AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY DELHI
Gender Studies/School of Human Studies
Invites you to the workshop Working with References
By Dr. Shivani Kapoor,Assistant Professor,Centre for Writing Studies, OP Jindal Global University
About the Speaker: Dr Shivani Kapoor has a doctorate in Political Science from JNU and teaches at the Centre for Writing Studies at OP Jindal Global University. Previously she was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi. She has taught at the Academic Writing Program at Shiv Nadar University, Department of Gender Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi; Department of Political Science and Department of Journalism at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. Her research work is located at the intersection of caste, sensory politics and labour and in particular examines the relationship between caste and the senses in the leather industry in contemporary Uttar Pradesh. Her earlier work examined debates around the representations of ‘untouchable’ selves through self-writing and its circulation of Hindi Dalit autobiographies from Uttar Pradesh. She has several publications around issues of caste and gender.