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Joining Toronto Metropolitan University in 2005, Rahul Sapra worked as a Permanent Lecturer (Tenured) at the University of Delhi (S.G.T.B. Khalsa College). He completed his PhD at Queen’s University, where he was awarded a Teaching Fellowship. Sapra's research interests encompass Early Modern/Renaissance Literatures, Shakespearean Drama Performance, Film Studies, Literary Theory, and Postcolonial Studies. His book 'Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India' challenges Edward Said's discourse of Orientalism by providing alternatives to the prevalent postcolonial readings of representations of India in seventeenth-century European narratives, particularly English travel texts like Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' and Dryden's 'Aureng-Zebe'. This work critiques the ahistorical and essentialist tendencies in the works of theorists such as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi Bhabha, and has been praised for making a significant contribution to the discourse surrounding Said’s Orientalism. Currently, he serves as Subject Editor for the Film Section of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, which contains over 300 entries published by 2019. His diverse publications include articles on the intersection of modernism and film within the South Asian context and critical explorations of Shakespeare's intellectual background.
University of Delhi • Delhi
Taught courses in English literature and contributed to academic scholarship.
Department of Chemical Engineering