Nidhi Shrivastava, Ph.D.

Dr. Nidhi Shrivastava completed her Ph.D. in the department of English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario (now Western University) in London, Ontario, Canada and works as a lecturer in the Department of Languages & Literature at Sacred Heart University. She has worked at SHU since fall 2016 as part-time faculty member.

Her dissertation was entitled “Representing Women and the 1947 Partition in Hindi Cinema and Television (1948-Present).” Her research focuses on the #MeToo movement, Hindi film cinema, censorship, the figure of the abducted and raped women, Indian rape culture, and the 1947 partition. She is currently working on turning it into her first monograph. 

She has co-edited the volume of Bridging the Gaps Between Celebrity and Media with Jackie Raphael and Basuli Deb and her academic research has also been published in South Asian Review. 

She has contributed a book chapter in an edited volume, #Metoo and Literary Studies: Reading, Teaching, and Writing About Sexual Culture as well as a chapter on pedagogy on teaching Partition in her classes at SHU in an Modern Language Association (MLA) pedagogy anthology entitled Teaching Anglophone South Asian Diaspora Literature and has made multiple contributions to a collaborative volume, Gender Violence, The State, and Society: Perspectives from India, Japan, and South Africa, which is set to publish by Emerald Press. 

She is also currently co-editing another collaborative project, an edited volume titled Literary and Popular Culture Reimaginings in the #MeToo South Asia and Diaspora. 

She grew up in India, Malaysia, Singapore before migrating to the United States in 2001 with her family. She loves to travel, cook and spend time with family in her free time.