Maryse JayasuriyaMaryse Jayasuriya is assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has published essays on South Asian literature in the South Asian Review, Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, and the edited ollection South Asia and Its Others: Reading the “Exotic.” She is an executive board member of the South Asian Literary Association and the editor of the South Asian Literary Association Newsletter. Her Ph.D. in postcolonial literature and theory is from Purdue University, and she is also a proud alumna of Mount Holyoke College. Read More Read Less