Dr. Madhu Grover

Books Authored/ Edited:

  • Bharat, M. and Grover, M. (2019). Eds. Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and perception in literature, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. (ISBN: 978-90-272-0418-9).
  • Grover, M. (Ed.) (2001). John Dryden’s MacFlecknoe. Delhi: Worldview Publications. (ISBN: 81-86423-58-3).
  • Editorial Board, Modern Indian Literature: Poems and Short Stories (1999) (Edited by and for the Department of English, University of Delhi), and contribution on Nissim Ezekiel. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. (ISBN-13:978-0-19-565118-8; ISBN-10: 0-19-565118-9).

Chapters in book:

  • Grover, M. (2020). “On the edge: The conundrum of Kipling’s ambivalent fictions”, Book Chapter in Kipling in India: India in Kipling, Eds. Harish Trivedi and Janet Montefiore, London: Routledge, 2020. (ISBN: 978-03-675-4728-8).
  • Grover, M. (2019). Book Introduction (co-authored) and Book Chapter (self-authored- pp. 35-49), “Kipling’s ‘wild and strange’ India: The ‘insider’ perspective of the short stories”, in Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and perception in literature, Eds. Bharat, M. and Grover, M. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. (ISBN: 978-90-272-0418-9).
  • Grover, M. (2019). “Transgressed margins: reading the ‘Other’ Kipling,” Book Chapter in Kipling and Yeats at 150: Retrospectives/Perspectives, Eds. Promodini Varma and Anubhav Pradhan, London and New York: Routledge, 2019. pp. 87-102. (ISBN: 978-0-367-37658-1).

Papers in Journals (National/International):

  • Grover, M. (2021). “ Border Crossings in Kipling’s Early Indian Narratives”, The Kipling Journal (Published Quarterly by the Kipling Society, London) Volume 95, No. 388 December 2021, (pp. 31-43).  ISSN 0023-1738
  • Grover, M. (1990). ‘Some Debts’ and five other poems. Indian Literature: Sahitya Akademi’s Literary Bi-monthly, 33(5), (pp. 25-29). (ISSN 0019-5804)
  • Contributed on Nissim Ezekiel to Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (Launched May, 2016).

Book Reviews Published in:

  • The Book Review – August, 1996.
  • The Pioneer- May, June, 1996.
  • The Hindustan Times- 42 Book reviews between September, 1996 and July, 1999. Published in the Sunday section of the paper (of Indian authors like Shashi Deshpande, Amrita Pritam, Ashapurna Devi, Kiran Desai, Amit Chaudhuri, Kaizad Gustad and non-Indian authors like Carl Muller, Martin Amis, Freya North, Joseph Mitchell & Ernest Hemingway [posthumously published final novel, True at First Light, 1999].

Papers Presented in National/International Conferences:

  • Grover, M. (2020). “Border crossings in Kipling’s short stories”. Zoom Lecture to The Kipling Society, London, to an International audience (23 September, 2020).
  • Grover, M. (2017). “Whose Kipling is he anyway?: The writer familiar with the ‘wild and strange’ India”. The XVII FILLM (Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes) International Congress (14-17 March 2017) on “The Familiar and the Exotic in Language and Literature: The Politics of Perception and Representation” at the India International Centre, New Delhi. She was also a Member of the Local Organizing Committee for the FILLM Congress.
  • Grover, M. (2016). “On the Edge: The Conundrum of Kipling’s Ambivalent Fictions”. International Conference on “Kipling in India: India in Kipling” (26-28 April, 2016) organized in association with the Kipling Society, United Kingdom, at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
  • Grover, M. (2011). “An Alter-‘Native’ Desire: Kipling’s Indian Narratives”, Interdisciplinary International Conference on “Love, Sex, Desire & the (Post)Colonial” at Senate House, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK, 28-29th October, 2011.
  • Grover, M. (2009). “An Alter-‘Native’ Authority: Native Identities and Liminal Spaces in Kipling’s Narratives”, National Conference on “Conflict, Belonging & Multiculturalism”, organised by the Department of English, Sri Venkateshwara College, University of Delhi, 5- 7th November, 2009.
  • Grover, M. (1999). Contemporary Women’s Writings in India, 14th Oxford Conference on ‘Teaching of Literature Overseas: Teaching Contemporary Literature’ at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK, 11-17th April, 1999.

Others:

  • Grover, M. (2020). Wrote course material for School of Humanities, Department of English, IGNOU. CBCS Course Code BEGC-108: British Literature: 18th Century, Block 3, Unit 1 to 4. (ISBN:  978-93-91229-88-7 )
  • Grover, M. (2019). Wrote course material for School of Humanities, Department of English, IGNOU. CBCS Course Code BEGC-102: European Classical Literature, Block 4, Unit 2. (ISBN: 978-93-89499-09-4).
  • Grover, M. (2014). Invited to give a talk along with a power-point presentation on Existentialism and Literature focussing on Modernist links between philosophy, art, and avant-garde and absurdist theatre at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, March, 2014.
  • Grover, M. (1991). Creative Writing (Poems) in Horizon: Literary Magazine Programme of the External Services Division of A.I.R. (April 1991 and September, 1991).
  • Grover, M. (1991). Critical Work (Academic Paper) on Wordsworth, for the Overseas Programme of A.I.R. (October, 1991).