I’m a second-year DPhil Candidate in English at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. My research examines the construction of narrative form in contemporary women's autofiction to consider what insights it might bring to existing debates on narrative theory, women's writing, and the core issues which tie contemporary women’s authorship to self-narration. I study narrativity as part of tangible feminist praxis in the works of Rachel Cusk, Deborah Levy and Doireann Nà GhrÃofa, and seek to analyse the possibilities inherent in autofiction for reflecting upon the mechanisms of gender relations, power and feminist politics in the framework of the literary. I’m also interested in women’s life-writing and questions of literary lineage and global feminist praxis.
I previously completed an MA in English from Shiv Nadar University, where I worked as a Research and Teaching Assistant, and a BA (Hons) in English from Hansraj College, University of Delhi. At Oxford, I co-convene the Memory Studies Reading Group, funded by TORCH, and volunteer with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW).
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