Some of my published work can be found below.
Vats, Shikha. “Recasting a Forest Legend in the Event of Climate Crisis: Jungle Nama, Sundarbans, and the Art of Storytelling” South Asian Popular Culture, vol. 22 (2), Taylor & Francis, 2024.
Vats, Shikha. “Who’s Afraid of Postcolonial Dystopia?” In Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms, Shweta Khilnani and Ritwick Bhattacharjee (eds.), pp. 184–199, ISBN 9789354353376. Bloomsbury, 2022. DOI:10.5040/9789354356742.ch-012.
Vats, Shikha. “Estrangement and World-Building in Asimov's ‘Nightfall’”. In Imagining Worlds, Mapping Possibilities: Select Science Fiction Stories, Sakshi Dogra and Shweta Khilnani (eds.), pp. 137–151, ISBN 9789382267652. Worldview Publications, 2020.
Panda, Shaswat and Shikha Vats. “Reading Materials: Fictionality and Commodities in George Elliot’s Middlemarch” with Shaswat Panda, Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, vol. 12(2): 41–50, Dec 2021.
Vats, Shikha. “‘Another World Is Possible’: Of Spaces and Places in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, vol. 17(1): 100–110, Jan–June 2017.
Vats, Shikha. “Work as Text: Myths in a Self-Contained World”. e-PG Pathshala, Module 29, Paper 10 on “Literary Criticism and Theory”, MHRD UGC Project, 2017. epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/.
Vats, Shikha. “Negotiating Colonial Modernity: Harimohan Jha’s Kanyadan” The Book Review, vol. XLVII(10): 33–35, 2023.
Vats, Shikha. “A Thesis on Abiding Love and Undying Hope: Review of Keely Shinners’ How to Build a Home for the End of the World” Ancillary Review of Books, 20 Jan 2023.
Vats, Shikha. “Book Review: Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene by Nayanika Mathur (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)” Contemporary South Asia, vol. 30(3): 445–46, Taylor & Francis, July 2022.
Vats, Shikha. “Dispatches from an Eventful Life: Farrukh Dhondy’s Fragments Against My Ruin” The Book Review, vol. XLVI(3): 33–34, Mar 2022.
Vats, Shikha. “Book Review: Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent by Juan Meneses (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)” LSE Review of Books, 19 Nov 2021.
Vats, Shikha. “Of Love and Other Maladies: Saadat Hasan Manto’s Untitled” The Book Review, vol. XLV(10): 43–44, 2021.
Vats, Shikha. “Review Article: The Crises of Civilization: Exploring Global and Planetary Histories by Dipesh Chakrabarty (Delhi: Oxford University Press)” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, vol. 12(4): 1–5, July–Sept 2020.
Tiwary, Rajeev Kumar, and Shikha Vats. “Words and Deeds.” Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi, vol. 67, no. 5 (338), 2023, p. 40. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27291957.
Tiwary, Rajeev Kumar, and Shikha Vats. “Returning Home.” Indian Literature, vol. 67, Sahitya Akademi, no. 5 (338), 2023, p. 41. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27291958.
Tiwary, Rajeev Kumar, and Shikha Vats. “Tree: Original Dancer.” Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi, vol. 67, no. 5 (338), 2023, p. 42. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27291959.
“Hindi Day: A Departmental Affair” by Rajeev Kumar Tiwary, translated by Shikha Vats. The Wire, 14 Sept 2021. thewire.in/hindi-day/.