Divya Menon
Lecturer, Humanities
Research and Teaching Interests
Literary history and theory, nineteenth-century literature, aesthetic philosophy
Selected Publications
“Flaubert and Marx on 1848,” Fictional Worlds and the Political Imagination, ed. Garry Hagberg (Palgrave Macmillan, June 2024), 245–270 (peer-reviewed).
“Black sun of melancholy,” 2000-word essay, Caesura, April 2024.
“Juno and the Pearl,” Oxford German Studies, vol. 52, no. 2, 2023, 131–148 (peer-reviewed).
“Jean-François Lyotard: Readings in Infancy,” French Studies, September 2023 (book review).
Selected Presentations and Academic Engagements
Chair, “Melancholia” seminar, American Comparative Literature Association, Montréal, March 2024
Speaker, paper title: “Nerval’s Unloveable Loves,” The Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, March 2023
Speaker, paper title: “Farce as Form: Flaubert’s Revolutions of 1848,” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference, “Radicalism & Reform,” Rochester, March 2022
Speaker, paper title: “Why Sylvie? On Nerval’s Symbolic Imaginary,” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference, “Memory and Commemoration,” Charleston, February 2017
Speaker, paper title: “Radical Politics and Decadent Literature: Reading Marx and Proust,” Jadavpur University, Department of Comparative Literature, Kolkata, January 2016