Interpreting trauma through verse In 1949, the German philosopher and social theorist wrote, “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” He questioned how poetry could serve to interpret and find meaning […]
Author Archives: Dr. Nidhi Shrivastava
Nidhi Shrivastava is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Sacred Heart University where she also serves as the managing editor of SHU Scholar, Sacred Heart University’s undergraduate journal.. She is currently working on her monograph, India’s Daughters: #MeToo, Politics of Forgetting, and Representations of Gendered Violence in 1947 Partition Narratives (1948-Present), which focuses on the #MeToo movement, the 1947 Partition Archive, Hindi film cinema, narrative politics, and the figures of abducted and raped women. She has also contributed to and co-edited two collections, Bridging the Gaps Between Celebrity and Media with Jackie Raphael and Basuli Deb (2015), and contributed three chapters to Gender Violence, The Law, and The Society (2022), which has been cited extensively by scholars who study rape laws in India. She has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including South Asian Review and the Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies. She also contributed to the provocation section of #MeToo and South Asia: Sex, Sexual Violence, and Gender Abuse, edited by Robin E. Field. Additionally, she has contributed to numerous edited volumes, including Teaching Anglophone South Asian Diasporic Literature (MLA 2024), Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neo-liberal India, and #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Studying About Sexual Violence. She formerly served as the editor for the Salaam newsletter and is currently the secretary of the South Asian Literary Association.
Dr. Nidhi Shrivastava, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Department of English
Martire, 3rd Floor
Office: MW 313
5481 Park Ave, Fairfield, CT 06825
Twitter, Instagram: @shnidhi
Editor, Salaam newsletter, South Asian Literary Association, and SHU scholar
MLA Forum, South Asian and South Asian Diaspora LLC, 2025-2029
Zoom link: https://sacredheart-edu.zoom.us/j/6728204447
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Nidhi Shrivastava works as an Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Sacred Heart University. She is currently working on her monograph, India’s Daughters: #MeToo, Politics of Forgetting, and Representations of Gendered Violence in 1947 Partition Narratives (1948-Present), which focuses on the #MeToo movement, the 1947 Partition Archive, Hindi film cinema, narrative politics, and the figures of abducted and raped women. She has also contributed to and co-edited two collections, Bridging the Gaps Between Celebrity and Media with Jackie Raphael and Basuli Deb (2015), and contributed three chapters to Gender Violence, The Law, and The Society (2022), which has been cited extensively by scholars who study rape laws in India. She has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including South Asian Review and the Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies. She also contributed to the provocation section of #MeToo and South Asia: Sex, Sexual Violence, and Gender Abuse, edited by Robin E. Field. Additionally, she has contributed to numerous edited volumes, including Teaching Anglophone South Asian Diasporic Literature (MLA 2024), Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neo-liberal India, and #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Studying About Sexual Violence. She formerly served as the editor for the Salaam newsletter and is currently the secretary of the South Asian Literary Association. She is also the managing editor of SHU Scholar, Sacred Heart University’s undergraduate journal.