From Fin de Siècle to Semi-Centennial Drama of Europe

Dr Bhawna Vij Arora, Senior Assistant Professor at Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, India, affiliated with Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, teaches English Literature to Master’s and undergraduate students. Her debut collection Dreams in My Lap was shortlisted for the Tagore Prize 2023. She was a Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant at Yale University, USA, from 2015 to 2016. Here, she carried out a documentary project under the aegis of the Digital Media Centre for the Arts (DMCA). She routinely contributes her articles to esteemed journals and presents her them at reputed university conferences and Symposiums. Her poems have appeared in TheLiveWire, The Punch Magazine, The Wise Owl Art, The Indian Periodical, and Ensemble: A Canadian Journal. She has read her poetry at the Glasshouse Poetry Festival, Verset Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College, Delhi University, English Literary Society St Stephen’s College, Ethos literary festival, and other pan India festivals and events. In 2023, she published her first edited book, Unearthing: Past in Present and Future; Associative Interactions in Orbit of Memory Studies. She has more than seven years of teaching experience in various capacities.