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With over thirty years of teaching experience spanning 1995 to the present, Vidya Sarveswaran has taught across institutions of higher education in India, engaging students at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. Her teaching spans Literary Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Communication, with a sustained commitment to fostering critical thinking, interdisciplinary inquiry, and an ethical engagement with literature and the environment.

Research Advisor
2016-2021 / PhDWriting the Earth: An Ecocritical Analysis of the writings of Barbara Kingsolver by Abhra PaulDefended July 2021 at IIT Jodhpur
April – August 2015 / InternshipsEcology and Sustainability: Tridibesh Dey from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, Integrated Master’s and Doctoral Degree, France.
2023-2025 / Masters Degree SupervisionFive students from Pondicherry University. Projects on Post-humanism, Ecocriticism, Culture and Cinema
Courses Taught & Designed
Ethiraj College for Women
  • Shakespeare
  • British Victorian Drama
  • British Poetry from the Romantics to the Contemporaries
  • British Fiction
  • American Fiction
  • American Poetry
  • American Drama
  • Indian Literatures in Translation - Poetry, Fiction and Drama
  • Twentieth Century Literature – Poetry and Drama
  • English for Communication
  • Composition
IIT Madras as a Teaching Assistant
  • Literature and Values
  • Literature and the Environment
  • Literature and Life
  • Prep Course
IIT Jodhpur (taught)
  • English and Communication skills
  • Technical Communication
  • An Introduction to Popular Classics
  • Culture, Art, and Heritage
  • Nature Writings in American Literature
  • Language and Literary Perspectives in Digital Humanities (IDRP)
  • Literature and Environment
  • Climate Change and Society
IIT Jodhpur (designed)
  • English and Communication skills (UG)
  • Technical Communication (PG)
  • An Introduction to Popular Classics (UG)
  • Culture, Art, and Heritage (2015- Present) (UG)
  • Nature Writing in American Literature (PG)
  • Literature and Environment (PG)
  • Climate Change and Society (PG)
  • Preparatory English I and II
  • Language and Literary Perspectives (Digital Humanities PG)
Pondicherry University (lien)
  • American Poetry (PG)
  • British Poetry (PG)
  • Popular Fiction (PG)
  • Literature and Visual Media
  • Functional English (Integrated PG Students from History, Political Science and Sociology)
  • Literature and Environment (PG)
  • Environmental Humanities (Ph.D.)