Authored Volumes
Aryan, Juthan, Brahmanan: Swatvathinte Mytthugalilude Athikarasitthanthangalude Policchezhuthu. Malayalam translation of Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority Calicut: Other Books, 2021
The Afterlives of the Bhagavad Gita: Readings in Translation, under review
The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Cross-Cultural Encounters with India, London: Bloomsbury, 2015
Through a unique combination of theoretical scope and material, and historical, breadth The Hermeneutics of Suspicion poses ...(for more)
Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority, with Preface to the Indian edition, New Delhi: Navayana, 2015
Aryans, Jews, Brahmins unmasks fictions about race, caste and origins and tells us how our fractured present consists of competing past ...(for more)
Comparative Literature : Where Have We Been, Where Are We Now, Where Are We Going ? Working Papers. Department of Comparative Literature, Kolkata: Jadavpur University. 2011. (monograph)
Otherwise Occupied: Theories and Pedagogies of Alterity, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008
Tracing the historical development of recent identity-based trends in literary theory to their roots in structuralism, Dorothy M. Figueira ...(for more)
Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002, Malayalam translation 2021
The Exotic: A Decadent Quest, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1994
The Exotic covers an extraordinary range of materials as it traces the reception of Sanskrit studies in the West and issues of ideology ...(for more)
Translating the Orient, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991
This book examines the emplotment of India in the Western literary imagination. Basing her discussion on the reception of an emblematic Sanskrit ...(for more)
Edited Volumes
Littérature et Idéologie. Co-edited with Jean Bessière. Paris: Champion, under contract.
Migrant Fictions. Macerata: EUM Press, forthcoming January 2022.
Mysticisme et Littérature/Mysticism and Literature. Co-edited with Jean Bessière. Paris: Champion. 2020.
Rebuilding the Profession: Comparative Literature, Intercultural Studies and the Humanities in the Age of Globalization. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, January 2020.
Art and Resistance: Studies in Indian Theatre. Brussels: PIE Lang, 2019.
Multiculturalism, Identitarian Politics, and Teaching Alterity. South Atlantic Review, co-edited with Corina Beleaua, 84 (4): 2019.
Faultlines of Modernity. Co-edited with Kitty Millet. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
Translation and Literary Culture: New Aspects of Comparative Literature, Co-edited with Chandra Mohan. New Delhi: Primus, 2017.
Neohelicon. “Religion and Literature.” Ed. and Introduction. 42 (2) 2015.
Recherche littéraire/ Literary Research. Vol. 28 (2012), vol. 29 (2013), vol. 30 (2014), vol. 31 (2015).
Theatres in the Round: Multi-Ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama. Eds. Dorothy Figueira and Marc Maufort. Brussels: P.I.E. - Peter Lang: 2011.
Recherche littéraire/ Literary Research. Co-edited with John Burt Foster, Jr. Vol. 27 (2011).
The Comparatist vols. 32 (2008), 33 (2009), 34 (2010), 35 (2011).
Cybernetic Ghosts: Literature in the Age of Theory and Technology, ICLA/AILC, Provo, Utah: 2004.
La Construction de l’autre, edited volume, Peuples meditérranneéns, vol. 78, 1997.