Department of S c h o o l o f H u m a n i t i e s a n d S o c i a l S c i e n c e s
Under the Volcano, Tepoztlan, Mexico, January 10-25, 2025.
Book
Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850-1880
This book offers the first extended account of the midcentury rise of ‘model women of the press’: women who not only stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism but also presented themselves as upholders of the highest standards of professional journalistic practice. They broke the codes of anonymity in several ways, including signing articles in their own names and developing distinctly female personae.
Book
Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India
During the two difficult decades immediately following the 1947 Indian Independence, a new, commercially successful print culture emerged that articulated alternatives to dominant national narratives. Through what Aakriti Mandhwani defines as middlebrow magazines like Delhi Press’s Saritā and the first paperbacks in Hindi Hind Pocket Books North Indian middle classes cultivated new reading practices that allowed them to reimagine what it meant to be a citizen.
Dr Chinmay Sharma
Crooked Lines
Faculty in-charge of organizing the Crooked Lines Literature Festival and Short Story Competition 2024.
In total, we received an impressive 1500+ registrations for the competition, out of which 268 participants successfully submitted their entries.
Editorial Board Member
English PhD student, Megha Mazumdar, has been elected as PGR editorial board member for “Romance, Revolution, and Reform” journal of Southampton Centre for NineteenthCentury Research
Publication with High Commendation for Essay
Our PhD scholar Simar Bhasin has been awarded 'Highly Commended' for her submission to the Wasafiri Essay Prize 2024. This is a first for the prize. Simar Bhasin received this award for her essay titled, ‘A Qissa of Resistance: Desire & Dissent in Selma Dabbagh’s Short Fiction’. According to the official announcement, "The judging panel appreciated its timely and essential engagement with Palestinian subjectivity and lauded its interrogation of diasporic and transnational writing as a category". Simar's essay will be published in Wasafiri 123.
Under the Volcano, Tepoztlan, Mexico, January 10-25, 2025.
Book
Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850-1880
This book offers the first extended account of the midcentury rise of ‘model women of the press’: women who not only stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism but also presented themselves as upholders of the highest standards of professional journalistic practice. They broke the codes of anonymity in several ways, including signing articles in their own names and developing distinctly female personae.
Book
Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India
During the two difficult decades immediately following the 1947 Indian Independence, a new, commercially successful print culture emerged that articulated alternatives to dominant national narratives. Through what Aakriti Mandhwani defines as middlebrow magazines—like Delhi Press’s Saritā and the first paperbacks in Hindi Hind Pocket Books North Indian middle classes cultivated new reading practices that allowed them to reimagine what it meant to be a citizen.