Profile
Diva Gujral is an Associate Lecturer in the History of Art at UCL. Her doctoral thesis traced the development of modernist photography in early postcolonial India in the context of the nation’s political and cultural policies of anti-colonialism. She has published and organised events such as conferences and film screenings on South Asian modernism, state-sponsored visual culture, and the role of the archive in excavating postcolonial art practices in India.
Contact Details
Office hours: Thursday, 3-4pm (online)
Email: diva.gujral.14@ucl.ac.uk
Appointment
Associate Lecturer (Teaching)
Department of History of Art
Faculty of S&HS
Research Themes
Photographic modernism; postcolonial film and photography; modern and contemporary art in South Asia; art histories from the global south; colonial photography; anti-colonial solidarity networks; postcolonial utopias and worldmaking.
Teaching
Diva is currently teaching a first-year undergraduate thematic seminar entitled “The Colonial Subject in South Asia: Images and Afterlives,” and the first-year course “Introduction to Media and Technologies”.