Simar Bhasin
Simar Bhasin is a PhD scholar in English at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (Delhi-NCR). Her PhD project is centred on an analysis of contemporary Anglophone short fiction by first and second generation non-white immigrant authors publishing from the United States of America and Britain.
She is particularly interested in how these writers challenge western aesthetic assumptions about fiction on migration. In addition to her MA and MPhil degrees from the University of Delhi, Simar also holds a diploma in journalism from the Asian College of Journalism (Chennai). She has served as an Assistant Professor in colleges of the University of Delhi and has over nine years of experience as a literary critic with essays, review articles, and author interviews published in several national media houses including The Indian Express and Hindustan Times.
