Ashmita Biswas

About

Ashmita Biswas is a PhD candidate at the Department of English, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata. She has presented her papers at several National and International Seminars, and has a few publications to her credit. Her areas of interest are Queer Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Lesbian Studies, Indian Writing in English, Memory Studies, Popular Culture & Manga studies.

Employment

• University of Engineering & Management Assistant Professor
  2025 - Present
• The Neotia University Visiting Faculty
  2023 - 2025

Education

• St. Xavier's College Research Scholar
  2022 - 2028
• St. Xavier's College Master of Arts
  2019 - 2021
• St. Xavier's College Bachelor of Arts
  2016 - 2019

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (9)

• Macho Girl to Poster Girl: Precarious Lives and the Heteronormative Social Order in Himanjali Sankar’s Talking of Muskaan (2014)
  Queer Representation in Literature and Popular Culture 2025
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• Once Upon A (Queer) Time: Exploring Queer Temporality in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Cinderella (1950), and Sleeping Beauty (1959)
  English Forum 2025
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• "Love was no sin": Negotiating Transgressive Desire and Colonial Specters in Sangeetha Sreenivasan's Acid (2018)
  The Criterion 2024 DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14605845
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• The Afterlife of a ‘Sexual Revolution’: Revisiting Responses to Deepa Mehta’s Fire (1996)
  Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 2024 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v16n3.12g
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• Exploring Queered Digital Spaces in India: Prospects and Precarities of Looking for Love Online
  Erothanatos: A Peer-Reviewed Quarterly Journal on Literature 2023
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• ‘I’ll tell that human tale’: Documenting the Wartime Sexual Violence in Jing-Jing Lee’s How We Disappeared (2019)
  Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 2023 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.01
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• Plating Memory, Tasting Grief: Exploring the Gastronomical Politics of Memory in Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart (2021)
  Indian Network for Memory Studies 2023
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• Queering the Racial Other: Towards a Queer Africa
  New Literaria 2023 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.016
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• Revisiting bell hooks’ Theorization of ‘Gender Violence’ in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
  International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 2022 DOI: 10.22161/ijels.76.11
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