Academic Publications

Nadkarni, Divya. (2023). “Beyond Autonomy and Activism: ‘Poetic Understanding’ as a ground for political community.” Aesthetic Investigations, VI(2): 194-213. https://doi.org/10.58519/aesthinv.v5i2.12083

Azad, Abdul Kalam, Divya Nadkarni, and J.G.F. Bunders. (2022). “Beyond Resistance, Beyond Assimilation: Reimagining Citizenship through Poetry.” The Oxford Journal of Human Rights Practice 55: 1–19.

Nadkarni, Divya. “Towards a ‘Lyric We’: the Poetics and Politics of the Contemporary Indian-English Prose Poem.” Chap. In Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice, edited by Anne Caldwell and Paul Hardwick, 124–39. Routledge, 2022.

Nadkarni, Divya. (2021). “I Understand You, Across the Chasm That Divides Us: Rethinking Community through Poetry.” Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis 40: 137–42.

Forthcoming

“Glissant, Plurality, and the Poetics of Public World-Relation.” Parallax. Special Issue, Literature and Public World-Making. (2024)

“Provisional notes towards a decolonial cultural analysis.” Chap. In Cultural Analysis, ca. 2033, edited by Murat Aydemir, Aylin Kuryel, and Noa Roei. Amsterdam University Press, 2025.

“‘No pictures of you anywhere...You were alive’: Poetic in/visibility at the limits of understanding.” Journal of Social and Political Philosophy. Special issue, (In)visibility: The Aesthetic Dimension of Political Participation. (2024)

“One with Others/One Among Others: The Labor of Solidary Understanding.” Chap. In Essays on C.D. Wright, edited by Rachel Trousdale. University of Michigan Press, 2025.

Popular Publications

Nadkarni, Divya. “How poetry can contribute to decolonizing philosophical education.” (Trans. Daudeij, Hannelore) Bij Nader Inzien (2022).

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Selected Talks and Presentations

Vivek Narayanan’s ‘After’: Subverting ‘epic nationalism’ and the colonial legacy of epic genre writing. Co-written and presented with Alex Thinius (Harvard University). The European Conference on South Asian Studies, University of Turin, July 2023.

“Artistic Practice and Cultural Inquiry under Contemporary Conditions,” with Mieke Bal, Sruti Bala, Rick Dolphijn, and Jacob Lund, Utrecht University, Sep 2022 (Invited speaker, panel discussion)

“‘No pictures of you anywhere...You were alive’: Poetic in/visibility at the limits of understanding.” (In)visibility, the Aesthetic Dimension of Political Participation, Ethics-Centre, University of Zürich, June 2022

“The Lyric We: A Pragmatist Approach to the Politics of Poetry.” Aesthetic Relations, Art as Forum, University of Copenhagen, Jan 2021.

“Poetic autonomy? Uncreative writing and new media poetry in Adorno’s legacy.” Adorno and the Media, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Dec 2019.

“Reinterpreting tradition: the politics of the contemporary Indian-English "prose poem": A reading of Nandini Dhar's Historians of Redundant Moments and Vivek Narayanan's Life and Times of Mr. S.” Prose Poetry Symposium, Leeds Trinity University, Leeds, Jun 2019.

“Introduction,” Poem as storm, not as refuge: Poëzie als interventie, Perdu Amsterdam, Oct 2018. (Invited Speaker)

“Moving beyond the lyric "I": poetic architectures of deflection and depersonalization.” 14th ESSE Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Aug 2018.

“Gestures of Refusal: The politics of the Prose-Poem”. Introduction to the event Questions for Poets: An Evening with Anne Boyer, Perdu Amsterdam, Jun 2018. (Invited speaker)

 “Slow time/Slow form: Architectural time-space and the poetry of Larry Levis.” ASAP, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, May 2018.

“Art, Writing and Philosophy,” with Amal Chatterjee and Josef Früchtl.  ARIAS x DRIFT FESTIVAL. Amsterdam, Apr 2018. (Moderator, panel discussion)