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Visiting Faculty, Doon University, Dehradun. (2019).Ph.D., Hispanic Literature, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2018). BA
Supervisors: Dr. Indrani Mukherjee
Address: Delhi, Delhi, India

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Robosexualidad en un cuento de ciencia ficción de Cristina Peri Rossi

QVADRATA. Estudios sobre educación, artes y humanidades, 2019

Depictions of Patient Violence through Crochet, Nail Paint and Castration in Noir Short-Fiction from Latin America and India

Papeles del crimen: mujeres y violencia en la ficción criminal, 2019, ISBN 978-84-9168-436-7, pág. 115, 2019

Lo gótico femenino rioplatense como vehículo de preocupaciones posthumanistas en las novelas La mujer desnuda de Armonía Somers y Bosque sin dueño de Paulina Medeiros

Tenso Diagonal, Dec 18, 2020

Habitat Selection for Maximizing Fitness Interests: Selected Stories from Women’s Crime Fiction in Barcelona Noir

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 2022

Evolutionary psychology examines the links between psychological mechanisms and adaptive problems... more Evolutionary psychology examines the links between psychological mechanisms and adaptive problems. This article focuses on the adaptive problem of habitat selection. To perpetuate survival, the individual members of a species must accurately assess the threats and benefits presented by the environment they inhabit. When threats outweigh benefits, the individual must safeguard their survival by either overcoming the threat or finding a more suitable habitat. The article reads the stories penned by Cristina Fallarás, Isabel Franc, Teresa Solana and Antonia Cortijos for the anthology Barcelona Noir (2011) as imaginative constructs of the avoid-approach quandary in habitat selection. Adopting an evolutionary approach, it examines the links between survival and the capacity to ‘detect’, ‘perceive’ and ‘seek’ suitable habitats as represented in these stories.

Materialities of the Non-human Animal and the Species Matrix of Postcolonial Remains in Selected Contemporary Writing

Interventions, 2018

Postcolonialism, much like Graham Harman's well-wrought hammer, does not exist because it can be ... more Postcolonialism, much like Graham Harman's well-wrought hammer, does not exist because it can be used, it can be used because it exists. The wellwrought hammer of postcolonialism is worked upon on selected contemporaneous but disparate narratives, Vicki Constantine Croke's Elephant Company (2014) and Tania James' The Tusk that did the Damage (2015), to crack them open for an assessment of the extent to which as-yet invisible but already-present traces of former imperialism remain embedded in the texts. Though Croke's androcentric account is more obviously revelatory in its projection of the colonial war hero, even James' emphatically anti-correlationist standpoint does not appear entirely free of the colonial gaze. Additionally, materialities of the non-human animal assert themselves despite their discrepant local manifestations in the two texts: Croke's elephant is the loyal servant in a mystic relation with an apparently loving master, whereas James' is the enraged subaltern in rebellion against an abusive one. Yet, in both accounts, the physicality of the elephant as well as its behavioural singularities generate an interruptive encounter with the non-human animal, foregrounding its capacity for

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The feminine difference in the poetry of Santa Teresa and Saint Mirabai

Jallikattu: Post-Humanistic Coefficients and Coloniality in South Asia’s Ergic Sport

South Asian Review, 2017

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Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism

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The Supernatural in literature and cinema, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego, 2018

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Jallikattu: Post-Humanistic Coefficients and Coloniality in South Asia's Ergic Sport

South Asian Review, 2017

Jallikattu, a bull taming sport held during the Tamil harvest festival of Pongal, claimed nationa... more Jallikattu, a bull taming sport held during the Tamil harvest festival of Pongal, claimed national headlines at the start of this year. Mass protests erupted all over the state of Tamil Nadu against the decision of the Supreme Court of India confirming the two-year-old ban on the sport. This article unpacks stake-holder attitudes imbricated in Jallikattu through Victor Turner's framework for processual analysis of " Social Drama. " By following Turner's stages for understanding significant " irregular " changes in society the article explores the potency of Jallikattu as a root metaphor for larger socio-political-juridical tensions. A possible source of these tensions lies is in what Ánibal Quijano terms coloniality and Robert JC Young refers to as deep colonialism. The regional location of the sport in South India resonates with Walter Mignolo's understanding of the Global South – an entity where emancipatory and decolonial forces do not acquiesce with global designs.

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Materialities of the Non-human Animal and the Species Matrix of Postcolonial Remains in Selected Contemporary Writing

Interventions: International Journal of Post-colonial studies, 2018

Postcolonialism, much like Graham Harman’s well-wrought hammer, does not exist because it can be ... more Postcolonialism, much like Graham Harman’s well-wrought hammer, does not exist because it can be used, it can be used because it exists. The well-wrought hammer of postcolonialism is worked upon on selected contemporaneous but disparate narratives, Vicki Constantine Croke’s Elephant Company (2014) and Tania James’ The Tusk that did the Damage (2015), to crack them open for an assessment of the extent to which as-yet invisible but already-present traces of former imperialism remain embedded in the texts. Neither the non-human animal nor the human beings in the narratives are a monolithic block. Each group, whether animal or human, establishes a distinct relationality with the others. When the entire ensemble is gridded in Cary Wolfe’s species matrix, latent, implicit, power relations become visible.

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The Feminine Difference in the Poetry of Santa Teresa and Sant Mirabai

The concept of feminine difference was postulated by the French feminists, Luce Irrigaray promine... more The concept of feminine difference was postulated by the French feminists, Luce Irrigaray prominent among them, who were part of the second wave of feminism.
The paper examines the texts of sixteenth century contemporaries Mirabai and Santa Teresa for a reading of the feminin ecriture in their verses and writings.

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