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Dr Ratika Kaushik
- Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences
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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