Sheetal Yadav

About

Dr. Sheetal Yadav is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Literature and Languages at SRM University AP. She received her PhD in 2024 from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee. Her dissertation examined the intersection of gendered spaces and divergent manifestations of rape culture in India. Her research outputs are published in journals like Journal of International Women's Studies, Journal of Exclusion Studies and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Her upcoming edited volumes are signed with Routledge and De Gruyter publishers. She has presented her work at various national and international conferences, including the University of Oxford. She is also the recipient of the ‘Best Paper Award’ at the Oxford Symposium On Women's Studies (2022). Her research interest lies in Women's Studies, Feminist Geography and Violence Studies.

Employment

• SRM University, Andhra Pradesh Assistant Professor
  2023 - Present

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Ph.D
  2019 - 2024

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (5)

• Spatial terror: Towards a feminist theory of gendered space in postcolonial India
  Feminist Theory 2026 DOI: 10.1177/14647001261452055
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• Breaking through Barriers: Empowering Women through Sports in Recent Bollywood Cinema
  Quarterly Review of Film and Video 2025 DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2023.2276642
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• Bollywood as a Site of Resistance: Women and Agency in Indian Popular Culture
  Journal of International Women's Studies 2023
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• Mad is an Everyday, Ordinary Word: Foucauldian Resemblance in Jerry Pinto’s Em and The Big Hoom
  Journal of Exclusion Studies 2022 DOI: 10.5958/2231-4555.2022.00011.0
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• "Each time a book comes out in which mental health is an important issue, we are taking a tiny step forward": An interview with Author Jerry Pinto
  The Atlantic Literary Review 2021
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