Dr. Moumita Bala

About

I am Dr. Moumita Bala. I have completed my PhD Degree from the Humanities and Social Sciences Department of IIT Patna. Currently, I am teaching as an Assistant Professor of English at GLA University. My research interests are Literary Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Folklore Studies.

Employment

• GLA University ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
  2025 - Present

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Publications (6)

• Literary Representation of Animal Captivity: Reading Hannah’s Dream through Foucauldian Lens
  Zoophilologica 2025 DOI: 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2025.15.16
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• Within or Outside the Boundaries: Exploring the Intricacies of Human-Elephant Relationship in Tania James’s Novel The Tusk That Did the Damage
  GeoHumanities 2024 DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2024.2351211
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• When elephants fight back: Animal standpoint reading of Nirmal Ghosh’s Novella River Storm
  Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 2024 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00093_1
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• Highlighting elephant’s perspective through umwelt exploration: textual analysis of the novella River Storm
  The Senses and Society 2023 DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2023.2210034
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• Duality of Abuse and Care. Empathy in Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants
  Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism 2023 DOI: 10.7358/rela-2022-02-basi
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• (De)Constructing Man-Animal Binary in Santal Folktales
  IUP Journal of English Studies 2023
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