Dr. Devjani Ray

Description

Devjani is an Associate Professor at the Department of English, Miranda House, Delhi University. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from Presidency College, Kolkata, a Masters from Delhi University, an MPhil from JNU and a PhD from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi. During her doctoral studies, she was awarded the Charles Wallace Trust grant for research in the UK (2015). Her doctoral thesis is on Bengali children’s periodicals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her interests lie in childhood studies and its intersections with other cultural projects, particularly critical literacy, pedagogy and nationalism. Her work has appeared in several journals. She also writes extensively for newspapers and news websites.