Dr. Rajesh Bharvad
Dr. Rajesh Bharvad has been working as Associate Professor of English in the Department of English at Shri Govind Guru University, Godhra. He earned his doctorate degree from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 2016. After serving as assistant professor of English from 2011 to 2018 at Government Engineering College, Bharuch, he joined The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 2018 and continued to serve until 2023.
His research areas include postmodern literature, contemporary fiction, posthumanism, and emerging trends in diaspora literature. In addition to active presentations at conferences and publications in reputed journals, he received a prestigious fellowship, the Shastri Mobility Program, from The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi, in 2020. During this fellowship, he pursued his research on intersectional diasporic identities under the supervision of Prof. Nandi Bhatia of the University of Western Ontario, Canada. In 2022, he was invited as a visiting fellow at the University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan. During his stay in Japan, he carried out his research in environmental humanities and taught a course on English Language Skills to the students of Business Economics at the university.
At present, four students have been actively pursuing their doctoral degrees under his supervision in the fields of Indian Mythological Fiction, Posthuman Dystopian Fiction, Indo-Canadian Diasporic Fiction, and Contemporary British Drama.