Sejal Mahendru
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Degrees
B.A. English, 2010, University of Delhi
M.A. English, 2012, University of Delhi
M.Phil, English Literature, 2014, University of Delhi
Bio
My research focuses on environmental justice in the Anthropocene. I am interested in the convergences in the fields of ecocriticism, post-colonial theory and global socioeconomics, to examine how the effects of climate change, displacement, toxic and electronic waste, and resource extraction are differentially experienced across the Global North and South. I am also interested reading in environmental advocacy through the the intersections between art and activism in grassroots movements. I study gobal anglophone literature, with a focus on environmental justice movements in India and the U.S.A.
Teaching Awards
- LSP Graduate Student Affiliate Teaching Award, Fall 2021
Awards
- Centre for the Studies of the American South Summer Fellowship, 2021
Curriculum Vitae / Resume
Research Interests
American Literature to 1900 to the present | Asian American Literature | Comparative Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Critical Race Studies | Digital Humanities | Film and Media Studies | Literature and Science | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Posthumanism | Science Fiction | Science Writing | Social Justice