Overview
Rajvi hails from Ahmedabad, India and has a BA (honours) in German Studies and an MA in German Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. In the course of writing her MA thesis entitled „Begrifflichkeit und Begreifbarkeit: eine sprachkritische Untersuchung zwischen Erkenntniskritik und Kulturkritik“, her interest arose in questions of language, communication, and media.
At Cornell, she intends to pursue the following: examine Vilém Flusser's works on writing as an art, act, practice, technique, and method; juxtapose Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the dialogic with György Lukács's theory of the novel to analyse German-language modernist literature of the early 20th century. Her aim is to bring these two vastly different projects in dialogue with one another adopting a phenomenological-cum-radical constructivist approach while also considering ideas of time, perception, and consciousness.
In her free time Rajvi enjoys going to the Cornell Cinema.
Papers/Presentations:
Beyond Resistance and Resignation: Analysing Agency in/through Jurek Becker’s Jakob der Lügner. Presented at the German Studies Association (GSA) 48th Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2024
The Dialogical Self – Mediating between Martin Buber, Vilém Flusser, and Hubert Hermans. Presented at the Symposium "New Directions in German Studies", Cornell University, Ithaca, March 2023