Teaching Interests
Dr. Nivedita Gupta’s research focuses on Feminism, Postcolonialism and Conflict literature. An accomplished scholar and educator, she completed her B A (Hons) English in 2007, M.A. English in 2009, and Ph.D in 2019 from Panjab University, Chandigarh. During this time, she has received distinctions in English Elective and Functional English. She qualified the UGC-NET with JRF in 2010. As a fellowship scholar, she has taught linguistics and English Drama in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. She has published papers and book chapters on diverse subjects including female collectivity in war, women’s quest for home, trauma and recovery, identity crisis, and resistance. She has been invited as a resource person to give lecture on topics including Film as Text, Women and water symbols, and feminist methodology. She is known for her academic excellence and intellectual pursuits. Apart from academics, she has been actively engaged in conducting alumni engagement activities and activities to promote entrepreneurship skills in students.
Publications
Gupta, N. (2015). “Of Survival and Resistance.” Review of Suvir Kaul’s Of Gardens and graves: Essays on Kashmir. Dialog: A Bi-Annual Inter-Disciplinary, No. 28(autumn), 177-181.
Professional Activities
Dr Nivedita Gupta is an Assistant Professor at Amity University, Noida. She has more than ten years of teaching and research experience. She is an educationist and a critic who has been doing research on women writings vis-à-vis war studies, diaspora studies, Middle Eastern studies, and post-colonial studies. Dr. Gupta completed her PhD in 2019 on the title Negotiating Spaces: A Study of Women’s Marginalization and Resistance in Selected Accounts of Civil Conflict in which she makes a critical study of war narratives from Egypt, Palestine, India, and Algeria written from a female perspective. Her academic specialization lies in feminism, postcolonialism, diaspora studies, prison writings and war literature. She has also been teaching communication skills and technical communication to students of engineering, science, and psychology. She has been working at Amity University, Noida, from the last 4 years. Prior to that, she worked for 5 years at DAV University, Jalandhar.
Contact Information
Amity Institute of English Studies And Research (AIESR)