Publications

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  2014Ecoambiguity, Community and DevelopmentSlovic, Scott, Rangarajan Swarnalatha and Vidya SarveswaranBloomsbury
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  2015Ecocriticism of the Global SouthSlovic, Scott, Rangarajan Swarnalatha and Vidya SarveswaranBloomsbury
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  2019Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental CommunicationSlovic, Scott, Rangarajan Swarnalatha and Vidya SarveswaranRoutledge
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  2023The Bloomsbury Handbook to Medical Environmental HumanitiesSlovic, Scott, Rangarajan Swarnalatha and Vidya SarveswaranBloomsbury

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  2023Pravesh -Rite of PassageDr. Vidya Sarveswaran and Dr. Chitra MadhavanMinistry of Culture

A book on doors and portals of India, authored by Dr. Vidya Sarveswaran and Dr. Chitra Madhavan, for the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The book was released by the Honourable Prime Minister, Shri. Narendra Modi, at the India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale at the Red Fort in New Delhi,2023.

The India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale 2023, anchored by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, at the Red Fort is the first of its kind in India. The Biennale is host to an aesthetic bricolage of the traditional and contemporary. This remarkable volume Pravesh- A Rite of Passage, celebrates doors and built heritage of the country, by creatively reimagining them through multiple discourses. The volume traverses through time and showcases powerful and dramatic encounters of the repertoire of doors and gates. The book is published by the Ministry of Culture.

• 2023Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond: Anthropocene Nature culturesEdited by Susheela Shekhawat, Rayson K Alex, and Swarnalatha Rangarajan“Under Another Sky: A Triptych in the Thar Desert.”pp. 165–180 / Scopus Indexed. Taylor and Francis. London. pp-161-185
• 2022Bloomsbury Handbook to Medical Environmental HumanitiesScott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, Vidya Sarveswaran“Our Bodies, Our Minds, Our Planet: Dying to breathe: Fear as a comorbidity in the desert”pp. 397- 401 / Scopus Indexed
• 2017Ecocultural Ethics: Critical Essaysby Rayson K. Alex, S. Susan Deborah, Reena Cheruvalath, Gyan Prakash, Mark C. Long“The Ground of Our Being: Dear Governor Cuomo as a Planetary Narrative.”pp. 111- 121 / USA: Lexington Press, Maryland USA
• UpcomingEntangled Vulnerabilities: An overview of recent trends in the field of Literature and EnvironmentPeter Lang Publications

• 2024, 30(2)Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies“Poisoned Grounds: Toxic Discourse in Barbara Kingsolver’s Fiction and Nonfiction”Paul, A., and Vidya Sarveswaranpp. 404–424 / Scopus Indexed
• July 2024Comparative American Studies. An International Journal. Taylor and Francis“Writing Stories of Anthropocene Extinction: Barbara Kingsolver’s Fiction and Nonfiction”Paul, A., and Vidya SarveswaranScopus Indexed
• Spring 2023, Vol. 30 Issue 1ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment“Review of Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women’s Fiction by Chitra Sankaran”Sarveswaran, VidyaScopus Indexed
• 2023, 53(1)The Canadian Review of American Studies & University of Toronto Press“Knowing Our Place: Reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Works from a Bioregional Perspective”Paul Abhra and Vidya Sarveswaranpp. 81–100, pp. 1-19 / Scopus Indexed
• Summer, July, 2023, Volume 18.2European Journal of American Studies“Making Connections: Reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Works from an Ecofeminist Partnership Ethics Perspective”Paul Abhra and Vidya Sarveswaranpp. 81–100, pp. 1-19 / Scopus Indexed
• 2021 Vol (3) Issue 1International Journal of Fear Studies. University of Calgary Transdisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches“From Dust to Dust”Sarveswaran, Vidyapp. 118-120
• April 2015. Vol 31 No 1Trumpeter – A Journal of Ecophilosophy. Athabasca University Press, Canada“An Elephant in the Desert”Sarveswaran, Vidyapp. 76-80
• April 2015Benjamin Franklin American Studies Research Institute, CLYMA Series, University of Alcalá, Spain“Diseased Environments and Healing Gaia”Sarveswaran, Vidyapp. 149-59
• Fall 30 (2009)Journal of American Studies of Turkey“Commentary on “Homework” in the Restoration Earth”Sarveswaran, Vidyapp. 17-28
• (1.1) November 2011An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Nature and Civilization published online From The Ocean Seminary Institute New Jersey“Interbeing- An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams” - Peer Reviewed InterviewSarveswaran, Vidyapp. 42-43

• January 2021Techscape, Research Journal of IIT Jodhpur“That’s all we have got”Sarveswaran, Vidya
• Volume 8, Issue 5.- Serial Number 42, November and December 2023Environmental Sciences Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University Teheran, IranA Persian translation of the above article was published by Prof. Abbas Ahmadvand, Associate Professor at the Shahid Bhesti University, Department of Agroecology

• Asian Quarterly 17 (2019)Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal SummerInterconnectedness of Humans and Non-humansPaul A. and Vidya Sarveswaranpp. 95 -106
• 1.1 (July) 2010Contemporary DiscourseGround Truthing - A study of Ecological Scapes in Terry Tempest Williams’s Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the FieldSarveswaran, Vidya and Swarnalatha Rangarajanpp. 7-12
• 23.1(April) 2009Jadavpur University, Journal of English StudiesGestalt ontology as a planetary culture in Terry Tempest Williams’s Finding Beauty in a Broken WorldSarveswaran, Vidya and Swarnalatha Rangarajanpp. 35-36
• Spring (2009) 11The Journal of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies. Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityA perspective of Engagement: An Ecological Renaissance into The Garden of Earthly Delights” in Terry Tempest Williams’s LeapSarveswaran, Vidya and Swarnalatha Rangarajanpp. 33-40
• 1(September) 2009The Scholastic International Research Journal of Language and LiteratureThe Open Space of Democracy-Partnership ethics in Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and PlaceSarveswaran, Vidya and Swarnalatha Rangarajanpp. 128- 139
• 1(August) 2008The Indian Journal of EcocriticismThe Forest as a Sacramentalized Ecosystem in Aranyak: Of the ForestSarveswaran, Vidyapp. 83-92
• 2.3 (August) 2006The IUP Journal of English StudiesA study of Eroded scapes in the novel Refuge by Terry Tempest WilliamsSarveswaran, Vidyapp. 74-80

• August 2021ASLE – Biennale Conference“Dying to Live: Solastalgia and Soliphilia as Diptychs in Charlotte McConaghy’s Migrations”Sarveswaran, Vidya
• July 2017The 7th South and South East Asian Conference on Culture and Religion. Minh Dang Quang Dharma Institute. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam“From Gaia to Google Earth: The Urban and the Sacred in the Age of the Anthropocene.”Sarveswaran, Vidya
• July 2016A public presentation at the University of Munich’s Lunch Time Colloquium at the University of Munich“Under Another Sky: A Story from Rajasthan”Sarveswaran, Vidya
• August 2015International Interdisciplinary Conference on Environmental Justice, Ecocriticism and Literature, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh“The Ground Beneath their feet. Of People, Peacocks, Trees and Antelopes: The Bishnois of Rajasthan”Sarveswaran, Vidya
• July 2014A conference On Sustainability and Green Studies held in Nanyang Technological Institute, Singapore“Sustainable Narratives and Terry Tempest Williams”Sarveswaran, Vidya
• December 2010Fifth Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse, Taipei, Taiwan“The tree as a postcolonial trope in Perumal Murugan’s Seasons of the Palm”Sarveswaran, Vidya
• December 2009The Parliament of World Religions, Melbourne, AustraliaGestalt as the Mosaic in Terry Tempest Williams’s Finding Beauty in a Broken WorldSarveswaran, Vidya

• November 2019National Conference on “Myth, Orality and Culture in Indian Literary traditions. Benares Hindu UniversityThe Forest as a Sacral space in Bhibutibhushan Bandyopadhyaya’ AranyakSarveswaran, Vidya
• January 2013Rethinking Nature: The Relevance of Contemporary Green Studies, National Conference, Ravenshaw University Bhubaneswar, OrissaDiseased Environments in Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and PlaceSarveswaran, Vidya
• October 2009National Conference of Natural Resources - A Multi-religious Approach, Panayur, ChennaiThe Integrated scapes in Terry Tempest Williams’s Finding Beauty in a Broken WorldSarveswaran, Vidya
• January 2008Leap. The third International Conference, OSLE- India, HyderabadA Perspective of Engagement: An Ecological Reconnaissance in The Garden of Earthly Delights in Terry Tempest WilliamsSarveswaran, Vidya
• June 2007Second International Conference, OSLE-India, BangaloreStewardship as a trope in Bibutibhushan Bandyopadhyaya’s novel AranyakSarveswaran, Vidya