Faculty Profile

Dr. Sapna obtained her Ph.D. (2015) and M.Phil. (2010) from Jamia Millia Islamia. She completed her M.A. (English) and B.A. (H) English from the University of Delhi in 2006 and 2004 respectively. She qualified the UGC NET examination in English with a score of 99.79 percentile.

Beginning to teach in 2010, Dr. Sapna has a rich experience of working at her alma mater Jamia Millia Islamia and various Delhi University colleges like Dyal Singh Evening College, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Dyal Singh College, Daulat Ram College for Women and Gargi College before she joined Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi in December 2022. She was also invited as resource person for several workshops organized by The Faculty of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia as part of a training program for the teachers of the Jamia Schools.

Contemporary literary and cultural theory, post theory, culture studies, popular literature, digital feminist interventions.

For her M.Phil. Dr. Sapna worked on “The Politics of Origin and Location: A Critical Assessment of Select South-Asian Perspectives on Postmodernism” and for her Ph.D. she worked on “After Post-Modernism: Ethics, Virtuality and Politics.”

• Topped M.Phil. (English) in the year 2008-2010, Jamia Millia Islamia.
• Awarded the Habib Kidwai Student Fellowship for March 2009-August 2009 by James Beveridge Media Resource Centre, MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia.
• Gold Medalist – secured first rank in the M.A. (English) examination (2004-2006) in the South Campus of Delhi University.

Book

• Literary Criticism and Theory II: For Beginners. Delhi: Doaba House, 2022. ISBN: 9788195254897.

Papers in Journals

• “New Reproductive Technologies and the Biopolitical Paradigm.” Women’s Link Vol. 30 No. 1 (January 2023): 48-54. ISSN – 2229-6409. Published by Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi -110025.
• “The Politics of Location: Krishan Kumar’s ‘Westernized’ Sociology of the Postmodern.” Lapis Lazuli Vol. 7 No. 1 (Spring 2017): 427-42. ISSN: 2249-4529. Impact factor: 5.772.
• “Shopping Malls, Globalization and the Dynamics of Power.” Caesurae: Poetics of Cultural Translation Vol. 1 Issue1 (2015). ISSN: 2454-9495.
• “Studying Alternative Protest in Cyber Space: Through the Prism of the Pink Chaddi Campaign.” Coldnoon: Travel Poetics 2.1 (Summer 2013): 168-179. ISSN: 2278-9642.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• “Digital Feminist Interventions: A Critical Assessment of the Pink Chaddi Campaign and #MeToo India.” Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives, and Challenges. Ed. Simi Malhotra et al. Springer Link, Feb 2021, pp. 47-56. ISBN-10: 9811599335 (ebook). ISBN-13: 978-9811599330.
• “The Non/existence of Women in Limbale’s The Outcaste.” Casting Out the Caste: Akkarmashi, the Outcaste. Ed. P.K Anshuman and Ravi Prakash Chaubey. Delhi: HP Hamilton, 2020, pp. 89-100. ISBN: 9781913936006.
• “Historical Overview of Western Theatre.” Essays on Text and Performance. Ed. Brati Biswas and Geeta Budhraja. Delhi: Book Age Publications, 2017, pp. 1-12. ISBN: 8192490106.

Conference proceedings

• “Translation and Power: The Case of Indian Literatures in English Translation.” Indian Writing in English: Explorations in History, Myth and Literary Theory. Ed. Iqbal Judge. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2013. 216-23. ISBN: 8180430995.

Book Reviews

• “Vehicle for Social Commentary,” a Book Review of Riccardino: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery by Andrea Camilleri in The Book Review, Vol. 45, No. 11, December 2021, pp. 11-12. UGC care listed. ISSN: 0970-4175.

Invited Lectures

• Invited to deliver an Extension Lecture at Govt. College for Girls, Sec 14, Gurugram on the topic, “What is Literary about Theory” on April 12, 2023.

Sessions chaired

• Chaired a session at the International Conference on “Gender Perspectives and Representations: Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges” on June 21, 2023, hosted by VIT-AP School of Social Sciences & Humanities (VISH).
• Chaired a session at a National Seminar on the topic, “Re-presenting the Rural: Literature, Cinema & Folklore” on November 13, 2021, hosted by Chhaju Ram Memorial Jat College, Hisar, Haryana

• Presented a paper titled “Performing Gender, Transwomen and a Politics of Enablement” at an International Conference hosted by VIT-AP School of Social Sciences & Humanities (VISH) from 20-22 June 2023.
• Presented a paper titled “The Non/existence of Women in Limbale’s The Outcaste” at a National conference hosted by Dyal Singh Evening College, University of Delhi on 22 March 2018.
• Presented a paper titled “Beyond Separatist Feminism: An Indifference to Differences” at an International conference on “Diaspora, Multiculturalism and Quest for Identity” hosted by Sophia Girls’ College, Ajmer from 17-19 February 2018.
• Presented a paper titled “In/tolerance and the Other” at the IACLALS (Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Annual Conference at Aligarh Muslim University from 8-10 February 2018.
• Presented a paper titled “To Surrender or Not: Spivak’s Translations of Devi” at the National Seminar “Translating/Transcreating the Cultures of Existence” organized by the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia on 24-25 November 2016.
• Participated in an international workshop titled “Roland Barthes: Today, Here” organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi in collaboration with The Institut Francais en Inde on 10-11 December 2015.
• Presented a paper titled “The Politics of Origin and Location: A Critical Assessment of Select South-Asian Perspectives on Postmodernism” at “Fractious Modernities: The (dis)Contents of the Now” organized by Jadavpur University, Kolkata from 24-26 February 2015 and at the IACLALS (Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Annual Conference at Chandigarh in February 2014.
• Presented a paper titled “Shopping Malls, Globalization and the Dynamics of Power” at “Space, Place, Travel, Displacement, Exile”, the IACLALS Annual Conference at Goa from 12-14 February 2015 and at EFLU’s National Seminar on “Postcoloniality in Transition: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Globalisation” held on 16-17 January 2013 in Hyderabad. Also selected for presentation at the 2014 AAGS International Conference at Shantou University, China.
• Participated in a workshop titled “Theory, after Theory: Uses, Crises and New Directions” jointly organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras and the Forum for Contemporary Theory, Baroda held in Chennai during 26-28 September 2014.
• Presented a paper titled “Translation and Power: The Case of Indian Literatures in English Translation” at the IACLALS Annual Conference at Lucknow in February 2013 and at a National Seminar on Indian Writing in English organized by PG Government College for Girls, Chandigarh from 13-14 March 2012.
• Presented a paper titled “Studying Alternative Protest in Cyber Space: Through the Prism of the Pink Chaddi Campaign” at the Young Researchers’ Seminar on “Discursifying English: Contemporary Cultures, Contemporary Concerns” on the 24th-25th of January 2013 at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; at “The Cyber-ian Turn in Culture” organized by Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in April 2012 and at the S International Conference organized by CPRACSIS in Chennai in January 2012. Also selected for presentation at the EACLALS (European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) 2014.
• Presented a paper titled “Gayatri Spivak’s Politics of Translation: A Critical Assessment” at “Text, Culture and Performance: Postcolonial Issues”, the IACLALS Annual Conference at Ranchi from 2-4 February 2012.
• Participated in ‘Humanities in Translation: An International Transdisciplinary Workshop’ at Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, on Tuesday 20th Jan 2009.

• Habib Kidwai Student Fellowship Project – James Beveridge Media Resource Centre, MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia for the period March 2009-August 2009. The project aimed to study the emergence of cyber space as an alternative site of feminist protest through the prism of the pink chaddi campaign.