Mridula Sharma

Mridula Sharma is a scholar and writer. She has contributed over twenty papers in journals and edited collections published by Routledge, Oxford University Press, McFarland, and Vernon Press, among others. She has presented her work at over fifty academic conferences and received grants as well as scholarships for her research by institutions in Germany, England, India, Scotland, and the US. She was awarded The Asiatic Society’s 2021-2022 Junior Research Scholarship and Pennsylvania State University’s 2023-2024 Linda Stein Upstander Award. Her work has received funding or institutional support from British Council, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Gallery of Modern Art, Scottish Refugee Council, The Burrell Collection, The NewBridge Project, and Kelvingrove Museum. In her current PhD project at the University of Manchester, she examines post-1950 literature from Kashmir and Palestine to interrogate key questions pertaining to body and land from postcolonial and feminist perspectives.