Vinayak Dewan
Vinayak Dewan is a PhD in English candidate at the University of Virginia. He previously worked with Oxford University Press in the UK and holds a Master of Studies in English (1830-1914) from the University of Oxford. His writing has appeared in The Henry James Review, The Caravan, and CNN.
PUBLISHED WORK
“The Invalid's Future: Queer Negativity in The Portrait of a Lady.” The Henry James Review, vol. 43 no. 3, 2022, p. 237-244. Project MUSE, doi: 10.1353/hjr.2022.0018
Open House: Finding discrimination-free housing for queer and marginalised communities in Delhi.” The Caravan, 1 March 2022. https://caravanmagazine.in/gender/housing-discrimination-against-queer-communities-delhi-article377
“The latest class on the Indian curriculum: Happiness.” CNN. 18 July 2018. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/18/health/india-delhi-happiness-classes-intl/index.html
“Walmart Go Back': India's mom-and-pop stores protest Flipkart deal.” CNN. 2 July 2018. https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/02/news/economy/walmart-india-protest-flipkart-deal/index.html
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, University of Virginia, Department of English
Professor Sandhya Shukla, Fall 2024
Teaching Fellow, Ashoka University, Department of English
FC-002 Great Books: Dr Madhavi Menon, Fall 2019
Research Assistant, Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Ashoka University
Investigated higher education choice by women and its effects on labour market outcomes: Dr Anisha Sharma, Summer 2019
Teaching Assistant, Ashoka University
ENG-101 Forms of Literature: Dr Mandakini Dubey, Spring 2019
MAT-101 Linear Algebra: Dr Kumarjit Saha, Spring 2019
ENG-4990 Seminar in Nineteenth Century Literature: Dr Mandakini Dubey, Fall 2018
Peer Tutor, Ashoka University
CT-001 Introduction to Critical Thinking: Dr Smitana Saikia, Fall 2017
CT-105 Critical Thinking Seminar Mathematics: Dr Tulsi Srinivasan, Spring 2018
CONFERENCES
Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference, October 2024
Funded by a travel fellowship from the University of Virginia
Title: Cousin relationships in nineteenth century India and Britain
American Literature Association, Boston, May 2023
Panel: Jamesian Space
Title: ‘Companion at Large’: Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire
Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies, Newcastle, March 2022
Panel: The Interdisciplinary Revolution: Re-Thinking Definitional and Temporal Boundaries in Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Research
Title: Companion At Large’: From James’s Cosmopolitanism to Forster’s Anticolonialism