Talks/Conference presentations
Invited lecture on “Intersectional Body Anxieties, Colorism, and Intimate Partner Relationships in Postcolonial India” for series titled “Intimacy, Intersectionality, Identity: Gender, Empire and Everyday Lives” from Department of History, Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Mershon Center at The Ohio State University, USA. Dec 16, 2024.
“The Long and Difficult Road: Women and Access to Public Spaces in Contemporary India”. Panel and book discussion at Alliance Française Hyderabad, India. Nov 16, 2024.
Invited chair for session “Narrating Disability and Identity” at the Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference at DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA. October 4-6, 2024. (Hybrid).
“Body Image, Disability, and Romantic Relationships in Contemporary Indian Cinema,” at the Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference at DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA. October 4-6, 2024. (Hybrid).
“The Burlesque of Brownfacing: Colorism in Contemporary Indian Cinema” for the panel of Social Concerns in Films at the Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference at DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA. October 4-6, 2024. (Hybrid).
Invited chair for session “Globalization of the Body” for the conference entitled “Whither Integrative Humanities? Paths and Challenges” at The Department of English Literature, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. Aug 30, 2024.
Invited lectures titled “Body Image and Vulnerability in Literature, Culture, Media 1” and “Body Image and Vulnerability in Literature, Culture, Media 2”. For the Vulnerability Studies Certificate Course organized by Wilson College in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair for Vulnerability Studies, University of Hyderabad. October 2024.
“When Looks Can Kill.” Panel Discussion and Book Launch for Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture. Goethe-Zentrum, Hyderabad. August 23, 2024.
“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.
Invited lectures. “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.