(2024–Present) Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

(2020–2024) Assistant Professor, Department of English, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata

(2019–2020) Assistant Professor, Department of English, Techno India University, Kolkata

(2024–2025) Faculty Coordinator, Alumni and International Relations, BIT Mesra

(2021–2024) Faculty Convenor, St. Xavier’s University Literary Society

(2020) PhD, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University: Dissertation: “The Gaikokujin and its Kin: A Study of the Representation of the ‘Outsider’ in Modern Manga” (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Saugata Bhaduri). The research explores permutations of the ‘outsider’ in Japanese manga (graphic narratives) vis-a-vis globalization and soft power.

(2014) Qualified NET in English: Roll Number: 17300120

(2013) MA, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University: First Class: 82.5%

(2011) BA, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), under the University of Calcutta: First Class: 62.25%

(2008) AISSCE (CBSE) (Humanities): 93.4%, West Bengal Joint 2nd Rankholder

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

(2018) DAAD Visiting Researcher, Tübingen University. Worked on the “Literary Cultures of the Global South” project.

(2017) Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg and Jawaharlal Nehru University, UGC-DAAD-IGP Winter School / Spring-Winter School on “Literature in a Globalized World”.

(2016–2017) Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, UGC SAP DSA (I) project fellow for the Centre for English Studies.

Upcoming

• Chapter: “Worlds Beyond, Selves Within Mythopoeic Metamorphosis in Select Isekai Anime” in the edited volume Exploring Isekai: Mapping Worlds Through Anime and Manga (Bloomsbury Academic).
• Chapter: “Machine-learned Manga: Posthuman A(I)gency in Japanese Popular Cultural Production” in the edited volume Media and Posthumanism: Narrative Exploration in Film, Television, and Literature (Palgrave Macmillan).
• Chapter: “Of Love, Grief, and Healing: Posthuman Affective Empathy in Kowarekake no Orgel (2009) and Hal (2013)” in the edited volume Religion and AI Romance in Popular Media: Wired for Love (Bloomsbury).
• Chapter: “Resist by Relaxing: Witchery as an Exercise in Healing in the Anime “Flying Witch”” in the edited volume “You can’t burn us all”: Witches, Media, and the Magic of Resistance” (Bloomsbury).

Published

• (2026) Chapter: “Towards Indomanga: ONJ Mangaesque Narratives from India” in the edited volume Comics and the Global South: Methodologies from and within Majority Worlds. Leuven University Press. ISBN: 978 94 6270 504 3. 
• (2025)  “Of Otherworldly Appetites: Locating Women in the Crossover of Gourmet- Fantasy Mangaverse”, in Women’s Imaginary Cooking and Appetites Across Cultures: Studies in Literature, Media and Film. Cambridge Scholars. ISBN:  1-0364-4382-5.
• (2024) “Debunking the Normative: Queerness vis-a-vis ‘Magic Boys’ in Fantasy Anime”. In Black Witches and Queer Ghosts: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN: 978-1-66692-675-0.
• (2024) “Towards an Ethos of ‘Aqua Graphic’: Representation of Marine Ecology in Select Visual Narratives.” CLOSURE: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung, 10. ISSN 2363-7765.
• (2023) “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, 1.
• (2021) Co-edited book: Japanese Horror: New Critical Approaches to History, Narratives and Aesthetics. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 1793647054 / 9781793647054.
• (2019) “Manga and the Impressionable Child: Reinventing Religiosity in Doujinshi”. In N. Sethi and A. Saha (eds.), Trajectories of Popular Expression: Forms, Histories, Contexts. Aakar. ISBN 978-93-5002-575-8.
• (2018) “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) “Negotiating the Impulses of Cyber/Eco-Queer in the Japanese Sci-Fi Anime: The Scope of Technology vis a vis Gendered Identity”. Indraprasth: Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University Journal, VII. ISSN 2278-7208.
• (2018) “Why so Straight? Exploring the ‘Chronotope’ of Slash/Fandom in Harry Potter Doujinshi Manga”. Gnosis, 4(3). ISSN 2394-0131.
• (2017) “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) “The ‘Inner Emigre’: Reading Heaney’s (Un)belonging through the Metonymy of the ‘Bog’”. Muse India, 75, Oct. ISSN 0975-1815.
• (2017) “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) “Visualizing the Gaikokujin Alien: Graphic Hybridity in Popular Cultural Manga Narratives”. Appropriations, Bankura Christian Mission College Journal, 12. ISSN 0975-1521.

(2024) Certificate course on “Prompt Engineering” from deeplearning.ai.

(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) Certificate course: “Digital Humanities: Humanities Research in the Digital Age”, OpenLearn, The Open University.

(2023) Certificate course: “Quantitative Data Analysis Fundamentals”, Udemy.

(2023) Faculty participant, IP awareness training program, NIPAM with St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata.

(2021) Orientation course, Teaching Learning Centre, Ramanujan College, Delhi, under the aegis of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Mission on Teachers and Teaching.

(2020) FDP in “Quality Policy Deployment and Outcome-based Education”, conducted by Techno India University, West Bengal, E ICT and NIT Patna.

(2020) Coursera certificate course: “Introduction to Philosophy” (University of Edinburgh).

(2020) Coursera certificate course: “Our Earth’s Future” (American Museum of Natural History).

(2017) Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN MHRD), course: “Twentieth Century Narratives: Five African American Practitioners”, taught by Professor Amritjit Singh, University of Ohio.
 

(2025) Panelist/Speaker/Chair, “AI and Manga”, Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Kathmandu.

(2025) Presented paper: “Indomanga: Manga’s Trajectory of Global Soft Power”, Conference on Graphic Narratives and Comics Studies as World Literature Phenomena, EFL University, Hyderabad.

(2025) Presented paper on “The Liminal Guardians: The Significance of Cats in Studio Ghibli’s The Cat Returns (2002) and Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume (2022)”, Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature, University of Troy.

(2024) Accepted paper: “Eco Anime: The Anthropocenic Concern in the Filmic Oeuvre of Makoto Shinkai”, 4th Young Graduate Meet: Interdisciplinary Approaches to South-Asian Ecology, IIT Mandi.

(2023) Presented paper on “Machine Learned Manga: AI, Soft Power, and ‘Culture Industry’”, JSA-ASEAN Annual Conference, Chiangmai University, Thailand.

(2023) Presented paper on “The Power of Kawaii: Medical Infotainment in Contemporary Manga”, Conference on Better Living Through Comics, University of Cambridge, hosted by International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society.

(2022) Presented paper on “Glimpses of the Gaikokujin: Engaging with the ‘Outsider’ in Modern Manga”, Conference on Migration and Transition, Mechademia Annual Conference, Los Angeles.

(2022) Presented paper: “Bullies with Backstories: Addressing Ijime in Japanese Mangas from the Last Three Decades”, Conference on Picturing the Perpetrator in Comics and Graphic Narratives, University of Bucharest.

(2017) Presented paper on “Slam it Out: Exploring Nuances of Performed Protest through the Rise of Slam Poetry Culture in Urban Indian Spaces”, Conference on Literary Cultures of Global South, Tübingen University.

(2016) Presented paper on “Playing the Field, Performing Paradox: Looking at the Rites of Passage of Identity in Japanese Football through the Lens of Manga and Anime”, Conference on The Beautiful Game: The Poetics and Aesthetics of Soccer in a Transnational Perspective, Basel University and Swiss Association for North American Studies.

(2013) Presented paper on “Dimensions of the Fantastical in Miyazaki: Reading Chihiro’s Quest in Spirited Away”. In Other Worlds in Literature: Fantasy and Science Fiction, Annual Young Researchers’ Conference, UGC SAP DRS (III) and Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

(2013) Presented paper on “Living in Translation: The Polemics of Diasporic Experience in The Namesake”, Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Annual Conference, University of Lucknow.

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

• Peer Reviewer, Peter Lang Publishers.
• PhD Examiner, for a thesis on webcomic narratives, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
• Peer Reviewer, Feminist Encounters.
• Peer Reviewer, Journal of Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies.
• Peer Reviewer, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.