Divya Dwivedi

Biography

Divya's studies focus on the possibility that ontology, as the inquiry into Being as such, can comprehend literary specificity. In collaboration with Shaj Mohan she is currently occupied by the unique thought system bequeathed by M K Gandhi and some of their writings, including a a philosophical monograph are devoted to examining the concept of man and nature that obtains in the archive of his words and works. She is the co-editor with Sanil V of Public Sphere from outside the West (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Her forthcoming publications include Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form and Theory in Postcolonial Texts co-edited with Richard Walsh and Henrik Skov Nielsen (Ohio State UP, 2018) which is a narratological investigation into the ideological conditions of postcolonial theory; Structuralism and Narratology in series edited by Herman Rapaport (Orient Blackswan); and ‘Anti-Mimetic Theory and Postcolonialism’ in The Edinburgh Companion to Narrative Theory edited by Robin Warhol, Mark Currie and Zara Dinnen. Her narratological research has focused on Unnatural Narratology, specifically on narrative time, narrative space and narrative voice. She was Visiting Fellow at Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University. She was elected as a member of the Committee on Literary Theory, International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) in June 2017.

Research Interest

Philosophy of Literature (Classical Poetics, German Romanticism, Russian Formalism), Aesthetics (Kant, Foucault, Ranciere), Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (Freud, Heidegger, Lacan, Deleuze, Derrida), Narratology, Literary Theory and Criticism, Formal inquiry into fictionality (Theory of Language, Modal Logic,Temporal Logic, Quine), Political thought of Gandhi, Political Cartoons and Novels of O V Vijayan.