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ICT Instructor, Undergraduate Writing Programme, Ashoka University
Aditya Vikram Shrivastava is a writer, translator, and scholar from Lucknow, India. They teach a course on critical thinking to undergraduate students at Ashoka University. Spanning several media, Aditya’s work is tied together by a keen interest in translation, spectrality, regional histories, Indian feminisms, queer publics, and archives of sexuality. Rooted in questions of haunting, their course employs the pedagogy of repetition and return informed by literary and historical methods of reading.
Aditya has been awarded the CREA Storytelling Grant 2024, and TAARIF Fellowship 2024 for their ongoing ethnographic work, which engages with life-worlds of kothi and hijra communities in Lucknow and complicates queer-trans* politics in contemporary India. Aditya’s poems appear in Literary Activism, Usawa Lit Mag, Museum of Memories by British Council, and Freedom by Goethe Institut, among others. They write book reviews for The Tribune. Their mixed-media project, ‘Kothis in Our Gully’, was exhibited at the Mahindra Sanatkada Literature Festival in Lucknow. In the past, they have worked with the Ashoka Centre for Translation to collate one of the largest archives of translated literature(s) from different bhashas across India. A recipient of the ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship 2024, they are currently translating into English a collection of Hindi short stories that speak of violence, faith, democracy, and justice.
