Assistant Professor

Dr Rajni

Department of English

Interests

  1. Literary Studies and Disability Studies
  2. Indian Writing in English
  3. Digital Humanities

Faculty Details

Education

2006

Panjab University
India
Bachelors

2008

Panjab University
India
Masters

2016

The English and Foreign University, Hyderabad
India
PhD

Experience

  • Worked as Lecturer (2016-2018) for Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab.
  • Worked as Research Associate (2016) for ICSSR sponsored project on Disability Studies at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Awards & Fellowships

  • Fellowship from Fulbright foundation for International Summer program, Sofia, Bulgaria (August 2014).
  • Fellowship and travel grant for the Collaborative Research in Humanities Program from Queen’s University, Belfast, UK (July-August 2014).

Publications

In English
  • Mujral, Rajni (2020). “Use of Stories that Aren’t Even True: Reading Salman Rushdie’s Luka and the Fire of life”. Textual Practice. DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2020.1734071. (Print) ISSN: 0950-236x. (Online) ISSN: 1470-1308.
  • Mujral, Rajni. “Grotesque Body and the Aesthetics of Transfiguration” in Special Issue on Bakhtin “Bakhtinian Theory in Postcolonial and ‘Postsocialist’ Perspective”. Baltic Worlds, Vol X 1-2 (2017), 66-72. (ISSN: 2000-2955).
  • Mujral, Rajni. “Reading the Dialogic in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown” in Indian Fiction in English: Mapping the Contemporary Literary Landscape. Eds. Sajal Kumar Bhattacharya et al. New Delhi: Creative Fictions, 2014. 117- 130. (ISBN: 9788180431081).
In German
  • Mujral, Rajni. “Lying as Performative Subjectification: Figuration of the Dialogic Self”. ID/ENTITY. Eds. Günther Friesinger et al. Vienna: Monochrom, 2017, 181-197.

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