Assistant Professor | Department of English
Email Address : richa[dot]dawar[at]pgdav[dot]du[dot]ac[dot]in
Indian Literature in English, Diaspora literature, Indian Ocean studies, African- American Literature, Film Studies
Research Assistant on Gargi College ICSSR PROJECT: GANGA IN INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE - 2017-18
Assistant Professor - University of Delhi - 2019-2024
Assistant Professor - PGDAV college - 2025 onwards
Member - Placement Cell
Dawar, Richa, "Critique of Everyday Dalit Marginalisation Across Terrains in Ajay Navaria’s Unclaimed Terrain", Language in India, 23:9, September 2023
Dawar, Richa, “Resisting from Below: A Critical Reading of Female Subaltern Voices in Mahasweta Devi’s Short Story Giribala and Baby Halder’s Autobiography A Life Less Ordinary”, Language in India, Vol. 22:9 September 2022
Dawar, Richa, “Comparative Mythopoetic Strategies in the Cilappatikāram”, Language in India, Vol. 22:8 August 2022
1. South Asian Literary Association Annual International Conference (2023) - “Envisioning Black & South Asian Solidarity: History, Culture, Praxis” - Session chair and Paper presented - Paper title “Impossible Longings of Return in Hafsa Zayyan’s We Are All Birds of Uganda”
2. International Interdisciplinary Series of Conferences - The Global Indian Diasporas: Literary, Cultural and Socio-Economic Perspectives in the 21st Century - at Centre for Diaspora Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India (2023) - Paper presented - Paper title - "Crossing Border Every Day: The Female Diasporic Experience in East African Asian Diaspora"
3. International Conference - MELOW International Conference on “Illness, Healing and the Literary Imagination” - at Shoolini University, Solan (2021) - Paper presented - Paper title - "Politics of Illness in Neera-Kapoor Dromson’s From Jhelum to Tana"
4. International Conference - XXIII Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association,at Tblisi, Georgia, Tblisi State University (2022) - Paper presented - Paper title - "Reading the Cultural Politics of Transnational Anti-Colonialism in Sultan Somjee’s Bead Bai"
5. International Conference - Shyam Lal College WDC & IQAC International Conference Through a (new) Looking glass: Challenges for Women in the 21st Century (2020) - Paper presented - Paper title - “Negotiating Subjectivity from Below: The Maid Writes Back”
6. Seminar - Crossing Borders: Exploring New Paradigms of Inter disciplinarity and Transnationalism" at Department of English, University of Delhi (2017) - Paper presented - Paper title - "Afropolitanism and the New African Diaspora"
7. Palaver XIV, International Forum for Scholars of African Studies - Center for Studies in African Literature and Cultures, Jadavpur (2017) - Paper presented - Paper title "An Enquiry of Issues of Race, Culture, Solidarity in the New African Diaspora Fiction"
1. One-Month Online National Faculty Induction Programme (Guru Dakshta) organized by UGC-Malaviya Mission TeacherTraining Centre (UGC-MMTTC/GAD-MMTTC), SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi - Grade A+ (2025)
2. GIAN course on“The Philosophy of (Auto)Biography - Experience and (Self) Representation:An Interdisciplinary Course ” - Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Tirupati (2023)
3. Introduction to Editing & Proofreading: Summer School - Centre for Writing and Communication, Ashoka University (2023)
4. Contemporary Readings of Natya Shastra and its Philosophical Significance - ICPR sponsored National Workshop at Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi (2023)
5. Faculty Induction Program FIP - Grade: A+ - TLC (Teaching Learning Center, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi), under the aegis of Ministry of Education, PMMMNMTT Scheme (2023)
6. “Migration and Citizenship: Comparative Perspectives on African American and Asian American Literatures” - GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic Networks) under the aegis of Ministry of Education and IIT Tirupati (2022)
7. Workshop Course on “Ocean as Method 2” - SPARC Course - offered by Department of English, JMI (2021)
8. DH 101: Introduction to Digital Humanities - edX: HARVARD (2021)
9. SPARC Course “Inhabiting a Globalized World: Concepts, Theories, Critical Perspectives” - SPARC Course - offered by Department of English, JMI in collaboration with Department of English and American Studies, University of Wüzberg, Germany (2021)
10. FDP in English Studies “Remapping the Indian Novel in English” - Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi and the Faculty Development Centre, Mizoram University, Aizawl under the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) of MoE - Grade A+ (2021)
11. Refresher Course on “Cinema, Society and Education” - Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College, IQAC in collaboration with Teaching Learning Centre, Ramanujan College under the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) of MoE - Grade A+ (2021)
12. “Empowering Teaching-Learning Process Using Google Classroom and other ICT Tools: A Comprehensive Practical Approach” - Department of Commerce, Daulat Ram College, IQAC (2020)
13. FDP “Managing Online Classes and Co-Creating MOOCS:2.0” - Teaching Learning Centre Ramanujan College (2020)
14. “Indian Fiction in English” - NPTEL - SWAYAM in collaboration with IIT Madras, Funded by Ministry of HRD - Awarded Elite Certificate (2019)
Secured first position in M.A. English in Hansraj College (DU)- 2015-16
Secured first position in M.A. English in Hansraj College (DU) - 2014-15
Awarded Certificate of Merit for securing the highest marks in B.A. English Hons. (all three years combined) in the year 2013-2014 (Daulat Ram College, DU)
Membership - Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) (Lifetime membership)
