Dr. Apoorva Shekher is an Assistant Professor in the area of Business Communication at IIM Jammu. She received her doctoral degree in English Literature from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Ropar. Her doctoral thesis, "Rewriting the Victoriana: History, Memory, and Fiction in Select Neo-Victorian Novels,” explores the intersections of historiography, literary theory, and memory studies, with a particular focus on how contemporary fiction revisits and reimagines the Victorian past. In 2024, she was selected as a Fellow at Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory, where she engaged with interdisciplinary approaches to environmental humanities as part of Prof. Stephanie LeMenager's cohort. Her academic interests span literature, cultural studies, memory studies, gender, and identity. Beyond academia, she enjoys cooking, listening to Hindustani classical music, and is an enthusiastic tea drinker. Between her fourth and fifth cup of tea, she occasionally pauses to ruminate on masculinity, younger-sibling syndrome, and the many inexplicable quirks of the human psyche.
- Dr. Shekher has done BA (Hons.) English & MA English from University of Delhi and PhD from IIT Ropar.
- As Assistant Professor IIM Jammu (May 2026 onwards)
- Amity University Punjab, Mohali (Sept. 2024 – April 2026)
- As Teaching Assistant Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (Feb. 2020 – August 2024)
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Postmodern Anxiety and the Neo-Victorian Dialogue with the Other in Graham Swift’s Ever After
Apoorva Shekher and Ansu Louis English Studies, Vol. 104, No. 3, March 2023, pp. 519-538, https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2023.2188811 - A Hermeneutical Revisit to ‘Biographic Metafiction’ through A.S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance Apoorva Shekher and Ansu Louis Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, April 2022, pp. 535-544, https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2022.2063046
- New Atheism and Ian McEwan’s Atonement Apoorva Shekher The Atlantic Literary Review, Vol. 22 Nos. 1-4, Jan-Dec 2021, pp. 48-57.
- The Guardian of the Temple (short story) Apoorva Shekher The Hooghly Review, Feb. 2026
- The Tollygunge Demolition (Short story) Apoorva Shekher Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi, Issue no. 327, Jan.-Feb. 2022, pp. 65-72.
- Business communication, Professional etiquette & presentation skills, Indian classical literature, modern European drama, 19th and 20th century British Literature, Fundamentals of communication, creative writing, literary theory.
Visiting Fellow at Cornell University, SCT 2024.
Invited Speaker, IISER Mohali, Detecting Victorian Paranoia: Do You Think You Know Sherlock Holmes? (https://www.iisermohali.ac.in/event- details/eventdetail/619/-/detecting-victorian-paranoia-do-you-think-you-know- sherlock-holmes )
Chair & Presenter, Britain and the World Conference 2022, University of Plymouth.
Lala Jugal Kishore Memorial Prize, M.A. English, 2018.
Savitri Narula Scholarship, B.A. (Hons.) English, 2016.
College Excellence Award, 2015-16, Indraprastha College, Delhi University.
PC Banerjee Memorial Prize, Indraprastha College, 2016.
Anurag Sharat Memorial Prize, 2014.