Dr Jyoti Nandan
Research interests
Literary Studies
New Literatures in English (Indian, African, Caribbean
Women's Writing (Victorian period; Contemporary diasporic)
Cultural Studies (gender studies, post-colonial/diasporic studies, the intersection of post-colonial and gender studies)
The teaching of English (in academic contexts)
Biography
Jyoti Nandan is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, The Australian National University. She completed her MA in English at the University of New South Wales and her PhD in Literature at the ANU. Her PhD thesis is an analysis of the fiction of Anita Desai using a postcolonial feminist framework. She taught at the University of Fiji from 2006-2012 and the University of the South Pacific from 2012-2013. From 2009 onwards, she was Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Language and Literature, School of Humanities & Arts (UniFiji). Her current research focus is women writers of the South Asian diaspora. She has given scholarly presentations and published widely in the area of women's writing. She is a member of the Advisory Board and reviewer for the academic journal Indialogs - Spanish Journal of India Studies - and of the Advisory Board for the Centre for the International Study of Literatures in English.
Publications
- Nandan, J 2022, 'The Woman Migrant in the Writings of Disporic Writer Bharati Mukherjee', in Lily Rose Tope / Wolfgang Zach (ed.), Collisions of Cultures: Frictions and Re-Shapings, Verlag Dr. Kovac, Hamburg, Germany, pp. 361-372.
- Nandan, J 2020, 'Patrick White's The Twyborn Affair: A Recognition of the Overlapping Space between Oppositions ', in Igor Maver, Wolfgang Zach and Astrid Floegel (ed.), Transcending Boundaries: Migrations, Dislocations, and Literary Transformations, Stauffenburg Verlag, Germany, pp. 263-269.
- Nandan, J 2018, 'Identity - A Dynamic Construction in Bharati Mukherjee's Fiction', in Brigitte Johanna Glaser and Wolfgang Zach (ed.), Transgressions/Transformations: Literature and Beyond, Stauffenburg Verlag, Germany, pp. 103-110.
- Nandan, J 2015, 'The Woman Writer of the South Asian Diaspora: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine', in Michael Kenneally and Wolfgang Zach (ed.), Literatures in English: New Frontiers in Research, Stauffenburg Verlag, Germany, pp. 313-321.
- Nandan, J 2014, ''Difference' and Beyond 'Difference'', in Michael Kenneally, Rhona Richman-Kenneally, Wolfgang Zach (ed.), Literatures in English: New Ethical, Cultural and Transnational Perspectives, Stauffenburg Verlag, Germany, pp. 257-264.
- Nandan, J 2013, 'Madness as protest: Charlotte Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' as a subversive text', The 18th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, ed. Shane Strange and Kay Rozynski, Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP), Canberra Australia, pp. 1-8.
- Nandan, J 2011, 'Indian Nationalism's Legacy for Women', in Jacqueline Hurtley, Michael Kenneally and Wolfgang Zach (ed.), Literatures in English: Ethnic, Colonial and Cultural Encounters, Stauffenburg Verlag, Germany, pp. 139-145.
- Nandan, Jyoti 'Catching the Wave: Women Writers' Journeys' in Proceedings of Australian Association of Tertiary Teachers of English Conference (December 2011). Melbourne. Paper accepted for publication.
- Nandan, Jyoti 'Is it the writing or the Sex?' in Proceedings of first Fiji Literary Festival (October 2011), Nadi, Fiji. Paper to be included in Festival Proceedings.
- Nandan, Jyoti 'International Women's Day', The Fiji Times, Nadi, Fiji, December, 2010.
- Nandan, Jyoti 'Women's Writing' in Proceedings of Fifth International Conference (Indian Association for the Study of Australia) "India and Australia: Negotiating Change" (18 - 21 January 2010). Goa. Eds Santosh Sareen and Darvesh Gopal. Paper accepted for publication.
- Nandan, Jyoti 'Violence against Women in the Home', article, The Fiji Times, Nadi, Fiji, December 2007
- Nandan, Jyoti 'Desai, a Social Critic in spite of herself', Feature article, Sunday Times, Canberra, 31 October, 1999, p 20.
- Nandan, Jyoti 'Reflections on the Tertiary Literacy Conference', Melbourne, February 1996, ATESOL Journal, 1996, pp 39-42.
- Nandan, J 2003, 'Neurosis as Protest in Anita Desais Cry, the Peacock', in Cynthia vanden Driesen and Satendra Nandan (ed.), Austral-Asian Encounters: From Literature and Women's Studies to Politics and Tourism, Prestige Books, New Delhi, India, pp. 282-295.
- Nandan, J 2003, 'The Complicity of Colonised Women in Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain', in B Bennett et al (ed.), Resistance and reconciliation: writing in the Commonwealth, Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Canberra, Australia, pp. 201-213.
- Nandan, J 2002, 'A Challenge to Third World Womens Status as Other in Fasting, Feasting', in Suman Bala & D.K.Pabby (ed.), The Fiction of Anita Desai, Khosla Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp. 182-195.
