Graduate Teaching and Supervision:
Dr. Joseph is winner of a 2012 Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award. She has often been nominated for Graduate Supervisory and Teaching awards. She helps Graduate and Undergraduate students regularly with planning proposals for admissions, grant applications, and professionalization in general. Some of the graduate students have published in peer-refereed academic journals. This is what a student had to say about her teaching on a USRI: “Dr. Joseph goes out of her way to help students as much as possible in all areas, such as advice about scholarships and thesis topics. She pushes her students very hard, and the result is excellence for all.”
Dr. Joseph has supervised to timely and successful completion six BA Honours theses, four MA theses, and two PhD dissertation theses. Undergraduate students she mentored have gone on to win SSHRC grants and admission to graduate studies at prestigious universities.
Dr. Joseph’s classes highlight the relevance that literature and theory have for issues of universal Justice. Her teaching methodology, in general, involves lectures (accompanied by cool powerpoint presentations) and in-class and on-line discussions. Students who attend her classes have testified to having gained critical and communication skills and, even more, an enthusiasm for the subject on account of its relevance for their own ambitions and passions.
She will be interested in meeting with students who wish to work with her in the areas of Creative Writing, Postcolonial Studies, Ethics and Literary / Cultural Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, Globalization, Religion and Literary/Cultural Studies, Feminism, South Asian Literature/Culture, Literatures in English or in Translation from India, Diasporic Literatures, etc.