Conferences and Workshops
Conferences
• Two Days National Conference in Vulnerability and Culture at IIT Hyderabad, 2025
Paper: Embodied Vulnerability and the Child: Representation of Child Sexual Abuse in Our Little Secret
• 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
• “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
• South Asian Literary Conference, 2024
Paper Title: Graphic Subversions: Visualizing the Resisting Female Body in Comics.
• Comics Studies Society Conference 2023
Paper Title: From margins to center: Reading the revisionist architecture of Sita’s Ramayana
• 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
• 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
• HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics, Munich, 2023
Paper Title: The Woman Question: Analyzing Historical Ruptures through Graphic Narratives by Indian Women
• 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
• 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”
• NeMLA 53rd Annual Convention
Paper Title: “Graphic Activism: #MeToo and the Graphic Representation of Sexual Abuse in Drawing Power”
• Locating the Public Sphere in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice, Motilal Nehru College, Delhi University
Paper Title: The Local Train as a Subversive Space in “Mumbai Local”
• 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
• 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”
• COM-IN 2021 “International Conference on Indian Comics” (2021) at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Paper Title: “Resilient Comics for Troubled Times: Reading the Indian Comics Anthology Hope On”
• International Conference on Languaging and Translating: Within and Beyond (2020) at IIT Patna in association with CIIL Mysuru and YCC (Royal University of Bhutan)
Paper Title: “Can you please speak English please?”: Exploring the other India through the language of addiction in Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis.
• 5th National Language Conference by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha & Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha (2019) at Ravenshaw University
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.
• International Conference on Performing the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature (2019) at Berhampur University, Odisha.
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.
• 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:
• Participated in the Student’s Research Talk at the Public Humanities Initiative, 2025
• 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).
• International Workshop on Utopias: Imagining Other Worlds (2018) at the Department of English, Jadavpur University.
Paper Title: #MeToo as an intermediary between utopia and dystopia: Reading Sultana’s Dream and The House of Bernarda Alba.