Tonisha Guin

Trained in English Literary and Cultural Studies, Tonisha Guin’s academic interests are identity & spatiality studies, popular culture, decoloniality, knowledge systems in the Global South, and New Media Studies. She has studied at EFL University, Hyderabad. Her doctoral research looked at mainstream bhadralok identity formation around Barabazar, Kolkata. She is currently working on a project funded by the ICWT, the University of California in Irvine that explores notions of normativity at the intersections of race, gender, and juridical-medical administration in colonial Kolkata. For the last few years, she has been looking at biopolitical and ecological concerns around the Sundarbans area in West Bengal, India through ghost stories for young adults, popular belief, practices of ecological conservation, and lores around tigers.

She joined the School of Liberal Arts, IIT Jodhpur, as an Assistant Professor in July 2022. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the Inter-Disciplinary Research Division of Digital Humanities and the Centre for Education and Technology for Education at IIT Jodhpur.