Mohini Gupta

Dr Mohini Gupta has recently joined as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is working on a project titled 'Moral Economics of Schooling in Nepal' with Karen Valentin, focused on household expenditures on education amongst the Kamaiya community situated at the Indo-Nepal border. She has recently earned a D.Phil. (PhD) from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. Her academic work lies at the intersection of linguistics, education and anthropology in South Asia, and her doctoral thesis revolved around the idea of language and 'postcolonial shame' in India and Wales. 

 She has co-edited the books Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-Pandemic South Asia: Challenges and Possibilities (Routledge, 2023) and The Hindu Bard: The Poetry of Dorothy Bonarjee (Honno Press, 2023); and co-compiled Many Roads: Women’s Personal Stories of Courage and Displacement in Wales (Honno Press 2024). She is on the Board of Trustees at the National Library of Wales, Aberystywyth, and the Board of Management at the Vedica Scholars Programme for Women, New Delhi.