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Dr Ratika Kaushik
- Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Ratika Kaushik is Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, at NIIT University (NU), with five years of experience in academia. Her research areas are post-colonial cultures and gender studies with specialisation in diasporic studies, migrant narratives, and the intersection of gender and nationalism.
Dr Kaushik has a doctorate in post-colonial cultures from the University of Sussex and a masters’ degree in comparative literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. She has been a meritorious performer throughout, having consistently topped during her undergraduate years at Sri Venkateshwara College, University of Delhi, besides having won a scholarship for her higher secondary studies at Salwan Public School, Gurgaon.
In addition, she is an accomplished orator, and won the Best Speaker and Debater awards at a national conference in Delhi as an undergraduate student.
Qualification
- PhD (English)
- MA (Comparative Literature)
- BA (English Honours)
Experience
- 7+ Years
Courses taught
- English Literature
- Post-Colonial Literature
- Modern English Literature
- Literary Theory
- American Poetry
- Diasporic Literature
- Gender Studies
- Communication and Soft Skills
Research areas
- South Asian Diasporic Literature
- Gender Studies
- Migration Literature
- Post-Colonial Literature
- Modern Contemporary Literature
Consulting areas
- English Literature
- Communications
- Soft skills
Selected publications
- R. Kaushik, “The prodigal returns: deconstructing diasporic return in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family,” RJELAL, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 185-189, 2017
- R. Kaushik, “Understanding gendered spaces in Mira Nair’s The Namesake (2007) and Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham (2001),” Arts and Education International Journal, vol 5, no. 1, pp. 15-21, 2017
Publications
Research papers
- R. Kaushik, “The prodigal returns: deconstructing diasporic return in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family,” RJELAL, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 185-189, 2017
- Kaushik, “Deconstructing the fundamentals: Reading Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist as a 9/11 immigrant novel,” in Gender, Culture and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Literature of 21stt Century, S, Nijamodeen, India, Authorpress, 2021, pp 21-223.
- R. Kaushik, “Understanding gendered spaces in Mira Nair’s The Namesake (2007) and Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham (2001),” Arts and Education International Journal, vol 5, no. 1, pp. 15-21, 2017
- Kaushik, “Margins of least happiness: Understanding the marginalized women in Roy’s ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’, in Contemporary Gender Formations in India: Conformity, Dissent and New Space-Time Continuums, N, Dhar, P. R. Ahmad, Eds., India, Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 375-403
- Poems titled “Love and longing in times of Corona” and “Of Memories Unhinged” in anthology titled The Romantic Breeze, Upananyan Publication, 2020
- Poem titled “What Death does to life?,” in Ars Artium, vol 9, January 2022
- R. Kaushik, “Representation of history and nationalism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines,” Goldsmith College, University of London, doi-30.0612.
- R. Kaushik, “Rushdie’s representation of Indian Emergency in Midnight’s Children,” in Salman Rushdie in the 21st Century: Swallowing a world, University of Lisbon, Portugal, doi-6.0913.
- R. Kaushik, “Cartographies of Sri-Lankan history in Ondaatje’s Running in the Family,” in Alternative Spaces: A Postgraduate Inter-Disciplinary Conference, University of Kent, Reid Hall, Paris, doi: 14.0614.
Book chapters
- R Kaushik, “Deconstructing the fundamentals: Reading Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist as a 9/11 immigrant novel,” in Gender, Culture and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Literature of 21st Century, India, Authorpress, 2021, pp 21-223
- R Kaushik, “Margins of least happiness: Understanding the marginalized women in Roy’s ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’, in Contemporary Gender Formations in India: Conformity, Dissent and New Space-Time Continuums, N, Dhar, P. R. Ahmad, Eds., India, Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 375-403
- R Kaushik, “Love and longing in times of Corona” and “Of Memories Unhinged,” in The Romantic Breeze, India, Upananyan, 2020
- R Kaushik, “The Nervous Condition of the Colonial Male in Tsitsi Dangerambga’s Nervous Conditions” in Indian Responses to 21st Century African Women’s Writing. Ed by Dr. Shivaji Methe & Dr. Abhijeet Dawle, Vardhan Publications, 2023.
- R Kaushik, ‘Going Away’ and ‘Coming Home’: Understanding the ‘Native Traveller’ in The Shadow Lines” in Displacement and Diaspora: Text and Context in Literature, edited by Shikha Sharma and Geeta Phogat. Anthem Press. 2023.
Awards and recognition
- Topped South Campus, University of Delhi, in 2006-2007, and secured first position in Sri Venkateshwara College for two years (2007, 2009)
- Awarded scholarship by CM Katyal for two years of higher secondary education based on merit
- Awarded Best Speaker and Debater at a national conference in New Delhi (2005-2006)
Other interests
- Travelling, Writing, Reading, Cooking and Collecting Recipes