Faculty Associate
vikrantd[at]yorku.ca
Assistant Professor
Department of English, York University
Research Keywords:
South Asian literature; Hindi literature; postcolonial literature; modernism; migration; world Literature
Research Region(s):
South Asia
Research Diaspora(s):
South Asian Diaspora
Vikrant Dadawala teaches and studies twentieth-century literature and cinema, with interests in South Asia, modernism, the Cold War and postcolonial studies.
Vikrant’s research has appeared in South Asia, the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and Safundi. He has contributed chapters to edited volumes on the Cold War and the Global South, the Indian Emergency of 1975–77 (forthcoming), and Indian New Wave cinemas (forthcoming). He also writes occasional essays on literature and history for The Point.
Vikrant is currently at work on two projects: a study of themes of disappointment and heartbreak in post-independence Indian literature in Hindi and English; and a new project on migration, modernism and ātmā vismriti (self-forgetting).
Prior to his appointment at York, Vikrant was a Lecturer at Harvard University, where he won the Alan Heimert Teaching Prize in 2023. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania.