Prof.

Vibha Singh Chauhan

Principal, Kirori Mal College
University of Delhi
Delhi-110007

Academics
B.A. English (Honours) University of Delhi
M.A. English University of Delhi
M.Phil. English University of Delhi
Ph.D Comparative Literature Jawaharlal Nehru University
B.Ed. Education University of Delhi
M.Ed. Education University of Delhi
L.L.B. Law University of Delhi

Experience
Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi 34 years
Institution of Life Long Learning, University of Delhi, 01 year
Founding team member
Principal, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi Since March 2018

Books authored/edited/translated
Eight Faces of Revenge Brill Rodopi, The 2019
Netherlands
Manto Saheb: Friends and Enemies on the Great Speaking Tiger, New 2018
Maverick Delhi.
Bhartiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan: Bihar ki Orient Blackswan, 2017
Bhashayein (Hindi) Delhi
Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality and Macmillian 2005
Literary Traditions in India Publishers, New Delhi

Reprinted: Oxford
University Press, 2015
New Delhi
Angarey Rupa Publishers, 2014
Delhi
The Emotions and Actions of Revenge Inter-Disciplinary 2014
Press, Oxford, UK
Ganga Jamuna Beech (Novel in Hindi) Aalekh Prakashan, 2007
Delhi
Beyond Black Waters Penguin India, New 2007
Delhi
Maa Siddeshwari Roli Books, New 2000
Delhi
Published Research Articles/Papers in Refereed Journals/Chapters in Books
Challenging taxonomies of the John Benjamin Publishing Company, 2019
‘local’ and the ‘exotic’: The works of Amsterdam.
Hansda Showvendra Shekhar
The divine and the mundane: Ritual Pencraft International, Delhi 2018
sacrifice, blood and the feminine
principle in Indira Goswami’s Under
the shadow of Kamakhya and The
man from Chinnamasta
‘Kusum’ Penguin Classics, New Delhi 2017
Lakshmibai and South Asian Review, Arcadia 2016
Jhalkaribai: Women University, Pennsylvania
Heroes and Contesting
Caste and Gender
Pardigms

Come Friends Let's Create a New Pencraft International, Delhi 2015

Sun: Denotified
Communities and Protest in Hindi
Novels, Theatre and Poetry
Lady Nugent's East India Journal Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi, 2015
(Review) New Delhi
Co-Existence of Multiple Time Routledge, New Delhi 2014
Frames: Narratives of Myth and
Cosmogony in India
Between Love and Freedom: The Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi, 2014
Revolutionary New Delhi
in the Hindi Novel (Review)
Co-Existence of Multiple Time Routledge, New Delhi 2014
Frames: Narratives of Myth and
Cosmogony in India
Identity, History and Protest: Routledge, New Delhi 2013
CT/DNT in Literary and Social Texts
in India
The Dispossessed Zubaan, New Delhi 2011
Alternative Narratives, Identity Contributions to Indian Sociology, 2010
Formation and New Delhi
Dissent: Women Heroes and Dalit
Assertion in North India, Culture,
Identity and Politics |(Review)
Adivasi Community in History, South Asian Literature, 2010
Society and Wissensenchaftlicher, Verlag, Trier,
Literature Germany
Crystallizing Protest into Movement: Orient Blackswan, New Delhi 2009
Adivasi Community in History,
Society and Literature
Gender and Beyond: Psycho-Sexual Intersections. Australia 2009
Universe and
 Relations of Power in the Novel and
Society in India
From Protest to Movement: Adivasi University of Leeds, UK 2009
Community in History, Society and
Literature
Lives and Times of Munshi Ramnath South Asian Review, Arcadia 2008
University, Pennsylvania

To Mother ILLL, University of Delhi 2008

Soapnut Leaves ILLL, University of Delhi 2008
A Gandhian in Garhwal: Chandi ILLL, University of Delhi 2008
Prasad Bhatt
'Will the Meek Inherit?' Nations and Pencraft Internationa, New Delhi 2007
Sub-Nations in the Novels of
Maitreyi Pushpa
On Becoming and Existence of Pearson Longman, New 2007
Home:Inequities, Disparities and the Delhi
Novel in India.
Abortion (Poetry) Africa World Press, Inc. New Jersey, 2007
USA
The Line of Clothes (Poetry) Africa World Press, Inc. New Jersey, 2007
USA
Women, History and Fiction: Pencraft Internationa, New Delhi 2004
Kapur's 'Difficult Daughters' and
Baldwin's 'What the Body
Remembers'
Poverty, Gender and Reproductive Indian Journal of Gender Studies 2000
Choice: An Analysis of Linkages
(Review)
Nine Women Poets: An Anthology Indian Journal of Gender Studies 1999
(Review)
Community, State and Women Women’s Link, New Delhi 1999
Looking for Freedom in Death The Book Review, New Delhi 1997

Nascent Modernity: Hyena and The Book Review, New Delhi 1997
Other Stories
What Price, Women’s Education Indian Dominion, New Delhi 1993

Honours and Awards

VI - Nari Gaurav Samman Rajasthani Akademy 2018

The John Benjamin FILLM Prize for John Benjamin Publishing Company, 2017
Linguistic and Literary Scholarship Amsterdam
Small Study and Research Grant Nehru Trust for the Indian 1996
Collections at the Victoria and Albert
Museum
Awards
Awarding Body: John Benjamin Publishing
Company, Amsterdam.
Awarding Body: Nehru Trust for the Indian
Collections at the Victoria and Albert
Museum, Cambridge Trust.
Seclected Invited Lectures
Title of invited lecture
Preparing for Competitive
Examinations
The praxis of divorce: Power, control
and the co-existence of the human and
the natural world in literatures in India
From tradition to Modernity:
Narrating folk culture in Madhubani
painting
Adrift between aesthetics of obscenity
and despair: the case of Urdu writing
including Angarey, Manto’s stories
and the legal embargo.
Importance of translation
StriLekhan ka Paridrishya
The curse od statelessness: Sagari
Chhabra’s In Search of Freedom:
Journeys through India and South
East Asia
Recreating the Oral: Digital recording
and Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of
India
Shifting spaces of fantasy and control
New writings: Angarey
From vengeful communities to
individual revenge in socio-political
systems and regional literatures in
India
Women writing: Kitabnama
Imagining the Intangible
Bhojpuri janpadiyaadhyayan: Swaroop
evamdishayain
Shifitng autonomies: Writers as
translators and translators as writers.
Word and the world
The John Benjamin FILLM Prize for
Linguistic and Literary Scholarship for the
best paper of the year 2017.
Small Study and Research grant for the
project Gods that People Make.(1996)
Organising Institution Year
Tribal university, Amarkantak, 2017
Madhya Pradesh
Berhampur University, Odisha 2016
Ramnujan College, University of 2016
Delhi
Kaktia University, Warangal. 2016
GhumanBahubhasha Sahitya 2016
sammelan, Punjab
Shiv Dulari Devi Dalpat Shahi 2016
MahilaMahavidyala, Kushinagar.
Department of Germanic and 2016
Romance Studies, University of Delhi
Asia Project: India International 2015
centre, New Delhi
Leverhulme planned violence 2014
network: Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi.
Hindustani Awaz, New Delhi 2014
Inter-Disciplinary Net. Oxford, UK 2013
Doordarshan Kendra, New Delhi 2013
Bhasha Research Cenntre, Vadodara 2012
Banares Hindu University, Varanasi 2010
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. 2008
India iNternational Centre, New Delhi 2007