Ishani Anwesha Joshi
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Pondicherry University
0000-0001-5850-8788
About
Ishani Anwesha Joshi received her Ph.D. from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India, and specializes in Graphic Medicine, Health Humanities, and Comic Studies. Her research articles have been published in various Scopus and Web of Science indexed journals such as Medical Humanities, Visual Studies, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities, and Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, among others. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, Joshi’s first book, "Drawing the Pandemic: COVID-19 and Graphic Medicine" (2026), offers a critical analysis of how COVID-era comics document the new normal and the sociopolitical structures of lived experience beyond mere biological pathology.
Employment
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Education
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National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli PhD Scholar2020 - 2025
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Pondicherry University M.A.2017 - 2019
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Publications (17)
- Closing Frames: Conclusion Save
- Drawing the Pandemic Save
- Opening Frames: Introduction Save
- Spatio-Temporal Reconfigurations: Fragmented Time and Altered Space Save
- Viral Objects: Masks and Sanitizers Save
- “To Touch, or Not to Touch”: Tactility and Touch Deprivation Save
- Sleep, science and storytelling in Sleepless Planet: An interview with Maureen Burdock Save
- Pandemic Mythmaking: COVID-19 and Mythological Symbolism in Indian Folk Art Save
- Regulated Pandemic Spaces: Spatial Crises in COVID Comics Save
- 'Who Sanitizes the Sanitizer?': COVID Comics and Sanitisers Save