Sonakshi Srivastava

What's Attention Got To Do With It: On Reading and Reflexivity

Sonakshi Srivastava is a writing pedagogue at Ashoka University. Her MPhil dissertation looked at the biopolitics of ability and debility in contemporary fiction. As a recipient of the South Asia Speaks programme, she is working with her mentor, Arunava Sinha on a translation project. She is also the recipient of the Tempus Public Foundation. Previously, she was an Oceanvale scholar for two consecutive terms at Kirori Mal College where she worked on the role of emotions in Kobo Abe’s works and on ecoprecarity and emotions in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People.At Ashoka, she teaches and tutors students on aspects of creative and academic writing, and critical thinking. She is also a part of the English Language Teaching (ELT) Team which works closely with students to enhance their communicative and cognitive English speaking and writing skills. She can be reached at sonakshi.srivastava@ashoka.edu.in