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Shital Pravinchandra is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, affiliated with the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film. Their research bridges postcolonial studies and the health humanities, examining how biomedical sciences perpetuate colonial legacies through discourses of health and longevity. They also explore the global evolution of the short story form in South Asian literatures.
Education: BA, MA, PhD from Cornell University. Current projects include a contracted book with Bloomsbury Academic, Longevity Fictions: Literature, Biomedical Science, and Postcolonial Critique, analyzing how biomedical innovations disproportionately affect marginalized communities.
Teaching includes core modules in Comparative Literature and specialized courses like ‘Medicine and Ethics in Contemporary Global Literature.’ Administrative roles include convening the iBSc in Global Medical Humanities and co-chairing the Health and Humanities Research Forum (co-founded). They co-edit the Routledge Global Literatures series and Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
