Dr. Swati Joshi
St Xavier’s College, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Research areas: Arts and Humanities · Literature and Literary Theory · Empathy and Medical Education · French Literature and Critical Theory · Modernist Literature and Criticism
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About
Dr. Swati Joshi is a transdisciplinary Beckett and Care Studies researcher whose research explores care crisis in the clinical and nonclinical (cultural and waste-management) spaces, care and/in confinement, and coping mechanisms in confinement (spatial and phenomenological). Her Ph.D. thesis, Samuel Beckett and Carescapes (2023), conceptualised clinical and non-clinical care models informed by the comparative analysis of Samuel Beckett's oeuvre (including doodles) and the contemporary English and French authors who resurrect the Irish-French playwright as an ailing character. Since 2024, Dr. Joshi been curating online Beckett seminars supported by The Samuel Beckett Society. Her interdisciplinary research has been published in the top-tier peer-reviewed journals like Medical Humanities(BMJ), Journal of Medical Humanities, Humanities(MDPI), among other places. She has also published book chapters in the edited volume, Beckett and Nature (Bloomsbury Academic), and Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy: Perspectives from Asia (Springer). In 2023, Dr. Joshi was awarded 3000GBP as an International Visiting Doctoral Researcher by the Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University. In 2022, Wellcome Trust London commissioned her artistic autopathography, Documents of my breath, for which she was awarded 835 GBP. In 2022, she also received an honorarium of 325 CAD from Ars Medica, for her short story, Gyrations. In 2025, the Journal of Medical Humanities launched the special issue she guest edited with Dr. Jade Elizabeth French, Loughborough University. Dr. Joshi can speak 3 Indian languages besides English and French (B2 from Alliance Française Ahmedabad, 2016).
Employment
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St Xavier’s College Lecturer2016 - 2018
Education
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IIT Gandhinagar Ph.D.2018 - 2023
Projects & Funding
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Publications (28)
- Kisses and knocks: psychoemotional languages that shape the quality of sleep in Marcel Proust’s The Way By Swann’s and Samuel Beckett’s Molloy Save
- Narratives of Care, Caring Materials, and Materializing Care in the 19th, 20th & 21st Centuries Save
- Introduction to Special Issue on Narratives of Care, Caring Materials, and Materializing Care in the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Centuries Save
- Samuel Beckett's Neo-Biomorphic Playlet Breath (1969) Sets the Stage for the Pirana Save
- Clinical Olfactory Environment Shapes Care Relationships in Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Sam Thompson's Jott Save
- Memoir-Writing: A Mode of Self-Care and Patient Empowerment in Annabel Abbs’s The Joyce Girl (2016) Save
- Metaphors of Womanhood Emerging in Hysterectomy Narratives Save
- An exchange of dreams: 2 minds x 2 materials Save
- Percipio, Ergo Sum: Reviewing the ‘Synaptic Odyssey’ exhibition Save
- Caring Art and Artistic Care Save
- Reading Performances of Illness Scripts, Clinical Authority, and Narrative Self-Care in Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies and Jérôme Lambert’s Chambre Simple Save
- Review of The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence, by The Care Collective. Literature and Medicine, vol. 40 no. 1, 2022, p. 183-186. Save
- Documents of my breath Save
- Proprioceptive Care in Samuel Beckett’s Nacht und Träume Save
- Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity Save
- “Smears… of hilarity”? Tears? Mechanisms of Care in Samuel Beckett’s ‘Yellow’ (1972) Save
- Depersonalization of Suffering Amidst COVID-19 Second Wave in India Save
- Alex Tankard, Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives Save
- What’s at Hand? Save
- "Performance of Material Care in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Miss Brill'" Save