Dr Nachiket Joshi

Assistant Professor (Visiting),
Major Area/ Specialization: Literature, Translation Studies, Continental Philosophy, French

Academic Profile

PhD, Inalco (France, 2022): Thesis Title, Gender, Violence, and the Nation-State in Contemporary Indian Poetry. The thesis was written and submitted in French.
MA Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam (2016): Thesis Title, The Absent Traveler: World Literature as Intimacy.
Postgraduate Diploma in Aesthetics and critical studies, Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology (Bangalore, 2012)
BA in Sociology, St. Xavier’s College, University of Mumbai (2012)

Research Interests

Translation, Communication Theory, Modern Indian Poetry

Teaching Experience

January 2024: visiting faculty (LCS), NMIMS, Mumbai
December 2023- March 2024: Visiting faculty (MA), Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai
September 2023- present: Intramural Research Author, Monk Prayogshala

Fellowship/ Award/ Grant

Doctoral fellowship awarded by Inalco, Paris. 6 OCTOBER 2017.

Publications

Chapter/ Essay:

"ARUN KOLATKAR’S BHIJAKI VAHI: SACRIFICE AND RESIDUES” IN THE JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING, APRIL 2022 https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2022.2051868

Book Review:

"SOMA” BOOK REVIEW OF AK RAMANUJAN’S NEW BOOK OF POEMS AND ESSAYS, EDITED BY KRISHNA RAMANUJAN AND GUILLERMO RODRÍGUEZ, JANUARY 2024 https://scroll.in/article/1061997/soma-when-ak-ramanujan-wrote-poems-about-his-psychedelic-experiments-and-their-effects-on-him
"IN TUKARAM’S EARTHLY PARADISE” BOOK REVIEW OF SHANTA GOKHALE AND JERRY PINTO’S TRANSLATIONS OF TUKARAM’S MARATHI ABHANGAS, DECEMBER 2023 https://frontline.thehindu.com/books/in-tukaram-earthly-paradise-book-review-of-behold-the-word-is-god-translated-by-shanta-gokhale-jerry-pinto/article67553737.ece

Popular Writing/ Newspaper Article:

"H-POP: HOW A CUT-THROAT DIGITAL ECONOMY AND DEEP ROOTED HATRED HAVE FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED INDIA”, FEBRUARY 2024 https://scroll.in/article/1064129/h-pop-a-cut-throat-digital-economy-and-deep-rooted-hatred-have-fundamentally-changed-india
AN INTERVIEW WITH WRITERS AMIT CHAUDHURI AND ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA, SEPTEMBER 2023 https://scroll.in/article/1055197/when-we-speak-of-the-secular-in-india-these-days-poetry-literature-cinema-do-not-come-into-play
"IN INDIA, A POEM COMPOSED AFTER BABRI MASJID TELLS TALES OF THE COUNTRY’S PATH” IN DAWN.COM, MARCH 2019 https://www.dawn.com/news/1467781

International and National Conference Papers:

"Incorporating the corpus: Violence and pleasure in three contemporary Indian works of poetry” séminaire littérature d’asie du sud, ehess Paris. December 2023
"Femininity and sacrifice in Arun Kolatkar’s Bhijaki Vahi”. atelier glam, thalim, cnrs. univeristé de sorbonne, Paris. January 2020.
"Networks of literary circulation in south asia”. apsara transdisciplinary club. bétonsalon centre d’art et de recherche. Paris. September 2018.
"sarpa satra as rite of extinction and genocide”. end of humans symposium, Amsterdam 2016.
"The absent traveller as world literature”. café chercher. Amsterdam 2016.
"The transnational poetics of Arun Kolatkar’s kala ghoda poems”. osl expert meeting. Discussion around the book ‘a transnational poetics’ in the presence of its author, Professor Jahan Ramazani. Amsterdam, 2015.

Other Work Experience in Projects/ Organisation

DECEMBER 2016 – JUNE 2017: ACCOMODATION SERVICE EXECUTIVE, BOOKING.COM (AMSTERDAM)
August 2015 – July 2017: Creative Writing and Poetry EDITOR, Digressions journal (Amsterdam)
June 2016 – July 2017: CULTURAL CURATOR, OT301 (AMSTERDAM)
October 2012 – March 2014: French catalog associate, Amazon (Bangalore)
January 2012 – August 2012: Research assistant, ecole de design de nantes atlantique (Bangalore)
September 2011 – December 2011: Intern, Tasveer Gallery of art and Photography (Bangalore)

Activities and Interests

Member of the project ‘Anthologie Écopoétique Située des Arts et des Littératures’, a collaborative venture based out of Sorbonne University Paris to document ecologically relevant art and literature from across the world. I serve as the India referent for this project, collecting and curating relevant material for the project’s database. https://ecopoetique.huma-num.fr/le-projet/

Write a newsletter, titled ‘Passages’, about the theory and practice of literary translation. It is an attempt to systematize my reflections on the subject, as well share them with a broader public. https://open.substack.com/pub/nachiketjoshi/p/passages1?=10z9f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Run an architecture and urbanism blog devoted to the Mumbai suburb of Chembur. I am engaged in documenting the "low-key cosmopolitanism” of its architectural styles which vary from Art Deco, Portuguese, and East Indian, to other more vernacular forms. The blog aims to create a public appreciation of architecture and built heritage outside the traditional precincts of South Bombay. https://www.instagram.com/housesofchembur/?hl=en