Assistant Professor

Dr Ritika Verma

Department of Literature and Languages

Interests

  • Trauma Theory
  • South Asian Literature
  • Partition Studies

Education

2014

Ravenshaw University
India
Bachelors

2016

EFLU Hyderabad
India
Masters

2024

IIT Kharagpur
India
PhD

Experience

  • July 2019 – December 2023 – Teaching Assistant– IIT Kharagpur
  • January 2021 – December 2022; September 2023- December 2023 – Teaching Assistant– NPTEL (Speaking Effectively and Globalisation and Culture)
  • Research Interest

    My research is grounded in trauma and memory studies, especially as it relates to literatures in India, both in English and regional languages. I am interested in the intersection between trauma theory and postcolonialism and how trauma, as well as recovery, may be located within the everyday and represented using Indigenous representational forms.

    Awards & Fellowships

    • 2019 – UGC NET-JRF – UGC

    Memberships

  • Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
  • Oxford Women’s Leadership Symposium
  • Publications

    Publications in Journals

    • Verma, Ritika. (2024). Witnessing 1984: Mnemonic Representations of Trauma, Resilience and Hope in Selected Fiction. Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, 20(3), 164-180. DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2024.2384844.
    • Verma, Ritika, and Anjali Gera Roy. Partition’s Purusharthis: Recovery and Resilience in Yashpal’s Jhootha Sach. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Forthcoming.
    • Verma, Ritika, and Anjali Gera Roy. Cultures of Honour, Cultures of Trauma: A Reading of Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar. In H, Nandrajog and P.K, Srivastava (Ed.). Amrita Pritam: The Writer Provocateur (1st ed., pp. 109-121). New York, NY: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003214656-19.
    • Verma, Ritika, and Anjali Gera Roy. Ideological Positioning in the Representation of Borders: An Analysis of Recent Hindi Films. India Review, 21(3), 307-328. DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2022.2086405.
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