Dr. Arti Minocha

Books Authored/ Edited :

  • Minocha, A. (Ed.) (2022). Women in Print Culture of 19th Century Punjab: Susila Tahl Ram’s Cosmopolitan Hinduani, New Delhi: South Asia Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-81-950204-0-9.

Chapters in a Book:

  • Minocha, A. (2023).“Love and Dissent: The Making of a Self in Amrita Pritam’s Autobiographical Writings,” in Amrita Pritam: The Writer Provocateur, eds, Hina Nandrajog and Prem Kumari Srivastava, Routledge, 2023, pp. 69-82. ISBN 9781032102955.
  • Minocha, A. (2023). “Print Publics, Literary Experiments, and Community Formation in the Work of Bhai Vir Singh,” in Bhai Vir Singh (1872–1957): Religious and Literary Modernities in Colonial and Postcolonial Punjab, eds, Anshu Malhotra and Anne Murphy, Critical Sikh Studies Series, Routledge, 2023, pp. 47-64. ISBN 9781032267784.
  • Minocha, A. (2020). “Fashioning the Self: Women and Transnational Print Networks in Colonial Punjab,” in Comparative Print Cultures: A Study of Alternative Literary Modernities, ed. Rasoul Aliakbari, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 165-84, ISBN 978-3-030-36890-6. ISBN 978-3-030-36891-3 (e book) 
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36891-3
  • Contributed 3 lessons: 3 (History of Theatrical Traditions in India), 4 (Evolution of Sanskrit and Folk Theatres) and 5 (Modern Indian Theatres) for History Course 10, Paper titled Cultures in the Indian Subcontinent –I, ILLL, University of Delhi, 2012. Available at
    http://vle.du.ac.in/mod/resource/view.php?id=11669

Journal articles:

  • Minocha, A. (2022) “Digital Cultures, Pedagogical Challenges, and Critical Thinking: Some Questions,” Fortell, No. 45, July 2022, pp. 113-123, ISSN 2229-6557, E-ISSN 2394-9244.
  • Minocha, A. (2022). “Book History Studies: Some Interventions from Colonial Punjab,” in International Journal of History, Volume 4, No. 2, June 2022, pp. 38-41, ISSN 2706-9109, E-ISSN 2706-9117.
  • Minocha, A. (2022). “Negotiation between Private and Public in Women’s Periodical Press in Early-20th Century Punjab,” International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature, Volume 10, No. 8, August 2022, pp. 59-68, ISSN 2347-4564, E-ISSN 2321-8878. https://doi.org/10.22271/27069109.2022.v4.i2a.158
  • Minocha, A. (2022). “Defining Modernity through Education: Women’s Responses from Colonial Punjab,” in South Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Volume 3, No.5, October 2022, pp. 17-27, E-ISSN 2582-7065.
    https://doi.org/10.48165/sajssh.2022.3502
  • Minocha, A. (2021). “Reframing Women’s Bodies through the Discourse of Medicine: A Study of Two Women’s Periodicals from Colonial Punjab,” in Journal of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, No. 23, December 2021, pp.126-38, ISSN 0972-9682.
  • Minocha, A. (2021). “English Language and Transnational Networks: A Study of Colonial Punjab,” in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Volume 44, No. 2, 2021, pp. 45-53, ISSN: 0252-8169.
  • Minocha, A. (2020). “Bhai Vir Singh and the Public Sphere in Colonial Punjab,” in Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, Volume 16, No. 1-2, 2020, pp. 14-27, Taylor and Francis, ISSN 1744-8727, published online 19thFebruary 2020, print publication May 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2019.1674515
  • Minocha, A. (2020). “Languages of Resistance: Women in the Print and Oral Cultures of Colonial Punjab,” in New Literaria: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Volume 1, No. 2, November-December, 2020, pp. 137-145, ISSN: 2582-7375. https://dx.doi.org/10.48189/nl.2020.v01i2.006
  •  Minocha, A. (2018). “Alternative Literary Modernities: A Voice from Colonial Punjab,” in The Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik / A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture, Vol. 66, Issue 1, pp. 35-48, 2018. (ISSN 0044-2305, e-ISSN 2196-4726)
  • Minocha, A. (2017). “Music as Politics,” in The Book Review, Vol. 41, No. 12, December 2017, pp. 51-52, ISSN no. 0970-4175.
  • Minocha, A. (2016). “Writing England through Indian Eyes: The Mode of Travel Writing,” in Journal of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, No. 20, Spring/Autumn 2016, pp. 52-65, ISSN 0972-9682

Papers Presented in National/International Conferences:

  • Minocha, A. (2022). “Digital Cultures, ‘Media Narcosis’ and the Question of Agency,” paper presented on 29th April 2022 at the 3-Day International Conference “Cultural Trajectories through Language, Literature and Media” organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, LNM Institute of Technology, Jaipur from 29th April to 1st May 2022.
  • Minocha, A. (2022). “Print Cultures and Language Formations: A Comparative Perspective,” paper presented on 6th March 2022 at the International Conference “Comparative Literature: Frames, Methods, and Practice” organized by SNDT University, Pune and Calcutta Comparatists, 4th to 6th March 2022.
  • Minocha, A. (2021). “Queen Victoria through Indian eyes: The Travel Writings of Hardevi,” paper presented on 26th April at an International Online Colloquium titled “Vernacular Victoria: The Queen in South Asian Languages” hosted by Ashoka University, 26-27th April 2021.
  • Minocha, A. (2020). “Languages of Resistance: Women in the Print Cultures of 19th Century Punjab,” paper presented on 26th September 2020 at International e-Conference titled “Re-Thinking the Postcolonial: Texts and Contexts” hosted by Assam University and New Literaria, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 25th – 27th September 2020.
  • Minocha, A. (2018). “Writing London through Indian Eyes,” paper presented at Literary London Society Annual Conference titled “Conflict and Resolution” hosted by the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 28-29 June 2018.
  • Minocha, A. (2018). “Print and Women’s Networks in Colonial Punjab,” paper presented at the 25thAnniversary Conference of The West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network titled “Women’s Networks” on 7th July 2018 at Bath, United Kingdom.
  • Minocha, A. (2017). “Bhai Vir Singh and the Public Sphere in Colonial Punjab” at a Workshop on “Rethinking Literary Modernity in Colonial Punjab” at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada on August 17-20, 2017.
  • Minocha, A. (2016). “Writing England Through Indian Eyes,” at the Intra-Asian Travel Project Workshop at the Department of English, Delhi University, 5th December 2016.
  • Minocha, A. (2016). “Alternative Literary Modernities: A Voice from Colonial Punjab,” under the South Asia Research Seminar Series at SOAS, University of London, 24th May 2016.
  • Minocha, A. (2015). “Subjecthood in Print: A Voice from Colonial Punjab”, Chemnitz University, Germany, 4-6th June, 2015.
  • Minocha, A. (2013). “The Gendered Space of Print in Colonial Punjab”, ACLALS Conference, Lucknow, February, 2013.

Invited Lectures:

  • “Bhai Vir Singh Studies: Future Possibilities,” talk delivered on 5th December 2023 at the 3-Day International Punjabi Development Conference “Punjabi in Contemporary Society: Futuristic Perspectives” organized by the Department of Development of Punjabi Language, Punjabi University, Patiala, from 5th December to 7th December 2023.
  • “Imagining Communities: The Travel Writings of Hardevi of Lahore,” talk delivered on 6th February 2024 at the International Seminar “Women’s Cultural Heritage from India” hosted by the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University, Germany.
  • “Research Methodology and MLA Format,” invited talk for Jabberwock, LSR on 4th February 2021.
  • “Research Methodology and MLA Format,” invited talk for Jabberwock, LSR on 4th February 2021.
  • “Academic Paper Editing,” invited talk for Jabberwock, LSR on 3rd July 2021.

Awards:

  • Awarded the Doctoral Exchange Fellowship between JNU and King’s College London, April 2016.
  • The Charles Wallace travel grant to visit libraries in UK in 2014.
  • UGC Research Fellowship 1990 – 1992 for M.Phil.  research at Delhi University.