Shital Pravinchandra
Title: Lecturer in Comparative Literature
School or Department: Languages, Linguistics and Film
E-mail: s.pravinchandra (@) qmul.ac.uk
Sites of Interest: North India; Hindi Literature; Anglophone Literature
Period of Interest: 20th and 21st Centuries
Research Keywords: postcolonial studies; medical humanities; Hindi literature; short story; world literature; environmental humanities; speculative fiction.
Relevant Publications:
- “World Literature and the Short Story.” (Book Chapter. Forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to World Literature, 2018)
- “One Species, Same Difference? Postcolonial Critique and the Concept of Life” (New Literary History, 47:1, Winter 2016)
- “Not Just Prose: Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome, the South Asian Short Story and the Limits of Postcolonial Studies.” (Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 16:3, May 2014)