Conference Presentations/ Invited Talks
Talks/Conference presentations
“The commerce of body positivity: an analysis of postmillennial commercials on Indian television.” Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference. DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA. October 14-16, 2022.
“Scholarly Composition: Writing to Communicate.” Invited lectures organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at DA-IICT Gandhinagar, India. June 23 and 24, 2022.
“Writing to Publish: Approaches to Academic Composition.” Invited speaker for workshop on “Capacity Building through Academic and Research Writing.” Organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Tirupati with AICTE Training and Learning Academy (ATAL). September 10-14, 2021.
“Only Skin Deep? Fairness Bias, Embodiment, and Narratives on Indian Womanhood.” For panel titled “Conceptualizing the Body: Identity, Intimacy, and Intervention.” Virtual NeMLA 2021 Convention. University at Buffalo, New York, USA. March 10-14, 2021.
“Beauty Politics and Aesthetic Labour in Post Millennial Indian Cinema.” International conference on Region/Nation/Trans-Nation: Literature-Cinema Interface. Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani. Goa, India. 31 January – 02 February 2019. (with Shreya Rastogi)
American Fiction after 1945. DTH Project, Channel 16 for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Management. IIT Kanpur. (Forthcoming)
“Biblical Radicalism and Gender Politics in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.” The American Literature Association (ALA) Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA, USA. May 24-28, 2018.
“Academic Writing and Pedagogy in Globalized India.” National seminar on Globalization: Emerging Trends in English Language and Literature. Osmania University Center for International Programmes, Osmania University, Hyderabad. January 18-20, 2018.
“Urbanity, Visual Cultures and Appearance Discrimination in Short Fiction by Contemporary American Women Writers.” National Seminar on Gendered Urban Spaces: Narratives of Self-Possession. The IIS University, Jaipur with ICSSR. February 17-18, 2017.
"Avengers and Heroic Outlaws: The Mythic Sorority in Joyce Carol Oates’s Foxfire: Confessions of a Girls Gang.” PCA/ACA Annual Conference. Seattle, WA, USA. March 22-25, 2016.
“New England Puritanism and America’s Dark Romantics.” Seminar titled Religion and Literatures. Osmania University Center for International Programs, Osmania University, Hyderabad. January 29-31, 2015.
“Teaching Literary Forms/Genres” and “Academic Publications.” Sessions conducted as resource person for Refresher Course in English for Assistant Professors. UGC – Academic Staff College, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. January 22, 2015.
“Monstrous Imperatives: Constructions of Femininity in Alice Walker’s ‘Her Sweet Jerome’ and Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘Madison at Guignol.’” Conference titled Monsters and the Monstrous. Mansfield College, Oxford University, United Kingdom. July 25-27, 2014.
“The Methodology of Composition: Developing a Pedagogy for Academic Writing Across Disciplines.” Conference Titled Rethinking the Role of Humanities in Technical Education: Pedagogies and Possibilities. Department of Languages and Humanities BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. October 18-19, 2013.
"Eluding 'Interpretation and Appropriation': Silence in Black Girl/ White Girl." Conference titled 'The Road not Taken': Explorations in Narrative Refusals, Disnarration, and Counterfactual Histories. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. March 1-2, 2013.
“Self-Affirmation through Pain in Joyce Carol Oates’s Man Crazy.” Conference titled Paranoia and Pain: Embodied in Psychology, Literature, and Bioscience. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom. April 2-4, 2012
“Combating Crime in Joyce Carol Oates’s Rape: A Love Story.” Conference titled States of Crime: The State in Crime Fiction. Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom. 17-18 June, 2011.
“Gender and Economic Inequalities: The Capabilities Approach vis-à-vis Joyce Carol Oates’s Late Fiction.” MELUS-MELOW Conference titled Literary Transactions in a Globalized Context: Multi- Ethnicity, Gender and the Market Place. Department of English and Other Modern European Languages, Visva- Bharati, Santiniketan, India. 28-30 November 2008.
“Displacement, Identity, and Human Capabilities: Martha Nussbaum’s Development Ethics and Joyce Carol Oates’s The Gravedigger’s Daughter.” Human Development and Capability Association Annual Conference. New Delhi, India. 10-13 September 2008.
“Liberated/Tortured Bodies: Violence and the Beauty Myth in the Late Novels of Joyce Carol Oates.” Conference titled Literature in Times of Violence. At MELUS-India Conference. Punjab University, Chandigarh, India. March 22-24, 2007.