Assistant Professor

Dr Soni Wadhwa

Department of English

Interests
  • Spatiality
  • Sindhi Studies
  • Digital Archiving 
  • South Asian Studies

Education

2004

University of Mumbai
India
BA (English)

2006

SNDT Women’s University
India
MA (English)

2009

SNDT Women’s University
India
MPhil (English)

2016

University of Mumbai
India
Ph.D (English)

Research Interests

  • Spatiality
  • Sindhi Studies
  • Digital Archiving 
  • South Asian Studies

Memberships

  • Life Member – Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda

List of Publications

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. “A Literature of Frustration and Failure: The Anxiety of Indianness in the Making of Sindhi Literature as an Indian Literature”, in Jurnal of Sindhi Studies, 04(1), 1-19. e-ISSN: 2667-0925. 02 Dec 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/26670925-bja10020
  • Wadhwa, Soni and Alias, Jintu. 2024. “From the Sthala Purana to the Novel: Sethu’s The Saga of Muziris as a Narrative Geography of the Ancient Indian Port City of Muziris.” City, November, 1–19. 21 Nov 2024. doi:10.1080/13604813.2024.2419788
  • Wadhwa, Soni and Sukhija, Reema. 2024. “Digital Technology for Literature Revitalization: A Framework for Sindhi Libraries in India”, in Preservation, Digital Technology and Culture, (2024). 20 Nov 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2024-0030
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. Rev. of Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought by Jeffrey D Long. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 47(4), 221-223. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/JCLA-47.4_Winter-2024_Soni-Wadhwa-3-Review-Essay.pdf
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. Rev. of Punjabi Centuries: Tracing History of Punjab by Anshu Malhotra. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 47(4), 220-221. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/JCLA-47.4_Winter-2024_Soni-Wadhwa-2-Review-Essay.pdf
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. Rev. of Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida by David Farrell Krell. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 47(4), 218-219. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/JCLA-47.4_Winter-2024_Soni-Wadhwa-1-Review-Essay.pdf
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. “Digital Libraries for Minor Languages in India: Frameworks for Addressing Absences in Policy and Governance”, in Digital Library Perspectives, Early access 2024-06-20. ISSN: 2059-5816. doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-01-2024-0002
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. "Rev. of Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction by Bruce Robbins". South Atlantic Review: Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 89(2), 183-6.
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. Rev. of Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor by Bridget Whearty. South Atlantic Review: Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 89(1), 147-150.
  • Wadhwa, Soni and Alias, Jintu. 2024. “Provincializing Island Poetics: The Personal as the Spatial in N S Madhavan’s Litanies of Dutch Battery”, in Island Studies Journal, Early access 2024-03-13. E-ISSN:1715-2593. doi: https://doi.org/10.24043/001c.94614
  • Alias, Jintu and Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. “The rise (in the fall) of Cochin: Provincializing metropolitan spatiality in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh, in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Online first 2024–02-27. ISSN 1744-9855, ISSN online: 1744-9863 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2024.2307408
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. “Open Movement in India (2013-23): The Idea and Its Expressions”, a research conducted for and published by Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India. 12 February 2024. Link: https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/open-movement-in-india-idea-and-its-expressions
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. Personal Archives for Community Building: Lessons Learned from PG Sindhi Library. Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of South Africa. 5(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.55492/dhasa.v5i1.5009
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2023. Rev. of Sideways in Time: Critical Essays in Alternate History Fiction edited by Glyn Morgan and C. Palmer-Patel. FAFNIR – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research. 10(2), 138-142. http://journal.finfar.org/articles/2789.pdf
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2023. Rev. of Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies by Michael Gavin. South Atlantic Review: Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 88(4), 149-152.
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2023. Rev. of Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: East-West Studies in Contemporary Living by Eva Kit Wah Man and Jeffrey Pets. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 46(4), 183-184. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/JCLA-46.4_Winter-2023_Soni-Wadhwa-Review.pdf
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2023. The Question of Script for Sindhi in India: Reflections on Postcolonial Grammatology. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2252786
  • Alias, Jintu and Wadhwa, Soni, "Cochin in Sethu's Aliyah: Provincializing Jewish Identity", in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Online first 2023 1-18. ISSN: 1472-5886 Online ISSN: 1472-5894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2257148
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2023. Rev. of The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics by Robert R. Clewis. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 46(2), 169-170.http://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/JCLA-46.2_Summer-2023_Soni-Wadhwa.pdf
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2023. Rev. of Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age by Shruti Kapila. Social History 48(3), 392-394. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2023.2211443
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2023. Climate Change and the Challenges to Notions of Being and Time. IUP Journal of English Studies, 18(1), 26-35.
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2023. Rev. of DigiNaka: Subaltern Politics and the Digital Media in the Post-Capitalist India by Anjali Monteiro, K P Jayasankar & Amit S Rai. Studies in South Asian Film and Media. 14(1), pp. 76-78. https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00057_5
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2023. Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories by Ira Bhaskar & Richard Allen. Studies in South Asian Film and Media. 14(1), pp. 67-69. https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00060_5
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2023. Love as Enlightenment and Enlightenment as Love: Reading feminist Hermeneutic of Reconstruction in Vanessa R Sasson's Yasodhara and the Buddha. Feminist Theology. 31(3), pp. 353-365. https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350231163311
  • Wadhwa, Soni. 2023. Rev. of Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories by Angus Fletcher. South Atlantic Review: Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 88(1), pp. 61-65. Print.
  • Alias, Jintu and Wadhwa, Soni, "Kochi: Provincialising Postcolonial Metro-Cosmopolitan Spatialities", in cultural geographies, Online first 2023 1-15. ISSN: 1474-4740, ISSN online: 1477-0881 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740221147554
  • Wadhwa, Soni. "Book review: Amartya Sen, Home in the World: A Memoir." South Asia Research Vol 42, No. 33 (2022): 479-481. ISSN: 0262-7280 (Online ISSN: 1741-3141) doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221119652
  • Wadhwa, Soni. "Feminist Literary Criticism Meets Feminist Theology: Yashodhara and the Rise of Hagiographical Fiction in Modern Feminist Re-visioning" in SAGE Open Vol. 11, No. 4. October 2021. Pages: 1-11. ISSN Number: 2158-2440. doi:10.1177/21582440211061570
  • "Philosophy of Language at the Crossroads of History and Political Science: Examining Interpretations of Chachnama" - Soni Wadhwa in Anekaant: A Journal of Polysemic Thought, No. 11, 2019-20 (Spring) 2019. Pages: 45-50. ISSN Number: 2320-6195
  • "The Text and the City: The Intellectual Conflict after Baudelaire" - Soni Wadhwa in Writing Today: International Journal of Studies in English Vol. II, Issue II, April 2018. Pages 28-45. ISSN Number: 2230-8466.
  • "Transgressive Indigeneity" - Soni Wadhwa in Ruminations: The Andrean Journal of Literature November 2017. Pages: 30-7. ISSN Number: 2249-9059.
  • "The Exilic Consciousness in Metaphorical Space" - Soni Wadhwa in Writing Today: International Journal of Studies in English Vol. II, Issue I, July 2017. Pages 69-80. ISSN Number: 2230-8466.
  • "The Cosmopolitan City and Its Gesture of Refuge" - Soni Wadhwa in Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies Vol. II, Issue 2, June 2017. Pages 103-128. ISSN Number: 2455 6564. Indexed in OpenAire. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1407294
  • "Ensnared in the Impossibility of Writing: Benjamin's Silence in Autobio-spatial Texts" - Soni Wadhwa in Writing Today: International Journal of Studies in English Vol. 1, Issue IV, January 2016. Pages 68-81. ISSN Number: 2230-8466.
  • "Difference or Stereotype?: Exploring Selected Sindhi Partition Texts in a Comparative Mode" - Soni Wadhwa in Muse India Issue 62: July-Aug 2015. ISSN Number: 0975-1815.
  • "Outside in the Jungle: Narrating the Nation in Midnight's Children and The Glass Palace" - Soni Wadhwa in Muse India Issue 40: Nov-Dec 2011. ISSN Number: 0975-1815.
  • "Realizing Gender in Women's Theatre" - Soni Wadhwa in Sub-Continental Women's Voices (Special Issue) in Muse India Issue 36: Mar-Apr 2011 ISSN Number: 0975-1815.
  • "Space and Identity: Theorizing Sindhi Diaspora" - Soni Wadhwa in Journal of Contemporary Thought No. 26 (Winter 2007). Pages: 111-120. ISBN Number: 0971-4731
BOOK CHAPTERS
  • 'Epistemology, Disciplinary Praxis, Poetics: A Tour via General Semantics' - Soni Wadhwa in General Semantics: A Critical Companion Ed. Deepa Mishra Delhi: Pencraft International, 2014. Pages: 172-181. ISBN Number: 978-93-82178-08-8
  • 'Acts of Refuge, Acts of Naming: On Translating Sindhi Identity as 'Minor'' - Soni Wadhwa in Translation Studies: Contemporary Perspectives in Postcolonial and Subaltern Translations Ed. Piyush Raval, New Delhi: Viva Books, 2012. Pages: 159-77. ISBN Number: 978-81-309-2052-8
COURSE MATERIALS
  • Literary Theory and Criticism (English Paper V, MA Part II) by Dinesh Kumar, Pratima Das, Sunila Pillai, Soni Wadhwa Institute of Distance and Open Learning: 2010.
  • Anglo-Irish Literature of 20th Century (English Paper VII, MA Part II) by Dinesh Kumar, Pratima Das, Sunila Pillai, Neeta Chakravarthy, Soni Wadhwa Institute of Distance and Open Learning: 2011.
TRANSLATIONS
  • 1. "The Wife and Her Other Son" - a translation of Lokram Dodeja's short piece - Soni Wadhwa in Muse India Issue 63: Sept-Oct 2015 ISSN Number: 0975-1815.

Editorial Responsibilities

Assistant Editor for the SAGE journal South Asia Research

Projects

Project Number: IITI/JPNC/PR5/2023/12/P007

Funding Agency: Jaya Prakash Narayan National Centre of Excellence in the Humanities, IIT Indore

Title of the Project: Sindhi Sanchaya: Building a Comprehensive and Interactive Database of a Partitioned Literature

Research Grants

Research Grants Number:: EV6482

Funding Agency: Mercatus Center, George Mason University, USA

Title of the Project: The Making of Sindhi Literature as an Indian Literature

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