Talk:Prof. Laura Lyons

By Sachi Anjunkar

Laura E Lyons is an Interim Dean of College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa as of April 2024. According to her university profile, her research interests include the post-colonial literatures and theory, cultural studies, life writing, corporations, Irish literature and culture.

She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the Indus Civilization, or caste.

In 2016, she signed a letter addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. The letter stated the following:

1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization. The Rg Veda contains numerous mentions of horses and chariots but there is no conclusive material or fossil evidence for either at any Indus valley archeological site."
2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."

Publications

1. Lyons, Laura E., and Purnima Bose, editors. Special Issue on Life Writing and Corporate Personhood. Biography, Winter 2014.
2. Lyons, Laura E., and Purnima Bose, editors. Cultural Critique and the Global Corporation. Indiana UP, 2010.
3. Bose, Purnima, and Laura E. Lyons. Towards a Critical Corporate Studies. Cultural Critique and the Global Corporation, edited by Laura E. Lyons and Purnima Bose, Indiana UP, 2010, pp. 1-27.
4. Lyons, Laura E. Dole, Hawai‘i, and the Question of Land Under Globalization. Cultural Critique and the Global Corporation, edited by Laura E. Lyons and Purnima Bose, Indiana UP, 2010, pp. 64-101.
5. Lyons, Laura E. ’I'd Like My Life Back: Corporate Personhood and the BP Oil Disaster. Biography, vol. 34, no. 1, 2011, pp. 96-107.
6. Lyons, Laura E. From the Indigenous to the Indigent: Settler Colonialism and the Homeless in Hawai’i. Thinking Settler Colonialism: Essays on Settler Colonialism and Its Consequences, edited by Fiona Bateman and Lionel Pilkington, Palgrave, 2011, pp. 140-152.
7. Lyons, Laura E., and Cynthia Franklin. From Grief to Grievance: Ethics and Politics in the Testimony of Anti-War Mothers. Life Writing, vol. 5, no. ii, 2008, pp. 237-250. Reprinted in Trauma Texts, Routledge, 2009.