Educational Qualification

• (2019-20) PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for English Studies, New Delhi.
• (2013) MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for English Studies, New Delhi.
• (2011) BA, English (Honours), Department of English, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), University of Calcutta.

Teaching Experience

• (2020-2024) Assistant Professor, Department of English, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata
• (2019-2020) Assistant Professor, Department of English, Techno India University, Kolkata

Administrative Responsibilities

• (2024-2025) Faculty Coordinator, Alumni and International Relations, BIT Mesra
• (2021-2024) Faculty Convenor, St. Xavier’s University Literary Society

• Culture Studies and Popular Culture
• Manga/Comics Studies/Graphic Narratives
• Soft Power and Globalization
• Translation Studies
• Digital Humanities
• Literature, Culture and AI

Fellowships

• (2018) DAAD BMBF Visiting Fellowship, under the aegis of “Literary Cultures of the Global South”, University of Tübingen, Germany. 
• (2016-17) UGC SAP DSA (I) Project Fellowship, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Uiversity.
• (2017) Julius Maximilians Universitat Würzburg and Jawaharlal Nehru University, UGC- DAAD-IGP Winter School on “Literature in a Globalized World”,  

Others

• (2024) Invited Speaker, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (Mangalore). Delivered a lecture titled “Manga Mayhem: Pursuing Comics Studies in the Indian Academia”. 
• (2024) Invited Speaker, “Women in Comics”, for the exhibition titled “100 Years of Bengal Comics”, at Kolkata Centre for Creativity, a non-profit organization for the promotion of arts and culture. 
• (2023) Invited Speaker, Summer “Multiversity” Lecture Series, Texas AM University (Doha Campus). Delivered a lecture titled “Manga, Soft Power, and Globalization”.
• (2023) Chaired a session on “Comics form, Narratives, and Imaginaries of Well Being”, in the Conference titled “Better Living Through Comics”, University of Cambridge, hosted by International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society.
• (2023) Invited speaker, National Conference titled “Emerging Trends in Using Language and Literature in Millennial Classroom to  Foster Effective Communication”, NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata.

Upcoming

• (2025) Chapter titled “Indomanga: Mangaesque Art from the Global South” in an edited volume, Comics, Methodologies, Global South, to be published by Leuven University Press. 
• (2025) Chapter titled “Worlds Beyond, Selves Within: Mythopoeic Metamorphosis in Select Isekai Anime”, in an edited volume, Exploring Isekai: Mapping Worlds Through Anime and Manga, to be published by Bloomsbury Academic. 
• (2026) Chapter titled “Machine-learned Manga: The Role of AI in Mangaesque ‘Culture Industry’”, in Media and Posthumanism: Narrative Exploration in Film, Television, and Literature, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan.
•  (2026) Chapter “Circuits of Longing: Grief, Love, and Posthuman Grace in Hal (2013), in Religion and AI Romance in Popular Media: Wired for Love, to be published by Bloomsbury. 

Published

• (2025) Saha, A. “Of Otherworldly Appetites: Locating Women in the Crossover of Gourmet- Fantasy Mangaverse”, in Women’s Imaginary Cooking and Appetites, by Cambridge Scholars, ISBN: 1-0364-4381-7.
• (2024) Saha, A. “Debunking the Normative: Queerness vis-à-vis “Magic Boys” in Fantasy Anime”. In C. S. Alexander (ed.) Black Witches and Queer Ghosts: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials, published by Rowman and Littlefield, ISBN: 978-1-66692-675-0. 
• (2024) Saha, A. “Towards an Ethos of ‘Aqua Graphic’: Representation of Marine Ecology in Select Visual Narratives.” CLOSURE: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung, 10, University of Kiel. ISSN 2363-7765. 
• (2023) Saha, A. ““Playing the Field, Performing Paradox: Looking at the Rites of Passage of Identity in Japanese Football through the Lens of Manga and Anime”. St Xavier's University Kolkata Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (SXUKJIR 1). Presented at the “The Beautiful Game: The Poetics and Aesthetics of Soccer in a Transnational Perspective”, University of Basel. Swiss Association for North American Studies. ISSN 2584-055X.
• (2021) Co-edited a book titled Japanese Horror: New Critical Approaches to History, Narratives and Aesthetics, published by Rowman and Littlefield, ISBN 1793647054 / 9781793647054.
• (2019) Saha, A. “Manga and the Impressionable Child: Reinventing Religiosity in Doujinshi”. In N. Sethi and A. Saha, (eds.), Trajectories of Popular  Expression: Forms, Histories, Contexts. Aakar Books. ISBN 978-93-5002-575-8.
• (2018) Saha, A. “Manga as ‘Mukokuseki’? ‘Prosumer’ Hybridism in Original Non-Japanese Manga.” Orientaliska Studier, 156. Presented at the “Manga, Comics and Japan: Area Studies as Media Studies” conference at Stockholm University. ISSN 0345-8997.
• (2018) Saha, A. “Negotiating the Impulses of Cyber/Eco-Queer in the Japanese Sci-Fi Anime: The Scope of Technology vis à- vis Gendered Identity”. Indraprasth, Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University Journal. ISSN 2278-7208.
• (2018) Saha, A. “Why so Straight? Exploring the ‘Chronotope’ of Slash/Fandom in Harry Potter Doujinshi Manga”. Gnosis, 4(3). ISSN 2394- 0131.
• (2017) Saha, A. “Journeys and Meta-Journeys: Reading Travel Anew in Sree Parabat’s Novels in Motion”. Lapis Lazuli: An International Literary Journal, 7(2).  ISSN 2249-4529.
• (2017) Saha, A. “The ‘Inner Emigre’: Reading Heaney’s (Un) belonging through the Metonymy of the ‘Bog’”. Muse India, 75, Oct. ISSN 0975-1815. 
• (2017) Saha, A. “The Witch and the Uhamiri: Exploring Nuances of Female Bonding in A Mercy and Efuru”. Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies, 26. ISSN 0975-5659.
• (2017) Saha, A. “Visualizing the Gaikokujin Alien: Graphic Hybridity in Popular Cultural Manga Narratives”. Appropriations, Bankura Christian Mission College, 12. ISSN 0975-1521.

Conference/Seminar

• (2025) Accepted as a panel Organizer/presenter, in the Association of Asian Studies Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal. 
• (2025) Accepted as a presenter, in the “Graphic Narratives and Comics (GNCS) Conference, The English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad. 
• (2024) Accepted as a presenter for the 4^th Young Graduate Meet, on “Interdisciplinary Approaches to South Asian Ecology”.
• (2024) Accepted as a presenter for the XVII Biennial CLAI Annual Conference on “Comparative Comics Studies”, University of Delhi. 
• (2023) Presented a paper titled “Machine Learned Manga: The Role of AI in “Culture Industry””, JSA -ASEAN Annual Conference, Chiangmai University, Thailand.
• (2023) Presented a paper titled “The Power of Kawaii: Medical Infotainment in Contemporary Manga”, in the Conference titled “Better Living Through Comics”, at the University of Cambridge, hosted by International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society.
• (2022) Saha, A. “Glimpses of the Gaikokujin: Engaging with the ‘Outsider’ in Modern Manga”. In Migration and Transition. Mechademia, Los Angeles.
• (2022) Saha, A. “Bullies with Backstories: Addressing Ijime in Japanese Mangas from the Last Three Decades”. In Picturing the Perpetrator in Comics and Graphic Narratives. University of Bucharest.
• (2017) Saha, A. “Slam it Out: Exploring Nuances of Performed Protest through the Rise of Slam Poetry Culture in Urban Indian Spaces”. In Literary Cultures of the Global South. Tübingen University.
• (2016) Saha, A. “Playing the Field, Performing Paradox: Looking at the Rites of Passage of Identity in Japanese Football through the Lens of Manga and Anime”. In The Beautiful Game: The Poetics and Aesthetics of Soccer in a Transnational Perspective, Basel University, Switzerland. Swiss Association for North American Studies. 
• (2013) Saha, A. “Dimensions of the Fantastical in Miyazaki: Reading Chihiro’s Quest in Spirited Away”. In Other Worlds in Literature: Fantasy and Science Fiction. University Grants Commission, Special Assistance Programme, Centre for English Studies. 
• (2013) Saha, A. “Living in Translation: The Polemics of Diasporic Experience in The Namesake”. In the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. University of Lucknow.

Certification

• (2023) Two-week refresher course on “Research Methodology and Data Analysis” at the Teaching Learning Centre, Ramanujan College, Delhi, under the aegis of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Mission on Teachers and Teaching
• (2023) IP awareness training program, NIPAM with St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata.
• (May- June 2021) “Faculty Induction Programme” at the Teaching Learning Centre, Ramanujan College, Delhi, under Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Mission on Teachers and Teaching.
• (2020) Faculty Development Programme on "Quality Policy Deployment and Outcome-based Education", conducted by Techno India University, West Bengal, E ICT and NIT Patna.
• (2017) Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN MHRD), in a course titled “Twentieth Century Narratives: Five African American Practitioners”, taught by Professor Amritjit Singh, University of Ohio.

• Member, Japanese Art History Forum (JAHF)
• Member, Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI)
• Member, Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS)

• (2024) Reviewer, Peter Lang Publishers. 
• (2024) Peer Reviewer, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.
• (2024) Examiner, PhD Thesis, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• (2019) Peer Reviewer, Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics.
• (2019) Peer Reviewer, Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies.