Professor Dr. Sundhya Walther

Biography

Sundhya Walther is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, specializing in the intersections of multispecies interactions and postcolonial literature, particularly in the context of contemporary South Asia. Her recent book, 'Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature', published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2021, explores how identity formation and the relationships between animals and humans are portrayed in Indian writing from the late colonial period to the present. As the Director of Postgraduate Research (PGR) within the English and Creative Writing department, her current research examines the representations of migrancy, incarceration, urbanization, and the climate crisis, while engaging with the implications of Hindu nationalist politics on discourses of cow protection. Walther's broader research interests encompass postcolonial literature theory, animal studies, interdisciplinary South Asian studies, and the environmental humanities.

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