Dr. Swatie

Research Projects:

  • Co-PI, War and Representation, With Subarno Chattarji (PI). University of Delhi Faculty Research Proposal Grant under Institute of Eminence scheme. November 2021-June 2021.

Books Authored/ Edited:

  • Swatie. The New Normal: Trauma, Biopolitics and Visuality after 9/11. Bloomsbury, April 2021. ISBN: 9789390077458. International.

Chapters in Books:

  • Swatie. “Writing Woman/ Woman Writing: Shashi Deshpande and the Aesthetics of the Female Body”, Female Body Image in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Garg, Temple University Press, May 2024/forthcoming.

Papers in Journals (National/ International):

  • Swatie and Rashee Mehra. “Biopolitics in the 21st Century: India and the Pandemic” CLCWeb, special issue: Periodizing the Present, 2022. International/ Scopus indexed. International.
  • Swatie, Dr. “Biopolitical Bollywood: Sexual Violence as Cathartic Spectacle in Section 375 and Article 15”, Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 2020. Published by the University of  Iowa. International.
  • Swatie. “Biopolitics and Gilead: Torture and Ritual in The Handmaid’s Tale”, The New Americanist, Vol. 1, no.3, Autumn 2019. Published by the American Center, University of Warsaw. International.
  • Swatie. “9/11 in the Classroom”, Language and Language Teaching, Issue 13, Jan. 2018, 16-19. Published by Azim Premji University. International.
  • Swatie. “The Politics of Surprise: Encountering the Terrorist in Peter Sattler’s Camp X-Ray”, New Horizons, Issue XIV, Aug. 2017, 1-13. Published by MCM DAV College, Panjab University. UGC CARE listed journal.

Paper Presentations in National/International Conferences:

  • “Resilience and Resistance in the Poetry of 9/11”, Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, June 2021, online (under the supervision of Prof. Donald E. Pease). https://www.dartmouth.edu/futures/.
  • “Trauma and the vernacular: Saadat Hasan Manto’s Language Games”, Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in South Asia, Jamia Millia Islamia and University of Heidelberg, online, 15-17 Apr. 2021.
  • “Biopolitical Bollywood: Sexual Violence as Cathartic Spectacle in Section 375 and Article 15”, XVI National Conference on Women’s Studies, Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS), National Law University, New Delhi, 27-31 Jan. 2020.
  • “Torture and ritual in The Handmaid’s Tale”, Texts, Utopias and Dystopias National Conference, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, 4-5 Apr. 2019
  • Dalit Literature: Texts and Contexts. Dept. of English, University of Delhi, India, 15-17 Mar. 2019. (Attendee).
  • “Is Trauma Theory Traumatised?” Politics and Letters International conference, Dept. of English, Utkal University, India, 25 Jan. 2018
  • “Traumatisability in the Age of Counter-terrorism.” (Dis)junctions graduate conference, Dept. of English, University of California, Riverside, 20 Oct. 2017 (via Skype).
  • “Left Out: Academic practices and activist politics in the age of counter-terrorism.” (E)racing Theory (En)gendering Praxis graduate conference, Dept. of Comp. Lit., University of California, Irvine, 3 Mar. 2017, online.  https://eracingtheoryengenderingpraxis.wordpress.com/schedule/.
  • “Precarious Resistance: the tortured body, hunger strikes and 9/11.” Precarious Embodiments graduate conference, Dept. of Hispanic and Portuguese studies, University of Pennsylvania, 10 Feb. 2017, online.
  • “Guantanamo: Notes on Decentring Empire.” International conference on “The Futures of American Studies”, Dept. of English, University of Delhi, 5 Mar. 2014. http://englishdu.ac.in/index.php/activities/conferences/.

Invited Talks/ Lectures Delivered:

  • “To look or not to look: Theories around photography”, invited lecture to Tabeer, the art and discussion club of the department of English, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, online, February 2022.
  • “Trauma and the Popular”, Invited Lecture presented to the English Literary Association, Department of English, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, online, October 2021.
  • “Discourse Analysis”, Invited lecture presented to Jabberwock, Department of English, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, online, October 2021.