Research Interests
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5609-3125
Website: https://iim [dot] academia [dot] edu/NishthaPandey
Teaching Interests
Dr. Nishtha Pandey is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Amity University. She has a PhD from IIT Madras. Her teaching and research interests include 20th and 21st Century Literature and Philosophy, Studies of Affects, Emotion and Memory, Literary Theory, the Form of the Novel, Critical Race Theory, and World Literature and Translation.
Professional Affiliations
Dr. Nishtha Pandey received her PhD in English Literature from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras in October 2024. Her doctoral thesis looks at loss and erasure as global form of the contemporary novel through an examination of novels by contemporary authors Jenny Erpenbeck, Valeria Luiselli, Rachel Cusk, Ali Smith, Olga Tokarczuk, Elena Ferrante and Geetanjali Shree. At IIT Madras, she has taught courses on Contemporary Literary Theory, Feminist Writing and Cultural Studies. She has presented her research at several national and international conferences such as the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Memory Studies Association Conference, Women in World(-)Literature Conference, among others, and her research articles have been published in reputed journals such as Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Green Letters. She has completed her M.Phil from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, Masters in English from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, and B.A.(Hons) English from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi.
Publications:
Pandey, N. (2023). Reflections on Transnational Globalization in Olga Tokarczuk’s Novels. Globalization and Sense-Making Practices: Phenomenologies of the Global, Local and Glocal. Routledge, 156-168. Doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003434481.
Pandey, N. (2022). The Ethics of Walking in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone. Green Letters, 26(3) 241-250. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2114524.
Pandey, N. & Parui, A. (2022). ‘Do not shoot! I’m a B-b-british object!’: Reading David Malouf in Indian Universities. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 58(1) 80-94. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2022.2026570
Contact Information
Amity Institute of English Studies And Research (AIESR)
