Sanghamitra Sadhu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. : The English and Foreign Languages University, HyderabadResearch Interests:
Life Writing, Digital Humanities, Postcolonial LiteraturesJoined the University in May 6, 2010
Phone: 9435481671
Email: sanghamitra.sadhu@cottonuniversity.ac.in
About
Dr Sanghamitra Sadhu holds a PhD from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. She was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla (2017-2019) where she completed her research project and monograph “Speaking Subjects: Life-writing in India from Below” which is in the process of publication. She was awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Tagore Centre for Global Thought in India Institute, King’s College, London, UK in 2015 (January-April) for her research on life-writing in modern India. She was part of Ego-media International Network Project, an ERC (European Research Council) funded project at King's College, London, UK (2014-2019). Her academic interests include life-writing, digital humanities, postcolonial literature, theories of narrative and self, theories of nation/empire, and gender besides creative writing and translation.
Teaching
Dr Sanghamitra Sadhu has been teaching English at Cotton University (UG and PG levels) since 2010.
Research Projects
1. Completed a research project " Speaking Subjects: Life-writing in India from Below" as a resedential Fellow in Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla during 2017-2019. The project explores the practice of life-writing in contemporary India from below underlining the relationality between autobiographical performance and marginal subjects. The manuscript has been in the process of publication.
2. Completed a UGC sponsored Minor Research Project on "Narrative Self, Fiction and its Supplements: A Study of Doris Lessing's Novels" in 2014.
Research paper publications till 2021
Select published articles in Journals
1. Sadhu, Sanghamitra. "Performing the Self, Fashioning the Nation: Gandhi's Instruments of Political Imperatives" in Gandhi Marg, Vol.43, No. 3, 2021 (October-December Issue, forthcoming)
2. Sadhu, Sanghamitra. "Resistances to Autobiography: The Indian Experiment with life-writing" in Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol. 13, No.3, 2021. (Indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, ERIHPLUS, EBSCO, UGC)
3. Sadhu, Sanghamitra. "Writing as Being: Phenomenology of Self-Narration in Doris Lessing's Fiction" in IUP Journal of English Studies, Vol.16, No.3, 2021. (Indexed by SCOPUS, UGC)
4. Sadhu, Sanghamitra. "Being to Becoming: The Discourse of Self in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and Love, Again" in Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES), Vol.29, 2020-2021. (UGC-CARE Listed)
5. Sadhu, Sanghamitra. "Beyond Story-telling: Ethos of Orality in Select Writings of India's North East" in Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. XXVII, No.2, Summer, 2020, Published by Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. (UGC-CARE Listed)
6. Sadhu, Sanghamitra. "Whose Self is it Anyway? Derrida and the Paradigm of Autobiography in Decolonization" in Summerhill: IIAS Review, Vol. XXVI, No.2, Winter, 2020, Published by Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. (UGC-CARE Listed)
7. Sadhu, Sanghamitra. "Looking Back at Emotions: Towards an Affective Theory for the Self" in Journal of Contemporary Thought, Vol. 44, Winter, 2016. (UGC Listed)
Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)
“The Scrutinised Life: Gandhi and His Interlocutors” in Gandhi and the Contemporary World. Ed. Sanjeev Kumar. Routledge, 2020.