Dr. Umasankar Patra
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, University of Hyderabad, Ambedkar University Delhi
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About
Umasankar Patra is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He has previously held positions at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, University of Delhi and Ambedkar University Delhi, New Delhi. He is a recipient of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship and the UGC Junior Research Fellowship. His essays have been published in peer-reviewed journals and books in India and abroad. He has also translated Odia literary criticism into English.
His research interests cover Anglo-American Modernism, Autobiography Studies, Queer Studies and Modernity in India, with a special focus on Odisha. His book project, based on his doctoral research, engages with “Queer Autobiographicality” through the works of Christopher Isherwood, Edmund White and Paul Monette. He is also exploring the intersection of pedagogy and colonial institutions to study the novel articulation of modernity in Odisha vis-à-vis the idiom of conservatism.
Employment
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras Assistant Professor2023 - Present
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National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli Assistant Professor2020 - Present
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Ambedkar University Delhi Assistant Professor (Visiting)2018 - 2020
Education
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University of Hyderabad MA2009 - 2011
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (16)
- Queer Camera: Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin and Prater Violet Save
- Autobiographical Networks Save
- Modernism Save
- Spectrum Save
- Making of Modernity Save
- Reluctance to Modernity Save
- Eating with Eyes Save
- Poets and Arbiters Save
- Emergence of New Subjectivities Save
- Post-Independence Odia Literary Criticism Save