Navneet Sethi

Navneet Sethi was an Associate Professor in the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, until her unfortunate demise in 2018. She had received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where she had specialized in American ethnic literature with a particular emphasis on African-American literature. She had to her credit the formulation and design of new courses, such as 'Native American Literature' and 'Jewish-American Literature'. She had also been actively engaged in disability activism and had initiated the first course in 'Disability Studies' at JNU. Ethnomusicology has been a perpetual personal interest and pedagogic innovation for her. Thus, her research and teaching had been augmented by incorporating a musical dimension into the area of cultural studies. She has authored the book Women, as Seen by Women: A Study of African-American Women Writers.