Divya Dwivedi

Some Lesser Known Facts About Divya Dwivedi

• Divya Dwivedi is an Indian philosopher, author, and academician. She works as an associate professor of ontology, metaphysics, literature, and philosophy of politics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

• From 2003 to 2004, Divya Dwivedi worked as an assistant professor on an ad-hoc basis at Saint Stephen’s College, Delhi University. In January 2011, she began working as an adjunct faculty in the Department of English at Delhi University and served the position till April 2012. Divya Dwivedi then joined the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi as an associate professor of literature and philosophy.

• In 2013-14, Divya Dwivedi was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University.

• Divya Dwivedi was the co-editor of Public Sphere from outside the West in 2015 and Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form and Theory in Postcolonial Texts in 2018.

  

• In June 2017, Divya Dwivedi was appointed as a member of the committee on Literary Theory at the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA).

• In 2019, she co-authored a book titled ‘Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics.’

  

• A journal called Episteme, which focuses on critical thinking, dedicated a special issue to Divya Dwivedi and her colleague Shaj Mohan’s work in 2021.

• In 2022, Divya Dwivedi was appointed as the executive council member of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN). She was the editor of the book named Virality of Evil (2022). In the same year, she was a fellow at the Archives Husserl, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

  

• Divya Dwivedi is the editor and co-founder of the international multilingual journal ‘Philosophy World Democracy.’

  

• Divya Dwivedi is a modern philosopher whose ideas are different from traditional ones. She is known for her work in areas like ontology, narratology, metaphysics, linguistics, and deconstruction. According to Divya Dwivedi, she is influenced by philosophers like Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, Achille Mbembe, and Barbara Cassin.

• Divya Dwivedi studies psychoanalysis, a field of psychology established by Sigmund Freud in the 1890s. Her work on Freud helps to see how psychology, mass thinking, and politics are connected.

• According to Divya Dwivedi, philosophy is a way to challenge the status quo, and it should be tied to politics. She does not like it when people use labels to describe their philosophy. She also thinks postcolonial theory and Hindu nationalism are similar, and they both support the upper caste in India.

• Dwivedi is known for speaking out against caste oppression and for discussing how Hinduism was changed in the early 20th century to keep lower-caste people down. She believes that the caste system in India needs to be destroyed for true equality to happen.

• Some of her international interviews include “The proletariat are all those who are denied the collective faculty of imagination at ILNA,” Interview with Divya Dwivedi at Unesco,” “#ELLEVoices: Divya Dwivedi On How She Is #ImaginingTheWorldToBe in Elle Magazine,” and “A French-style revolution alone can help India recover from its current caste stasis, says Prof Dwivedi with Asian Lite.”