Ashwiny Kistnareddy

Dr Ashwiny O Kistnareddy is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre.

She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she is also affiliated lecturer in the MMLL Faculty. She has published three monographs, including Locating Hybridity (2015) and Migrant Masculinities in Women’s Writing: (In)Hospitality, Community, Vulnerability (2021).

Her latest book, Refugee Afterlives, was published in August 2024 (Liverpool University Press). It looks at Francophone Vietnamese refugee(s’) children’s writing and their engagement with notions of exile, homelessness, race, gendered affect, haunting, and food and foodways as they rebuild community. 

She has published mostly on literature and women’s writing and recently developed an interest in Refugee studies, more precisely refugee children’s experiences and autobiographical narratives.

Her Leverhulme project is entitled ‘Refugee Children as a Site of Critical Intervention’. She is currently working on a book related to this project for Cambridge University Press.

Ashwiny is also working on a project titled ‘Newly-Arrived Children: EAL and Other Provisions Project (NACEPP)’. This project seeks to create an EdTech app to enable remote access to English as an Additional Language (EAL) and well-being resources for newly arrived children in different parts of the UK, as well as for the teachers and practitioners who work with them. The project is supported by funding from the University's Open Public Challenge Fund and by a John Fell Fund Main award.