Contributors to Intersections
Issue 52


Saumya Agarwal is a doctoral fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India. Her research interests lie in Health Humanities, which include studies in mental health, neurodivergence and therapy. She has published her work in journals like Ars Aeterna and the University of Bucharest Review. Additional email: saumyaagarwal221@gmail.com. ORCID ID. 0009-0006-8201-8774

Rajesh Bharvad serves as an Associate Professor of English in the Department of English at Shri Govind Guru University, Godhra. His research areas include postmodern literature, contemporary fiction, posthumanism, and emerging trends in diaspora literature. In addition to active presentations at conferences and publications in reputable journals, he received a prestigious fellowship, the Shastri Mobility Program, from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute in New Delhi in 2020. During this fellowship, he pursued his research on intersectional diasporic identities under the supervision of Prof. Nandi Bhatia of the University of Western Ontario, Canada. In 2022, he was invited as a visiting fellow at the University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan. During his stay in Japan, he conducted research in environmental humanities and taught a course on English Language Skills to students of Business Economics at the university. Currently, he has been editing a volume Post/Apocalyptic Narratives in Contemporary Indo-Japanese Environmental Literature, to be published by Routledge, within the Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment series.

Arosree Biswal is pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Political Science at St. Francis College for Women, Hyderabad, India. Biswal is are interested in exploring Invisible Disabilities and Neuroqueerness within the framework of Social Psychology and Child Psychology.

Himani Choudhary is a doctoral candidate and assistant professor in the Department of English at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (PB), India. Her academic interests span contemporary science fiction, media, and cultural studies. She is a life member of the Indian Association for Science Fiction Studies and has presented her work at several national and international conferences, including the IASFS Conference (2024) and the ASLE Conference (2025). Beyond academia, she contributes to a creative startup as a writer of non-fiction stories inspired by India’s diverse myths and cultural heritage.



Charu Dhankar is an accomplished Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Manipal University Jaipur, where she brings nine years of dedicated teaching and research expertise to her role. Specialising in Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, and Psychopathology, Charu has established herself as a prominent figure in her field. Her insightful contributions extend beyond the classroom, with publications featured in both national and international journals. Through her commitment to advancing knowledge and fostering academic excellence, Chanu plays a vital role in shaping the next generation of psychology professionals at Manipal University Jaipur.

Sonia Ghalian is a film scholar, educator, and consultant whose work spans the intersections of film, childhood, media, and culture. She currently teaches at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai, as an Adjunct Faculty, offering courses in film, media, and cultural studies. Prior to this, she taught at prestigious institutions such as Christ University, Krea University, and the National Law School of India University. Her PhD research examined children’s films, screen cultures, and representations of childhood in Indian and transnational contexts. Owing to her deep interest in children and their rights, she also recently completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Child Rights Law from NLSIU. Sonia's publications include contributions to The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television, Oxford Bibliographies: Childhood Studies, and Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age. Her recent articles for The Hindu, Outlook, and The Wire explore cinema, identity, and social change through contemporary cultural lenses. Beyond academia, Sonia leads education consulting projects that combine research-based practice with progressive pedagogy for children and young adults.

Debapriya Ganguly Debapriya Ganguly is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Graphic Era University, Dehradun, India. She earned her doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, India. Ganguly’s research interests span diverse topics, including masculinity and men's studies, Indian cinema, gerontology, and health humanities. She has previously published in South Asian Popular Culture, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and Bloomsbury. ORCID: 0000-0002-4087-7099

Aritra Ghosal is a PhD Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India. His research interests include queer ecologies, indigenous narratives, neurodiversity and decoloniality. He has published an article in the journal eTropic and a book chapter in an edited volume, Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts, published by Routledge. He has also presented papers at international conferences. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3922-2438.

Ruchi Joshi, Assistant Professor at Manipal University Jaipur, is an academician, researcher and an RCI certified Rehabilitation Counsellor. She completed her master’s in clinical psychology from Jai Narayan Vyas University, doctorate from Rajasthan University, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Child Guidance from Kota Open University and Counselling and an Advanced Diploma in Child Guidance and Counselling from Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur. Ruchi has ten years experience in Counselling, Research and Teaching in various parts of country and has been associated with Mohan Lal Sukhadia University Udaipur, Poorinima Group of Colleges Jaipur, Maharana Mewar Public School Udaipur and Amity University Rajasthan. She has a number of National and International Publications to her credit. Ruchi has presented papers in number of International, National, and regional level Conferences, and has served as a resource person and panelist in workshops, panel discussions, seminars and webinars on issues related to mental health, physical, mental and sexual violence.

Kashish is a doctoral student at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. His research interests encompass a broad range of areas, including, but not limited to, Cultural Studies, Fat Feminism, and Transhumanism. Aside from this, he enjoys weightlifting, reading non-fiction, and cooking.

Nagendra Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India. Besides publishing a widely reviewed book on Bharati Mukherjee, The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee: A Cultural Perspective (2001) and his recent co-authored book, Exploring Dark Comedy in Ecological Literature (2025), he has published research articles in reputed journals like Textual Practice, South Asian Review, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, South Asian Popular Culture, Asiatic, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Neohelicon, Scrutiny 2, Ars Aeterna, University of Bucharest Review and many others. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8292-7947

Parveen Kumar is an Assistant Professor of English at Lovely Professional University, India. His research interests include Critical Refugee Studies, Spatial Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, and Environmental Humanities. He has published in Scopus-indexed journals, including 3L: Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Women’s Studies, and Literary Voice, and in several edited volumes that include Society, Culture, and Literature (2020), Conflict and Resistance in Literature: A Collection of Critical Essays (2020), and Immigration and Estrangement in Indian Diaspora Literature (2019). Parveen's most recent research publications are Gendered Migration, Refugee Desires and Diasporic Disciplining in Dina Nayeri’s A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea (2025), Navigating the Quandaries of Asylum Storytelling in Dina Nayeri’s Who Gets Believed? (2024), and His work explores displacement, identity, and resistance within contemporary literary and cultural frameworks.

Neha Kumari is an Assistant Professor at Sri Balaji University Pune, India. She completed her PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India, availing MHRD (JRF & SRF) Fellowship. She is a dedicated researcher, editor, and academic contributor in the fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Fat Studies, Film Studies, Transgender Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women's Studies and Communication. She qualified and scored AIR 2nd in IIT ISM JRF ENTRANCE EXAM under an MHRD PhD Fellowship Program and received an MHRD fellowship. She secured 2nd rank in M.A. in English, Ranchi University, Ranchi, India. Kumari received the Best research paper Award at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Dialogues (ICID-2024) organised by Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth. She has published her articles in Media Watch, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Indian Journal of Health, Culsure and Sexuality, and KEMANUSIAAN: The Asian Journal of Humanities. She is on the Editorial Board of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society and the Journal of Health, Culture and Sexuality. She has a passion for creative writing and has published a poem entitld My Identity and a short story titled My Journey Through Thorns.

Meghna Prabir is a Consultant Subject Matter Expert for Communication and Interdisciplinarity at IIMBx, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Prabir, whose doctoral research focused on intersectionality studies, transnationalism, and contrapuntal readings of South Asian immigrant writers Agha Shahid Ali and Michael Ondaatje, is the author of Marked for Erasure: Necropolitics, Gender and the Spectacle of Violence (Emerald Publishing, 2026) and the Section Editor, Cultural Studies, of The Springer Encyclopedia of New Populism (2025). Meghna Prabir has founded The Sturges & McGregor Trust, a nonprofit organisation for inclusive publishing, animal welfare, gender equity, and other intersectional humanitarian initiatives.

Shri Krishan Rai Shri Krishan Rai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India. His research interests include cinema studies, postcolonial literature, and studies in religion and mythology. He has published widely in reputable journals and has presented papers at national and international conferences. He has edited volumes of books include Literature and Cinema: Appropriation, Adaptation, Adulteration (2014), Ramanujan's Poetry: Portrayal of Conflicting Cultures (2014), Adaptations: Some Journeys from Words to Visuals (2015), Indian Cinema and Society (2023), and Nationalism in Indian Cinema (2023). He has also convened two ICSSR-sponsored conferences and several MOI-sponsored GIAN courses at NIT Durgapur, contributing significantly to academic engagement and dialogue in his fields of specialisation. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3923-953X

Ashley Remminga is a graduate researcher in Global Cultures and Languages at the University of Tasmania. Her research explores queer, in particular, transgender and gender-diverse participation and engagement within Japanese popular culture and fandom. She also researches policies that govern erotic manga and anime, with a focus on how these laws restrict queer Japanese media. Her current research examines how gender-diverse individuals consume and form meanings through genderbending anime and manga.

Flora Roussel holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and General Literature from the Université de Montréal (Montreal/Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang), Canada. Her work brings a feminist, queer and intersectional perspective to the notion of affect as it is articulated by corporeality and performativity. She is currently working on her first monograph, in which she analyses sexuality, subjectivity and writing practices in the novels of four contemporary authors: Wendy Delorme, Akwaeke Emezi, Charlotte Roche and Kanehara Hitomi. She is also interested in exophonic literature, especially as exemplified by the novels of Yoko Tawada. Her research has been published in both national and international journals (Études francophones, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Journal of World Literature), and she has presented her work in Canada and abroad.

Neda Parvin Shaikh is a PhD researcher in the Department of English & Cultural Studies at CHRIST (Deemed to be) University, India. Her doctoral work examines Lebanese war literature, with a focus on gender, diaspora, and memory. She has previously worked as an Assistant Professor of English & Communication Studies and later as a Researcher at the Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai, where she contributed to several internationally funded projects on gender, diaspora, and international relations. Neda has presented her research at several conferences, published in reputed journals, and has designed and taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She has been invited as speaker on various panels and has received multiple academic fellowships, including the Boston College Summer Visiting Doctoral Research Fellowship (2025). She also serves as a member on the Board of Studies at Jai Hind College, Mumbai, India.

Pragya Sinha is a Business Analyst working in Capgemini. She holds a master's degree in English Literature and Cultural Studies from Christ University, Bangalore. She has a bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Lovely Professional University, Punjab. She has published a paper titled 'Beyond Binaries: Queer Ecopoetics in the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali and Jacinta Kerketta,' in LANGLIT,: An International Peer-reviewed Open Access Journal. Her research interests span gender, ecology, and mythology, with a focus on exploring their intersections in contemporary and historical narratives. She knows Hindi, English and is currently learning Spanish.

Shraddha Tripathi is a RCI-approved Rehabilitation Psychologist and a Member of the American Psychological Association (APA), with nearly 15 years of experience in teaching, research, and the mental health industry. She is currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Manipal University Jaipur. Shraddha earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar in 2017, with a doctoral dissertation titled 'Effect of Hypnotic Regression on Phobia and Anxiety Symptoms in Adults.' She also qualified for the ICMR-JRF examination in 2011, later upgraded to Senior Research Fellowship. She has actively participated in over 50 national and international conferences, workshops, and faculty development programs (FDPs) as a paper presenter, subject expert, and interdisciplinary academic contributor. Shraddha has published more than 25 research papers, including in Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) indexed journals, along with publications in national and international journals, conference proceedings, and ISSN-listed magazines. She has also authored several articles in popular media platforms such as Bhavya Bhaskar, Amar Ujala Compact, Dainik Bhaskar, Noida, and Star Samachar, and contributed to one edited academic book.

Vaidehi Uniyal is a doctoral candidate in English Literature. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality studies and literary criticism, particularly highlighting cultural narratives from the Global South. She is currently working on several projects that critically explore the intersections of gender, sexuality, caste, and religion, with a special emphasis on the Devadasi tradition as an instance of sexual exploitation and ritual servitude.

Kriti Vashishtha brings a wealth of expertise to her role as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan. Holding an MA in Psychology from Panjab University, Chandigarh, and a PhD in Psychology from Banasthali University, Ktiti is deeply committed to academic excellence and student development. She was awarded the 'Manovigyan Seva Ratan Puruskar,' in 2024. With a specialisation in Child psychopathology, counselling, and sports psychology, Kriti's diverse interests extend to areas such as social psychology, industrial and organisational behaviour, and positive psychology. She has a proven track record of teaching and mentoring students, as well as fostering an environment conducive to learning and growth.