Dr. Aishwarya Subramanian
October 6, 2023 2024-08-22 6:11Dr. Aishwarya Subramanian
Dr. Aishwarya Subramanian
Associate Professor
B.A. (Hons.) (University of Delhi);
M.Phil. (University of Dublin, Ireland);
Ph.D. (Newcastle University, UK)
Aishwarya Subramanian holds a B.A. (Hons) in English from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, an M. Phil from Trinity College Dublin, and a PhD from Newcastle University in the UK.
Her research interests encompass popular children’s literature, science fiction and fantasy, theories of spatiality and borders, and nationalism after empire. Recent publications include papers on prize culture (International Research in Children’s Literature, 2019), aerial surveillance in fantasy (Space and Culture, 2020), board games and empire (Jeunesse, 2020) and the space of the museum in British children’s literature (The Lion & the Unicorn, forthcoming 2021). In 2019 she was a recipient of a Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) International Honor Award.
In 2018 she held the post of Postdoctoral Research Fellow (AHRC Creative Economy Engagement Fellowship) in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University. She had previously worked at the same university as a teaching assistant and instructor.
Prior to re-entering academia, Dr Subramanian had worked for some time in educational publishing, and later as a literary columnist and critic. She now serves on the editorial board of Gold SF, Goldsmiths University’s science fiction publishing imprint, and is a reviews editor for the magazine Strange Horizons.
- A Subramanian (2022). “”Borders, Boundaries and Barricades: Speculative Delhis””. Comparative Critical Studies 19 (3), 341-359.
- A Subramanian (2021). “”‘This was a great, big room full of dead things’: British Children’s Literature and the Museums Debate””. The Lion and the Unicorn 44 (2), 153-163.
- A Subramanian (2020). “’The Whole Country Below Them’: Gazing Imperially on Narnia From Above.”” Space and Culture 23 (4), 370-381.
- A Subramanian and S Nadkarni (2020). “”Board(er) Games: Space, Culture, and Empire in Jumanji and Its Intertexts””. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 12 (2), 40-61.
- L Pearson, K Sands-O’Connor and A Subramanian (2019). “”Prize Culture and Diversity in British Children’s Literature”” International Research in Children’s Literature 12 (1), 90-106.
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Dr Subramanian’s research interests encompass genre fiction, particularly science-fiction and fantasy; children’s literature and culture; spatiality; and postcolonial nationalisms, with a particular focus on post-imperial Britain.
- Border Fictions
- English I
- English II