For my scholarly publications, I focus on spatiality or city writing, fiction about the Buddha and his relationship with his wife, Yashodhara, and Sindhi literature. I also review books for academic publications.
Here is the list of my recent publications.
Hasan, Tanveer and Wadhwa, Soni. 2025. "Chapter 5 Rethinking the Ideology Behind Digitality in Next-Gen Libraries vis-à-vis Indian Languages" In Designing Next-Gen Libraries: Tools and Technological Impact on Library Systems and Services edited by Bhojaraju Gunjal and Panorea Gaitanou, 81-94. De Gruyter Saur, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111373485-005
Wadhwa, Soni. 2025. Critical Agendas for Areal Linguistics: Locating Sindhi within South Asia, in Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Online First 12 May 2025, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2025.2503703. Scopus - Q1, (CiteScore 5.3) Print ISSN: 1542-7587 Online ISSN: 1542-7595
Wadhwa, Soni. 2025. Review of The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities (2023), in Digital Humanities Quarterly, 19(1). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/19/1/000779/000779.html. Scopus – Q1, (Cite Score 1.4)
Wadhwa, Soni. 2025. Rev. of Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram by Tara Ward. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 48(2), 231-233. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/JCLA-48.2_Summer-2025_Soni-Wadhwa-Review-1.pdf
Wadhwa, Soni. 2025. Rev. of The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy by Andrew Bailey. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 48(2), 233-234. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/JCLA-48.2_Summer-2025_Soni-Wadhwa-Review-2.pdf
Wadhwa, Soni. 2025. Rev. of Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature by John McMurtrie. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 48(2), 234-235. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/JCLA-48.2_Summer-2025_Soni-Wadhwa-Review-3.pdf
Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. “A Literature of Frustration and Failure: The Anxiety of Indianness in the Making of Sindhi Literature as an Indian Literature”, in Journal of Sindhi Studies, 04(1), 1-19. 02 Dec 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/26670925-bja10020. Scopus – Q2 (Cite Score 0.6) e-ISSN: 2667-0925.
Wadhwa, Soni and Alias, Jintu. 2024. “From the Sthala Purana to the Novel: Sethu’s The Saga of Muziris as a Narrative Geography of the Ancient Indian Port City of Muziris.” City, November, 1–19. 21 Nov 2024. doi:10.1080/13604813.2024.2419788. Scopus – Q1 (Cite Score 3.4)
Wadhwa, Soni and Sukhija, Reema. 2024. “Digital Technology for Literature Revitalization: A Framework for Sindhi Libraries in India”, in Preservation, Digital Technology and Culture, (2024). 20 Nov 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2024-0030. Scopus – Q1 (Cite Score 1.2)
Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. “Digital Libraries for Minor Languages in India: Frameworks for Addressing Absences in Policy and Governance”, in Digital Library Perspectives, Early access 2024-06-20. ISSN: 2059-5816. doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-01-2024-0002
Wadhwa, Soni and Alias, Jintu. 2024. “Provincializing Island Poetics: The Personal as the Spatial in N S Madhavan’s Litanies of Dutch Battery”, in Island Studies Journal, Early access 2024-03-13. E-ISSN:1715-2593.doi: https://doi.org/10.24043/001c.94614
Alias, Jintu and Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. “The rise (in the fall) of Cochin: Provincializing metropolitan spatiality in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh”, in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Online first 2024–02-27. ISSN 1744-9855, ISSN online: 1744-9863 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2024.2307408
Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. The Phenomenological Turn in Scientific Studies of Time. Anekaant: A Journal of Polysemic Thought No. 15, 2021-22 (Spring), 19-25. Print.
Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. Rev. of Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought by Jeffrey D Long. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 47(4), 221-223. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/JCLA-47.4_Winter-2024_Soni-Wadhwa-3-Review-Essay.pdf
Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. Rev. of Punjabi Centuries: Tracing History of Punjab by Anshu Malhotra. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 47(4), 220-221. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/JCLA-47.4_Winter-2024_Soni-Wadhwa-2-Review-Essay.pdf
Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. Rev. of Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida by David Farrell Krell. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 47(4), 218-219. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/JCLA-47.4_Winter-2024_Soni-Wadhwa-1-Review-Essay.pdf
Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. Rev. of Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction by Bruce Robbins. South Atlantic Review: Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 89(2), 183-6.
Wadhwa, Soni. 2024. Rev. of Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor by Bridget Whearty. South Atlantic Review: Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 89(1), 147-150.
Wadhwa, S. 2024. Personal Archives for Community Building: Lessons Learned from PG Sindhi LIbrary. Journal of the Digtial Humanities Association of South Africa, 5(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.55492/dhasa.v5i1.5009
Wadhwa, S. 2023. Rev. of Sideways in Time: Critical Essays in Alternate History Fiction edited by Glyn Morgan and C. Palmer-Patel. FAFNIR - Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, 10(2), 138-142. http://journal.finfar.org/articles/2789.pdf
Wadhwa, S. 2023. Rev. of Literary Mathematics: Quantitataive Theory for Textual Studies by Michael Gavin. South Atlantic Review: Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 88(4), 149-152. https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA776957808&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=0277335X&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7Ea206f4a2&aty=open-web-entry
Wadhwa, S. 2023. Rev. of Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: East-West Studies in Contemporary Living by Eva Kit Wah Man and Jeffrey Pets. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 46(4), 183-184. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/JCLA-46.4_Winter-2023_Soni-Wadhwa-Review.pdf
Wadhwa, S. 2023. Rev. of The Origins of Kant's Aesthetics by Robert R. Clewis. Journal of Compararive Literature and Aesthetics 46(2), 169-170. http://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/JCLA-46.2_Summer-2023_Soni-Wadhwa.pdf
Wadhwa, S. 2023. The Question of Script for Sindhi in India: Reflections on Postcolonial Grammatology. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 27 Sep 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2252786
Alias. J., and Wadhwa. S. 2023. Cochin in Sethu's Aliyah: Provincializing Jewish Identity. Modern Jewish Studies, 15 Sep 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2257148
Wadhwa, S. 2023. Rev. of Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age by Shruti Kapila. Social History 48(3), 392-394. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2023.2211443
Wadhwa, S. 2023. Climate Change and the Challenges to Notions of Being and Time. IUP Journal of English Studies, 18(1), 26-35.
Wadhwa, S. 2023. Rev. of DigiNaka: Subaltern Politics and the Digital Media in the Post-Capitalist India by Anjali Monteiro, K P Jayasankar & Amit S Rai. Studies in South Asian Film and Media. 14(1), pp. 76-78. https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00057_5
Wadhwa, S. 2023. Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories by Ira Bhaskar & Richard Allen. Studies in South Asian Film and Media. 14(1), pp. 67-69. https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00060_5
Wadhwa, S. 2023. Love as Enlightenment and Enlightenment as Love: Reading feminist Hermeneutic of Reconstruction in Vanessa R Sasson's Yasodhara and the Buddha. Feminist Theology. 31(3), pp. 353-365. https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350231163311
Alias. J., and Wadhwa. S. 2023. Kochi: provincializing metro-cosmopolitan spatialities, cultural geographies, 10 Jan 2023, https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740221147554
Wadhwa, S. 2023. Rev. of Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories by Angus Fletcher. South Atlantic Review: Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 88(1), pp. 61-65.
Wadhwa. S. 2022. Rev. of Amartya Sen, Home in the World: A Memoir, South Asia Research, 42(3): 479-481, https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221119652
Wadhwa. S. 2021. Feminist Literary Criticism Meets Feminist Theology: Yashodhara and the Rise of Hagiographical Fiction in Modern Feminist Re-visioning. SAGE Open. 11(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211061570