{"id":3080,"date":"2016-01-14T14:39:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T06:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=3080"},"modified":"2016-03-03T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T00:45:08","slug":"shanthini-pillai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=3080","title":{"rendered":"Shanthini Pillai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shanthini Pillai (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Malaysia (UKM). Her research interests are anchored primarily in ethnic diversity, diaspora and transnationalism in literary and cultural texts with particular reference to the global South Asian diaspora. An emergent interest is in the cultural consciousness of\u00a0 Catholic diasporic Indians in Malaysia. She is author of <em>Colonial Visions, Postcolonial Revisions: Images of the Indian Diaspora of Malaysia<\/em> (2007) as well as numerous articles in various journals of Literary and Cultural Studies. She is also a recipient of the 2006-2007 Australia-Malaysia Institute Fellowship, as well as the 2013 Asia Research Institute Visiting Senior Fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanthini Pillai (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Malaysia (UKM). Her research interests are anchored primarily in ethnic diversity, diaspora and transnationalism in literary and cultural texts with particular reference to the global South Asian diaspora. 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