1. Literature, Linguistics and Cultural studies

Faculty

Area of Interest

Dr. Vidya Sarveswaran (Associate Professor)

Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Blue Humanities, Literatures of the Anthropocene, and Documentary filmmaking

Dr. Anupama Mohan (Associate Professor)

Indian Ocean Studies; Working class literature; Transmodernity and Literature; Environmental Humanities; History of Ideas

Dr. Parichay Patra (Associate Professor)

Film Studies: Transnational Cinema, Indian New Wave, The Global 1968, Film Aesthetics

Dr. Natasa Thoudam (Associate Professor)

Literary Studies, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Comic Studies, Performance Studies, Digital Humanities and their intersections focused on India's Northeast (Manipur)

Dr. Gurujegan Murugesan (Associate Professor)

Theoretical/Formal Linguistics, Syntax.

Dr. Tonisha Guin (Associate Professor)

Knowledge systems in Global South, Decoloniality, Identity Studies, Space Studies, New Media Issues

Dr. Sreedevi D (Associate Professor)

Sensory Studies; Literary and Critical Theory; Senses and Writing; Touch and Aesthetics

Dr. Kanak Yadav (Faculty Associate)

Literature and Cities, Dalit Literature, Indian English Writing and the Postcolonial Anglophone Novel

2. Philosophy

Prof. Chhanda Chakraborti (Visiting Professor)

Bioethics, Public Health Ethics, CSR and Business Ethics; Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Logic

Dr. K. J. George (Associate Professor)

Philosophy: Applied Ethics, Ethics of Technology, Bioethics

Dr. V. Hari Narayan (Associate Professor)

Philosophy: Cognitive Studies, Evolutionary Theory, Analytic Philosophy and Mindfulness

3. Psychology

Dr. Ankita Sharma (Associate Professor)

Psychology: Gerontology, Clinical and Positive Psychology

Dr. Suman Dhaka (Associate Professor)

Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology; Sleep and Cognition

4. Sociology

Dr. Farhat Naz (Associate Professor)

Natural Resource Management; Water Governance; Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Gender

Dr. Prasenjeet Tribhuvan (Associate Professor)

Anthropology of Material Objects, STS studies in Sociology, Political Ecology, Tourism and Youth Subcultures

Dr. Rachel Philip (Associate Professor)

Sociology of Education; Education Policy; Childhood Studies; Social Stratification; Science, Technology, Society Studies

5. Economics

Dr. Alok Ranjan (Associate Professor)

Public Health, Universal Health Coverage, Health System

Dr. Ruhi Sonal (Associate Professor)

Decision theory, Social Networks, Bounded Rationality.

Dr. Akanksha Choudhary (Associate Professor)

Development Economics, Education and Health Economics, Unfair inequalities, Public Policy and Gender Studies

Dr. Gopakumar K U (Associate Professor)

Structural Macroeconomic Modelling, Developmental Studies, Applied Econometrics