Divya Dwivedi teaches Philosophy and Literature. She is the co-author of Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics (Bloomsbury Academic, London: 2019). She is the editor of The Virality of Evil (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022); co-editor of Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form and Theory in Postcolonial Texts (Ohio State UP, 2018) which is a narratological investigation into the ideological conditions of postcolonial theory; and of Public Sphere from outside the West (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Dwivedi has been elected as Executive Council Member of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) in 2022. In 2022 she was a fellow at the Archives Husserl, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. She was an elected member of the Committee on Literary Theory, International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) in June 2017. She was Visiting Fellow at Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University 2013 & 2014.
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Research Areas
Philosophy of Literature (Classical Poetics, German Romanticism, Russian Formalism), Aesthetics (Kant, Foucault, Ranciere), Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (Freud, Heidegger, Lacan, Deleuze, Derrida), Narratology, Literary Theory and Criticism, Formal inquiry into fictionality (Theory of Language, Modal Logic,Temporal Logic, Quine), Critical Philosophy of Caste and Race, Political thought of Gandhi, Political Cartoons and Novels of O V Vijayan.
Academic Background
BA (with Hons and distinction) - Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi
MA (with Hons and distinction) - 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
2011 Jan – 2012 April Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of English, Delhi University:
2003 – 2004 Asst. Professor (Ad-Hoc), St. Stephen’s College, DU:
Publications
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 AcademicUK, 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) “Philosophyers, Intellectuals, Women in India: Endangered Species?” special issue of Revue des Femmes Philosophes (CNRS Paris-UNESCO Women Philosophers’ Journal), No. 4-5.
Teaching Areas
Philosophy, Literature