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Professor Neelam Srivastava

Professor of Postcolonial and World Literature

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3665
Background

Qualifications


D.Phil. (Oxford)

M.Phil. (Oxford)

Laurea in Lettere (Università di Roma "La Sapienza")

Previous Positions

Lecturer in Commonwealth Literature and Literary Theory, University of Cambridge

Memberships

American Comparative Literature Association



Research

Research Interests

I am interested in the cultural history of Italian imperialism, South Asian literature, anticolonial and liberationist writing (I have worked on Antonio Gramsci and Frantz Fanon in particular), and postcolonial print cultures. 

You can listen to an interview with me about my work 


you can watch the lecture I gave at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, in April 2018, on my book, Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1970.  


In October 2020, I held a with Maaza Mengiste, the author of The Shadow King (2019), shortlisted for the Booker Prize. This amazing novel narrates the Ethiopian resistance to Italian imperialism in the 1930s, and the role of female warriors. The event was hosted by the 缅北禁地 Centre for the Literary Arts. 


Current Projects

I am currently working on a project entitled "Unbinding Empire: Ethiopia in Global Print Cultures". The project aims to produce a global account of Ethiopia in the period between the two wars with a specific focus on the Italian invasion of 1935. It examines the rich production of Italian, British, Ethiopian, Caribbean, and African American literature and print culture around the invasion. It builds on recent scholarship examining the flow of progressive and radical ideas from the colonies to the metropole, seeking to connect recent anti-racist protests sparked by the COVID-19 crisis to earlier moments of black political activism through a focus on the textual construction of resistance. It focuses on the responses of colonial subjects (Ethiopian, Jamaican, West African) and the ways in which they reconfigure the definition of Britishness, linking them to the work of European antifascist intellectuals and contrasting them with Italian colonial and fascist literature. The dialogues that take place among political activists via the rich material of print culture yield a nuanced portrayal of the connections binding Ethiopia and its supporters/detractors together, beyond the colonizer/colonized binary.  



Postgraduate Supervision

I welcome PhD and MLitt. proposals on the following: world literature in English, South Asian literature in English and in translation, Italy and postcoloniality, Antonio Gramsci and the postcolonial world, Third-Worldism and its impact on the literary sphere. 

I am currently supervising two PhD projects:

Rebecca Latcham-Ford, "Travelling to Italy: Italy in the Anglophone Postcolonial Imagination"

Tijana Mamula, "Adaptation as Theory"

International Recognition 

I have held visiting scholarships at Brown University and at New York University. 

I am Associate Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and I sit on the editorial board of From the European South. 

I have delivered invited talks and book presentations at New York University, Stony Brook University (US), Concordia University (Canada), University College Cork (Ireland), the University of Venice, the University of Genoa, the University of Udine, Villa Romana (Florence, Italy), King’s College London, SOAS, and the University of Cambridge.

External Funding

Leverhulme Visiting Professorship for Stephanie Newell, Yale University, to visit 缅北禁地 for one year (2019-20). Value of award: £146,813. 

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, "Decolonizing Europe: Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire", 2012-2013. Value of award: £41,000.  

Principal Investigator: international research network funded by Leverhulme Trust, on "Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia". Value of award: £65,072. Length of project: 2008-2011.



Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching


Stage 2 Literatures of Decolonisation, 2024-25


Stage 1 Revolutions, 2024-25


 

 

Publications

  • Articles

    • Srivastava N. . Italian Culture 2022, 40(1), 49-60.
    • Srivastava N. . Postcolonial Studies 2021, 24(4), 448-463.
    • Srivastava N. . ÀCOMA: Rivista Internazionale di Studi Nordamericani 2020, (18), 106-110.
    • Srivastava N. . Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2015, 17(3), 309-328.
    • McLaughlan R, Srivastava N. . Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 2014, 22(1), 240-270.
    • Bhattacharya B, Srivastava N. . Postcolonial Studies 2013, 16(1), 79-86.
    • Orsini F, Srivastava N. . Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2013, 15(3), 323-331.
    • Srivastava N. . Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings 2013, 13(2).
    • Srivastava N. . Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2010, 46(3-4), 303-319.
    • Srivastava N. . Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2010, 46(2), 151-163.
    • Srivastava N. . Third Text 2009, 23(6), 703-716.
    • Srivastava N, O'Leary A. . The Italianist 2009, 29(2), 249-264.
    • Srivastava N. . Anglistica: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2008, 12(2), 63-75.
    • Srivastava, N. . Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2007, 43(1), 55-64.
    • Srivastava N, De Donno F. . Interventions 2006, 8(3), 371-379.
    • Srivastava N. . Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2006, 8(3), 413-429.
    • Srivastava N. . ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 2005, 36(1-2), 207-231.
    • Srivastava N. . Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2005, 7(1), 106-117.
    • Srivastava N. . Interventions 2005, 7(1), 97-106.
    • Srivastava N. . International Institute of Asian Studies Newsletter 2003, (32), 21.
    • Srivastava N. . The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2001, 36(2), 45-64.
    • Srivastava N. "The Multi-Lingual Context of Indian Fiction in English". Anglistica, special issue on Texts in Transit 2001, 5(1), 105-123.

  • Authored Books

    • Srivastava N. . London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
    • Srivastava N. . London: Routledge, 2007.

  • Book Chapters

    • Srivastava N. . In: Toral Gajarawala; Neelam Srivastava; Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; Jack Webb, ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures. London: Bloomsbury, 2023, pp.283-297.
    • Srivastava N. . In: Francesca Orsini; Neelam Srivastava; Laetitia Zecchini, ed. The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures. Cambridge UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022, pp.137-176.
    • Srivastava N. . In: Om Prakash Dwivedi, ed. Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp.49-68.
    • Srivastava N. . In: Matt Perry, ed. The Global Challenge of Peace: 1919 as a Contested Threshold to a New World Order. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021, pp.93-110.
    • Srivastava N. . In: Adriano Habed and Sandra Ponzanesi, ed. Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe: Critics, Artists, Movements, and their Publics. London, UK: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018, pp.3-19.
    • Srivastava N. . In: Kathryn Batchelor and Sue-Ann Harding, ed. Translation and Liberation: Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages. London, UK: Routledge, 2017.
    • Srivastava N. . In: Rossella Ciocca and Neelam Srivastava, ed. Indian Literature and the World: Multilingualism, Translation and the Public Sphere. London, UK: Palgrace, 2017, pp.105-134.
    • Srivastava N. . In: Alex Tickell, ed. South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations. London, UK: Palgrave, 2016, pp.253-271.
    • Srivastava N. . In: Jean Khalfa and Robert Young, ed. Frantz Fanon, Écrits sur l’aliénation et la liberté, Oeuvres II. Paris, France: La Découverte, 2015, pp.565-583.
    • Srivastava N. . In: Benwell, B., Procter, J., Robinson, G, ed. Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers, and Reception. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012, pp.171-183.
    • Srivastava N. . In: Ghosh, R, ed. Romancing Theory, Riding Interpretation: (In)fusion Approach, Salman Rushdie. New York: Peter Lang, 2012, pp.199-212.
    • Srivastava N. . In: Shackleton, M, ed. Diasporic Theory and Literature: Where Now?. 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, pp.86-103.
    • Srivastava N. . In: GJV Prasad, ed. Vikram Seth: An Anthology of Recent Criticism. Delhi: Pencraft International, 2004, pp.87-106.
    • Srivastava N. Fictions of Nationhood in Amitav Ghosh's 'The Shadow Lines'. In: Bose, B, ed. Amitav Ghosh: Critical Perspectives. New Delhi, India: Pencraft International, 2003.

  • Edited Books

    • Gajarawala T, Srivastava N, Sunder Rajan R, Webb J, ed. . London: Bloomsbury, 2023.
    • Orsini F, Srivastava N, Zecchini L, ed. . Cambridge, United Kingdom: Open Book Publishers, 2022.
    • Ciocca R, Srivastava N, ed. . London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
    • Srivastava N, Bhattacharya B, ed. . New York and London: Routledge, 2012.

  • Online Publication

    • Srivastava N. . London: Penguin Random House, 2020. Available at: .