Ellen Dengel-Janic

Dr. Ellen Dengel-Janic is a Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the Department of English, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. She holds a Ph.D. from the same university and previously taught at the University of Stuttgart. Her research focuses on postcolonial studies, gender studies, Indian literature in English, and South Asian diasporic literature and film.

Her doctoral work, Home Fiction: Narrating Gendered Space in Anita Desai's and Shashi Deshpande's Novels, explores gendered spaces and nationalism in Indian women's writing. She has authored monographs and contributed to peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes on topics ranging from postcolonial media icons to diasporic literary adaptations.

Her recent research includes examining diasporic narratives in the works of Bharati Mukherjee and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. She has also analyzed cultural dynamics in British-Asian film, postcolonial reinterpretations of Shakespeare, and spatial contestations in South Asian fiction.