Faculty Associate
shobna[at]yorku.ca
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University
Research Keywords:
Hindi public sphere (20th century); Hindi and Urdu literature; Hindi, Urdu and English women’s periodicals; theories of gender and nationalism; Ayurveda and allopathy in Hindi fiction and Hindi medical periodicals (first half of the 20th century); and technology enhanced learning
Research Region(s):
India, South Asia
Research Diaspora(s):
Shobna Nijhawan is Assistant Professor of Hindi in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. She has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where her thesis research focused on “Public Reasoning as Moral duty: Hindi women’s Journals and Nationalistic discourse (1910–1930).” Her MA is from Heidelberg University, Germany.
Dr. Nijhawan’s teaching and research interests include: the Hindi public sphere (20th century); Hindi and Urdu literature; Hindi, Urdu and English women’s periodicals; theories of gender and nationalism; Ayurveda and allopathy in Hindi fiction and Hindi medical periodicals (first half of the 20th century); and technology enhanced learning.