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.
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.
Modern Language Association; International Yeats Society; International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures; British Comparative Literature Association
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.