Faculty Details proforma for DU Web-site Title Professor First Name Christel Last Name Devadawson Photograph Designation Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi Address Flat 172. Block C 2 C, Pocket 2, Janakpuri New Delhi 110 058 India Phone No Office 91-11-27666757 Residence 91-11-25554003 Mobile 91-9818449645 Email christelrashmi@gmail.com Web-Page www.englishdu.ac.in Educational Qualifications Degree Institution Year Ph D University of Cambridge 1992 M Phil Department of English, University of Delhi 1989 (Passed with Distinction) M A English St Stephen s College, University of Delhi 1986 (First Class First) B A (Hons) English St Stephen s College, University of Delhi 1986 (First Class First) Career Profile Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi, January 2014-to date Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi, March 2001-January 2014 Lecturer (and then Reader) St Stephen s College, University of Delhi, July 1986-Masrch 2001 Administrative Assignments Convenor, M Phil sub committee, Department of English, University of Delhi (at present) Convener, Timetable committee, Department of English, University of Delhi (at present) Teacher-in-charge, Department of English, South Delhi campus (July 2011-July 2014, and February 2004 to February 2007) Visiting Fellow (under ASIHSS grant), Department of English, Jadavpur University, March-April 2008 Head of the English Department, St. Stephen s College, University of Delhi, July 2000 - February 2001 Areas of Interest / Specialization Visual politics, pictorial satire, contemporary popular culture, South Asian lifewriting, Golden Age detective fiction, nineteenth and twentieth century British representations of India Subjects Taught At Ph D and M Phil level Visual politics, pictorial satire, South Asian lifewriting, Golden Age detective fiction At M A level Twentieth-century poetry The visual arts in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century Nineteenth and twentieth-century British fiction Research Guidance 1 Ph D supervisee i(thesis submitted) on pre-colonial community-formation in India 3 Ph D supervisees in the field of South Asian/Indian non-fiction and fiction 4 M Phil supervisees in the fields of visual politics and South Asian lifewriting www.du.ac.in Page 1
2 groups of (on an average) 10 students every year from 2007-the present for M Phil seminar courses the following M Phil seminar courses that I ve designed and now teach Culture and crime: Golden Age detective fiction Dissent and the shaping of South Asia Modern India in paint and print Publications Profile BOOKS (SINGLE AUTHOR) Out of line: Cartoons, Caricature and Contemporary India. Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2014. 278 pages, ISBN 978-81-250-55136 Reading India, writing England: The fiction of Rudyard Kipling & E M Forster, Delhi: Macmillan, 2005. 202 pages, ISBN 1403-92852-5 BOOKS (SOLE EDITOR) A Passage to India (copyright edition for South Asia) Delhi: Penguin, 2004, ISBN 0-143-03279-8 Jane Eyre (inaugural title in the Critical Texts series) Delhi: Macmillan, 2000, ISBN 0333-93460-1 BOOKS (CO EDITOR) (with Shormishtha Panja & Shirshendu Chakrabarti) Word, Image, Text: Nature and Time in Literature and the Visual Arts, Orient Blackswan: 2009. 176 pages, ISBN 978-81-250-3735-4 (with G K Das) Forster s A Passage to India : An anthology of recent criticism (New Orientations series), Delhi: Pencraft International, 2005. 232 pages, ISBN 81-8573-66-0 ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS AND E JOURNALS) The irrelevance of empire: Visual politics and the working of Beast and Man in India, Delhi University Journal of the Humanities and the Social Sciences, vol 1, 2014, 24-37. ISSN 2348-4357, http://journals.du.ac.in/pdf/3dujournal.pdf/ A family likeness: Texts and migration in Meatless Days, Families, vol 6, no 2, & vol 7, no 1, 18-31, December 2009, 18-31. ISBN 0975-7007 Shaking up a continent : Biography as a postindependence response. ARIEL 29.1, University of Calgary, 1998, 109-128. ISSN 0004-1327 subsequently rpt. in Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi and Victor J Ramraj (ed.) Post Independence Voices in South Asian writings, Delhi: Doaba, 2001. Resistance from within : Reading and neocolonialism. Links & Letters, Num 4, Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1997, 65-75. ISSN 1133-7397 Subaltern consciousness and The Sign of Four. In-between, Delhi, 1997, 19-26. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (peer-reviewed conferences) Strategies of protest: Gandhi in contemporary cartoons, Bangkok, AAGS-2013, proceedings (ed) Rab Patterson, https://sites.google.co.in/site/aags2011conference proceedings/home/aags-2013-conference-papers Imaging India: Art Education and the Graduate Seminar, Toronto, CICE-2011 proceedings, (ed.) Charles Shoniregun, Toronto: Infonomics, 312-316. ISBN 978-0-9564263-9-0 CHAPTERS IN BOOKS The limits of fantasy: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Rushdie the Novelist (ed) Meenakshi Bharat, Delhi: Pencraft International, 2009, 177-184. ISBN 81-85753-95-4 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, A Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol 323: South Asian Writing in English, (ed.) Fakrul Alam, Columbia: Bruccoli-Clark, 2006, 130-138. ISBN 0-7876-8141-5 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, A Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol 323: South Asian Writing in English, (ed.) Fakrul Alam, Columbia: Bruccoli-Clark, 2006, 266-272. ISBN 0-7876-8141-5 Governance in Frankenstein, Anjana Sharma (ed.) Frankenstein : Interrogating, gender, culture and identity. Delhi: Macmillan, 2004, 142-151. ISBN 1403 92404 X www.du.ac.in Page 2
From Danzig to Ayemenem: A look ahead at Arundhati Roy. R K Dhawan (ed.), Arundhati Roy: Novelist Extraordinary, Delhi: Prestige Books, 1999, 286-296. ISBN 81-7551-060-9 ARTICLES (POPULAR) 2014: Contours of pictorial satire, The Asian Age, Delhi 30 December 2014 Powers of air : The themes of action and renunciation in Kipling, Forster and Myers, Yearly Review, University of Delhi, 2006, 44-61 Looking at Nehru: Cartoon or chronicle? Yearly Review, Delhi: University of Delhi, 2005, 123-136. Approaches to contemporary literatures, Literature Alive, The British Council, Delhi, 1995, 79-83 Riddle of the gods : Indian myth in the fiction of Rudyard Kipling. Yearly Review, University of Delhi, 1992, 35-64. In jesting guise : Epigraphs and themes in Kim, Yearly Review, University of Delhi, 1988, 96-102. JOURNAL EDITING (with Manju Jain & Gautam Chakravarty) The Yearly Review, No. 20, special issue Mediations: Literature across media, 2004-2005, 209 pages COURSE WRITING (INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY M A ENGLISH PROGRAMME) Contemporary Australian poetry, 2001, 51 pages. ISBN 81-266-0284-0 Feminist theories, 2000, 47 pages. ISBN 81-7605-223-X A Passage to India, 1999, 57 pages ISBN 81-540-9 REVIEWS Of the holes in the hat, (rev) The New Indian Express, Saturday 10 January 2015. The importance of being Edward, (rev) The Indian Express, Saturday 19 April 2014, 11-12 Need or greed?: Moral confusion and The Hungry Ghosts, Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi, March-April 2014, vol LVII, no 289, 183-186. At home in the world, The Book Review, Delhi, April 2009, vol xxxiii, no 4, 28-29 What you call winter, The Book Review, Delhi, April 4 2008, vol xxxii, no 4. A sort of life: R K Narayan, The Early Years. Sunday, 15-21 December 1996, 52-53. Fractured predicates: The Fire Sacrifice. In-between, Delhi, 1994, 143-145. Romantic Influences and areas of resistance, The Yearly Review, University of Delhi, 1994, 93-98 Human Rights in India: The Updated Amnesty International Report. The Eye, Delhi, 1993 Critical regionalism : Colonial Transactions and after. The Yearly Review, University of Delhi, 1993, 103-107 Conference Organization/ Presentations (in the last three years) PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (LAST THREE YEARS) Visual politics after the visual turn. University of Glasgow, May 2015 Kipling, JLK, and the visual politics of the beast fable, Bharati College, University of Delhi, March 2015 And then came Gandhi, audio-visual lecture for the University of Glasgow, recorded ILLL, University of Delhi, November 2014 On the move: People, protests, progress, Asian Association of Global Studies, Bangkok, April 2013 Rethinking the Novel, University of Delhi, March 2013 Body of Evidence: The crime fiction conference, St Stephen s College, University of Delhi, February 2012 Mediating space: The Dandi march and contemporary Delhi, Chennai: Centre for Performance and Cultural Studies, January 2012 PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL CONFERENCES (LAST THREE YEARS) Literary theory and visual politics: Mapping Swam and Friends, (keynote address) at Literary Theory, UGC conference, Madurai College, March 2015 Countervisuality, literature & history: The question of Bhimayana [plenary], Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi, March 2014 Killing the other : Memory and history in Sri Lankan docufiction *invited lecture, R K Mission College, Kolkota, February 2012 www.du.ac.in Page 3
PRESENTATIONS AT LOCAL CONFERENCES (LAST THREE YEARS) Moderated panel discussion, A tribute to R K Laxman, at Delhi Literature Festival, April 2015 Visuality, nightmare and the city, Department of English, University of Delhi, March 2015 Visual politics and Victorian poetry, St Stephen s College, February 2015 Crime fiction: First principles and after, ILLL, University of Delhi, March 2014 Illustration and the construction of the Edwardian schoolchild, Hansraj College, February 2013 Carroll, Tenniel and the illustration of fantasy, Gargi College, February 2013 Dickens and his moment of arrival, St. Stephen s College, November 2012 The narrator and the detective, Gargi College, October 2012 Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration) LITUP Project (partnership between the universities of Delhi and Glasgow under British Council auspices, 2014-2015 Worked on BBC Home Service Radio project on The Centenary of Kim July 2001 Worked on BBC Home Service Television project on The Legacy of Kipling January 1997 Assisted Prof Pierre Coustillas, University of Lille, with the translation and January 1995 cultural positioning of Kim Assisted Prof Richard Allen, Open University, UK, with the construction of April 1994 a Masters course in twentieth-century Indian writing in English Awards and Distinctions TITLE/ SOURCE OF AWARD DATE INSTITUTION C F Andrew Distinguished Alumnus March 2015 St Stephen s College, Award Delhi ASIHSS Visiting Fellowship March-April 2008 Jadavpur University Westcott Memorial Lectureship November 2001 Divinity School, Cambridge Indian Council for Cultural Relations Travel grant, April 1996 Oviedo British Council Visitor April 1994 London HRD ministry, Govt. of India March 1994 Oxford Bryce-Tebb scholarship 1990-1992 Girton College, Cambridge Cambridge Nehru scholarship October 1989-October 1992 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Overseas Research award October 1989-October 1992 Committee of Vice- Chancellors and Principals Charles Wallace award October 1989-October 1992 Charles Wallace Trust Kohli memorial prize March 1990 Deptt of English, DU B B Gupta memorial medal March 1987 Delhi University Mukarji memorial prize March 1986 St Stephen s College C P Ramaswami Aiyer English essay prize March 1984 Delhi University N V Thadani memorial prize March 1984 Delhi University Muriel Wasi English prize March 1984 St Stephen s College Association With Professional Bodies Member of Asian Association of Global Studies Canadian International Conference on Education The Association of British Scholars The Oxford-Cambridge Society The Cambridge Graduate UnioAdvisory www.du.ac.in Page 4
Member, Library Committee, Government of Delhi, 2012 Member, Curriculum Development Committee, Ambedkar University, Delhi, 2011 Member, M A (English) syllabus committee, IGNOU, 1999-2001 Committees and Boards Examiner, J & K State Public Services Selection Board, 2006 Member, Chevening Scholarship Selection Board, 1997-2003 Examiner, Punjab Public Services Selection Board, 2001-2004 Other Activities Forthcoming publication: Personal convictions, public performance: Representing Anna Hazare, in V Sanil & Divya Dwivedi (ed) The public sphere from outside the west, London: Bloomsbury, 2015 (expected later this year) Forthcoming invited lecture: At Words, words words, EFLU (November 2015) Member, Cemeteries Committee, Government of India (2007-the present) Member, Delhi Diocesan Board for Education and Social Services (1997-2001) www.du.ac.in Page 5