Divya Dwivedi | Humanities & Social Sciences

Divya Dwivedi

Divya Dwivedi
Professor
Literature
Philosophy
CV Summary: 

Divya Dwivedi teaches Philosophy and Literature. She is the co-author of Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics (Bloomsbury Academic, London: 2019) and Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics (Hurst Publishers UK, Oxford University Press USA, Westland India: 2024). She is the editor of The Virality of Evil (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022); and co-editor of Jean-Luc Nancy, Anastasis de la pensée (Edition Hermann,  Rue de la Sorbonne, Paris: 2023), Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form and Theory in Postcolonial Texts (Ohio State UP, 2018), and Public Sphere from outside the West (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).  

Dwivedi has been elected member of the Executive Council, International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) since 2022, elected member of Theory Committee of International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), is an Advisory Board member of the Institute of Global Value Inquiry  Berlin (IGVI), Global Advisory Board member of The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU), Editorial Board member of Humanities Arts and Society (HAS) project and journal by UNESCO, invited member of UNESCO Women Philosopher's Network. 

In 2022 and 2023 she was a fellow at the Archives Husserl, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. She was Visiting Fellow at Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University 2013 & 2014. 

Contact Information

divyadwi@hss.iitd.ac.in

divyadwivedi.iitd@gmail.com

Research Areas

Philosophy of literature, German Romanticism, Classical and Unnatural Narratology, Fictionality and Truth, Deconstruction, Metaphysics, Hypophysics, Health Humanities, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Politics, Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Literary Theory and Criticism, Critical Philosophy of Caste and Race, M. K. Gandhi, Jean-Luc Nancy, Literary Works and Political Cartoons of O V Vijayan.

Academic Background

BA (with Hons and distinction) - Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi
MA (with Hons and distinction, 1st rank) - St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi
MPhil (with Hons and distinction) - University of Delhi
PhD. - Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Delhi

Employment History

2024 – Professor, Dept. of HuSS, IIT Delhi
2020 – Associate Professor, Dept. of HuSS, IIT Delhi
2012 – 2020 Assistant Professor, Dept. of HuSS, IIT Delhi
2011 Jan – 2012 April Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of English, Delhi University
2003 – 2004 Asst. Professor (Ad-Hoc), St. Stephen’s College, DU

Publications

BOOKS, CONTRIBUTORY VOLUMES & JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

Divya Dwivedi, Shaj Mohan, Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics, edited, annotated and introduced by Maël Montévil, London: Hurst; New York: OUP, Delhi: Westland, 2024.

Divya Dwivedi, Robert J. C. Young, (ed) “Decolonizing the Theory Canon: Literary Theory Outside the Norton Anthology”, Parallax special issue, 2025.

Divya Dwivedi, Jéròme Lèbre, Maël Montévil, François Warin, (ed) Jean-Luc Nancy: Anastasis de la pensée, Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2023.

Divya Dwivedi (ed) “Caste and Racism in India”, Critical Philosophy of Race Special Double Issue (Penn State University Press), 2023.

Divya Dwivedi (ed) Virality of Evil: Philosophy in the Time of a Pandemic, London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

Divya Dwivedi (ed) “L’inde Capitale et colossale”, special issue of Critique no. 872-873, January-February issue (Édition Minuit, Paris), 2020.

Shaj Mohan and Divya Dwivedi, Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics, London, Delhi: Bloomsbury Academic UK, 2019.

Divya Dwivedi, Richard Walsh and Henrik Nielsen (ed) Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form and theory in Postcolonial Texts, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2018.

Divya Dwivedi (ed) “Philosophers, Intellectuals, Women in India: Endangered Species?” special issue of Revue des Femmes Philosophes (CNRS Paris-UNESCO Women Philosophers’ Journal), No. 4-5.

 

SELECT JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

“Decanonizing Literary Theory”, Parallax, (2025).

“Chance in Philosophy and Science. Beyond Ontologies and Theologies” in Anne Duprat et al (ed) Figures of Chance II: Chance in Theory and Practice, London: Routledge, (2024).

“ « Nous » légion, ou la communauté polynomique ”, in Lucia Angelino, Marc Crépon (ed), La communauté aujourd’hui. Autour de Jean-Luc Nancy, Éditions Hermann, Paris, (2024).

“The Ethics of Thinking Psychoanalysis Beyond Europe”; Eco-ethica 11, (2023).

“The Psychomachia of Caste and Psychoanalysis in India” CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, 5(2): 97–120, (2024).

“Zum Verhältnis von Kastenwesen und Rassismus. Die homologische Macht der Arierlehre”, Polylog 50 (Winter 2023): 55-82, (2023).

“The Hypophysics of Philosophical Nationalism: Derrida, Fichte”, Eco-ethica 10 : 47-60, (2023).

“The Evasive Racism of Caste and the Homological Power of the ‘Aryan’ Doctrine” in Critical Philosophy of Race Vol. 11, No. 1, 209-245 (2023).

“El comienzo de Jean-Luc Nancy”, SHIFT: International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1 (2022).

“The Commencement of Jean-Luc Nancy", Qui Parle 31.2 (2022)

“Jean-Luc Nancy qui a ouvert la piste”, Lignes 68, (2022).

“Pour Bernard,” in Jean-Luc Nancy (ed) Amitiés de Bernard Stiegler: douze contributions Paris : Éditions Galilée, (2021).

“May 1968 and Other Dates in the Memories of Imagination” in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 23.3: 379-398 (2021).

Sergio Benvenuto, Divya Dwivedi, Jean-Luc Nancy, “Sur Massenpsychologie: Un débat après-coup”, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, (2021).

Teaching Areas

Philosophy, Literature

Courses

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