University College London

Post-Doc, English Language and Literature

Other Affiliations: Cardiff University, School of English, Communication, and Philosophy

British Academy Post-Doctoral Felllow

Thesis Title: "The Scar That Never Healed: Collective Memory of Partition in the South-Asian Diaspora"

About

I completed my PhD in 2010 from Cardiff University, researching the representations of gender and memory in the narratives of the Spanish Civil War. I am currently researching the collective memory and cultural representation of the 1947 Indian Partition and have published an examination of the representation of Partition in the works of the Bengali film director Ritwik Ghatak in the journal "Social Semiotics". My other research interests include TV Science Fiction, Marxist and postcolonial theory, graffiti, urban studies, and subculture studies. I have written on, among other things, "Doctor Who", food in detective fiction, the works of Christopher Caudwell and on British graffiti-artist Banksy. I am currently editing a collection of essays called "Spanish Civil War: History, Memory, Representation" to be published by the University of Wales Press in 2012.

Apart from research, I currently teach on the Modern English II and the Approaches to Criticism course within the Department of English Language and Literature, University College London.

In the past, I have lectured at the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan on the following course:
Identity and Difference (FH2S19)

I was a Postgraduate Tutor on the following courses within the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University:
Year 1 BA Cultural Criticism modules
Postmodernity I: SE3101 (2007-9)
Postmodernity II:SE3102 (2007-9)
Topics in Cultural Criticism I: SE3103 (2009-10)
Topics in Cultural Criticism II: SE3104 (2009-10)

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