Anjana Sharma

Anjana Sharma is an Indian writer, essayist, literary historian and a professor of British literature at the Department of English, Delhi University, specializing in women’s literature of the 18th and 19th centuries in English language, as well as questions of gender in Indian or British modern literature.

The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 2001, a Senior Fellow at the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS – Yusof
Ishak Institute (Singapore) in 2016, she served as Dean of Academic Planning at Nalanda University from 2011 to 2015. She has also explored the representation of a critical year in Indian history (1947), and the representation of Mahatma Gandhi in English language newspapers. 

Photo credit: University of Delhi

Publications

• [editor] Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Oxford University Press-Macmillan Critical Readers Series, 2001. ISBN 0195658620. 
• “Food Transfigured: Writing The Body in Indian Women’s Fiction In English.” in Translating Desire: The Politics of Gender and Culture in India, Brinda Bose ed., Delhi, Katha Publishing, 2002:145 – 165.
• [ed.] Frankenstein: Interrogating Gender, Culture and Identity, Delhi, Macmillan India Ltd, 2004, 208 p. ISBN 9781403924049. 
• “An Englishman’s Novel? Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music”, in Vikram Seth: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, G.J.V. Prasad ed., Delhi: Pencraft International, 2004: 164 – 73. ISBN 81 – 85753-61‑x
• “In Exile/​At Home: The Urban Middle Class in Shashi Deshpande”, in Desert in Bloom: Contemporary Indian Women’s Fiction in English, Meenakshi Bharat ed., Delhi, Pencraft International, 2004, 240 p. ISBN 81−85753−59−8.
• The Autobiography Of Desire: English Jacobin Women Novelists Of The 1790s, Delhi, 2004. ISBN 9781403909473.
• [with Terry Collits] Agamemnon’s Mask: Greek Tragedy and Beyond, Delhi, Macmillan India/​Laxmi Editions, 2007, 360 p, ISBN. 0230630332.
• Revolutionary Aesthetics: Writing Nation/​Embodying Gender, special issue, Journal of the Department of English, University of Delhi, 2007.
• [ed.] Civilizational Dialogue: Asian Interconnections and Cross Cultural Exchanges. Delhi, Manohar Publishers, 2013, 283 p. ISBN 989350980064. 
• [ed.] Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage, Nalanda-Sriwijaya Research Series, ISEAS — Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018, 285 p. ISBN 9789814786416.
• [with Gopa Sabharwal] ​“Anger is a Short Madness”, in The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India, Sanjeev Jain & Alok Sarin eds., Delhi, Sage Publications India, 2018: 136 – 161. ISBN 978−93−528−0650−8.
• “British Romantic Poetics and the Idea of Asia”, in Imagining Asia(s), Andrea Acri, Kashshaf Ghani, Murari K. Jha & Sraman Mukherjee eds., Singapore, ISEAS — Yusof Ishak Institute, 2019: 125 – 44. ISBN 978−981−4818−85−8.
• “Gandhi in August 1947: Self-Fashioning, Print Culture and the Republic of Letters”, in M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society: New Perspectives, Chandrika Kaul ed., Palgrave Macmillan India, 2020: 127 – 42. ISBN 978−3−030−59035−2 (ebook).
• “Closing the Circle: Gandhi in Bihar, 1947”, in David W. Bulla, Gandhi: Advocacy, Journalism, and the Media, Ingram Publishers ServicesPeter Lang Publishing Inc, 2022, 273 p. ISBN 978−1−4331−8241−9. 
• “Epical Traditions in India”, in Connecting through Culture: An Overview of India’s Soft Power Strengths, Sachchidanand Joshi & Vinay Sahasrabuddhe eds., ICCR-IGNCA, Delhi, Wisdom Tree, 2022. ISBN 978−81−8328−587−2. 
• Just Mused: a collection of poetry, Libresco Feeds Private Limited, 2025, 38 p. ISBN 978 – 9369530618.