Oishi Pattanayak is a Full-time Research Scholar at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Her research spans gerontology and young-adult fiction. She is interested in how literature and media shape cultural understandings across age groups. As a Story Scholar, certified by 'The 1947 Partition Archive' and Stanford University Libraries, she has intensive experience in documenting oral history of the witnesses of the 1947 Partition of India. Oishi was also a writer and student journalist at 'The Statesman' newspaper during her school and college years.
Research Interests: Young-adult Fiction, Crime Fiction, Gerontology, Film Studies, Spatial Studies
Professional Background:
PhD (pursuing), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
M.A. (2022-2024), Pondicherry University, India, in English and Comparative Literature
Dissertation topic: "Women in the Films of Satyajit Ray"
B.A. (2018-2022), Gokhale Memorial Girls' College, University of Calcutta, India, in English (Honours)
Languages- Bengali, English, Hindi
Publications:
Pattanayak, Oishi. “Book Review: Maternal Fictions, Writing the Mother in Indian Women’s Fiction by Indrani Karmakar.” IIS University Journal of Arts, vol. 12, no. 1&2, 2023, pp. 507–511. ISSN 2319-5339 (print), 2583-7591 (online)
Pattanayak, O. . “99”. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry (ISSN: 2349-8064), vol. 11, no. 1, Dec. 2024, pp. 94-97, https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/282.
Conferences, Seminars and Workshops:
Volunteered for the Discipline Committee of Two-Day International Seminar on "Literature as Discourse" organized by the Department of English, Pondicherry University, 5th and 6th October, 2023