Debashrita Dey

About

I am currently working as an Assistant Professor of English at the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad.
My areas of research interest include Ageing Studies, Feminist Studies, Health Humanities and Care Narratives.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad Assistant Professor
  2025 - Present
• Symbiosis International University Assistant Professor
  2025 - 2025
• SRM Institute of Science and Technology Assistant Professor
  2024 - 2024

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Patna Philosophy of Doctorate
  2020 - 2024
• Banaras Hindu University Master of Arts
  2017 - 2019
• St. Xavier's College (University of Calcutta) Bachelor of Arts
  2014 - 2017

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (13)

• Media representations of dis/ability in sports: review of the film Ghoomer
  Media Asia 2025 DOI: 10.1080/01296612.2024.2304972
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• “Queen of Misery” Nirupa Roy: Re-reading the Filmic Mother of 1980s Through Alternate Care Dynamics
  Quarterly Review of Film and Video 2024 DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2022.2154526
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• Too old for photosharing?: (re) construing successful aging through select Instagram handles of Indian older female influencers
  Educational Gerontology 2024 DOI: 10.1080/03601277.2024.2368318
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• “Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon” (For I am forever young): Reflections on the agentic cinematic presence of Zohra Sehgal in British Indian films
  Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2024 DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2024.2329924
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• ‘Robbed out of mind’: Reflections on Alzheimer's and gendered subjectivity in select Indian literary narratives
  Journal of Aging Studies 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101211
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• Aging, Alzheimer's, and Precarity: Comprehending Vulnerabilities and Care Approaches in Select Indian Fictional Narratives
  SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English 2024
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• Ageing identities and narratives of loss: (Re)Contextualising cognitive degeneration in ‘reel’ space and ‘real’ lives
  Jindal Global Law Review 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s41020-022-00179-4
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• Compromised well-being: implications on female geriatric abuse during the COVID-19 crisis in India
  International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare 2022 DOI: 10.1108/IJHRH-02-2022-0008
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• Spousal bereavement and media intervention: review of the film Goodbye
  Media Asia 2022 DOI: 10.1080/01296612.2022.2161183
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• The Embodied Feminine Self: (Re) Constructing the Ageist Discourse in Select Indian Television Advertisements
  Quarterly Review of Film and Video 2022 DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2022.2097574
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