2015-16
Dr Jyoti Atwal
The Trinity Long Room Hub is delighted to welcome Dr Jyoti Atwal from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as a SPECTRESS Visiting Research Fellow.
Dr Jyoti Atwal is Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She engages with issues pertaining to Indian women in the reformist, nationalist and contemporary perspectives; socio cultural and religious aspects of women’s lives in colonial and post colonial India; women’s agenda and the nation; autobiographies of women and narratives of the personal and the political domains; politics of representations of gender relations in colonial India; dalit (low caste) women’s history.
She has recently published a book entitled Real and Imagined Widows: Gender Relations in Colonial North India, Delhi: Primus, 2016. She has recently introduced a new course on Women in Ireland: Reforms, Movements and Revolutions (1840-1930)’ for post graduate students at JNU.
Currently, Dr Atwal is researching on an Irish suffragist in colonial India – Margaret Cousins (1878-1954). She has been a Visiting Faculty at Dublin City University in 2013; Trinity College Dublin Long Room Fellow in 2012. She is a member of the executive team of the India Studies Centre Cork at University College Cork and a member of the editorial board of Women’s History Review (UK, Routledge).
Dr Atwal gave a talk on ‘Irish Women in India: Spirituality, Empire and Anti Colonialism’ at the conference on Ireland-India in the Trinity Long Room Hub on the 23 - 24 June 2016.
‘Irish Women in India: Spirituality, Empire and Anti Colonialism’
