Conference Presentations

“The Quest Towards Selfhood and Introspection in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, “Coming of Age in Karhide”, and The Dispossessed.” 4th Annual Sturgeon Symposium organised by J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for Study of Science Fiction. University of Kansas. Online, October 9th-10th, 2025. 

“The High-Tech Hero: Disruption of Hero Narrative in Rocannon's World .” Science Fiction Research Association and Gesellschaft fur Fantastikforschung conference titled “Disruptive Imaginations.” Technische Universitat, Dresden, Germany. August 15-19, 2023.

“Trauma to Healing: (Re)Visioning Home in The Telling .” The  Queer Political Assemblages 2.0 conference themed “Queer Homing Desires” organised by Jadavpur University, Kolkata. March 7-18, 2022.   

“Rainbow in Gethen: Political Utopia and Queer Collectivism in ‘Coming of Age in Karhide’.” The  52nd Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention (NeMLA) conference titled “Tradition and Innovation: Changing Worlds Through the Humanities” in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Buffalo. March 10-14, 2021.   

“Censorship, Sexuality, and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.” 19th MELUS-India/ MELOW-International conference titled “Connections/Disconnections: Literary Traditions, Continuities & Disruptions.”  Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. February 21- 23, 2020.