Dr. Maya Joshi

Books Authored/Edited

• M. (2021) Ed. “Introduction” and translation of select materials, Rahul Sankrityayan’s Volga se Ganga, complete version translated into English by Victor Kiernan and Kanwal Dhaliwal, Delhi: LeftWord Books
. ISBN 978-81-940778-1-7.
• Tulku, L. D. & Joshi, M. (2010). Pramana: Dharmakirti and the Indian Philosophical Debate. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers. (ISBN: 9788173048555)
• Joshi, M. (2006) (Ed.). My Life My Times: The Autobiography of Kushok Bakula. New Delhi: World Buddhist Trust.
• Joshi, M. (Ed.) (2002). Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. New Delhi: Worldview Publications. (ISBN-10: 8186423648).

Chapters in book

• Joshi, M. (2023) ‘De-storying/Re-storying’. (2023) Invited article in Dossier on Pluralities, Faith, Social Action. Heinrich Boell Foundation, May, 2023. Website: https://in.boell.org/en/2023/05/04/de-storying-re-storying.
• Joshi, M. (2023). ‘And Perchance to Dream: On “Other” Futures in Literature’, in Ecosophies of Freedom: Suturing Social, Ecological and Spiritual Rift. Eds. Milind Wani and Sucharita Dutta-Asane. Pune/Kolkata: Earthcare Books and Kalpavriksha. pp. 327-351.\
• Joshi, M. (2021). Rahul Sankrityayan’s Baisvin Sadi, (The Twenty-Second Century), Translation of selected excerpts with Introduction, in  New Horizons: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, London: Gollancz. Ed.  Tarun Saint. pp. 40-51.
• Joshi, M. (2019). Rahul Sankrityayan’s Baisvin Sadi,( The Twenty-Second Century), Translation of selected excerpts with Introduction, for The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Ed.  Tarun Saint, Gurugram: Hachette Book Publishing India. pp. 40-51.
• Joshi, M. (2019). ‘Consumption as Necessity and Nemesis: Towards a Climate of Change’ in United Nations Day of Vesak 2019 Conference Volume  Buddhist Approach to Responsible Consumption and Sustainable Development, Ed. Ven. Thich Nhat Tu and Ven. Thich Duc Thien, Vietnam Buddhist University Series, Hong Duc Publishing  House.
• Joshi, M. (2019). ‘Rahul Sankrityayan and Ambedkar as Contrapuntal Contemporaries: Unpacking their “Metaphysics and Politics”,’ in India and Civilizational Futures (Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics) Ed. Vinay Lal, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Joshi, M. (2016). Rahula Sankrityayan and Buddhism: A Complex Engagement. In On the Trail of Buddhism in Asia: Reflections on Tradition and Practice, Suchandana Chatterjee and Sushmita Bhattacharya (Eds)., Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies/Pentagon Press. pp 76-87. ISBN978-81-8274-830-9.
• Joshi, M. (2015). Opting out of the Mould: The English Option in B. El. Ed. In A. Kalyani & S. Sharma (Eds.). Pedagogic Trajectories (pp. 160-164). New Delhi: Synergy Books India. (ISBN: 978-93-82059-30-1)
• Joshi, M. (2012). Buddhisms in India Today: Problems and Possibilities of a Pluralistic Paradigm. In K. Dhammasami et al. (Eds.). Teaching Dharma in New Lands (pp. 326-333). Academic Papers presented at the 2nd International Association of Buddhist Universities’ Conference, Ayutthaya, Thailand.

Papers in Journals (National/International)

• Joshi, M. (2024) ‘Darvesh, Khanabadosh, Harfanmaula: A Gifted Poet’s Oeuvre on a Large Canvas. Book Review of Gulzar Sa’ab by Yatindra Mishra. The Book Review. Volume XLVII, Number 12, December 2024. Pp 31-32.
• Joshi, M. (2022) ‘Magic of the Wild in Our Daily Lives’ (2022) Review of Wild and Wilful by Neha Sinha, Harper Collins 2021. New Delhi: The Book Review, Vol XLVI Number 10, September 2022, p. 52.
• M. ‘Of Words and Worlds’ (2022) Extended review of Ret Samadhi/Geetanjali Shree translated by Daisy Rockewell as Tomb of Sand (The Book Review, Special Double Issue, CELEBRATING INDIA AT 75, XLVI NUMBER 7 July 2022) PP 9-11.
• Joshi, M. ( 2022) ‘A Buddhist Response to Climate Change: What We Must Do.’ (2022) Kolkata: The Maha Bodhi: The International Buddhist Journal, (a UGC-CARE journal) Special Volume in Commemoration of 25 years of Revival of Bhikkhuni Order in Modern Era, 1996-2021, Volume 130, 2566 BE, May 2022 pp. 29-39.3.
• Joshi, M. ( 2022) ‘A Novel of Layered Complexity,’ Review of Devrani Jethani ki Kahani Gauri Datt, translated by Ulrike Stark and Smita Gandotra. New Delhi: The Book Review, Vol. XLVI, 4 April 2022. Pp 30-31.
• Joshi, M. ( 2021) ‘Negotiating an Emergent Urban Modernity’. Review of Pachpan Khambe Laal Diwarein Fifty Five Pillars, Red Walls by Usha Priyamvada, translated by Daisy Rockwell, Speaking Tiger 2021. New Delhi: The Book Review Vol XLVI, 1 January, 2022. Pp. 8-9.
• Joshi, M. ( 2021) ‘A Plateful of Comfort’ of Bharati Jagannathan’s A Spoonful of Curds, Harper Collins India,2020. New Delhi: The Book Review. Volume XLV Number 6 June 2021. Page 32.3.
• “Ye Kahan Aa Gaye Hum’: How Our Present Dystopia Fails a Bygone Utopia,’ (2020) in Failure, (Special Issue) Aroop: a Journal of Arts, Poetry and Ideas Editor Ashok Vajpeyi, Guest Editor, Ananya Vajpeyi, New Delhi: The Raza Foundation. Volume 4, 2020, pp. 187-193.
• Joshi, M. (2009). Rahul Sankrityayan’s Journeys of the Self: Nation, Culture, Identity. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, XVI (1&2), 119-147. (ISSN: 0972-1401)
• Joshi, M. (2004). Drama in Translation: Two Teaching Texts. Creative Forum: Journal of Literary and Critical Writings (Special Number: Indian Literatures in Translation), 17(1), 49-56.
• Joshi, M. (2002). Of Human Resilience. [Review of the book Anaro and Other Stories, by M. Bhagat]. The Book Review, XXVI (2), 45-46. (ISSN: 0970-4175)
• Joshi, M. (2002). Re-reading Premchand. [Review of the book The World of Premchand, by D. Rubin] The Book Review, XXVI (12), 27-29. (ISSN: 0970- 4175)
• Joshi, M. (1996). A Delicate Equation. [Review of the book Song of the Loom, by R. Govind (Trans.)]. The Book Review, XX, (9), 16-17. (ISSN: 0970-4175)
• Joshi, M. Poems: ‘Wings’ and ‘Window’ in the international online poetry journal thewindowjournal. 12/06/2023 . The website links:
  https://thewindowjournal.com/2023/06/12/wings/ and
  https://thewindowjournal.com/2023/06/12/window/

Papers Presented in National/International Conferences

International

• Joshi, M (2024) ‘ Sankrityayan’s Ghumakkari and/as a History of Mobility‘ at ‘Asia on the Move: Histories of Mobility and the Making of Asia’. International Conference organized by the International Research Division, India International Centre, New Delhi. Feb 23-24, 2024.
• Joshi, M. (2022) ‘Samatha and Vipassana: Praxis and Application,’ Ninth International Conference on Pali and Buddhism, organised by The Mahabodhi Society of India and Anagarika Dharmapala International Institute of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Sarnath , November 6, 2022.
• M. (2022) ‘Buddhism and Modernity: Some Forgotten Threads from the Indian Tapestry,’ at the Fourth International Conference on Vajrayana Buddhism, organised by the International Buddhist Confederation (Delhi), The Institute of GNH Studies and the IBS, Bhutan, Thimpu, Bhutan, October 1-4, 2022.
• Joshi, M. ( 2021) ‘‘Sair kar Duniya ki Ghafil’: Liberatory Praxis via Traveling Theory?’ at Decolonizing Travel (ing) Theory—Explorations in the Indic Analytical Traditions, organised by the National Institute of Technology, Silchar and Indian Council of Philosophical Research. 15-17 July 2021.
• Joshi, M. (2022) ‘Teaching Partition at Delhi University’ In conversation with Prof. Furrukh Khan, LUMS, Lahore, for ‘Sunday Stories Live’ for the international Partition Archives Project. March 27, 2022.

National including invited special lectures

• Joshi, (2025) M. Delivered invited Keynote Address at National Conference on The Legacy of Rahul    Sankrityayan in the Era of Digital Humanities’ Organised by Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies  and National Mission for Manuscripts at CIHTS, Sarnath.  24-26 March, 2025. Also Chaired a session at the same conference.
• Joshi, M. ( 2025) Invited talk “Otherness, Place and Belonging: An Exploration via Literature of the Partition in the Dialogue for Peace Series for an international audience, organised by The Indialogue Foundation. Online January 4, 2025.
• Joshi, M. (2024) Conversation with Aseem Shrivastava on Ecosophy and Climate Change: Crises, Conversations, Contestation’ at the Dialogue on Interfaith Peacebuilding and Climate Action 12-15 December, 2024.
• Joshi, M. Gave an invited talk on ‘Partition as Memory and Metaphor,’ at the Fireflies Dialogues for Peace Building, co-organsied by the Heinrich Boelll Foundation and Kalpavriksh, Pune, at Fireflies Intercultural Centre, Bangalore, 18-19, October 2024.
• Joshi, M. (2024) Delivered the Dhadphale Memorial Lecture, ‘Rahul Sankrityayan’s Travels and Transformations: In the Footsteps of a Seeking Mind’ at the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Savitribai Phule University, Pune. August 10, 2024.
• Joshi, M. (2023) ‘Buddhism and Modernity’ as Panelist/Distinguished Guest Speaker at Ashadha Purnima Dharma Chakra Day Celebrations at Buddhavanam, Nagarjunasagar, Telangana, organised by The Buddhavanam Project on 3 July, 2023
• Joshi, M. (2021) ‘Traveling Theory: Indian Philosophical Thought in Sankrityayan and Ambedkar’ at the Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, November 19, 2021.
• Joshi, M. (2017). “Buddhist Peace: Some Questions.” International conference titled Nalanda Dialogue: Buddhism in the Twentieth Century:Perspectives and Response to Global Challenges and Crises, Rajgir, Bihar March 17-19, 2017.
• Moderated a session at the same conference on “Buddhism: Traditions, Diversity and Development”. On March 20, 2017.
• Joshi, M. (2017). “In Praise of the Peripatetic; Or the Goal of Ghumakkari” at a seminar titled Modes, Motives, Motifs, and Conditions in Intra-Asian Travel under the aegis of The Intra-Asian Travel Project (under UGC SAP – III), organized by the CDS, CSVMT, and CAT, March 20-21, 2017 at the Department of English, University of Delhi.
• Joshi, M. (2014). Rahul Sankrityayan’s Revolutionary Relocations. Lecture/Presentation at Tuesday Seminar Series at the NMML, Teen Murti House, 28th January, 2014.
• Joshi, M. (2013). Liberation Via Buddha and/or Marx: Sankrityayan and Ambedkar’s Voyages, Third International Conference ‘The Backwaters’ Collective on Metaphysics and Politics’, Cochin, India, 21st July, 2013.
• Joshi, M. (2013). Rahul Sankrityayan and Central Asia: A Traveller’s Travails and Triumphs, National Seminar on ‘Central Asian Studies in India’, organised by the JNU’s School of International Studies’ Central Asia Program’s JNU, New Delhi, 28th March, 2013.
• Joshi, M. (2011). Opting out of the Mould: The English Option in B. El. Ed., National Seminar on Teacher Education – ‘Pedagogic Trajectories’ organised by the Department of Elementary Education, LSR College, September, 2011.
• Joshi, M. (2008). Buddhism in India Today, International Conference on ‘Buddhism in Contemporary Mongolia: Its Development and Challenges Ahead’ held in collaboration with the National University of Mongolia, UlaanBaatar, Mongolia, 19-21st May, 2008.
• Joshi, M. (2007). From Inner Work to the Outer World: Buddhism’s Challenge in the 21st Century, Seminar on religion jointly organised by (IIAS) Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla, and the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 2007.
• Joshi, M. (2006). Travelling Light: Rahul Sankrityayan’s Autobiography and the Question of Location, at ‘Rites of Passage: Exploring Changes in the Travel Motif’, Annual International Conference, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi, March, 2006.
• Joshi, M. (2005). Autobiography East and West: Some Theoretical Issues, at the Associate’s Seminar, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, April, 2005.
• Joshi, M. (2004). Re-incar(nations): Satyanand Stokes in India, at the Associate’s Seminar, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, November, 2004.
• Joshi, M. (2003). Vijay Tendulkar and Mohan Rakesh: Mediations in Modernity, at the Miranda House (DU) Annual Krishna Memorial event, a National Seminar on ‘Realism’, October, 2003.
• Joshi, M. (2003). Reflections on Historiography: The case of Dharamshala, National Seminar on ‘Sources of History in the Sub-Himalayan Regions,’ organised jointly by the ICHR, New Delhi and the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Choglamsar, Leh, Ladakh from 26-28th June, 2003.

Invited Lectures International

• Delivered a Public Lecture “Travelling Selves: Thoughts on Birth, Being, and Belonging”, by the Department of History and the Rohatyn Centre for Global Affairs, Middlebury College, Vermont, U.S.A., October 18, 2017.
• Delivered a Public Lecture “Stretching Space, Keeping Time: The Explorative Abundance of Rahul Sankrityayan” by the Department of Philosophy and South Asia Concentration, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A., February 27, 2018.
• Delivered a talk “Reading Rahul Sankrityayan’s Twenty-First Century today: Sleep of Centuries, Dreams of Utopia” by Latitudes, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A., April 18, 2018.
• Delivered a Public Lecture “Volga to Ganga, Buddha to Marx: The Many Voyages of Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan” at the University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A., April 25, 2018.

Conferences and Workshops International

• Chaired the plenary address of Edwin Frank, Editor of The ew York Review of Books, at the Literary Activism Series’ Tenth Anniversary Symposium  held at the India International Centre, Organised under the aegis of the Center for the Creative and the Critical, Ashoka University. March 29, 2025.
• Presented a paper for discussion at the Philadelphia Area Buddhist Studies Workshop (PABST), Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania on “Iterations of Liberation, via Buddha and Marx: Rahul Sankrityayan and Bhimrao Ambedkar”, April 20, 2018.
• Presented a paper for discussion at the Five Colleges Buddhist Studies Faculty Seminar, Smith College, Northampton on “Buddha and Marx: Sankrityayan and Ambedkar’s Quests” on March 1, 2018.

Other Academic and Literary Engagements

• Joshi, M. ( 2024) Member,  National Selection Committee, Fulbright-Nehru  Post-doctoral Research Fellowships, Organised by the USIEF, January 10-11, 2024.
• Joshi, M. ( 2024) Panelist. International Symposium on Climate Fiction,     organized by the Global Tapestry of Alternatives and Kalpavriksh, February 28, 2024. Online
• Joshi, M. (2023) Moderator, International online discussion on Representation and Voice: Exploring Women’s Writing. Hosted by WISCOMP and Tasavvur Collective, January 9, 2023.
• Joshi, M. (2022) Moderator,  Two-day national seminar in the series Science of Mind – Part II: ‘A Dialogue Between Modern Science and Dignaga’s Logic’, organised jointly by the India International Centre and the World Buddhist Culture Trust at the IIC, Delhi, April 23-24, 2022.
• Joshi, M. (2014). Discussant, Signatures of Memory: Critical Humanities and the Question of Inheritance, by Dr. Venkat Rao, International Conference on Metaphysics and Politics, Cochin, Kerala, 31stJuly 31- 2nd August, 2014.
• Joshi, M. (2013). A Quaker in Gandhi’s India: The Inner and Outer Worlds of Samuel Evans/Satyanand Stokes, Public Lecture, Gest Centre and Department of Philosophy, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 3rd October, 2013.
• Joshi, M. (2013). ‘Sahib’, ‘Sadhu’, Freedom Fighter: The Lesser Known Tale of Satyanand Stokes and India, Public Lecture, Rohatyn Centre for Global Studies, Middlebury College, Vermont, 1st October, 2013.
• Joshi, M. (2013). Rahul Sankrityayan: Between Buddha and Marx, Public Lecture, Department of Political Science, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 25th September, 2013.
• Joshi, M. (2013). An American Quaker in Gandhi’s India, Public Lecture, The South Asian Students’ Association, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 26th September, 2013.
• Joshi, M. (2013). Caste, Class, Religion in India: Ambedkar’s Engagement with Buddha and Marx. Visiting International Speaker at the Global Salon, Lewis Global Studies Centre, Smith College, Northampton, 24th September, 2013.
• Joshi, M. (2013). Missionaries in India: The Case of Satyanand Stokes, Public Lecture, Lewis Global Studies Centre and South Asian Studies, Smith College, Northampton, 24th September, 2013.
• Joshi, M. (2013). Gandhi and Gender: Some Perspectives, Panelist at ‘The Silent Crusaders’, The Sarvodaya International Trust’s Commemorative Symposium on the eve of Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day, India International Centre, New Delhi, 29th January, 2013.
• Joshi, M. (2013). Rahul Sankrityayan and Buddhism: A Complex Engagement, Panel Presentation at Consultative Panel Discussion, ‘Buddhist Studies in India’, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, 7th June, 2013.
• Joshi, M. (2012). Buddhisms in India Today: Problems and Possibilities of a Pluralistic Paradigm, Panel Presentation at the ‘International Association of Buddhist Universities’ Annual Seminar organised on the occasion of the 9th United Nations Day of Vesak Celebrations, Ayutthaya, Thailand, June, 2012.
• Joshi, M. (2011). Gandhi’s Autobiography, A presentation at the Workshop for Faculty from Political Science Departments across DU, organised by the Political Science Department and the Institute of Life Long Learning, University of Delhi, April, 2011.
• Joshi, M. (2009). Invited Observer and Speaker at the Valedictory Session at the International Conference on ‘Buddhism and Science’, at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, India, January, 2009.
• Joshi, M. (2009). Visualizing Terror: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre, Annual Literary Meet of the Department of English of Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, January, 2009.
• Joshi, M. (2002). Humour in Premchand: Mediating Modernity, Public Lecture as Visiting Fulbright Exchange Faculty, Kenyon College, Ohio, 7th October, 2002.

Awards

• The Fulbright-Nehru Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, with affiliation at the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, for the period August 16, 2017- August 15, 2018.
• The Charles Wallace Trust Grant, 2005.
• The UGC Junior Research Fellowship, 1993-95
• Yudhishtar Memorial Prize for First Position in MA ( University of Delhi, South Campus) 1991.