Jaishikha Nautiyal

Jaishikha is a rhetorical scholar whose research takes place at the intersections of new materialist rhetorics featuring the body in everyday life, communication ethics, pragmatist aesthetics, and affect theory. Her pedagogy emphasizes experientially immersive approaches to learning with a deep attention to the rhythms of everyday life (particularly those entailing musical currents). Currently, she is speculating on the relations between India’s sensory state apparatuses and their state-sponsored aesthetic violence within emergent Hindu nationalist rhetorics. Furthermore, she is also interested in unpacking the surveillance techniques of a sexist and gendered terroir around alcohol consumption in India (Quarantine Edition). In her free time, Jaishikha enjoys quiet vibe-checks with all manner of more-than-human entanglements, meditative ambles, coffee shops (pre-pandemic), fragrances, ambient music amidst hefty doses of entspánnung, playful writing, amateur photography, and belly-aching laughs with loved ones, whenever and however possible.