FACULTY
Learning from some of the best minds in education and in the industry
Prof. Tanavi Jagdale
Adjunct Faculty - Humanities and Languages.
Email: tanavi.jagdale@flame.edu.in
Prof. Tanavi Jagdale has a Doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) from Johns Hopkins University. Prof. Jagdale was awarded a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a Master's Degree and Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Fergusson College, Pune. She also has an Advanced Diploma in Spanish from Pune University.
BIO
Prof. Tanavi Jagdale has a Doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) from Johns Hopkins University. Prof. Jagdale was awarded a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a Master's Degree and Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Fergusson College, Pune. She also has an Advanced Diploma in Spanish from Pune University.
Before joining Johns Hopkins University, Prof. Jagdale taught Spanish for over six years at Symbiosis Institute for Foreign and Indian Languages (SIFIL) and Savitribai Phule University of Pune, and also worked as Spanish Section Head at SIFIL, Pune. Aditionally, she was part of the editorial team at Modern Language Notes (Hispanic).
Prof. Jagdale’s research interests include 20th- and 21st-century Hispanic literature, science fiction, fantastic literature, and comparative literature. Her doctoral thesis studies the works of Miguel de Cervantes, Alejo Carpentier, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie. She has presented her research at conferences in India and the US.
In addition to her academic work, Prof. Jagdale is a trained Indian Classical vocalist.
Before joining Johns Hopkins University, Prof. Jagdale taught Spanish for over six years at Symbiosis Institute for Foreign and Indian Languages (SIFIL) and Savitribai Phule University of Pune, and also worked as Spanish Section Head at SIFIL, Pune. Aditionally, she was part of the editorial team at Modern Language Notes (Hispanic).
Prof. Jagdale’s research interests include 20th- and 21st-century Hispanic literature, science fiction, fantastic literature, and comparative literature. Her doctoral thesis studies the works of Miguel de Cervantes, Alejo Carpentier, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie. She has presented her research at conferences in India and the US.
In addition to her academic work, Prof. Jagdale is a trained Indian Classical vocalist.
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
Publications
- Jagdale, Tanavi. Review of South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and The Rise of Global English, by Roanne Kantor. MLN, vol. 138 no. 2, 2023, p. 538-541. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mln.2023.a915382
Accepted
- Negation of nostalgia in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez’s El Rey de La Habana
- Accepted for presentation at Youth Conference 2026, JNU, New Delhi
Conference Presentations
- “Amrutanubhava: Dnyaneshwar’s altered view of the non-dual”, the JHU-Stanford Phil + Lit Conference, May 2025.
- “A House for Mr. Biswas: A Quixotic Narrative of the Postcolonial Purgatory”, Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos, October 2024.
- The workshop titled “India is my country” at Encuentro Práctico de Profesores de Español en India, Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi, October 2015.
- The workshop titled “Learn easy with phonetic techniques” at the 4th National Conference on English Language Teaching, English Language Teaching Institute of Symbiosis, Pune, February 2014.