Divya Dwivedi
Author, Philosopher, Academician

Indian Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

Quick Info

Profession	Author, Philosopher, Academician
Nationality	Indian
Date of Birth	01/01/1981
Age	45 years
Birthplace	Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

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Physical Stats & More

Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Brown

Educational Qualification(s)

College/University	Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi St. Stephen's College, Delhi University of Delhi Institute of Technology, Delhi
Educational Qualifications	Bachelor of Arts from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi Master of Arts from St. Stephen's College, Delhi M.Phil from University of Delhi Doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Relationships & More

Marital Status

Family

Father

Rakesh Dwivedi (senior lawyer in the Supreme Court of India)

Mother

Sunitha Dwivedi (freelance writer)

Other Relatives

Paternal grandfather	S. N. Dwivedi (a judge at the Supreme Court of India)
Maternal grandfather	Raj Mangal Pande (a minister in the Union Government of India)

Career

Research Areas	Philosophy of Literature Philosophy of Psychoanalysis Literary Theory and Criticism, Formal inquiry into fictionality Critical Philosophy of Caste and Race, Political thought of Gandhi, Political Cartoons, and Novels of O V Vijayan Aesthetics Narratology Revolutionary theory
Schools of Philosophy	Deconstruction Post-metaphysics
Books	Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics (co-authored, 2019) Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics (co-authored) The Virality of Evil (editor, 2022) Jean-Luc Nancy, Anastasis de la pensée (co-editor, 2023)

Some Lesser Known Facts

1. Divya Dwivedi is an Indian philosopher, author, and academician at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
2. She worked as an assistant professor at Saint Stephen’s College, Delhi University from 2003 to 2004.
3. In January 2011, she became an adjunct faculty at Delhi University's Department of English until April 2012, then joined IIT Delhi as an associate professor.
4. In 2013-14, she was a visiting fellow at Aarhus University’s Centre for Fictionality Studies.
5. Divya Dwivedi co-edited "Public Sphere from outside the West" in 2015 and "Narratology and Ideology" in 2018.
6. She became a member of the committee on Literary Theory at the ICLA in June 2017.
7. In 2019, she co-authored "Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics."
8. In 2022, she became an executive council member of the ISSN and edited "Virality of Evil". She was also a fellow at Archives Husserl, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
9. She is the editor and co-founder of the international journal ‘Philosophy World Democracy’.
10. Divya Dwivedi is a modern philosopher known for her different ideas in ontology, narratology, metaphysics, linguistics, and deconstruction.
11. Influenced by philosophers like Jean-Luc Nancy and Bernard Stiegler, she believes philosophy should challenge the status quo and be tied to politics.
12. She studies psychoanalysis founded by Sigmund Freud, exploring its connections to psychology, mass thinking, and politics.
13. According to Dwivedi, postcolonial theory and Hindu nationalism are similar in supporting the upper caste in India.
14. She advocates against caste oppression and discusses changes made to Hinduism to suppress lower-caste individuals.
15. She has been elected member of the Executive Council of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) since 2022.
16. She is an elected member of the Theory Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA).
17. She serves as an Advisory Board member of the Institute of Global Value Inquiry (IGVI), Berlin, and Global Advisory Board member of The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU).
18. She is an Editorial Board member of Humanities Arts and Society (HAS) project and journal by UNESCO, and an invited member of UNESCO Women Philosophers' Network.

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