Dr Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy

Position

William Golding Junior Research Fellow, Brasenose College
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Refugee Studies Centre (ODID)

Qualifications

PhD (Cambridge)

Academic Background and Previous Positions

(2020-2023) Director of Studies, Tutor and bye-fellow in MML Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Affiliated Lecturer, MMLL Faculty, Cambridge

(2017-2021) University of Cambridge PhD

Undergraduate Teaching Areas

I specialise in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Literatures and Cultures, as well as French language.

Graduate Teaching Areas

I teach on the MSc in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies.

Research Interests

I originally specialised in women’s writing from the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean. My PhD, later turned monograph, focused on migrant masculinities in immigrant women’s writing in France and Canada and originating from Cameroon, Senegal, Algeria, Mauritius, Vietnam and China. Since then, I have researched and written a book on Francophone Vietnamese Literature and Culture by the 1.5 and second generation refugee children. My current project looks at the voices of refugee children from Rwanda, Vietnam, Syria, North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran.

Selected Publications

Monographs

(2023/2024) Refugee Afterlives: Home, Hauntings, and Hunger (Liverpool University Press, Liverpool)

(2021) Migrant Masculinities in Women’s Writing: (In)Hospitality, Community and Vulnerability (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham)

 Co-edited volume

(2022) Catching Up with Time: Belatedness and Anachronies in Francophone Literature and Culture (Peter Lang, Oxford)

Peer-reviewed articles and Book chapters

(2024) 'Ambivalent Encounters in Calais', Journal of Intercultural Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2024.2365759

(2024) 'Against the Flow: Exile and Willful Subjects in Malika Mokeddem’s "Mes Hommes" and Kim Thúy’s "Vi"' Contemporary Women's Writing (Journal) vpad024, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad024.

(2023) ‘Post-migratory Identities: Changing Masculinities in Kim Thúy’s Vi’ in Touching Beauty: The Poetics of Kim Thúy, Eds Miléna Santoro and Jack Yeagar, Queen-McGill UP.

(2021c) ‘“Chez moi pas chez moi”: Home(lessness) in Kim Thúy’s Narratives’ in Forum for Modern Language Studies (Journal), 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqab045.

(2021b) ‘Elsewhere Home: Hospitality, Affect and Language in Chen’s Lettres chinoises and Thúy’s Vi’ in Quebec Studies (Journal), 71, 91-110.

(2021a) ‘“Nothing Ever Dies”: Memory and Marginal Children’s voices in Rwandan and Vietnamese Refugee Writing’ in Journal of the British Academy, 9 (s3), 157-172.

(2020b) ‘Dire l’indicible: Children, Trauma and Post-war Silences in Kim Thúy’s Ru and Grace Ly’s Jeune fille modèle’ in International Journal of Francophone Studies, 23 (1&2), 99–117

(2020a) ‘Disrupting Homogeneous Nation-space: The Black Male Body and the Migrant Woman Writer’s Gaze (Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome)’ in L’Esprit Créateur (Journal), 60 (2), 41-54.

(2019) ‘Le pays, c’était comme la femme d’un autre’: Reconceptualising African Migrant Masculinity in Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique  and Léonora Miano’s Tels des astres éteints’, Special Issue of Itinéraires (Journal) on La renaissance littéraire africaine en débat 2019, 1, https://doi.org/10.4000/itineraires.6086.

Other

Encyclopedia

(2023) Nathacha Appanah, The Literary Encyclopedia. https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14852

E-mail

Ashwiny.kistnareddy@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Departmental/faculty website

https://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/people/ashwiny-kistnareddy