Ashwiny Kistnareddy

Dr Ashwiny O Kistnareddy is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre.

She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she is also affiliated lecturer in the MMLL Faculty. She has published three monographs including Locating Hybridity (2015) and Migrant Masculinities in Women’s Writing: (In)Hospitality, Community, Vulnerability (2021). Her latest book Refugee Afterlives: Home, Hauntings, and Hunger was published in August 2024 (Liverpool University Press). It looks at Francophone Vietnamese refugee(s’) children’s writing and their engagement with notions of exile, homelessness, race, gendered affect, haunting, and food and foodways as they rebuild community.

She has published mostly on literature and women’s writing and recently developed an interest in Refugee Studies, more precisely refugee children’s experiences and autobiographical narratives.

Her Leverhulme project is entitled ‘Refugee Children as a Site of Critical Intervention’. She is currently working on a book related to this project for Cambridge University Press.

Twitter: @DrAshwinyOK