Vidhu Aggarwal


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 , worked with the John Sims Project on "The 13 Flag Funerals" in Florida, 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. She is a Kundiman Fellow. Her book of poems The Trouble with Humpadori received the Editor's Choice Prize from The Indian Poetry Collective. Her work has appeared in INK BRICK, The Missing Slate, Chicago Quarterly Review and Black Warrior Review.

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