About Vivek Sachdeva

Name: Vivek Sachdeva

Designation: Professor

Academic Qualifications: Ph.D.

Additional Qualifications: CFA from FTTI, Pune

Room No. C 302

Contact: 011-25302502, 8826250973
E mail: viveksachdeva@ipu.ac.in
Research Areas: Film Studies (Adaptation), Narratology

Courses taught: Literature and Cinema, Philosophy of Literature, Romantic Poetry,

Writings Beyond Literature

Memberships of Professional Bodies: Association of Adaptation Studies, International Society

for the Study of Narrative, IACLALS, MELOW

 Administrative Work:
 Co-ordinator, Ph.D. programme of USHSS, GGSIP University, New Delhi
 Co-ordinator, Library Committee, USHSS, GGSIP University, New Delhi
 In-charge, Music Wing of Indraprasth Centre for Art and Culture
 Member, Curriculum Redesigning Committee
Profile:

I have done my primary research in the field of adaptation studies with special focus on film
adaptations of the novels written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. During my research I have tried to
understand how the narrative changes during the process of adaptation. I am also interested in
exploring further dimensions of the relationship between literature and cinema.

Currently, I am doing a project on Shyam Benegal’s cinema in which I am trying to understand

how Shyam Benegal, as a filmmaker, has responded to issues of India in post-colonial times. The
attempt is to study the image of India emerging in his cinema.

Besides, I am a translator. I have translated two books of Hindi poetry into English. Presently, I
am translating Punjabi poetry into English.

Publications

BOOKS

Research Work:

‘Fiction to Film: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's The Householder and Heat and Dust’. Orient
BlackSwan, India, 2017.

Translation:

 Sun and Silence (Translation of Hindi Poetry into English). Unistar Books Pvt. Ltd.,
Chandigarh, 2010.
 The Dawn Shall Break (Translation of Hindi Poetry into English). Sri Sahitya Prakashan,
Amritsar, 2014.
PAPERS

Articles in Journals
 ‘Narrative Dislocations, Multiple Perspectivism and the Concept of Selfhood in Shyam
Benegal’s Zubeidaa’ published in of Dialog- An Interdisciplinary Journal. Department
of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Issue ISSN 0975-4881
 ‘Narrative as a Signifier-with reference to Shyam Benegal’s Sardari Begum’ published in
Dialog- An Interdisciplinary Journal. Department of English, Panjab University,
Chandigarh. ISSN 0975-4881
 ‘Discourse on Spatial Form of Jhabvala’s The Householder: Adaptation and Mutation’ in
Dec. 2008 issue of Journal of Literature, Culture and Media Studies. ISSN 0974-7192
 ‘The Householder: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala as Insider-outsider or/and Outsider-insider- A
Narratological and Cultural Perspective’ has been published in Punjab Journal of English
Studies. Department of English, G.N.D. University, Amritsar. ISSN 0973-2482
 ‘Unmasking the Conflict: A Psychoanalytic Study of Titanic’ published in Dialog- An
Interdisciplinary Journal. Department of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh. ISSN
0975-4881
 ‘Space As a Metaphor in the Cinema Of/From the Third World- A Study of Women’s
Prison’ in Dialog- An Interdisciplinary Journal. Department of English, Panjab
University, Chandigarh. ISSN 0975-4881
 ‘Narrative Strategies in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust’ has been published in
Journal of Literature, Culture and Media Studies. ISSN 0974-7192
 ‘Camera Obscura and Projections of the Unconscious: A Phenomenological Study of
Orientalism in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s The Householder and Heat and Dust’ in Dialog-
An Interdisciplinary Journal. Department of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
ISSN 0975-4881
 ‘Metamorphosis: from Mimesis to Diegesis – A Study of Fiddler on the Roof ’ in South
Asian Ensemble: A Canadian Quarterly of Arts, Literature and Culture. ISSN 1920-
6763.
 ‘Violence Counter-violence (Re)-Visioning Terrorism in the Context of South Asia'
with special reference to ‘Abar Aranaye’ and ‘Lal Salaam’ in The Literati. ISSN 2248-
9576
 ‘Identity Politics and the Muslim Other’ in Brukenthalia – Romanian Cultural History
Review supplement of Brukenthal published by University of Sibiu and Brukenthal
National Museuem, Sibiu. ISSN- 2285-9497
 ‘Censorship in Cinema: An Instrument of Governmentality.’ MELUS-MELOW Journal..
ISSN-2249-4839.
 ‘Liminal Cultural and Cinematic Spaces in Shyam Benegal’s Welcome to Sajjanpur and
Well Done Abba’ published in The Journal of Popular Culture published by Wiley-
Blackwell Vol. 49, No. 5, 2016.
 ‘Narrative Space and Spatial Reading of Gurdial Singh’s Select Novels’ published in The
Journal of Exclusion Studies. Vol. 7, No. 1, 2017.

Articles in Anthologies:

 ‘Globalization and Women Subjectivity in Indian Cinema’ in an anthology titled India

and Narratives of Globalization. Ed. Anup Beniwal. Creative Books, Delhi. (2012).
 ‘Subverting the Male Gaze: A Case Study of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ in Cultural
Studies in India: Essays On Literature, History & Politics. Ed. Rana Nayar, Pushpinder
Syal and Akshyay Kumar. Routledge USA, UK 2015 and Routledge India, 2016.
Book Reviews and Others

 ‘Canons and Counter-discourses’: Review of Inter-Sections: Essays On Indian Literatures,

Translations And Popular Consciousness By Rana Nayar in VOLUME XXXVII NUMBER
1 JANUARY 2013
 From Dulong to Beas has been published in Conjunctions, an international journal devoted to
study of literature and culture in 2014 issue.
 Published an article titled ‘The Power of Ladakh International Film Festival’ in Asian Global
Impact, a magazine published from London. (January 2013).
 Published an obituary on Ruth Prawer Jhabvala titled ‘A Writer in Eternal Exile’ in the
Tribune dated April 08, 2013.
 Published poetry in several journals of English literature

Conferences and Seminars Attended

Presented papers in national/international conferences/seminars held in India and in abroad.

Visited the following foreign universities to present papers

a) University of London, UK
b) University of New Castle, UK
c) University of Otago, New Zealand
d) University of California, USA
e) Yale University, USA

Editorial
 Member, Advisory Board, The Literati- A Peer Reviewed Journal of Language and Literature
 Editor, Indraprasth- An International Journal of Culture and Communication Studies. Vol. III
(2014)