Dr Bhagya Casaba Somashekar
Lecturer (Education) in English
Gaskell 138
- Email: bhagya.casabasomashekar@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268285
- English
- English and Creative Writing
- Arts and Humanities
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
I teach contemporary and postcolonial literatures. My research specialisms include representations of political crises, cities of the global south, cosmopolitanism and migration, speculative fiction, and literature and the Anthropocene.
I completed my DPhil in English at the University of Oxford in 2021. My dissertation was on representations of the Indian Emergency (1975-77) in Indian writings in English. I also have MA and MPhil degrees in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. My academic work has appeared in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Wasafiri, and Writers Make Worlds, among others. I am currently working on a monograph based on my dissertation.
Newest selected publications
Bhagya, CS. (2022) 'From Brick Lane to Love Marriage: An Interview with Monica Ali'. Wasafiri, 37 (1). pp. 33 - 37. ISSN: 0269-0055
Bhagya, CS. (2021) 'The global novel and capitalism in crisis: contemporary literary narratives'. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 57 (4). pp. 577 - 578. ISSN: 1744-9855
Bhagya, CS. (2020) '“The reign of error”: Tropes of exception in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel'. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 56 (6). pp. 761 - 774. ISSN: 1744-9855
Bhagya, CS. and Prasad, GJV. (2018) '“Capital” consciousness: Reading Rana Dasgupta'. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54 (3). pp. 346 - 359. ISSN: 1744-9855