Curriculum Vitae

DR. VANDANA SAXENA

Senior Lecturer
  • Department of English
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • PHD, (Philosophy)
    Indian Institute of Technical, Delhi
  • M.A, (Arts)
    Delhi University, India
  • B.A, (Arts)
    Delhi University, India

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

  • Project Leader
    01 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2023 (Faculty)

MEMBERSHIPS

  • EDITORIAL BOARD - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE, EDITORIAL BOARD
    2023 to present (International)
  • CO-CHAIR, MEMORY STUDIES ASSOCIATION, SOUTH ASIA, COMMITTEE MEMBER
    2022 to 2022 (International)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
WoS
  1. Saxena, V. (2021). Trauma and Ethics of Responsibility: Levinas and Hayashi Kyoko's A-Bomb Literature. Clio-a Journal of Literature History and the Philosophy of History, 48(3), 273-297.
Scopus
  1. Augustin-Jean L., Saxena V. (2024). Digitalising Chinese New Year Red Packets: Changing Practices and Meanings, China Perspectives. 2024(136), 21-29. doi:10.4000/chinaperspectives.16458
Books
  1. Saxena.V, (2021). Memory and Nation-building: World War II in Malaysian Literature. London: Routledge
Chapter in Books
  1. Saxena, V. (2021). 'Matrilineal Legacies: Family, Diaspora, and Memories in Rani Manicka s The Rice Mother.' In Reading Malaysian Literature: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism (Ed.). Mohammad A. Quayum. Springer
Other Publications
  1. Vandana Saxena (2021) Malaysian literature in English: A critical companion, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 57:5, 731-733, DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2021.1975410 - Book Review

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2022 - 2023, University Grant
    Using Postcolonial Literature To Assess Development And Its Impact In Malaysia: A Study Of Chuah Guat Eng's Novel ( Co-Inventor)
International
  1. 2023 - 2023, ASEAN plus Mobility Grant, Ghent University
    Women in Asian literature with focus on migration, development and postcolonialism, Gheut University, Belgium ( Co-Inventor)

PAPER PRESENTED

INVITED SPEAKER
  1. Mahadevi's Viraha: Gender and longing for the nation, SANGH (South Asia Network Ghent) Research Seminar, Ghent UNiversity, Belgium (International) (16 Nov 2023 - 16 Nov 2023)
  2. Memory and Politics of Language: Songs of Indentured Tamil Women in Malayan Plantations, Centre for Memory Studies Initiative (CMSI) lecture, Ghent University (International) (26 Oct 2023 - 26 Oct 2023)
  3. An expanding fieldwork, or when a small idea becomes larger than anticipated: Studying Chinese New Year red packets, Let's Talk about Qualitative Research: Sharing the Fieldwork Experiences around the World, Faculty of Business and Economics Universiti Malaya (International) (07 Jul 2023 - 07 Jul 2023)
  4. Conceptualizing links between Money and Memory: A Study of Chinese New Year hongbao, Seminar, Department of Anthropology, CHUK, Chinese University of Hong Kong (International) (22 Oct 2021 - 22 Oct 2021)
ORAL PRESENTER
  1. Uneven Terrains: Land, memory, and capitalism on the peripheries , 19th Triennial ACLALS Conference: Ruptured Commons, ACLALS (International) (11 Jul 2022 - 15 Jul 2022)

ACADEMIC/PROF. SERVICES

Evaluation
  1. (2023) Examiner for Proposal Defence: Priyasree Suryanarayana (17043476/1): Title of Thesis / Dissertation*: 'Darkness', 'Wounds' and 'Mutinies': Re-Reading Naipaul's Indian Trilogy, University, (Reviewer)
  2. (2023) Proposal Defence for Nurul Syahira Bt Kamarul Zaman (17021423/1): Trauma and Identity Formation: The Effects of War On African Children, University, (Reviewer)
  3. (2023) Examiner for Proposal Defence for Farah Nazeer (S2027947): Title of Thesis / Dissertation*: Orientalism and Post-9/11 Fiction: Exploring Power Dynamics in a Thousand Splendid Suns, Home Fire, and Submission, University, (Reviewer)
  4. (2023) A Study of Trauma in Contemporary Children’S and Young Adult West Asian War Narratives in English” by Ms. Arya Priyadarshini (D18066) - Iit Mandi, India, International, (External Examiner)
  5. (2023) Rethinking and Reimagining The Discourses of Religion and Gender in Post 9/11 Narratives, International, (External Examiner)
  6. (2023) Internal Examiner for Kaleelul Rahuman Fathima Seefa (Representations of The Subaltern in Tash Aw’S We, The Survivors), University, (Internal Examiner)
  7. (2022) Procreate or Perish? Being a Woman in Contemporary India: a Literary Study of Select Indian Texts, International, (External Examiner)
  8. (2022) Identitites At The Crossroads Probing Gendered Bodies Through a Play of Language in Mahesh Dattani's Selected Plays, International, (External Examiner)
Contribution to external organisation
  1. (2024) Editorial Board, International Journal of Young Adult Education, International, (Technical Advisor)
  2. (2023) Research- Asean and South Asia Mobility Grant, International, (Adjunct/Visiting Professors)

SUPERVISION

Postgraduate Student
  1. (2023) UNRAVELLING THE SIKH DIASPORA: TEASING OUT THREADS OF COMMUNITY FORMATION, DIASPORIC CONSCIOUSNESS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN SELECTED MEN'S LIFE WRITINGS, MANMEET KAUR A/P SENTHOK SINGH
  2. (2023) the portrayal of women in malaysian crime fiction, WAN AINAA ATIQAH MOHD ISMADI
  3. (2023) An Affective Ecocritical Reading of Sisterhood in the Works of Celeste Ng, Lisa See, and Mei Ng: Gender, Race, Emotion and the Material, ZHICHENG ZHANG
  4. (2023) The Manifestation of Monsters through Disability and Disorder in Kenneth Oppel's The Nest (2015) and Hanna Alkaf's The Weight of Our Sky (2019)., MAHIRAH MAZHAR
  5. (2023) JApanese empire and war IN ENGLISH NOVELS: A POSTCOLONIAL AND PSYCHOANALYTIC ANALYSIS OF THE (IN)SECURE SELF, NGOI HUI CHIEN
  6. (2023) Female Emotions of American Girlhood in Everything I Never Told You and Where the Crawdads Sing, HE CHANG
  7. (2023) The Making Of Malay(si)ans: Life-Writing and Memory Work in Two Postwar Texts, Wai Liang Tham
  8. (2023) Can Buddha’s middle way redefine Dostoevsky’s Ideology of spiritual freedom in The Brothers Karamazov?, SOOK HAN LIN
  9. (2023) Reconstructing Trauma: Silence and Apathy in Hibakusha Literature, NUR AFINI ABDOL AZIZ
  10. (2023) Representations of Trauma In Relation to Modernity in Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors and Five Star Billionaire, ELSHA LIEW SHU YING
Under Graduate Students
  1. (2022) The Incovenience of Female Individuality: Sayaka Murata's The Convenience Store Woman and its perception of gender and identity
  2. (2022) INtersectional feminism in Valerie Martin's Property
  3. (2022) Gender Dynamics in the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

TEACHING

Doctor Of Philosophy
  1. (2022) AMX7001 - Research Methodology
Master
  1. (2021) AOA7018 - Creative Writing
  2. (2021) AOA7011 - Postcolonial Theory and Literature
Bachelor
  1. (2022) GBA0021 - Appreciating Literature
  2. (2022) AOA7023 - Literature for Children and Young Adults
  3. (2022) PIB2007 - Postcolonial Literature
  4. (2022) AIC1006 - Research Methodology
  5. (2022) AIC3002 - Research Project 1
  6. (2022) AIC3004 - Research Project 2
  7. (2022) AIC3003 - Women and Literature
  8. (2022) AIC1007 - Writing About Literature I
  9. (2021) AIC3011 - Studies in American Literature
  10. (2021) AIC2002 - Theories of Literature