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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English

Teaching areas

Academic and Research Writing, The Novel in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England, , English Renaissance Drama, Partition Literature

Research areas

Postcolonial Theory, Postcolonial Literature, Modern European Drama,The Modern Novel, Partition Literature

Education

PhD, English, Delhi University, India
Other, Master of Philosophy English, Delhi University, India
MA, English, St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India
BA, English, St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India

Professional experience

Associate Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2017 - Present)
Assistant Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2006 - 2017)
Instructor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2005 - 2006)
Adjunct Instructor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2002 - 2005)
Senior Lecturer at Delhi University, India(1995 - 2002)
Lecturer at Delhi University, India(1987 - 1995)

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2748

Dr. Neena Gandhi

Associate Professor
PhD in English, Delhi University, India

Neena Gandhi's area of research is postcolonial literature. She has published articles on postcolonial literature in international journals. Her teaching areas include academic and research writing, English Renaissance drama, Modern European drama, the Modern novel and Partition literature. Prior to joining American University of Sharjah, she taught at Delhi University for 14 years.

Publications

Neena Gandhi, The Lawrentian Truth: Selfhood and the Primal Consciousness, Published, ATINER's Conference Paper Proceedings Series, pp. 1-18, 2017
Neena Gandhi, Anupama Singh (Editor), Postcolonialism, Participatory Democracy and the Rise of the AAP Factor in Indian Politics, Published, pp. 119-127, 2015
Neena Gandhi, Ambiguous Ideologies: Visual Representations in the Novels of Cary, Forster and Achebe, Published, Humanities and Social Science Review , 4, 2, 2015
Neena Gandhi, "At the Crossroads: Culture and Cultural Identity in the Novels of Achebe.", Published, African Identities, 10, 1, pp. 1-8, 2012
Neena Gandhi, "Crossing Literary Frontiers: Religious Perspectives, Magic and Witchcraft in the Novels of Cary and Achebe", Published, Second International Journal of Arts and Sciences, 4, 14, pp. 91-100, 2011
Neena Gandhi, "Historical Perspectives in Master Narratives: Ironies and Subversions in the Novels of Joyce Cary and Chinua Achebe.", Published, International Journal of Arts and Sciences, 3., 10, pp. 274-283, 2010
Neena Gandhi, Jose Araanz (Editor), "Nation and National identity in the Novels of Chinua Achebe"., Published, pp. 153-163, 2008

Conference Presentations

Neena Gandhi, Phenomenological Ambiguity in Ibsen: A Doll's House, Ghosts and Hedda Gabler, World Phenomenology Institute's 43rd Annual Cambridge Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, June, 2019
Neena Gandhi, Scandinavian ‘Exceptionalism’: A postcolonial Perspective, International Association of Scandinavian Studies Conference (IASS 2018), Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2018
Neena Gandhi, 'Globalized' Literature or 'Global Coloniality': The Case for Postcolonialism, World Literature: Postcolonial Perspectives, Delhi, India, March, 2018
Neena Gandhi, Dr. Faustus, Dorian Gray, and the Postcolonial Other, Othello's Island 2018: the 6th Annual Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Nicosia, Cyprus, March, 2018
Neena Gandhi, The Lawrentian Truth: Selfhood and the Primal Consciousness, 9th Annual ATINER (Athens Institute for Education and Research) International Conference on Literature, Athens, Greece, June, 2016
Neena Gandhi, 1947: Partition, Postcolonialism and Sites of Memory-, The Politics of Memory:Victimization, Violence and Contested Narratives of the Past: Fifth Annual Conference of the Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network, December, 2015
Neena Gandhi, Ambiguous Ideologies: Visual representations in the Novels of Forster, Cary and Achebe, IJAS International Conference for Social Sciences and Humanities, Paris, France, April, 2015
Neena Gandhi, Postcolonialism, Participatory Democracy and the Rise of the AAP Factor in Indian Politics, Public Policy, Governance and Democracy-Experiences from Canada & India, Center of Canadian Studies, Shimla, India, March, 2014
Neena Gandhi, Delhi and the Punjabi Refugees, American Comparative Literature Association Conference 2013, Toronto, Canada, April, 2013
Neena Gandhi, Crossing Literary Frontiers: Magic and Witchcraft in the Novels of Cary and Achebe, Second IJAS Conference for Several Academic Disciplines, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, June, 2011
Neena Gandhi, At the Crossroads: Cultural Perspectives in Cary and Achebe, ACLA conference Global Languages, Local Cultures, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, March, 2009
Neena Gandhi, The Twilight Zone in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, ACLA conference Global Languages, Local Cultures, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, March, 2009
Neena Gandhi, Language and Style in the Novels of Chinua Achebe, Afrikanistenstag 2007, Vienna, Austria, July, 2007
Neena Gandhi, From Fiction to Composition: A Tentative step. , Innovative Approaches to Academic Writing, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, February, 2007
Neena Gandhi, Nation and National Identity in the Novels of Chinua Achebe, I International Conference on Nation and Identity in 20th Century Literature in English Murcia, Spain,, September, 2006
Neena Gandhi, An analysis of The Color Purple in the context of Alice Walker's Theoretical Statements on Black Feminism, Literary Theory and the Teaching of Literature, Delhi, India, December, 1999
Neena Gandhi, Theme of personal relationships in Lawrence -- The Rainbow, The Plumed Serpent, Lady Chatterley’s lover. , British Literature 1800 – 1930, Delhi, India, December, 1999

Awards and Honors

Received, Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India, 1999

Other creative/research

Organized and moderated seminar, The Twilight Zone in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, at the ACLA conference Global Languages, Local Cultures held at Harvard University,Cambridge, U.S.A., March 26-29, 2009. The seminar, held over three days, focused on: i. colonial and postcolonial India, ii. colonial and postcolonial Africa, iii. and drama and art photography in the postcolonial world
Presented a series of inter-disciplinary lectures discussing links between politics and postcolonial literature at the Department of International Studies, American University of Sharjah, March 2007
Organized National Seminar, Reviewing the Epic, at Zakir Husain College, Delhi University, February, 2001

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