Ms. Pragnya Parimita Chayani

• B.A. in English (Utkal University)

• M.A. in English (Ravenshaw University)

• M.Phil in Indian Diaspora (Hyderabad Central University)

• Post - Graduate Diploma in Teaching of English (EFLU, Hyderabad)

• B.Ed in English (EFLU, Hyderabad)

• Ph.D. in English (IIT Dharwad)

Published Papers

1. “Revisiting ‘indigeneity’: A study of Meena Alexander’s selected writings: The Shock of Arrival, Poetics of Dislocation and Birthplace with Buried Stones.” Literary Herald Vol. 4, Issue 1 (June 2018): pp-25-34 

2. “The Circle of Opium Trade, Indentured Labour, and Imperialism in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy: A Study.” The Creative LauncherVol. III & Issue VI (February 2019): pp-43-53 

3. “Relationality, Resistance and Mimicry: Towards an Alternate Discourse of Violence and Victimhood from the North East of India.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 11, No. 1, 2019: pp-25-36 (co-authored)

4. Review of Amitav Ghosh’s Culture Chromosome Anthropology, Epistemology, Ethics, Space (2020). South Asian Diaspora. Taylor and Francis. (13 March 2023): pp-1-2

Book Chapters

1. “Exploring the Fragrance of the Rich Cultural Past of Odisha: Jayanta Mahapatra’s Poems in Post Independent India”. Indian English Poetry After Independence. Samrat Bisai (Ed). New Delhi: Adhyayan Publishers, 2017:74-82. ISBN No-9788184355109

2. “Anthropocentrism, Morality and Literature: A Study of Dilip Chitre’s The Felling of the Banyan Tree, Gieve Patel’s On Killing a Tree and Baldoon Dhingra’s Factories are Eye Sores. Ecocritical Representation of Literature. Samrat Bisai (Ed). New Delhi: Akhand Publishing House, 2019:80-97 . ISBN No- 978-81-269-3173-5

3. “Ritual, Body, Ecology-Interrogating politics involved in the celebration of ‘menstruation’ in the Raja festival of Odisha”. South Asian Literature, Culture and Society: A Critical Rumination. Goutam Karmakar (Ed). New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2020:320-326. ISBN No- 978-81-269-3173-6

4. “Transnational Return Visits: Investigating the Politics of Homecoming and Acceptance in Contemporary India.” Indian Diaspora and Transnationalism. Ajay Sahoo and P. Venkata Rao (Eds). New Delhi: Serials Publications, 2020:191-212. ISBN No-978-81-945563-0-5

1. “Access to Communication to Create Art: Meena Kandasamy’s Fictional Autobiography, an Extension of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own” at the National Conference, Life Writing As Social History: Reading Across Cultures, organised by Kuvempu University, Karnataka from 12th to 13th of April 2018.

2. “Transnational Return Visits are Neither Expected nor Welcomed – A Politics of Homeland or an Exaggerated Affair?” at the International Conference, Indian Diaspora and Transnationalism: Global Perspectives, organised by the University of Hyderabad from 4th to 5th of October 2018

3. “India’s Decarbonisation Pathways from a Humanistic Perspective” (online Mode) at the Upskilling program on 'Application of Open Source Energy Model:To Develop Indian Zero Carbon Pathway’, organised by Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad from 15th to 16th March 2024

4. “In Pursuit of Ever-elusive Happiness” at the Talk Series organised by Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad on the occasion of World Happiness Day on 20th March 2024

5. Accepted paper for the Forthcoming Conference at SRM University AP (17th - 18th December 2024).

• Outreach fellow for GCoE, IIT Dharwad (2nd Jan-31st May 24)

• Assistant Professor of English at VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh since 3rd October 2023