Divya Dwivedi Age, Wiki and Bio

Divya Dwivedi

Quick Info

ProfessionAuthor, Philosopher, Academician
NationalityIndian
Date of Birth01/01/1981
Age43 years
BirthplaceAllahabad, Uttar Pradesh

Physical Stats & More

Eye ColorBlack
Hair ColorBrown

Educational Qualification(s)

College/University
  • Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi
  • St. Stephen's College, Delhi
  • University of Delhi
  • Institute of Technology, Delhi
Educational Qualifications
  • Bachelor of Arts from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi
  • Master of Arts from St. Stephen's College, Delhi
  • M.Phil from University of Delhi
  • Doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Personal Life

Date of Birth01/01/1981
BirthplaceAllahabad, Uttar Pradesh
NationalityIndian
HometownAllahabad, Uttar Pradesh

Relationships & More

Marital StatusUnmarried
Family
FatherRakesh Dwivedi (senior lawyer in the Supreme Court of India)
MotherSunitha Dwivedi (freelance writer)
Other Relatives
Paternal grandfatherS. N. Dwivedi (a judge at the Supreme Court of India)
Maternal grandfatherRaj Mangal Pande (a minister in the Union Government of India)

Career

Research Areas
  • Philosophy of Literature
  • Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
  • Literary Theory and Criticism, Formal inquiry into fictionality
  • Critical Philosophy of Caste and Race, Political thought of Gandhi, Political Cartoons, and Novels of O V Vijayan
Schools of Philosophy
  • Deconstruction
  • Post-metaphysics

Some Lesser Known Facts

Divya Dwivedi is an Indian philosopher, author, and academician at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
She worked as an assistant professor at Saint Stephen’s College, Delhi University from 2003 to 2004.
In January 2011, she became an adjunct faculty at Delhi University's Department of English until April 2012, then joined IIT Delhi as an associate professor.
In 2013-14, she was a visiting fellow at Aarhus University’s Centre for Fictionality Studies.
Divya Dwivedi co-edited "Public Sphere from outside the West" in 2015 and "Narratology and Ideology" in 2018.
She became a member of the committee on Literary Theory at the ICLA in June 2017.
In 2019, she co-authored "Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics."
In 2022, she became an executive council member of the ISSN and edited "Virality of Evil". She was also a fellow at Archives Husserl, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
She is the editor and co-founder of the international journal ‘Philosophy World Democracy’.
Divya Dwivedi is a modern philosopher known for her different ideas in ontology, narratology, metaphysics, linguistics, and deconstruction.
Influenced by philosophers like Jean-Luc Nancy and Bernard Stiegler, she believes philosophy should challenge the status quo and be tied to politics.
She studies psychoanalysis founded by Sigmund Freud, exploring its connections to psychology, mass thinking, and politics.
According to Dwivedi, postcolonial theory and Hindu nationalism are similar in supporting the upper caste in India.
She advocates against caste oppression and discusses changes made to Hinduism to suppress lower-caste individuals.