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Ruchi Mundeja
Ruchi Mundeja is associate professor in the Department of English at Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi. Her research is in the areas of modernist and postcolonial literatures, with special focus on women’s writing. She is a recipient of a Distinguished Teachers’ Award, instituted by Delhi University in the year 2009, and conferred by former president of India, Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. Her most recent publications include ‘Worlding appetite: Colonialism, modernism, and the gustatory in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness’ in English Studies, which recently won the Best Essay Prize for 2022 – the Zdzislaw Najder Essay Award – awarded by The Joseph Conrad Society of America; ‘Writing spaces: Robin Hyde’s The Godwits Fly as (female) colonial Künstlerroman’ in Feminist Modernist Studies, and ‘Beyond taxonomies: Vagrantly “inhabiting” the modernist classroom’ in Literature Compass. She is currently a research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Contact: Department of English, Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi, Ashok Vihar III – Ashok Vihar, Delhi 110052, India.