Aryehi Bhushan

Thesis Title: The Edible Corpus: Consumption and 'Consumability' in Contemporary Anglophone Indian Women's Novels (1980- Present). 

Thesis Summary: My thesis is interested in exploring the interconnected discourses of alimentation, consumption and commensality in Anglophone Indian women's novels published between 1980 and present day. I take a dual approach of analysing how these discourses of consumption reflect shifting attitudes towards gender roles, sexuality, caste, class, urbanity, colonial histories and modernity within a rapidly metamorphosing India; as well as exploring how discourses of consumption are used when publishing, marketing and reviewing these novels in order to render them consumable products within the global literary marketplace. 

Supervisor: Professor Pablo Mukherjee

Research Interests: Postcolonialism and World Literature; Critical Food Studies; Biopolitics; Gender and Sexuality; Psychoanalysis; The Politics of Literary Production and Publication 

I have presented papers at the 54th Annual NeMLA Convention (2023) and the 44th Annual SWPACA Conference (2023). From October 2023 to June 2024 I held the positions of DPhil representative with the English Graduates at Oxford (EGO) committee and Features Editor for the Oxford Research in English (ORE) Journal. I am currently co-director of the New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Network (https://newvoicespocostudies.wordpress.com/). You can find me on Twitter at @AryehiBhushan.