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Title Professor
Designation
Address
First Name
Christel
Last Name
Devadawson
Photograph
Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi
Flat 172. Block C 2 C, Pocket 2, Janakpuri
New Delhi 110 058
India
91-11-27666757
Phone No Office
Residence 91-11-25554003
91-9818449645
Mobile
[email protected]
Email
www.englishdu.ac.in
Web-Page
Educational Qualifications
Degree
Institution
Year
Ph D
M Phil
M A English
B A (Hons) English
1992
1989 (Passed with Distinction)
1986 (First Class First)
1986 (First Class First)
University of Cambridge
Department of English, University of Delhi
St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
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
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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
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‘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
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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
cultural positioning of Kim
January 1995
Assisted Prof Richard Allen, Open University, UK, with the construction of
a Masters course in twentieth-century Indian writing in English
April 1994
Awards and Distinctions
TITLE/ SOURCE OF AWARD
DATE
INSTITUTION
C F Andrew Distinguished Alumnus
March 2015
ASIHSS Visiting Fellowship
Westcott Memorial Lectureship
March-April 2008
November 2001
Indian Council for Cultural Relations
British Council Visitor
HRD ministry, Govt. of India
Bryce-Tebb scholarship
Cambridge Nehru scholarship
Overseas Research award
Travel grant , April 1996
April 1994
March 1994
1990-1992
October 1989-October 1992
October 1989-October 1992
Charles Wallace award
Kohli memorial prize
B B Gupta memorial medal
Mukarji memorial prize
C P Ramaswami Aiyer English essay prize
N V Thadani memorial prize
Muriel Wasi English prize
October 1989-October 1992
March 1990
March 1987
March 1986
March 1984
March 1984
March 1984
St Stephen’s College, Award
Delhi
Jadavpur University
Divinity School,
Cambridge
Oviedo
London
Oxford
Girton College, Cambridge
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Committee of ViceChancellors and
Principals
Charles Wallace Trust
Deptt of English, DU
Delhi University
St Stephen’s College
Delhi University
Delhi University
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
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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)
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