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Gitanjali Pyndiah
Gitanjali Pyndiah is a London-based Mauritian writer and doctoral researcher in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her current research is focused on decolonial historiographies in Mauritius and creative practices such as poetry and music in Mauritian Creole. Her forthcoming publications include the article ‘Malcolm de Chazal: Surrealism from the colony to the metropolitan’ in the Encyclopedia of Surrealism (Bloomsbury, 2018), the book chapter ‘Performative historiography of the mother tongue: Reading “kreol” outside a colonial and nationalist approach’ in The Mauritian Paradox: Fifty Years of Development, Diversity and Democracy (Langaa, 2018), and the non-fiction piece ‘Mother wound’ in the Anthology on Indian Indenture (School of Advanced Study, University of London/The Commonwealth Writers, 2018). Her work has been published in the National Identities Journal, the Island Studies Journal, the Journal of Children’s Geographies and creative pieces released in collective London-based arts and literature magazines under the pen name Gitan Djeli. Gitanjali teaches Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University and Goldsmiths, University of London. Prior to the start of her doctoral research at Goldsmiths, she was a lecturer in History of Art and Media Theory at the School of Fine Arts, Mauritius. She holds an MA in Arts Management from the University of Southern Queensland (Australia) and a BFA in Applied Arts from the Delhi College of Art (India).