About

She received her doctoral degree from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. She has a master’s degree in English Literature from Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (now English and Foreign Languages University), Hyderabad, and a bachelor’s degree with Honours in English from Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, Delhi. 

Teaching

• Gendered Politics of PLace and Identity in India's Digitised Northeast (PhD Course)

• Introduction to Editing and Publishing (PhD course)

• Introduction to Literatures from India's Northeast (PhD course)

• Digital Storytelling (PHD course)

• Perspectives in Language and Literary Studies (PG course)

• Foundations of Digital Humanities (PG course)

• Technical Communication (PG course)

• Postcolonial Fiction (UG course)

• Introduction to Contemporary Arts (Ug Course)

• Introduction to Comics Studies (UG course)

• Creative Writing (UG course)

• Communication Skills (UG course)

Research

• Comics Studies, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Literary Studies, Performance Studies, Religious Studies, and their intersections focussed on Manipur (India’s Northeast) 

Memberships

• The Indian Association for Women's Studies (IAWS): Life Member

• Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India (IACLALS): Life member

• Manipur Cultural Forum: Life Member

• Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI): Joint Secretary

• Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS): Member

• Modern Language Association (MLA): Member (2023-24)

• South Asian Literary Association (SALA): Member (2023-24)

• Electronic Literature Organization (ELO): Member (2023-24)

Academic Awards

• Chair, ADHO Awards Committee (2025-26).

• Post-Doctoral Research Position (2024-26) at CSEAS, SOAS, University of London (Honorary Appointment).- Declined

• Nominated Fellowship 2025 at IASH, University of Edinburgh.

• DHSI 2024 Tuition Scholarship.

• CD Narasimhaiah Prize for the Best Paper read at IACLALS ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2017 titled “Location, Identity, Solidarity – Hegemonic Formations and Contestations (With a Special Focus on the Northeast)” organized by Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) held at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), Guwahati, Assam, India, 15 to 17 Feb 2017.

• PhD Scholarship from the Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre (IRCC), IIT Bombay, from Jan to Dec 2017 (IRCC Project No.: 07IR001).

• Anuradha Bharadwaj memorial Prize For Consistent Performance in BA (Hons.) Part I (2000) and II (2001)

Select Publications

• “Mary Kom’s Collaborative Autobiography: Negotiating Authorship.” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. Special Issue: Writing Self, Writing Resistance: Women’s Life Writing in India. Vol. 45, No. 3, 2022, pp. 70–80. 

• “Interrogating the ‘Indian’ in the Indian Novel.” Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), vol. 57, no. 33, 2022, pp. 64–65.

• “Irom Sharmila: The Curious Case of Manipur’s Human Rights Activist and the Politics of Representation.” Women Community Leaders and Their Impact as Global Changemakers, edited by Patricia Goodman Hayward, Sahar Rehman and Zirui Yan, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 6–12.   

• “Book review: L. Somi Roy, Maharaj Kumari Binodini, The Princess and the Political Agent.” Indian Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, 2022, pp. 146–50. 

• “Divisive Politics of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) in Three Stories from Manipur in India’s Northeast.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 44, no. 4, 2021, pp. 790–806. 

• “Houses and Maps as Boundaries of Homes and (Home)lands in Ashuli Kaisa’s Blogs.” The IACLALS Journal, vol. 4, 2018, pp. 38–63.

• “Fiction or History in the Making of the Past: A Dialogue between the Public and the Private in Maharaja Kumari Binodini Devi’s Boro Sahib Ongbi Sanatombi (The Princess and the Political Agent).” Indian Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 23, no. 3, Oct. 2016, pp. 347–375. 

Research Grants

• 2025: IIT Jodhpur International Research Mobility Grant (IMRG) Project; Title: "Manipur and Its ‘Other’: When Religious Studies Meets Comics Studies" 

• 2023-26: IIT Jodhpur Seed Grant Project; Title: "Writing Religious Practices And Drawing Comics Cultures" (Two Book Projects).

• 2018-19: The Zubaan-Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) Research Grants for Young Researchers from the Northeast; Title: An Imagined Graphic (His)story of the Meitei Graphic Narrative funded by Zubaan Publishers, New Delhi, India, and Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Tokyo, Japan (First Batch).

Other Grants

• 2024: Indian Council of Social Science Research, Ministry of Education, the Government of India, Travel Grant Scheme for financial assistance to attend the MLA Annual Convention held from 4 to 7 January 2024 at Philadelphia, USA (Declined).

• 2022: International Workshop/Conference/Seminar Grant by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Ministry of Education, Government of India, to Organise an International Workshop titled "Creative and Pedagogical Workshop on Literary, Performative, And Visual Art" Hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.

Creative Researches

• https://zubaanprojects.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2018-Grant-Papers-An-Imagined-Graphic-History-Of-The-Meitei-Graphic-Narrative.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1VI48MZMQB2h74iefe99XyxHZSS9nMcE2lNEGsI1IqHHpau2g4nrplgsY

• https://nau.edu/cher/resilience-resistance-renovation-and-rebirth-virtual-conference-recordings-and-details/

Journal Reviewer

• South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

• Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 

• DHQ: digital humanities quarterly

• Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics