Jivitesh Vashisht

Dr. Jivitesh Vashisht is a Research Fellow in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin (UCD), holding a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022–2024). He previously held prestigious positions including the Brotherton Fellowship at the University of Leeds (2020), the Junior Anniversary Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh (2020–2021), and an ECR Foundation Award with the Glasgow Medical Humanities Network (2021). His research bridges literary studies, medical humanities, psychoanalysis, and sensory studies, focusing on intersections between literature and neuroscience, soundscapes, and narrative neurology.

Education includes a BA (Hons) from the University of Delhi, an MA from the University of Warwick, and a PhD from the University of Leeds. He is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His work examines figures like Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, and Oliver Sacks, exploring themes of voice, gender, and intertextuality. He has published in journals such as Journal of Beckett Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, and Paragraph, and contributes an annual review of psychoanalysis to Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.

Research interests include modernist literature, medical case writing, and the cultural legacies of narrative neurology. His current project investigates the literary determinants of narrative neurology post-1970, analyzing works by authors like Anthony Burgess and Brian Friel alongside clinicians like A.R. Luria and Oliver Sacks. Awards and fellowships reflect his contributions to interdisciplinary humanities and medical studies.

Teaching expertise spans modernist drama, medical humanities, and critical theory. He has lectured on works like Beckett’s Happy Days and taught courses on twentieth-century fiction and sensory studies. His work frequently engages with performance, radio, and interdisciplinary methodologies.