Ms. Saloni Srivastava, a top ranker since her Bachelor’s at Sri
Venkateswara College, Delhi University and Masters from Hansraj College,
Delhi University has over 8 years of work experience experience,
with 7
years in Higher Education across India. Ms. Saloni has worked in Shiv
Nadar University, Greater Noida, FLAME University, Pune and Galgotias
University, Greater Noida in the past.
Currently working as an Assistant Professor of Communications and Area
Chair of Training, Learning and Development at Lloyd Business School,
Greater Noida. Ms. Saloni’s efficient communication and interpersonal
skills help her connect with her students and lead them towards the path
of success. She is a critical yet creative thinker and believes in
building processes that work in the long term. Her goal oriented mindset
has proven to be her biggest asset in academics and life as well.
Ms. Saloni is also an advanced PhD scholar at Shiv Nadar University and
is in the submission stage.
Saloni’s research focuses on Reconfiguring the Road: Analysing North
American road journey narratives of 1950 to 70s. Her project examines
North American Road-travel narratives of the 1950s to 70s to trace the
socio cultural changes that came about in North America following the
new found post war prosperity.
2021: “See the USA
in your Chevrolet”: Understanding North America Automobile
Consciousness
in 1950s to 70s, Lapis Lazuli: An International Literary Journal,
(Vol. 11, No.
2, Autumn, 2021)
http://pintersociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/9.-Saloni-Srivastava.pdf
2022: Book Review
in the European Journal of American Culture Jung, Moon-Ho. (2022)
Menace To Empire: Anti-colonial Solidarities and the Transpacific
Origins of the US Security State. University of California Press.
Oakland,
California. https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ejac_00083_5
2023: Book Review
in the European Journal of American Culture Lozano, Henry Knight.
(2021) California and Hawai'i Bound: U.S. Settler Colonialism and
the Pacific West, 1848-1959. University of Nebraska Press. Nebraska,
United States. (Will get published in March , 2024)
Upcoming Publications:
My Paper
“Artialization of America”: An Ecocritical reading of John
Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley, presented at the University of
Strasbourg in October 2022 has been selected to be published in
Intermedialities, has been selected to be part of a special issue
called Uncertain Landscapes and will come out in October 2024
My paper,
“Examining the symbolism of food in Jack Kerouac’s writings, one
apple pie at a time!” Presented at MMLA (Midwest Modern Languages
Association) has been requested by the editor of Assay Journal
published by the University of Tennessee Press and is coming up in
their Autumn issue (December 2024)
Podcast appearance:
Selected to be one
of the special guests and share my research on Jack Kerouac’s work
on an award winning podcast organised by Dr. Dan Dissinger, faculty
at University of Southern California (March
2022) https://writingremixpodcast.com/2022/03/30/82-scratching-beyond-kerouacs-surface-w-saloni-srivastava-david-oconnor/
Conferences and Panels
Presented a paper
as part of a panel on ‘Food as a lens’ at 2022 Annual MMLA: Special
Session "Through the Food Lens”at the Midwest Modern Literary
Association in Minneapolis. (November 15-17, 2022)
Presented a paper
on Uncertain landscapes: representations and practices of space in
the Anthropocene at the University of Strasbourg, France (October
20-22, 2022)
Presented a paper
at the National Steinbeck Center’s Academic Conference: John
Steinbeck and East of Eden in Salinas, California (29th September
2022)
Selected amongst
top ten people in the country for a SPARC sponsored workshop three
day on Cine-Politics and Dictatorship Curating, Archiving and
Reading Filmic texts of the Emergency, organised by Department of
Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Ropar, Punjab. (19-21st December
2019)
“I was somebody
else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life
of a ghost” Analysing Jack Kerouac’s On the Road for the Search for
an American Identity”
“The Stranger’s Case: Aliens, Outsiders and Others”, Jesus and Mary
College, University of Delhi. (April 2017)
Presented a paper,
“The Social and Cultural hurdles of Translating Srilal Shukla’s
“Lucknow” from Hindi to English”, Conference organized by CATA,
University of Delhi (February 2016)
