FACULTY
Prof. Ragini Mohite has received her PhD in English Literature from University of Leeds, UK, M.A in English Literature, University of Leeds, UK, and B.A (Hons.) in English Literature, University of Mumbai, India.
Research:
Her research interests lie primarily in global modernism, twentieth century literatures, transnationalism, poetry, and world literature. Her monograph Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures: Rabindranath Tagore and W. B. Yeats has been published by Clemson University Press in 2021. It offers a fresh critical, comparative perspective on the work of Rabindranath Tagore and W. B. Yeats from the beginning of the twentieth century, when their international influences take centre stage and their writings become increasingly significant to what is now understood as global modernism. This monograph has been included in Liverpool University Press’ Irish Studies Online digital collection, which was launched in September 2021. Read the reviews Here and Here. The book is now available in Hardback, Paperback and in the eBook formats.
She has published on the writings, archives, and sculpture of the British sculptor Henry Moore as part of avant-garde global modernism and the use of archives as part of poetic pedagogy. She is working on several book chapters and articles on fantastical representations of the South Asian city, South Asian poetry, and later modernist poetry of India.
Professional Memberships:
Modern Language Association; International Yeats Society; International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures; British Comparative Literature Association
Teaching:
She is an Associate Fellow of Advance HE (Higher Education Academy).
She has taught courses on critical writing and literature of various genres ranging from the 18th to 21st centuries. At FLAME, she teaches Academic Writing (UG, 2 credits), Modernism in Literature (UG, 3 Credits), Women's Writing from South Asia (FSP, 3 Credits) and has previously taught 2 credit courses on Introduction to Literature and Poetry: From Sonnets to Slam Poetry. She has supervised an FSP dissertation on the American queer modernist novel A Scarlet Pansy (2023-24) and is supervising an FSP dissertation on queer South Asian poetry (2024-25). She welcomes research interests from students working in the areas of poetry, W. B. Yeats, global modernism, twentieth-century South Asian literature, and postcolonialism.
She runs an annual Reading Group for advanced Literary and Cultural Studies students in the January to April semester. She also serves as DAP supervisor, Academic Advisor and Faculty Mentor to students at FLAME, and has been a peer reviewer for several publications and an external examiner (M.Res) at IIT-Bombay.
Teaching Commendations:
- Commendation for Outstanding Teaching, FLAME University, 16th September 2024
- Commendation for Outstanding Teaching, FLAME University, 16th September 2023
- Commendation for Outstanding Teaching, FLAME University, 16th September 2022
Monograph
- Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures: Rabindranath Tagore and W.B. Yeats, Clemson University Press (January 2021)
Articles and Book Chapters
- Mohite, Ragini, ‘Yeats, Tagore, and the Nobel Prize in Literature: Imprimaturs in Modernist Cultural Conversations’ (article) in International Yeats Studies, vol. 9 special issue, (forthcoming 2025)
- Mohite, Ragini, ‘Rabindranath Tagore’s Fictional Sub-urbans: Theatrical Fantasy as Colonial Critique’ (book chapter) in Cities and Fantasy: Urban Imaginary Across Cultures, 1830–1930 (Accepted, Liverpool University Press, 2025)
- ‘Yeats2015 and the Crowdsourced Audio Archive: Pedagogical Possibilities for Poetry’ in International Yeats Studies, vol 7, is.1, (2023), pp.157-77
- ‘Henry Moore’s Narayana and Bhataryan: Theatre of Sacrifice’ in Sculpture Journal, vol 30, is. 3, (2021), pp. 323 – 343
- ‘Dom Moraes: from the Brotherton Special Collections’ in Stand 218, 16(2), May-June 2018
Public Engagement
- Workshop on “Communication for Collective Action” at the Alumni Chapter Committee Camp of Teach for India, 17th June 2023
- ‘Inquiry, Process, Dissemination: Academic Writing in Today's Day’ (coauthored), IGNITE, 2022
- Interview with Professor Rob Doggett on W.B. Yeats’s Introduction to Gitanjali, 40 min, YouTube, and the International Yeats Society Website, 2021
- ‘Reading Tagore’s The Post Office during the Pandemic: Reflections on the Nature of Education,’ Liverpool University Press Blog, May 2021
- ‘TPQ5,’ The Poetry Question: the voice of small press poetry, Online, June 2020
Invited Talks
- Speaker at a roundtable on “Yeats and Transnational Perspectives” at the International Yeats Society Conference, at Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP), Brazil, 9th – 11th December 2024
- Public lecture on “W.B. Yeats’ India: Revisiting Yeats’ Engagements with Interlocutors from the Subcontinent” at the National Library of Ireland, 17th October 2023
- Webinar speaker on ‘Yeats and Tagore: Revisiting a Transnational Collaboration’, at Global Irish Studies at Georgetown University, 7th April 2022
- Research Talk on ‘Affective Renditions on the Text and Stage: Tagore’s The Post Office from 1914 onwards’ at KIMEP University, Kazakhstan, April 2021
- Panelist at a conference on ‘Yeats and India’ at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, co-organized with the University of Limerick, on 21st and 22nd of February 2019
- Panelist at a Reading Group on Henry Moore’s play Narayana and Bhataryan at the Becoming Henry Moore exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds UK, 24th January 2018
- Speaker at a public symposium on ‘The Relevance of Tagore in Modern Times’ at the 50th Anniversary Celebrations of The Tagoreans, at the Nehru Centre, London, 31st March 2016
Reviews
- Review of The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism in ARIEL, vol 55, is.1, (2023)
- Review of The Poems of W.B. Yeats, Volume 1: 1882-1889 and The Poems of W.B. Yeats, Volume 2: 1890-1898 in International Yeats Studies, 2022
- Review of Family Fictions and World Making: Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era in South Asian Review, 2022
- Review of I Have Become the Tide, in Hong Kong Review of Books, 2019 [Online]
- Review of Night of Happiness, in Hong Kong Review of Books, 2019 [Online]
- Review of Exit West, in Hong Kong Review of Books, 2018 [Online]
- Review of Meeting Without Knowing It, International Yeats Studies: Vol. 2, Is. 1, 2017
- Review of Navigating Model Minority Stereotypes: Asian Indian Youth in South Asian Diaspora, South Asian Diaspora, 9:2, 2017, 225 – 226