2012-17 PhD, Department of English, University of Delhi Hindi Prose and Gandhian

First Principles: Issues of Community, Agency and Justice (1915-48)

2010-12 M.Phil, Department of English, University of Delhi

2008-10 MA English, Hindu College, University of Delhi

2005-08 BA (Hons) English, Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi

Public Sphere Studies 

Print Culture

Indian Philosophy and Gandhi 

Nationalism in Indian 

19th Century Literature in India and England 

Hindi Literature 

Indian Classical Literature 

Indian Literature in Translation

Neoclassical Literature 

Literary Theory 

Archiving Gandhi's Buniyadi School (Star Innovation Project) 

Translation of Selected Writings of Shrilal Shukla ( CATA Department of English, DU) 

A. Translation

Phoolsunghi. Penguin Random House, 2020. ISBN: 978-06700095193. The first ever

translation of a Bhojpuri novel into English.

Loktantra aur Uski Sansthayein. Oxford University Press, 2021. ISBN:978-0-19-0131470,

Twelfth Fail. Harper Collins, 2021. ISBN: 978-9354894428

B. Book Chapters

Delhiwallah Jagannath and the Odia Diaspora: Notes Towards a Social History in

Bonding with the Lord (ed. Jyotirmaya Tripathi and Uwe Skoda), Bloomsbury

(November 2019)

Bhojpuri Leisure: Popularity, Profanity and Piracy in Indian Popular Fiction (eds. Prem

Kumari Srivastava and Mona Sinha) Routledge, 2021.

Hindu Sugga in The Book of Bihari Literature (Harper Collins, 2022)

Yashpal Ka Viplav ४. (Introduction) Lokbharti, Rajkamal (978-93-93603-07-04)

Viplavi Bharat: A Journalist and His Discontent, in Yashapal: Gender, Nation and

Revolutionary Thoughts (ed. Kama Maclean and Simona Sawhney) Orient Blackswan,

(forthcoming)

Books, Business and Decorum: Hindi Public Sphere in the 1930s, in the fourth volume of the

Book history series edited by Abhijeet Gupta and Swapan Chakravorty (Orient Blackswan)

‘An Interview’ a translation of Shrilal Shukla’s satire in Collected Works of Shrilal Shukla

C. Journal Publication

‘Affective Intimacies: Understanding Gandhi the Bapu.’ Anasakti Darshan. Vol 8, No.1

ISSN: 2250-3412

‘Gandhi’s Harijan: A Tale of Two Marginalities.’ Sangharsh. Vol 5, No. 1, ISSN:2278-3067

‘Reading America, Reading Israel.’ Defence and Diplomacy. Vol.10, No.4, ISSN:2347-3703

‘Narrative Strategies and Working Class Consciousness.’ The Discussant. Vol. 1, No. 1,

ISSN:2250-3412

‘Translating the Translator.’ Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol.22, ISSN: 0972-

1401

‘Vibhajankaleen Hindi Patrakarita.’ Alochana. Vol.60, No.1, ISSN: 2231-1171

‘Gandhi aur Rashtrawaad.’ Sahitya Amrit. Vol.25, No. 6, ISSN:2455-1171

D. Forthcoming Translation/Book Projects

Portrait of Lady Love: selected prose of Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala,’ (Penguin, March 2023)

A Revolutionary History of Interwar Years by Kama Maclean (Hindi Translation, Rajkamal,

2023)

1. Head Examiner for several papers at Delhi University Undergraduate Examinations (July

2015-present)

2. Member Core Committee, UG Examination, Dept. of English, University of Delhi

3. Member, Syllabus Revision Committee , Dept of English, University of Delhi

4. Convener, Dept of English at ARSD College (2018-19)

5. Core Member, NAAC Coordination and Steering Committee, ARSD College

(2015-16)

6. Conveners Film Appreciation Society (2017-18)

7. Convener, Gandhi Study Circle (2018-19)

8. Convener, Seminar Dept of English (2019-21)

9. Member, IQAC, Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi1. 

10. Member, College Magazine Committee (2021-2023)

11. Convener, Nimbus (English Debating Society)

1. Religion, Gender and Disregard: Realising the Childhood Trauma of Indian Partition ( Kanika Attri, Dept. of English, Delhi University)

2. 1947, 1971 and Beyond: Examining Narratives of Violence and Trauma (Aribam Sharma, Dept. of English, Delhi University)

3. Place making in the works of select Hindi poets (Deeksha Yadav, Dept. of English, Delhi University)