0000-0002-5742-6665 About
Dr. Amrita Satapathy works as an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities, Social
Sciences and Management, IIT Bhubaneswar. She completed her PhD from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, in 2009 in the broad area of Travel Writing and Autobiography and Postcolonial Studies. She is also a prolific writer having written for newspapers of national repute, like, The Times of India and The New Indian Express. Her book Shifting Images: The Idea of England in Indian Writing in English published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany was released in the UK and the US simultaneously in 2011. Her second book, titled Limning London, which is a travelogue based on her travels to England, was published in 2016 by Authorspress, New Delhi. Amrita Satapathy teaches ‘English for Communication’ and ‘Dimensions of Creativity in Indian Writing in English’ to engineering students at the Institute and takes a course in ‘Scientific and Technical Writing’ and ‘Indian Writing in English (Fiction)’ for PhD scholars. Her areas of research include Autobiography and Memoirs, Travel Writing, Popular Media and Culture, and Indian Writing in English.
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Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar Associate Professor2022 - Present
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Publications (6)
- Graphic matrescence: visualizing the ‘birth of a mother’ in Lucy Knisley’s memoir Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos (2019) Save
- Mom celebrities of Instagram: a literary analysis of momfluencing culture in Ellery Lloyd’s People Like Her (2021) Save
- Vermin women’s stigmatisation, expendability, and posthuman resistance: studying femicide in India as wasted lives through Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape (2008) and The Island of Lost Girls (2015) Save
- Unveiling the ‘Mask of Motherhood’: Daughter Decodes Mother’s Postpartum Struggle in Maya Shanbhag Lang’s Memoir What We Carry (2020) Save
- Climate Activism in Indian Regional Green Cinema: A Study of Bonani and Wade Save
- The Idea of Femininity in Cinematic Rites of Passage in Bollywood Cinema Save