Dr. Anuradha Marwah (Associate Professor)
Year of Joining: 1988
Dr. Anuradha Marwah's PhD (JNU) is in the area of the Market for Contemporary Indian Fiction. Her other research interests include the pedagogy of Creative Writing and Women’s Writing.
Dr. Marwah is the recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence (FNAPE) fellowship. During her fellowship she went as Visiting Faculty to the Interdisciplinary Centre for Study of Global Change (ICGC) at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in the Fall Semester of 2017. The courses she taught there were in the area of Creative Writing and Drama which have also been her lifelong passion. She is the author of three novels -The Higher Education of Geetika Mehendiratta (1992), Idol Love (1999) and Dirty Picture (2007); some plays including ‘A Pipe Dream in Delhi’ and 'Sarkari Feminism' that have had several public performances in India and abroad; and several short stories and popular articles. Her play ‘Ismat’s Love Stories’ was one of the three shortlisted for the Hindi Playwright Award 2016.
Dr. Marwah has published several articles in reputed national and international journals in these areas. She is co-author of the Creative Writing textbooks used in Delhi University and the NCERT. She is a member of Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, and Board of School of Gender and Development Studies (SOGDS), IGNOU (Jan 2015-Jan 2017). She is also a member of the editorial board as guest editor of Illuminati: A Transnational Journal of Literature, Language, and Culture Studies vol 4 - 2013-14. She runs a community NGO in Ajmer (Rajasthan) that works on education and development of rural and under-privileged adolescents. More information on her publications is available on anuradhamarwah.com.
Dr. Marwah is the recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence (FNAPE) fellowship. During her fellowship she went as Visiting Faculty to the Interdisciplinary Centre for Study of Global Change (ICGC) at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in the Fall Semester of 2017. The courses she taught there were in the area of Creative Writing and Drama which have also been her lifelong passion. She is the author of three novels -The Higher Education of Geetika Mehendiratta (1992), Idol Love (1999) and Dirty Picture (2007); some plays including ‘A Pipe Dream in Delhi’ and 'Sarkari Feminism' that have had several public performances in India and abroad; and several short stories and popular articles. Her play ‘Ismat’s Love Stories’ was one of the three shortlisted for the Hindi Playwright Award 2016.
Dr. Marwah has published several articles in reputed national and international journals in these areas. She is co-author of the Creative Writing textbooks used in Delhi University and the NCERT. She is a member of Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, and Board of School of Gender and Development Studies (SOGDS), IGNOU (Jan 2015-Jan 2017). She is also a member of the editorial board as guest editor of Illuminati: A Transnational Journal of Literature, Language, and Culture Studies vol 4 - 2013-14. She runs a community NGO in Ajmer (Rajasthan) that works on education and development of rural and under-privileged adolescents. More information on her publications is available on anuradhamarwah.com.