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First Name
Arti
Last Name
Nirmal
Affiliation
Banaras Hindu University
Website URL
www.bhu.ac.in
Keywords
Postcolonial and Decolonial studies, Diaspora and Migration Studies, Law and Literature, Gender Studies, and Folk Studies
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About Me

Arti Nirmal is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. She has authored a book Shifting Homes and Transnational Identities: Women Novelists of the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora and co-edited the volume titled Legal Research and Methodology: Perspectives, Process and Practice besides 42 research publications in the reputed journals and anthologies and more than 40 talks as invited speaker at various universities and institutions. Besides being member on various editorial boards, she is a regular speaker at Radio and Television, National Broadcasting Agency of India- Prasar Bharti, New Delhi. Her recent publications include two edited volumes History and Myth: Postcolonial Dimensions (Vernon Press, USA 2021) and Histories, Myths and Decolonial Interventions: A Planetary Resistance (Routledge, London, 2022). She is currently doing a Major Research Project on “Folk and Ritual Songs of Banaras and Mirzapur: An Ethnographic Study”, funded by the ICSSR, New Delhi. Her areas of academic interest include Postcolonial, Decolonial and Migration Studies, Literature and Law, Folk and Gender Studies. 

Recent Publications

History and Myth: Postcolonial Dimensions (Vernon Press, USA 2021) and Histories, Myths and Decolonial Interventions: A Planetary Resistance (Routledge, London, 2022).

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
Australia, Asia, British Isles, India, Pacific
Expertise by Chronology
Ancient, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Capitalism, Colonialism, Disability, Environment, Gender, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Law, Literary History, Local & Regional, Migration & Immigration, Women, World War II