Sanchita Khurana

E-Mail: Khurana.sanchita@gmail.com

Sanchita Khurana is an Assistant Professor of English at Mata Sundri College for Women, University of Delhi. Her research interests include popular culture, aesthetic theory, literary criticism, theories of the public sphere, urban cultural studies, Dalit aesthetics, and visual and literary modernisms. She holds a PhD in Art History and Visual Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, where her dissertation examined the moral and political economy of commissioned street art in Delhi. Khurana’s work has appeared in academic journals in the fields of urban studies, art history, English studies, and popular culture, as well as in mainstream publications such as The Frontline, Huffington Post, and The Telegraph (forthcoming Nov 2024). Her co-edited volume, Form and Context: Modern Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, was published by Worldview Books in 2023. Recognized for her comparative research on street art, she was awarded a Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship, which she completed at Columbia University in 2019, and a Charles Wallace Research Grant in 2020, which she pursued in London. With over a decade of research and teaching experience, Khurana also currently serves as the Secretary of the Research Advisory Council at Mata Sundri College for Women.