Academic Background

Faculty Appointments

• 15 Dec 2020 – Present Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Dubai Campus
• 6 May 2019 – 6 Dec 2019 Assistant Professor, Department of English, KL University, Andhra Pradesh
• 21 Jan 2019 – 30 Apr 2019 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ganpat University, Gujarat

Education

• 2019Ph.D. in English, Central University of Tamil Nadu
• 2012National Eligibility Test (NET), University Grants Commission (June & Dec 2012)
• 2011Post Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of English (PGCTE), English and Foreign Languages University
• 2011M.Phil. in English, University of Burdwan
• 2007M.A. in English, Banaras Hindu University
• 2005B.A. (Honours) in English, University of Burdwan

Grants and Fellowships

Travel Grants

• Travel Grant, BITS Pilani, for presenting a paper at the 7th World Conference on Social Sciences (WORLDCSS), Zurich, Switzerland, 5–7 July 2024
• Travel and Subsistence Grant, Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, Irish Studies Summer School, Queen's University, Belfast, July–August 2014

Academic Fellowships

• Honorary Fellow (appointed), Center for Research on Gender and Women, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA (September 2023–August 2024). Fellowship not undertaken following the passing of my host mentor, Professor Susan Stanford Friedman.