Anita Schwartz

I studied English Literature and the History of Music at undergraduate level, and completed my MA in Literature with The Open University.
Inspired by a little-known collection of essays, Our Cause: A Symposium by Indian Women (1938), my research focuses on texts written in English by Indian women between 1870 and 1947. Their letters, diaries, articles, short stories and novels offer an important insight into how they both shaped, and were themselves shaped by, the complex debates taking place around reform, education, nationhood, and women's position in colonial Indian society.   
As well as working on my PhD project, I am a specialist teacher supporting children who have experienced significant trauma in their young lives.   
My supervisors are Prof. Alex Tickell and Prof. Suman Gupta.