Qualification

• Ph.D (IIT Roorkee)
• M.A. (SMVDU)
• B.Sc. (JU)

Research Interests

• Literary and Cultural Disability Studies
• Corporeality and Culture
• Intersectionality
• South Asian Literature and Culture

Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinator, Training and Placement

Other Notable Information

• Worked as Guest Faculty On Contract at Dr. BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar (Jan-June 2024)
• Received the travel grant from Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (ICSSR) for attending an in-person International Conference at Center for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, U.K (2023)

Publications

Journals

1. Sharma, Radhika, and Nagendra Kumar. "Magic on Wheels: A Study of Re-engagement, Re-enactment and Re-staging the Stereotypes of Performativity and Performance of Persons with Disabilities in the Choreography of Syed Sallauddin Pasha." Rupkatha Journal to Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (2021) 13, 1-11
2. Sharma, Radhika, and Nagendra Kumar. “What it Means to be a Human’: A Posthumanistic Study of Human Embodiment and Disability in S.B. Divya’s Machinehood.” Eastern Journal of Dialogue and Culture (2023) 16/2, 120-134
3. Sharma, Radhika, and Nagendra Kumar. “Skin Scarred by Structural Violence: A Study of Vitriolage in India” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (forthcoming, 2024)
4. Sharma, Radhika, and Nagendra Kumar. “Book Review: Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice” Journal of International Women’s Studies (forthcoming, 2024)

Book Chapters

1. Sharma, Radhika & Nagendra Kumar “Corporeal, National, and Historical: A Study of Indo-Pak Partition as an Embodied Experience through Historical Fiction” Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe, Palgrave Macmillan publication (forthcoming, 2024)

Conferences

1. Sharma, Radhika, “Gandhian Philosophy and Thought in R.K. Narayan’s Waiting for Mahatama.” National Conference, Gandhian Thought and Philosophy, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, in association with the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, 23 to October 24, 2019
2. Sharma, Radhika, “Non- Conformist Body: Representation of Disability and Sexuality in Margarita with a Straw(2014). International Conference, Contemporary Issues in South Asian Literature and Cultural Studies, organized by Manipal University Jaipur, India, 30 to March 31, 2021 (received the Best Research Paper Presentation Award)
3. Sharma, Radhika, “Intersection of Disability and Caste: A Study of Dual/Multiple Marginalised Identity in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance (1995),” National Conference, Contemporary Perspectives in English Language, Literature & Cultural Studies organized by Chandigarh University, Panjab, India, 11-12 June 2021
4. Sharma, Radhika, “Disability as an Allegory: A Study of Dual Marginality Amidst the Vulnerable Socio-political State of a Postcolonial Nation,” International Conference, Language, Literature and Linguistics, 27-28 August 2021 organized by the Department of English, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai India & Bodhi International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts, and Science (BIJRHAS)
5. Sharma, Radhika, “Magic on Wheels: A Study of Re-engagement, Re-enactment and Re- staging the Stereotypes of Performativity and Performance of Persons with Disabilities in the Choreography of Syed Sallauddin Pasha,” 2nd Rupkatha International Open Conference on Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities, 28 -30 August 2021
6. Sharma, Radhika, “Extraordinary Body on Stage: A Study of Enactment or Performance of Cancer Comedy in Brian Lobel’s Ball & Other Funny Stories About Cancer (2012),” BACLS-WHN online conference, 2-3 September 2021
7. Sharma, Radhika, “Breaking the Barriers: A Study of Transition from Pre-Disability to Post-Disability in Sriram Jagannathan’s Mai: A Graphic Novel, International Conference, ‘Decolonizing the Panel, Deconstructing the Gutter’ a Virtual Conference on Postcolonial Studies in Comics and Graphic Narratives from South Asia organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India, in association with Postcolonial Association UK, 25-25 September 2021
8. Sharma, Radhika, “Neoliberal Values & Disabled Identity in Malini Chib’s One Little Finger (2010),” Second International e-Conference on Contemporary Trends and Development in Cultural Studies and Humanities organized by New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities in collaboration with the Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Itlay & Department of English, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyala, Bilaspur, India, 22-24 October 2021
9. Sharma, Radhika, “Lunatics of the World’: A Study of Struggle and Resistance of a Person with Mental Disability in Gayathri Ramprasad’s Shadows In The Sun: Healing From Depression And Finding the Light Within (2014),” IDSC International Conference on Disability, Resistance, Disruption and Transgression organized by Indian Disability Studies Collective (IDSC) in association with Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, Delhi University & Centre for Disability Research and Training, Kirori Mal College, Delhi University, India, November 29- December 3, 2021
10. Sharma, Radhika, “Blind Yet Viewing: A Multi-Dimensional and an Embodied Experience of Life Under Seige amidst Covid-19 Pandemic in Namita Gokhale’s The Blind Matriarch (2021),” South Asian Literary Association (SALA) 2022 Conference. Sharma, Radhika, “Are we a part of the Society?: A Study of Exclusion/Inclusion of Women with Facial Disfigurement/ Disability in Priya’s Mirror (2016),” Young Graduate Research Meet’22 on the theme Exclusion & Inclusion organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi, May 2022
11. Sharma, Radhika, “From Marvelous Freaks to Pathological Deviants: A Study of Extraordinary Bodies in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981),” 65th All India English Teachers’ Conference organised by Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, Nalanda, from 24-26 November 2022
12. Sharma, Radhika, “Skin Scarred by Structural Violence: A Study of Vitriolage in India,” 6th in-person International conference titled Disability Impact: The Annual Conference of Interdisciplinary, Intersectional, and International Disability Studies organized by the Center for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom on July 5, 2023.