About
Devanshi Khetarpal is from Bhopal, India, and currently lives in Manhattan, New York, where she is a BA-MA candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University.
She currently works as the editor-in-chief and founder of Inklette Magazine, a Translations Coordinator for The Quarantine Train, a mentor for UniRely, the host and organizer of Ferrante Fever: An Elena Ferrante Reading Group, and an Intern for Fledgling Writing Workshops.
She has previously held positions at Poets House, NYU La Pietra Dialogues, NYU Department of Comparative Literature, West 10th, Washington Square News, Minetta Review, Asymptote Journal, Winter Tangerine Review workshops, and Muzzle Magazine among others.
Her poetry collection Small Talk was published by Writers Workshop Kolkata in 2019. She is a recipient of the David J. Travis Undergraduate Research Fund for research on Modern Italy for an independent research project on Pier Paolo Pasolini's last film, 'Salò o Le 120 giornate di Sodoma,' conducted during her time at NYU Florence. This year, Khetarpal was named a recipient of the prestigious and competitive Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund (DURF) Grant from NYU's College of Arts and Science and an Urban Humanities Research Fund from the Cities Collective at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge in collaboration with the Andrew Mellon Foundation for an independent research project aimed at theorising Elena Ferrante's 'smarginatura' in order to analyze the relationships between urbanity, women and sexual violence across Italy, India and the United States.
