Aparna Dwivedi

Aparna Dwivedi is an Instructor in the Department of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), within the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research and teaching focus on rhetoric and composition, multi-ethnic literature, and women’s studies, with a particular emphasis on postcolonial and feminist issues in literary works such as those by Anita Desai. She holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Delhi, specializing in British and American literature with a focus on postcolonial writings, and a second M.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, concentrating on women’s studies and postcolonial fiction.

• Education:
• B.A., University of Delhi, India: English (British)
• M.A., University of Delhi: English (British and American; focus on postcolonial writings)
• M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago: English (concentration in women’s studies and postcolonial fiction)
• Teaching: Focused on first-year rhetoric and composition courses, emphasizing students’ participation in academic, social, cultural, and political discourse through text creation and interpretation.
• Contact: Office located in University Hall 5044; phone (205) 934-4250; email adwivedi@uab.edu.