Vidhu Aggarwal Explained

Vidhu Aggarwal
Nationality:	American
Discipline:	Literary studies, comics studies
Work Institutions:	Rollins
Alma Mater:	University of Southern California

Vidhu Aggarwal is professor of English at Rollins in Winter Park, Florida, 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 postcolonial/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 journal SPECS, worked with the John Sims Project on "The 13 Flag Funerals" in Florida,^[1] and with artist Bishakh Som on "Lady Humpadori," a poetry/comic book collaboration. She is on the executive board of . Her poems are in the Boston Review top 25 of 2016.^[2] She is a Kundiman Fellow.^[3] 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 Black Warrior Review.

Selected bibliography

Book

• The Trouble with Humpadori (2016)

Essays and Interviews

• "I'm nothing, if not":^[4]
• COMIX, NARRATIVE, AND THE UNSTABLE OTHER IN "WHO'S HUMP?" (interviewed by Julian C. Chambliss)^[5]
• Interview in LitBridge for National Poetry Month, April 2016^[6]
• Interview with Cathleen Bota in Burrow Press's Fantastic Floridas^[7]

Poems

• BOSTON REVIEW POET'S SAMPLER introduced by BHANU KAPIL with a comic by BISHAKH SOMSPHINX FRIEND in Pedestal^[8]
• SHIVA, AGAIN & AGAIN and JACK SING-ALONG^[9]
• The World is Flat Friend^[10]
• CURSOR (EAST & WEST, TWINKLE TWINKLE^[11]
• Filmi Playback Singer Ghazal^[12]
• SOLDIERS in Sugar House Review
• BATH in Bint el Nas

Podcasts and video

• Functionally Literate Reading^[13]
• The Drunken Odyssey Podcast^[14]

References

1. Web site: Bryce Young. Jessica. A Post Mortem of the Confederate Flag. Orlando Weekly. Orlando Weekly. 27 September 2017.
2. Web site: POETRY: BR's Top 25 Poems of 2016. Boston Review. Boston Review. 27 September 2017.
3. Web site: Kundiman Fellows. Kundiman. Kundiman. 27 September 2017.
4. "I'm Nothing, if not: an anecdote of a jar," Vida Web
5. "Comics Narrative and the Unstable Other," Medium.com
6. " Vidhu Aggarwal Interview for National Poetry Month," LitBridge
7. " Vidhu Aggarwal Interview," Burrow Press
8. "BOSTON REVIEW POET'S SAMPLER introduced by BHANU KAPIL with a comic by BISHAKH SOMSPHINX FRIEND in Pedestal" Boston Review
9. "SHIVA, AGAIN & AGAIN and JACK SING-ALONG", Pank Magazine
10. "THE-WORLD-IS-FLAT FRIEND & other poems," Project As I Am
11. "CURSOR (EAST & WEST, TWINKLE TWINKLE)", Juked
12. "FILMI PLAYBACK SINGER GHAZAL," Juked
13. "FUNCTIONALLY LITERATE READING, APRIL, 23, 2016," Burrows Press
14. "THE DRUNKEN ODYSSEY PODCAST, INTERVIEW WITH JOHN KING, SEPTEMBER 2016", The Drunken Odyssey

External links

• Vidhu Aggarwal website
• Publications by Vidhu Aggarwal in the Rollins College Academic Commons