemporary Films. Psykoanalyyttinen psykoterapia ('Psychoanalytic psychotherapy')--Top Finnish Journal in the field of psychoanalysis (Forthcoming)

    • Books

  • Dayal, S. (2026). Choosing Loneliness: Literary Representations of Disaffection, Withdrawal, and Alienation (In Progress)
  • Dayal, S. (2026). Fictions of Unbelonging: Contemporary Asian American Writing and "the World." (In Progress)
  • Dayal, S. (2025). Synthetic Imaginings: Information Regimes in India from the Colonial Period to the Present. Book Manuscript in preparation. (In Progress)
  • Dayal, S. (2020). Cosmopolitanism, Race, and Ethnicity: Cultural Perspectives De Gruyter Open
  • Dayal, S. (2015). Dream Machine: Realism and Fantasy in Hindi Cinema Philadelphia: Temple University Press
  • Dayal, S., Murphy, M. S. (2007). Global Babel: Questions of Discourse and Communication in a Time of Globalization 360. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Dayal, S., Rushing, R. (2007). Resisting Arrest: Desire and Enjoyment in Detective Fiction 300. New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S. (2007). Resisting Modernity: Counternarratives of Nation and Masculinity 350. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Dayal, S., Christian, B. (2005). Belief in Dialogue: U.S. Latina Writers Confont Their Religious Heritage 400. New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S., Gherovici, P. (2003). Lacan and the Other America: From The Puerto Rican Syndrome to the Sublime Hysterics of the Ghetto 350. New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S., Narayana Rao, V., Subrahmanyam, S., Shulman, D. (2003). Textures of Time: Writing History in South India 1600-1800 500. New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S., Rachline, F. (2001). Don Juan's Wager 250. New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S., Gubbay, L. (2001). Sunlight and Shadow: The Jewish Experience of Islam 200. New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S., Gorkin, M., Othman, R. (2001). Three Mothers, Three Daughters 250. New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S., Kristeva, J. (2000). Crisis of the European Subject 250. New York: Other Press

    • Book Chapters

  • Dayal, S., Seemann, A. (2026). "Choosing Loneliness: Anxiety and Alienation." An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Loneliness.
  • Dayal, S. Sokolowska-Paryz, M. (Ed.), Paryz, M. (Ed.) (2025). "The Traumatic Mirror and the Asymptote."  (Reprint of Journal Article as Book Chapter). Transnational Film and the US Wars. Routledge
  • Dayal, S. (2023). Empty Form: Transculturating the Western The Western in the Global Literary Imagination.
  • Dayal, S., Łuczak, E., Pochmara-Ryżko, A. (2020). "Introduction" . Warsaw: De Gruyter Open
  • Dayal, S. (2020). "Normative Microcosmic Cosmopolitanism" Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity. De Gruyter
  • Dayal, S. (2018). "Why Inclusion Makes Economic and Cultural Sense: Dissident Masculinities in Indian Cinema." Time for Solutions! Addressing Gender Barriers in the Workplace. Austin, TX: Greenleaf Publishing
  • Dayal, S. (2018). Why inclusion makes economic and cultural sense: Dissident masculinities in Indian cinema . Taylor and Francis (Link)
  • Dayal, S. Hoffman, B. (Ed.), Mueller, M. (Ed.) (2017). "Performance, Activism and the Affective Turn: A Typology." Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Festschrift for Dorothea Fischer-Hornung. Routledge
  • Dayal, S. (2016). Limning the limit or notes toward an outline of activist performance at the limit . Taylor and Francis (Link)
  • Dayal, S. (2013). "Multiculturalism with Transnationalism: 'Food Scenes' as Contact Zones." The Transnationalism of American Cultures. London: Routledge
  • Dayal, S. (2013). Multiculturalism with Transnationalism: "Food Scenes" as Contact Zones Transnational American Cultures. New York and London: Routledge
  • Dayal, S. (2013). "The End of Education." Shaping the Future of Business Education: Relevance, Rigor and Life Preparation. New York, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan
  • Dayal, S. (2013). Multiculturalism with transnationalism: Food scenes as contact zones . Taylor and Francis (Link)
  • Dayal, S. (2013). Rethinking the end(s) of education: An aesthetics for renewal in American higher education . Palgrave Macmillan (Link)
  • Dayal, S. (2012). "Youth in Diasporic Cinema: Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Perspectives." . Frankfurt: Peter Lang
  • Dayal, S. (2012). "Youth in Diasporic Hindi Cinema: Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Perspectives." Postcolonial Discourse, Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.. Frankfurt: Peter Lang
  • Dayal, S. (2012). Blackness as symptom: Josephine Baker and European identity . Taylor and Francis (Link)
  • Dayal, S. (2009). Ethical Antihumanism in Frantz Fanon . Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press
  • Dayal, S. (2009). The Liminalities of Nation and Gender: Salman Rushdie's Shame . New Delhi: Pencraft International
  • Dayal, S., Murphy, M. S. (2007). Conclusion . Newcsatle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Dayal, S., Murphy, M. S. (2007). Introduction . Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Dayal, S. (2007). Subaltern Envy? Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh . Amsterdam: Rodopi Press
  • Rushing, R. Dayal, S. (Ed.) (2007). Editor's Introduction, Robert Rushing's Resisting Arrest: Desire and Enjoyment in Detective Fiction . New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S. (2007). Subaltern envy? Salman rushdie's the Moor's Last Sigh . Brill Academic Publishers (Link)
  • Dayal, S. (2006). Black-and-tan fantasies: Interracial contact between blacks and South Asians in film . NYU Press
  • Christian, B. Dayal, S. (Ed.) (2005). "Introduction," Belief in Dialogue: U.S. Latina Writers Confront Their Religious Heritage by Barbara M. Christian. . New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S. (2003). Blackness as Symptom: Josephine Baker and European Identity . New York and London: Routledge
  • Dayal, S., Gherovici, P. (2003). Introduction . New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S. (2002). Desire and The Politics of Multiculturalism . Heidelberg, Germany: Winter Verlag
  • Dayal, S. (2001). By Way of An Afterword . Albany, New York: SUNY Press
  • Dayal, S., Rachline, F. (2001). Introduction . New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S., Gorkin, M., Othman, R. (2001). Introduction . New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S., Gubbay, L. (2001). Introduction . New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S., Kristeva, J. (2000). Introduction . New York: Other Press
  • Dayal, S. (1998). Min(d)ing the Gap: South Asian Americans . Philadelphia: Temple University Press
  • Dayal, S. (1998). The Emergence of the Fragile Subject: Amitav Ghosh's An Antique Land . Tubingen, Germany: Stauffenburg Verlag
  • Dayal, S. (1997). Splitting Images: The Satanic Verses and The Incomplete Man . East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press
  • Dayal, S. (1996). Style is (Not) the Woman: Sara Suleri's Meatless Days . Philadelphia: Temple University Press
  • Dayal, S. (1993). Creating, Preserving, Destroying: Violence in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine . New York: Garland

    • Digital and Electronic Media, Social Media, Blogs, Podcasts

  • 2015. "Los Angeles Times"
  • 2012. "Wall Street Journal’s India Realtime"

    • Other Scholarly Work

  • Dayal, S.“Towards a Transnational (Asian) American Literary Studies.”. European Association of American Studies (EAAS), (Conference of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS)) (Forthcoming).
  • Dayal, S.“The Modern Reader’s Dilemma: Something Old, Something New . . .”. Twentieth-Century Literature (Forthcoming).
  • Dayal, S.Film Review of Nisha Ganatra's "Cosmopolitan" For Catamaran Magazine, 2004. Catamaran Magazine, 2004 (Link) (Forthcoming).
  • Dayal, S.The Question of Self-Consciousness: Human Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence. .

    • Presentations

  • Dayal, S. (2025). “"Island Consciousness and Chosen Loneliness: Islandness as Collective Refusal Against Techno-Capitalist Extraction"” Presented at the ISRS Seminar, ISRS: International Society for Research on Solitude Online Plenary Address
  • Dayal, S. (1964). ““The Ethics of Refusal”” Presented at the PsyArt Conference Dubrovnik
  • Dayal, S. (1964). ““Solitude, Travel, and (Im-)Mobility in the Nineteenth Century Novel”” Presented at the MultiEthnic literatures of the United States Europe Biennial MESEA conference Joensuu, Finland
  • Dayal, S. (1964). Presented at the Martin Luther King Day celebration, Jan. 30, 2024
  • Dayal, S. (2023). “"Pandemic Literature and Risk Communication in a Time of Contagion"” Presented at the Trust and Uncertainty: Perspectives from Linguistics And Literary Studies Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Dayal, S. (2023). “"Choosing Loneliness: Anxiety And Self-Alienation."” Presented at the The PsyArt Organization The PsyArt Conference Florence, Italy
  • Dayal, S. (2023). Presented at the Interview on Podcast "Loneliness and You" by Axel Seeman, with Jon Ericson
  • Dayal, S. (2023). “"The Ethnic American Writer and the Autoimmunitary State."” Presented at the University of Valencia, Spain North American Ethnic Literatures in the 21st Century: Intersectional / Transatlantic Perspectives," Castellon, Spain
  • Dayal, S. (2023). “"Pandemic Literature and Risk Communication in a Time of Contagion."” Presented at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland Trust And Uncertainty: Perspectives From Linguistics And Literary Studies Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Dayal, S. (2023). “"Elective Alienation: The Pains and Pleasures of Choosing Loneliness."” Presented at the Valente Center, Bentley University Valente Center Seminar
  • Dayal, S. (2022). Presented at the Valente Center, Bentley University Valente Seminar on Loneliness
  • Dayal, S. (2022). “Antigone at the Crossroads: The Ethics of Alienation” Presented at the International Society for Research on Solitude (ISRS) Alone Together Szczecin, Poland
  • Dayal, S. (2021). “"Precarity and Planetarity: Anthropocene Literacy and the Task of Representation."” Presented at the Valente Center, Bentley University Valente Seminar on Climate Crisis Bentley University (Hybrid)
  • Berdrow, I., Dayal, S., Hauserman, S., Schlegel, N., Schuller, L. (2021). “The XX Global Experience Initiative: An Application of Assessment Data towards Pedagogical Development” Presented at the AIB Academy of International Business Annual Conference Virtual
  • Dayal, S. (2021). Presented at the Conference on Bentley's COVID-Related Research
  • Dayal, S. (2021). Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
  • Dayal, S. (2020). “"Logics of Worlds: Fiction, Nature, and Internal Borders."” Presented at the Crossroads in Cultural Studies International Conference
  • Dayal, S. (2020). “"Phenomenology and Worlding."” Presented at the Psyart International Conference on Psychology and the Arts
  • Dayal, S. (2020). Presented at the MESEA Conference Larnaka, Cyprus
  • Dayal, S. (2020). “"Phenomenology and Worlding."” Presented at the European Association dor American Studies (EAAS)--Cancelled because of COVID-19 Warsaw, Poland
  • Dayal, S. (2020). Presented at the Valente Center, Bentley University Valente Center Seminar on Intersectionality
  • Dayal, S. (2019). “"Butterfly Affect and Traumatic Scene."” Presented at the PsyArt: International Conference on Psychology and the Arts Vienna, Austria
  • Dayal, S. (2019). “"Butterfly Affect and Traumatic Scene"” Presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
  • Dayal, S. (2018). “"Figures of Displacement: The Practices and Poetics of Space."” Presented at the Crossroads in Cultural Studies 12th Crossroads in Cultural Studies¬†Conference Shanghai
  • Dayal, S. (2018). “"Affect and Embodiment: Psychic Vectors in Multiethnic Literature."” Presented at the PsyArt Foundation and the Dubrovnik Centre Conference of PsyArt: International Conference on Psychology and the Arts Dubrovnik
  • Dayal, S. (2018). “"Of Skin and Kinship: Family, Community, Difference and the Non-White Migrant."” Presented at the MESEA: Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas Biennial Conference of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas, in Graz, Austria, May 30-June 2, 2018. Graz, Austria
  • Dayal, S. (2017). “"Ethnic American Literary Studies and The Politics of Space."” Presented at the University of Thessaloniki HELAAS Conference on The Politics of Space and the Humanities Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Dayal, S. (2017). “"Introduction‚" to screening of Baghban, at Harvard University.” Presented at the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University Ageing in India Film Series, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University, November 14, 2017. Cambridge, MA
  • Dayal, S. (2017). “"Chromatic Critique: A Prism for the Study of Asian American Literature."” Presented at the Nordic Association for American Studies Nordic Association for American Studies Conference Odense, Denmark
  • Dayal, S. (2017). “"Unsafe Harbor: Race, Music, and Insecurity at Home in Richard Powers' The Time of Our Singing."” Presented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ‚ÄúHarboring: People, Places, and Practices‚Äù Conference of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) Cambridge, MA
  • Dayal, S. (2017). “"Trappings of the Body: Nature and New Masculinities in Indian Cinema"” Presented at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Invited Guest Lecture Urbana
  • Dayal, S. (2016). “"Trappings of the Body: Nature and New Masculinities in Indian Cinema."” Presented at the University of Sydney, Australia Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference Sydney, Australia
  • Dayal, S. (2016). “"Trappings of the Body: New Masculinities and 'the Natural' in Indian Cinema,"” Presented at the University of Reims, France International Conference on Psychology and the Arts Reims, France
  • Dayal, S. (2016). “"Palimpsest and Triangulation in the British Colonies."” Presented at the The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas Conference of MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas Warsaw, Poland
  • Dayal, S. (2016). “‚ÄúTowards a Transnational (Asian) American Literary Studies.‚Äù” Presented at the European Association of American Studies Conference of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS) Constanta, Romania
  • Dayal, S. (2015). “‚ÄúBig Data: India‚Äôs Massive Unique Identity Project and the Question of ‚Äòthe Human.‚Äô‚Äù” Presented at the Research Colloquium, Bentley University Big Data Research Colloquium Bentley University
  • Dayal, S. (2015). “‚ÄúAmerica through the Lens of Imagined Transnationalism: Jhumpa Lahiri‚Äôs Fictions of Displacement.‚Äù” Presented at the American Studies Institute at Seoul National University (ASI) Conference of the International American Studies Association Seoul, South Korea
  • Dayal, S. (2015). “‚ÄúBetween Love and Disgust: Affective Politics in Arundhati Roy‚Äôs The God of Small Things.‚Äù” Presented at the PSYART International Conference of the Association for the Psychological Study of the Arts The University of Valletta, Malta
  • Dayal, S. (2015). “‚ÄúBetween Love and Disgust: Affective Politics in Arundhati Roy‚Äôs The God of Small Things.‚Äù” Presented at the PSYART PSYART Conference University of Valletta, Malta
  • Dayal, S. (2015). “‚ÄúAadhar vs. Jugaad: India‚Äôs Unique Identity Scheme and the Human Factor.‚Äù” Presented at the Valente Center, Funded by NEH Valente Center Seminar on Planning Bentley University
  • Dayal, S. (2014). “"After New Gods: D.H. Lawrence, Italy and 'Foreignness.'"”
  • Dayal, S. (2014). “‚ÄúBig Data: India‚Äôs Massive Unique Identity Project and the Question of ‚Äòthe Human.‚Äô‚Äù” Presented at the Bentley University Big Data Research Colloquium Bentley University
  • Dayal, S. (2014). “Guest Lecture on The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra, 2013)” Presented at the Babson College Guest Speaker Wellesley, MA
  • Dayal, S. (2014). “After New Gods: D.H. Lawrence, Italy and ‚ÄúForeignness‚Äù” Presented at the D.H. Lawrence Society Conference of D.H. Lawrence Society Gargnano, Italy
  • Dayal, S. (2014). “"An Introduction to Raj Kapoor."” Presented at the Chapel Hill-Chauncey Hall Meet the Director Series Waltham
  • Dayal, S., Abbott, T., Korepanova, E., Sorensen, K. I., Aslinger, B. S. (2013). “Gender, Queerness & Nation” Presented at the Gender Studies Program and LGBTQ@Bentley Faculty Roundtable Bentley University
  • Dayal, S. (2013). “Stereotypes of Young South Asian women are Constructed in Western Media” Presented at the Bentley Women's Center Brown Bag lunch Bentley University
  • Dayal, S. (2013). “"Raj Kapoor: An Introduction."” Presented at the Harvard University Harvard Film Archive Retrospective on the Director Raj Kapoor Cambridge, MA
  • Dayal, S. (2013). “"Unmaking and Remaking American Selves across the Oceans: Multicultural Intercourse among American Colonial Loyalists, British Colonizers, and Colonized Indian Artists in India."” Presented at the European American Studies Association International American Studies Association‚Äôs 6th World Congress‚ "Oceans Apart: In Search of New Wor(l)ds" Szczecin, Poland
  • Dayal, S. (2013). “"The Taste of Others: Artistic Exchange and Social Intercourse in Colonial India."” Presented at the International Association of Psychology and the Arts International Conference of PSYART Madrid, Spain
  • Dayal, S. (2013). “"Terror and Seduction: Hindi Terrorism Cinema."” Presented at the International Association of Psychology and the Arts 30th International Conference on Psychology and the Arts Porto, Portugal
  • Dayal, S. (2013). “"No Longer Just Virgins, Vamps and Avenging Women: Gender and the New Visual Regime in Hindi Popular Cinema."” Presented at the University of Massachusetts Film and Visual Culture conference Boston
  • Dayal, S. (2012). “"Making Live Connections: Linking Media Literacy and Literature."” Presented at the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) NCTE Convention Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Dayal, S. (2012). “"The Spanish Connection: American Cinematic Genres and Spanish Sensibilities."” Presented at the Conference on New Worlds, Other Encounters Conference on New Worlds, Other Encounters: Cultural Dialogues Between America and Spain In art, film, history, language, and literature Torremolinos, Spain
  • Dayal, S. (2012). “"Performance, Activism and the Affective Turn: A Typology."” Presented at the International Conference on the Psychological Study of the Arts and Literature PSYART conference Ghent, Belgium
  • Dayal, S. (2011). “‚ÄúThe End of Education (as We Knew it)? An Aesthetics for Renewal in American Higher Education‚Äù” Presented at the Canadian Association of American Studies Aesthetics of Renewal Ottawa, Canada
  • Dayal, S. (2011). “Language” Presented at the International Society for Language Studies Conference of the International Society for Language Studies Aruba
  • Dayal, S. (2011). “"Cuisine and Cinema: Diasporic South Asian Cinema as Contact Zone in Multicultural Contexts,"” Presented at the University of Warsaw, Poland Invited Lecture Warsaw, Poland
  • Dayal, S. (2011). “"'Hinglish' Films And Identity In Indian Cinema."” Presented at the International Society for Language Studies Conference of the International Society for Language Studies Aruba
  • Dayal, S. (2011). “"Multiculturalism Should Not Fail: Making the Case for Transnationalism and 'Culturalism.'"” Presented at the City University of Hong Kong American Transnational Cultures: Stories, Objects, Spaces Hong Kong
  • Dayal, S. (2010). “Diaspora and Melodrama: South Asians in Transnational Cinema”
  • Dayal, S. (2010). “Invited Keynote address on "The Representation of Diasporic South Asian Youth in Recent Cinema."” Presented at the Ethnic American Literature and Culture Conference Warsaw, Poland
  • Dayal, S. (2010).
  • Dayal, S. (2009). “Slumdog Millionaire: Mediated Fantasy and Poverty Porn” Presented at the Ethnic Crossings Syros, Greece
  • Dayal, S. (2008). “Not My Brother's Keeper? The Migrant as Intimate Other in Films by Haneke and Kassovitz” Presented at the MESEA (Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas) Leiden, Netherlands and Lisbon, Portugal
  • Dayal, S. (2007). “Unbinding Identity: Caribbean South Asians in Cinema” Presented at the Caribbean Unbound conference Lugano
  • Dayal, S. (2007). “The Powers of the False” Presented at the International Literature and Psychology Conference Belgrade
  • Dayal, S. (2006). “Forging the Global in the Local: The Embodied City as Site of Translation in Indian Cinema” Presented at the MESEA Conference University of Navarra, Spain
  • Dayal, S. (2005). “Black-and-Tan Fantasies” Presented at the EACLALS Triennial Conference Malta
  • Dayal, S. (2005). “Sharing Screen Space: Representing Black-Asian Contact in Film” Presented at the Fifth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations Beijing, China
  • Dayal, S. (2005). “Perverse Misrecognition in Videodrome and The Crying Game”
  • Dayal, S., Murphy, M. S. (2003). “Can We Talk? Discussion Panel, co-chaired” Presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Cal State San Marcos in North San Diego County
  • Dayal, S., Habib, I., Kapila, S. (2003). “Godly Modernism, Conference on the Social Studies of Science in India at Massachusetts Institute of Technology”
  • Dayal, S. (2003). “Love, the Home, and the World: Theorizing an Alternative Globalism” Presented at the International Psychology and Society Association Greenwich, England
  • Dayal, S. (2003). “Love, the Home, and the World: Theorizing an Alternative Globalism” Presented at the Modern Language Association (MLA) San Diego, CA
  • Dayal, S. (2002). “The New Cosmopolitanism and Immigrant Identities in Film” Presented at the European Association For American Studies Bordeaux, France
  • Dayal, S. (2002). “The New Cosmopolitanism and Immigrant Identities in Film” Presented at the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States in Europe University of Padua, Italy
  • Dayal, S. (2002). “The New Cosmopolitanism and Immigrant Identities in Film” Presented at the Re-thinking Culture and Literature : Transnational and Comparative Spaces Riga, Latvia
  • Dayal, S. (2001). “Towards A Critical Community: Postcoloniality and Asian American Studies” Presented at the Asian American Studies and Postcolonial Theory University of Illinois, Chicago
  • Dayal, S. (2001). “Thinking, Feeling, Resisting: Rustom Bharucha and the Politics of Interculturalism” Presented at the Association for Commonwealth Literatures and Languages Canberra, Australia
  • Dayal, S. (2001). “Eating the Other: Anxiety and Cosmopolitanism” Presented at the Association for Psychology and the Arts Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Dayal, S. (2000). “Ayub Khan-Din's "East is East"”
  • Dayal, S. (2000). “Desire and The Politics of Multiculturalism” Presented at the MELUS Orleans, France
  • Dayal, S. (1999). “An Ethical Antihumanism? Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks” Presented at the American Studies Association and Canadian Association of American Studies Annual Convention Montreal, Canada
  • Dayal, S. (1999). “Inhuman Love in Jane Campion's The Piano” Presented at the Bentley College Colloquium Bentley College
  • Dayal, S. (1999). “A New Way of Doing It? Inhuman Love in Jane Campion's The Piano” Presented at the Conference on Film, Language and Literature Northern Illinois University
  • Dayal, S. (1999). “Inhuman Love in Jane Campion's The Piano” Presented at the International Conference on Literature and Psychology Urbino, Italy
  • Dayal, S. (1999). “Frantz Fanon and the Dissolution of the Black Man” Presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Pittsburgh, PA
  • Dayal, S. (1998). “Envy, Ethnicity, and Ethics: Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh”
  • Dayal, S. (1998). “'Subaltern Envy' and Ethics in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh” Presented at the International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference Tampere, Finland
  • Dayal, S. (1998). “The Resistance to Official Multiculturalism; or, What Happens to Indians When They Go to Foreign Lands?” Presented at the Modern Language Association San Francisco
  • Dayal, S. (1998). “'Subaltern Envy' and Ethics in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh” Presented at the South Asian Studies Conference Madison, Wisconsin
  • Dayal, S. (1997). “In Kali's Gaze” Presented at the Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society on Psychoanalysis and So Washington, D.C
  • Dayal, S. (1996). “Postcoloniality and Marginality: Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh” Presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Minneapolis, MN
  • Dayal, S. (1996). “Diaspora and Double Consciousness” Presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association, MMLA St. Louis, MO
  • Dayal, S. (1996). “The South Asian Diaspora and Double Consciousness” Presented at the MLA Chicago
  • Dayal, S. (1996). “Reconstructing Family and Nation: Dalit Writing and Gandhian Discourse” Presented at the Modern Language Association Washington, D.C
  • Dayal, S. (1994). “The Incomplete Man: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses” Presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Chicago
  • Dayal, S. (1994). “'What Kind of Idea . . .': Troubling Identity in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses” Presented at the Postcolonial Theory Dartmouth College

    • Reviews

  • Dayal, S. (2008). After the Deluge.
  • Dayal, S. (2008). Kazim Ali's The Far Mosque Winter 2007.
  • Dayal, S. (2007). Vivek Bahl & Toyin Falola.
  • Dayal, S. (2006). The Fugitive Self: Kazim Ali's The Far Mosque.
  • Dayal, S. (2004). Holding Their Own: Perspectives on the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (Commissioned Review).
  • Dayal, S. (2004). Meena Alexander's Illiterate Heart. , (1) 1
  • Dayal, S. (2004). Ravi Shankar's Instrumentality. , (1) 2 (Link)
  • Dayal, S. (2003). Juanita Tamayo Lott's Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities. , (8) 3 393-395.
  • Dayal, S. (2002). Vinayak Chaturvedi's Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. , (34) 2 295-300.
  • Dayal, S. (2000). Steve Clark & Tim Edensor's Travel Writing & Empire, and Tourists at the Taj: Performance and Meaning at a Symbolic Site. , (9) 1 84-87.
  • Dayal, S. (1999). Angelo Ancheta's Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience (Commissioned Review). , (24) 4 217-219.
  • Dayal, S. (1999). R. Radhakrishnan's Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Locations (Commissioned Review). , (25) 2 (Dec. 1999) 206-209.
  • Dayal, S. (1996). John Guillory's Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (Commissioned Review). , (21) 2 165-168.
  • Dayal, S. (1992). Samuel Hazo's Stills. , (10) 8 (March 1992) 76-77.
  • Dayal, S. (1991). Elisabeth Bumiller's May You be The Mother of A Hundred Sons: A Journey among The Women of India. , (10) 4 (October 1991) 74-75.
  • Dayal, S. (1991). Ghassan Kanafani's All That's Left to You. , (10) 1 (May/June 1991) 72.
  • Dayal, S. (1991). Orhan Pamuk's The White Castle. , (37) Summer 1991 103-106.
  • Dayal, S. (1991). Robert Nozick's The Examined Life. May-91
  • Dayal, S. Purvi Shah. (Forthcoming)

    • Service

    Service: Department

  • Committee Chair for EMS Evaluation Committee 2025-09-01 - Present
  • Committee Chair for English & Media Studies Evaluation Committee - Present
  • External Consultant for College Board 1/1/23 - Present
  • Committee Member for Hiring Committee, Tenure Track Assistant Professor, English and Media Studies 11/1/22 - Present
  • President for PsyArt Association 1/1/21 - Present
  • Committee Member for Ad Hoc Curriculum Committee 9/1/19 - Present
  • Committee Chair for Committee Chair, Assurance of Learning for LIT & CIN courses 9/1/19 - Present
  • Committee Chair for Coordinator for Assurance of Learning, LIT and CIN courses, English & Media Studies Department, Bentley University 9/1/19 - Present
  • for English & Media Studies 9/8/18 - 7/8/19
  • Editor-in-Chief for PsyArt Journal 1/1/17 - Present
  • Committee Chair for Literature & Cinema Committee 9/7/15 - Present
  • Committee Chair for Search Committee 9/8/13 - Present
  • Committee Chair for Search Committee for Hire in Multimedia Writing 9/1/13 - 3/1/14
  • Committee Member for International Film Series, advisory board member (December 2012 - Present) 12/1/12 - Present
  • Committee Member for Evaluation Committee 1/1/13 - 12/31/13
  • Committee Member for English & Media Studies Evaluation Committee 1/1/05 - Present
  • Committee Member for Evaluation Committee 1/1/02 - Present
  • Committee Member for Departmental Evaluation Committee 9/1/01 - Present

    • Service: Professional

  • Invited Fellow for Inclusive Pedagogy seminar, Bentley University 9/1/23 - 1/31/24
  • Independent Contractor and Consultant for Advanced Placement in English Literature Committee 1/1/23 - Present
  • Invited member, Research Advisory Team for Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemana - Universitat de València, Research Group: Literaturas étnicas norteamericanas en un contexto global. 1/1/23 - Present
  • for Modern Language Association 11/1/22 - Present
  • Advisory Board Member for Advisory Board or Scientific Committee, North American Ethnic Literatures 9/22/22 - Present
  • Committee Member for Research Advisory Team, for project titled "Mobilities, Equity, and In(ex)clusion in Contemporary North American Ethnic Literatures," Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemana - Universitat de València, Research Group: Literaturas étnicas norteamericanas en un contexto global 1/1/23 - Present
  • Chairperson for Association for the Study of Psychology and the Arts 1/1/22 - Present
  • Chairperson for Association for the Study of Psychology and the Arts 1/1/22 - Present
  • Officer, President/Elect/Past for PsyArt Organization 6/27/21 - 7/4/21
  • Editor, Journal for Open Cultural Studies Section Editor 2/1/20 - Present
  • Editor, Journal for Cogent Arts&Humanities 1/1/20 - Present
  • Contributing Consultant for Advanced Language & Literature (for Honors and Pre-AP English Courses) for Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers 9/1/19 - Present
  • Board of Directors for PSYART Organization 7/1/19 - Present
  • Officer, President/Elect/Past for PsyArt Organization 7/1/19 - Present
  • Officer, President/Elect/Past for Association for the Psychological Study of Literature and the Arts (PSYART) 1/1/19 - Present
  • Table Leader for Educational Testing Service (ETS) 6/3/19 - 6/10/19
  • Editorial Review Board Member for PSYART Journal 7/1/17 - Present
  • Officer, President/Elect/Past for PsyArt Organization 7/1/17 - Present
  • Editor, Journal for PsyArt 7/1/17 - Present
  • Editor, Journal for PsyArt Journal 1/1/17 - Present
  • Officer, President/Elect/Past for PsyArt Foundation 7/1/17 - Present
  • for The PsyArt Journal 7/1/16 - Present
  • external reviewer for a candidate applying for promotion to the rank of Professor for University of New Hampshire 1/1/16 - 12/31/16
  • Board of Directors for PsyArt Organization 9/1/14 - Present
  • Question Leader for Educational Testing Service 6/4/15 - 7/31/16
  • Committee Member for College Board Committee on Curriculum Development 9/1/13 - 12/31/13
  • Invited Lecture/Presentation for American Studies Institute, University of Warsaw, Poland 5/11/11 - 5/13/11
  • Committee Chair for Advanced Placement Development Committee for English Literature 1/1/10 - Present
  • Board of Directors for Psychological Study of Literature and the Arts 1/1/08 - Present
  • Board of Directors for Editorial Board, Journal of the Association for Multiethnic Literatures of the United States in Europe 1/1/05 - Present
  • Committee Chair for College Board 9/1/00 - 6/30/15

    • Service: University

  • Mentor (Faculty) for Valente Center Student Research Program 9/1/21 - Present
  • for Bentley Global Experience pilot 1/1/20 - Present
  • for Changing the World pilot 1/1/20 - Present
  • for Food & Famine cluster 1/1/20 - Present
  • for Valente Center Seminar on Intersectionality 9/9/18 - 5/8/19
  • Mentor (Faculty) for Valente Center 9/8/18 - 5/8/19
  • Committee Member for Bentley Learning and Teaching Council 10/1/16 - Present
  • Mentor (Faculty) for Valente Seminar on The Uses of Evidence 8/1/17 - 5/31/18
  • Mentor (Faculty) for Valente Seminar on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment 8/1/17 - 12/8/17
  • for Bentley University International Film Series 12/1/12 - Present
  • Coordinator of MAS LSM for Media Arts and Society LSM 9/1/07 - Present