Dhanya Sankar’s research explores the transcultural memory of BAME writers and their narratives. Her work interweaves memory with socio-political imaginaries and gender. Besides that, her research interests include political literary criticism, cognitive studies, spatiality, film studies, and gender.
Sheetal Kumari's doctoral work focuses on child sex trafficking narratives and interpretations of trauma. Her research interests include children's and YA fiction, trauma and memory studies, medical humanities, and film studies.
Anjana KS' research critically looks at the depressed sexuality representations of the disabled people in Indian cinema. Her research interests include film studies, disability studies and gender studies
Saher Bano's research engages with the intersections of queer and gender studies, with a pronounced emphasis on postmodern queer feminist poetics. She is currently working on contemporary queer feminist poetry, digital media spaces and cine-scapes.
Debdatta Chakraborty's research critically engages with Bengali Dalit Studies, Intergenerational Trauma on the Bengali Dalits, Partition Studies, Film Studies, and Gender Studies through the lens of Caste Studies.
Mrinalini Raj's research situates the Santal women in the gender discourse through a framework of spatiality. Her areas of interest are Indigenous studies, Women's Studies and Spatiality Studies.
Aditi Barman Roy's doctoral research explores the intersections of bioethics and posthumanism in speculative fiction. Her research interests are posthumanism, bioethics, medical humanities and gender studies.
Afroj Jahan's research lies at the intersection of textual and paratextual representations, the politics of Publishing, and Print Modernity. Her academic interests include Migration and Diaspora studies, Book History, and Postcolonial Visual culture.
Gazal's doctoral research explores the intersection of memory studies and narratives of refugeehood, focusing on how collective and mediated memories shape the representation of forced displacement. Her research interests include memory studies, refugee and migration narratives, feminist theory, borders and borderscapes, trauma theory, and the cultural politics of displacement and space.
Sagar Jhariya's research interests include visual culture, tribal literature, and globalization studies. He is currently collaborating with the tribal visual artists of central India to explore the interdisciplinary nature of visual narratives of the Gond art.
Oishi Pattanayak’s research spans gerontology and young-adult fiction. In gerontology, she explores aging and the representation of aging in popular media. Her work in young-adult fiction focuses on themes of identity, adolescence, and storytelling. She is interested in how literature and media shape cultural understandings across age groups.