Kathryn Hummel

About

Dr Kathryn Hummel is a Visiting Associate Professor with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, KK Birla Goa campus. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences (Communication and Information Studies) from the University of South Australia and undergraduate degrees in English and Gender Studies from the University of Adelaide. Her research sits at the intersection of ethnography, cultural studies and the arts, informed by her creative practice and industry experience. The author of a long list of creative/scholarly works across disciplines and media, her latest book of poems is 'Lamentville' (Math Paper Press 2019) and her narrative ethnography 'Udbheda: Details of Bangladesh Life & Adda' was released in January 2025 (Vernon Press).

Employment

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus Visiting Associate Professor
  2024 - Present
• Woxsen University Adjunct Professor
  2023 - Present

Education

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Publications (27)

• An Anthology of Urban Habits
  Jorge de La Barre, Blagovesta Momchedjikova, Jo Novelli-Blasko
  Streetnotes 2026 DOI: 10.5070/s5.65652
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• Savarnas only? An ethnographic account in and outside of Kothrud, Pune
  Kathryn Hummel
  Axon: Creative Explorations 2025 DOI: 10.54375/001/7h2ut723tb
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• “Play Wisteria for Me”: Poetry as an Augury of Tropical Future(s)
  Kathryn Hummel
  eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics 2025 DOI: 10.25120/etropic.24.2.2025.4094
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• Udbhēda: Details of Bangladesh Life & Adda [PDF, E-Book]
  2025 DOI: 10.54094/b-27ac03b2cc
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• Normativity and other poems
  Kathryn Hummel
  New Writing 2024 DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2023.2288816
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• Turning pages. Issue 6.2024
  2024
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• আড্ডা With Ahmed: An Expanded Online Exchange & Misconnection
  Kathryn Hummel
  Sociology Lens 2024 DOI: 10.1111/johs.12444
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• “Here I'll stay”: Kaiser Haq's poems and the impact of being at home
  Kathryn Hummel
  2023 DOI: 10.4324/9781032670393-4
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• TEXT poetry and prose October 2023
  Ross Watkins, Timothy Loveday, David Thomas Henry Wright

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  • Andrew Leggett
  • Kathryn Hummel
  • Katrina Finlayson
  • Ola Kwintowski
  • Julia Prendergast
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  TEXT 2023 DOI: 10.52086/001c.89081
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• Shark Week
  Westerly 2023
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• “Here I’ll stay”: Kaiser Haq’s poems and the impact of being at home
  Kathryn Hummel
  Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2022 DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2022.2106651
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• Outing the unwritten: Reflections on academia and the field in Bangladesh
  Westerly 2021
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• Deliciously In Between
  Kathryn Hummel
  2020 DOI: 10.4324/9780367818104-13
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• Lamentville
  2019
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• Gracenotes & Endnotes
  Westerly 2018
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• NARRATIVE ARC
  Overland 2018
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• Scented memento: Remembering the gums of India
  Meanjin 2017
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• The unruly woman as straight man: The function of female film characters in gay best friendship
  outskirts: feminisms along the edge 2017
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• Transit
  Transnational Literature 2017
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• Convergence
  Transnational Literature 2016
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