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Nitasha Kaul
Born1976
Jammu and Kashmir, India
Occupation(s)Writer, Poet, Activist, Academic
Known forResidue

Nitasha Kaul [1] is a London based academic, author and poet of Kashmiri origin. In 2009 she wrote Residue, which was the first novel in English by a Kashmiri woman[2] and was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize.[3]

Early life and Education

Kaul grew up in Delhi[3] and had her schooling at St. Thomas School. She graduated in Economics from Sri Ram College of Commerce before pursuing her post-graduate from University of Hull; Kaul went on to earn her doctorate in Economics and Philosophy from Hull, in 2003.[4] Her doctoral thesis was Interrogating the Subject-World of Economic Epistemology: Re-Imagining Theory and Difference.[5]

Career

Kaul served as a Lecturer of Economics at University of Bath[5] and as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Bristol Business School from 2002 to 2007 before being roped in as the Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan (2010).[4] At present, she is an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster.[4][6]Her current scholarly interests at Westminster include feminist issues concerning Kashmiri women, the rise of muscular neoliberal nationalism in India, and an analysis of right-wing politics.[7][7]

Books

Her first book Imagining Economics Otherwise: encounters with Identity/Difference (2007), was a monograph on economics and philosophy and was subject to mixed reception.[8][9][10]

Residue was the first novel in English by a Kashmiri woman[2] and was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize.[3][11]

References

  1. ^ https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/kaul-nitasha
  2. ^ a b Bazliel, Sharla (28 March 2014). "The urge for closure". IndiaToday. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  3. ^ a b c Flood, Alison (21 October 2009). "Indian subcontinent dominates Man Asian literary prize shortlist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Home Page". nitashakaul. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  5. ^ a b "CURRICULUM VITAE". nitashakaul. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Dr Nitasha Kaul". University of Westminster. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  7. ^ a b "Dr. Nitasha Kaul Research Outputs". University of Westminster. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  8. ^ Charusheela, S. (April 2010). "Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounters with Identity/Difference". Feminist Economics. 16 (2): 141–146. doi:10.1080/13545701003731864. ISSN 1354-5701.
  9. ^ Richardson, Colin (2008). "Review of IMAGINING ECONOMICS OTHERWISE: ENCOUNTERS WITH IDENTITY/DIFFERENCE" (PDF). Heterodox Economics Newsletter (62).
  10. ^ "A Postmodernist Critique". The Book Review. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  11. ^ Handoo, Bilal (9 February 2016). "Kashmir's Nitasha". Kashmir Life. Retrieved 24 February 2016.


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