Vidhu Aggarwal is an Indian-born American professor of English at Rollins in

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, and is primarily known as a contemporary and modern poetics scholar. A poet and creative writer, her comic poetry work highlight a fascination with fluidity around identity and culture. She teaches poetry and

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/transnational studies.

Career

Vidhu Aggarwal creates multi-media video, poetry, and scholarly works. Her work often touches on the intersection of identity and technology and the ongoing evolution of these concepts in modern society. She is the founding editor of the multi-media journa
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worked with the John Sims Project on "The 13 Flag Funerals" in

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, and with artist Bishakh Som on "Lady Humpadori," a poetry/comic book collaboration. She is on the executive board of Thinking Its Presences: Race, Advocacy, Solidarity in the Arts. Her poems are in the ''

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'' top 25 of 2016. She is a

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Fellow. Her book of poems The Trouble with Humpadori (2016) received the Editor's Choice Prize from The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. Her work has appeared in INK BRICK, The Missing Slate, Chicago Quarterly Review and

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. Born in Ranchi, India, Aggarwal grew up in the Southern U.S., primarily in Louisiana and Texas.

Selected bibliography

Book

*''The Trouble with Humpadori'' (2016)

Poems

*BOSTON REVIEW POET'S SAMPLER introduced by BHANU KAPIL with a comic by BISHAKH SOMSPHINX FRIEND in Pedestal *SHIVA, AGAIN & AGAIN and JACK SING-ALONG *The World is Flat Friend *CURSOR (EAST & WEST, TWINKLE TWINKLE *Filmi Playback Singer GhazalFILMI PLAYBACK SINGER GHAZAL
" Juked *SOLDIERS in Sugar House Review *BATH in Bint el Nas

References

External links

''Vidhu Aggarwal'' websitePublications by Vidhu Aggarwal in the Rollins College Academic Commons
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aggarwal, Vidhu Living people University of Southern California alumni Rollins College faculty Comics scholars American women poets Year of birth missing (living people) American women academics 21st-century American women educators 21st-century American educators 21st-century American women writers