Page 67 - [2nd Edition FINAL] 2025 FASS PROFILE BOOK (18 x 24 cm)

YEAR
2025

department of english

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Young adult fiction
Memory Studies
South and Southeast Asia

RESEARCH KEYWORDS
Memory, young adult literature, postcolonial
literature, South Asia, Malaysia.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Saxena, Vandana (With Nithiya Guna Saigaran).
(2025), ‘Songs of Tamil Plantation Women:
Memories and Counter-memories.’ Modern Asian
dr.
Studies
vandana saxena Saxena, Vandana. (2024) ‘(Im)possibilities of
Development- Women and the paradox of
vandana@um.edu.my development in Malaysian novel.’ ARIEL. 55.3-4 .
157-184.
Saxena, Vandana. (2023). ‘Afterlives of
EDUCATION Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader's Response and the
PhD, (Philosophy) Case of Noel Barber's Tanamera.’ Journal of
Indian Institute of Technical, Delhi Commonwealth Literature. 58.2
Saxena, V. (2021). Trauma and Ethics of
M.A, (Arts) Responsibility: Levinas and Hayashi Kyoko's A-Bomb
Delhi University, India Literature. Clio-a Journal of Literature History and
the Philosophy of History, 48(3), 273-297.
B.A, (Arts)
Delhi University, India
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
UMEXPERT LINK 2024-2026: Principal Investigator. Competitive
https://umexpert.um.edu.my/vandana.html Research Grant, Faculty of Arts and Social
Science. “Songs of Tamil Plantation Women”
RESEARCHER ID Universiti Malaya.
2024-2025: Principal Investigator. Ungku Aziz
AAC-5383-2020 (Web of Science) Center for Development Studies Grant. “Storybook
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2579-4938 Savings: Empowering B40 Children with Financial
Skills Through Children’s Literature” Universiti
SCOPUS ID Malaya.
2023. ASEAN plus Mobility Grant at the
57201997992
Department of India Studies. Ghent University,
Belgium.

062 | fass researcher profile book 2025