Curriculum Vitae
Teaching & Creative Work
PhD supervision, coursework, curriculum design, and creative practice.
Teaching and Research Supervision
PhD Supervision (Ongoing)
- Kritika Nanda (2023PHXF0003U) — “Representational Justice in Early-Onset Alzheimer's Narratives: Voice, Agency, and Ethical Storytelling,” Doctoral candidate in Environmental Humanities
- Rachita Arora (2025PHXP0005U) — Doctoral candidate in Environmental Humanities
- Chandrika Lade (2025PHXP0006U) — Doctoral candidate in Environmental Humanities
Publication-Oriented Mentorship
- Mentor doctoral researchers in developing publishable scholarship through structured guidance in research design, analytical frameworks, academic writing, and journal publication.
- Provide detailed feedback on successive manuscript drafts, guiding students through revision, journal selection, and publication strategy.
- Supported one doctoral student in publishing a book review in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing; additional student manuscripts are currently under editorial consideration or in advanced stages of revision for submission.
PhD Coursework
- BITS G540 – Research Practice
- BITS E593 – Reading Course I
- BITS G513 – Study in Advanced Topics I
- BITS E573 – Study in Advanced Topics II
- BITS G529 – Research Project I
- BITS G539 – Research Project II
- BITS E583 – Case Studies I
Undergraduate Courses
- BITS F112 – Technical Report Writing
- HSS F222 – Linguistics
- GS F241 – Creative Writing
- HSS F349 – Ecocriticism
- HSS F335 – Literary Criticism
- GS F212 – Environment, Development and Climate Change
Undergraduate Research Supervision (Study Project HSS F266)
- “Eco-Anxiety Among Youth: Exploring the Psychological Effects of Climate Change and Digital Media Exposure” — Simran Bhatia
- “Business Feminism and Hardball for Women: Strategies for Overcoming Patriarchal Domination in the Corporate World” — Sradha Mishra
- “Slow Violence of Wind Energy” — Navya Vijay
- “India's Entrepreneurial Evolution: Insights from Shark Tank India” — Hemant Agrawal
- “The Unsustainable Dimensions Throughout the Composite Lifecycle” — Ankitha Gupta Surisetty
- “The Paradox of Sustainability: Slow Violence of Food Industry” — Sheza Shuhaib
- “Integrating Allopathic Medicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Holistic Approach to Healthcare through Medical Humanities” — Vignesh Krishnan Rajakumar
- “Patient Centered Approaches for Breast Cancer: Reading Pretty Is What Changes and The Cancer Ladies' Running Club through Cancer Pathography” — Asfiya Tehmeen
- “Sickle Cell Crisis and Patient Expressions” — Sree Gouri Menon
- “Redefining Gender Roles: FeSTEM and Entrepreneurial Feminism in Innovating Women and Girls Code” — Mekha A. B.
- “Medical Humanities and Women Battling with Cancer” — Adiba Patel
- “Women in Tech and Gender Inequality: Business Feminism and Corporate Feminism in Hardball for Women and Dot Complicated” — Krithika Maniyara
- “Gender Bias on Digital Media: Reading Brotopia and Technically Wrong through Cyberfeminism and STEMinism” — Sukriti Snehal
Course Handout Design
- Health Humanities, BITS Pilani, Dubai
- Food Humanities, BITS Pilani, Dubai
- BA in English, Ganpat University, Gujarat
- Written Communication, Nirma University, Gujarat (External Reviewer)
- General English, Nirma University, Gujarat (External Reviewer)
Curriculum Development
Designed interdisciplinary undergraduate and doctoral courses submitted for institutional approval.
Undergraduate
- Environmental Ethics
- Environmental Humanities
Doctoral Level
- Introduction to Scholarly Writing
- Introduction to Sustainability Studies
- Introduction to the Environmental Humanities
- Research Methods in Humanities
Creative Practice
Creative practice complements my research by exploring questions of history, culture, memory, and identity through literature, translation, theatre, and film.
- Novel — The Last Leftist Historian (novel in progress; first complete draft finished)
- Screenplay Adaptation — Screenplay adaptation of Knasaiparer Ekbochhor (2024) (in progress)
- Literary Translation — English translation of Knasaiparer Ekbochhor (2024) (in progress)
- Stage Direction — Inna Ki Aawaz, a play by Asghar Wajahat, Central University of Tamil Nadu, October 2014
- Stage Direction — Ladai, a play by Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena, Central University of Tamil Nadu, March 2018