2018-present: Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Ph. D in English
Thesis Title: Beyond the Political Waste Land and the Spiritual Promised Land: Reimagining Spaces in post-9/11 American Fiction
Thesis Adviser: Dr. Srirupa Chatterjee
2015-17: Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, M. Phil. in English
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Srirupa Chatterjee
Thesis Title: Spatial Reconfigurations: Domesticity and Womanhood in the works of Marilynne Robinson, Joyce Carol Oates, and Anne Tyler
My M Phil. research is largely centered around the thematic of space in contemporary American fiction. My thesis is a spatial study of select novels by contemporary American women writers. It aims to understand the changing structure of domestic space with respect to female agency in post-World War II American women’s fiction. I examine representative literary narratives that generate alternative definitions of the domestic spaces by responding to the hegemonic socio-political ideologies defining their respective milieus. In this process, these texts problematize and redefine normative femininity, masculinity and domesticity, and disturb the traditional demarcations of male/female or public/private spaces to create hybrid geographies.
2013-15: The English and Foreign Languages University, M.A in English Literature
2010-13: Banasthali University, B.A in English, Economics and Psychology