Avani Tandon Vieira

                                                  aatv2@cam.ac.uk  +44 07591624874

 Academic Record

PhD, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge                                                           2019 - Present

Supervisor: Dr. Priyamvada Gopal 

Thesis title: Little Magazines and Imaginations of Place

MSt. World Literatures in English, University of Oxford, 69.75%                                     2016 - 2017

PG Diploma in Liberal Arts, Ashoka University, 3.61/4.0 (C.G.P.A.)                               2015 - 2016

B.A. English (Honours), St. Stephen’s College, 69.18%                                                     2012 - 2015

Awards and Fellowships

Visiting Scholar, Cornell University South Asia Program                                            Jan - Feb 2022

Offered a visiting scholar position to conduct research in the Bombay Poet’s archive.

Cumberland Lodge Fellowship                                                                                        2020 – 2022

Godrej Culture Labs International Fellowship                                                                             2020

Gates Cambridge Scholarship, University of Cambridge                                              2019 - Present

UNESCO - Sahapedia Fellowship                                                                                     2018 - 2019 

Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Development Award, University of Oxford                                2017

Maxwell and Meyerstein Grant, University of Oxford                                                                  2017

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                 Teaching Experience

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Graduate Supervisor                                                                                        April 2021 – present

Supervised undergraduate students in Postcolonial and related literatures. Responsibilities included small-group teaching, supervising dissertations, and one-on-one instruction. 

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Instructor, Ashoka University                                                                August - December 2018                                     

Independently planned, delivered, and assessed a course titled Forms of Resistance: Protest, Identity, and Art                                     

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Teaching Fellow, Ashoka University                                                     August 2017 – April 2018

Provided teaching assistance on courses titled Literature and the Making of Democracies, Dalit Literature, Masala Shakespeare, and Globalization, Migration, and Diasporic Identities.

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                  Publications and Papers

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‘“Songs of Rubbish: Little Magazines, City Space, and the Grand National Narrative’, ‘Trash’, Oxford Research in English Journal. Spring 2021

‘Maps Run Aground: The Bombay Little Mag in the World’, ‘Between Comparison and Context’, South Asia Graduate Student Conference, University of Chicago, March 2021

‘“Like Cartographers Mapping the City”: Geographic Negotiations and Indian Literary Subcultures’, Off the Radar: Periodical Print Media Outside Mainstream Culture, Virtual Postgraduate Conference in Comparative Literature and Culture, University of Gottingen, January 2021

‘“Welcome to the Conspiracy”: Bombay Poets, the Small Press, and Forms of Affiliation’, Small Presses, Then and Now, MLA Conference 2021, January 2021

‘Literature from Little Known Little people’: Mimeographs, Manifestos and Internationalism in damn you, a magazine of the arts. ‘Debts’, Oxford Research in English Journal. Issue 7. Winter 2017.

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‘Literature from little known little people’: Mimeographs, Manifestos and Internationalism in damn you, a magazine of the arts. ‘Debts’ English Graduate Conference, Department of English Language and Literature, Oxford, June 2017.

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              Work Experience and Curatorial Projects

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Co-convener, activist/aesthetics Reading Group                                         October 2021 - Present

Ran a multi-disciplinary, international graduate reading group focused on the intersections of material culture and progressive politics in the 20th century. 

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Founder and archivist, The Museum of Ephemera                                                      2020 - Present 

Founded a digital repository for protest ephemera from the city of Bombay. 

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Founder and Curator, The Pind Collective                                                                   2016 - Present

Created an inter-disciplinary online platform for young South Asian creatives.  

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Member, Editorial Team, Akademi Mag                                                                                      2020

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Research Assistant, Dr. Subhasree Chakravarty                                                    May - August 2019

Assisted on research projects examining the MeToo movement and the history of Composition Studies in India. 

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Programmes Manager, St+art India Foundation                                 December 2018 - March 2019  

Curated and organized programming for a public arts festival in Delhi’s Lodhi Colony.  

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              Conferences Organized

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‘Debts’: English Graduate Conference, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, June 2017

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MSt. World Literatures in English Conference, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, May 2017

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               Languages 

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English (Native), Hindi (Native), Korean (Beginner)

                Other Prizes

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Toto Funds the Arts, Creative Writing in English. Longlist.                          2018, 2020, 2021   

Raedleaf International Poetry Prize, Finalist.                                                                    2017        

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                   Reference

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Dr. Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge.                             pg268@cam.ac.uk