Conferences and Workshops
Conferences:
1. Two Days National Conference in Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture, organized by Indian Council of Social Science Research and IIT Hyderabad, 2025
Paper: Embodied Vulnerability and the Child: Representation of Child Sexual Abuse in Emily Carrington’s Our Little Secret
2. South Asian Literary Conference, 2025
Paper Title: Decolonising Indian History: Oral storytelling and Cultural Traditions in Parismita Singh’s The Hotel at the End of the World
3. “Whither Integrative Humanities? Paths and Challenges” at English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 2024
Paper Title: Narrative modalities and the ethics of storytelling: Analyzing Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and Speak: The Graphic Novel
4. South Asian Literary Conference, 2024
Paper Title: Graphic Subversions: Visualizing the Resisting Female Body in Comics.
5. Comics Studies Society Conference 2023
Paper Title: From margins to center: Reading the revisionist architecture of Sita’s Ramayana
6. The 2023 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society
Paper Title: Life Writing as Self Care in Erin Williams’ Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame
7. Comics and/as Resistance, conference organized by Oxford Comics Network, 2023
Paper Title: Resistant visuality in comics: Analyzing depictions of workplace harassment in Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival
8. HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics, Munich, 2023
Paper Title: The Woman Question: Analyzing Historical Ruptures through Graphic Narratives by Indian Women
9. International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference at Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, 2022
Paper Title: Graphic Justice: Analyzing the Female Vigilante-Superhero in Abhijit Kini’s Angry Maushi trilogy
10. Rethinking Resistance: Graduate Conference at Oxford University, 2022
Paper Title: “Graphic Protest: The Poetics and Politics of Resistance in Orijit Sen’s River of Stories”
11. NeMLA 53rd Annual Convention, 2022
Paper Title: “Graphic Activism: #MeToo and the Graphic Representation of Sexual Abuse in Drawing Power”
12. Locating the Public Sphere in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice, Motilal Nehru College, Delhi University, 2022
Paper Title: The Local Train as a Subversive Space in Diti Mistry’s “Mumbai Local”
13. IASAS 2022 Conference, Banaras Hindu University
Paper Title: Fantastic Reimaginings of the South Asian Diaspora: Comics and culture in Nidhi Chanani’s Pashmina and Marvel Comics’ Ms Marvel Series
14. Two-day Virtual International Conference on Postcolonial Studies in Comics and Graphic Narratives from South Asia, 2021
Paper Title: “The Postmodern Graphic Narrative: Epic Retellings and. 'Other' Voices in Amruta Patil's Parva Duology”
15. COM-IN 2021 “International Conference on Indian Comics” at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 2021
Paper Title: “Resilient Comics for Troubled Times: Reading the Indian Comics Anthology Hope On”
16. International Conference on Languaging and Translating: Within and Beyond at IIT Patna in association with CIIL Mysuru and YCC (Royal University of Bhutan), 2020.
Paper Title: “Can you please speak English please?”: Exploring the other India through the language of addiction in Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis.
17. 5th National Language Conference by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha & Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha at Ravenshaw University, 2019.
Paper Title: Revisiting Oral Tales and Folkloric Tropes as Registers of Subversion and Social Critique: Reading Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana as a contemporaneous version of folklore.
18. International Conference on Performing the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature at Berhampur University, Odisha, 2019.
Paper Title: The Nation as a symbol of Resistance, Loss and Tragedy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun: Reading the personal as the political in narratives of war and wartime memories.
19. 4th Interdisciplinary Conference titled “Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon” at Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi, 2019.
Paper Title: Literary Fiction as Popular Fiction: Reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies as a bridge between high culture and mass society.
Workshops/Public Talks:
1. Delivered a talk the Student’s Research Talk at the Public Humanities Initiative, IIT Hyderabad (2025)
Title: Child Sexual Abuse in Graphic Narratives: Analyzing Trauma and Healing Through Visual Storytelling
2. Delivered a talk at the Department Seminar Series, Liberal Arts Department, IIT Hyderabad (2025)
Title: Anger and the Feminist Superhero: Reading Abhijit Kini’s Angry Maushi Trilogy
3. Attended the “Gender in Academia: Research, Practice, and Safety in the Workplace' Workshop” at IIT Hyderabad, 2026
4. Attended One-Day National Virtual Workshop on “Narrative Nuances
in Text and Screen” organised by The School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, 2022.
5. Attended International Workshop titled “Decolonial Practices in the Spanish Speaking Borderlands: Latinx Poets against Colonisation and Neoliberalism” at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, 2020.
6. International Workshop on Utopias: Imagining Other Worlds at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, 2018.
Paper Title: #MeToo between utopia and dystopia: Reading Sultana’s Dream and The House of Bernarda Alba.