Dhanya V Sankar

With over two years of teaching experience and four years of Teaching Assistantship, I seek the position of Assistant Professor of English at a leading academic institution, where I can contribute meaningfully to teaching and research while enhancing pedagogical practices through my expertise and commitment to academic excellence.

• Website Designer for DLITE research team
• Invited Lecture on “Introduction to Memory Studies” at Confab IV series for postgraduate students of English at Christ Nagar College, Trivandrum, 2022-03-08
• Invited Special lecture on “Humanities, Narratives and Discourses” to final year undergraduate students of English at Gregorian College of Advanced Studies, Trivandrum, 2022-03-05
• Received Ministry of Human Resource Development(MHRD)Fellowship at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee for PhD(2021-Present)
• MA- Ranked Third in the University; Dissertation Topic: Rebirth of a Classic: A Study of Sittenfield’s ELIGIBLE as a Retelling of Jane Austen’s PRIDE And PREJUDICE
• BA- College Topper; Dissertation Topic: Turning the Annals of Indian Film Adaptation: LOOTERA And RAINCOAT as Reinterpretations of O.Henry’s Short Stories
• Awarded Higher Education Scholarship by Kerala Government for top scorers (2012-15)
• Headgirl of Nirmala Bhavan Higher Secondary School, 2012
• Won Ever Rolling Trophy for Best IT Student of 2011-12
• Secured B Grade in English Essay Writing Competition in State School Youth Festival, 2010
• Secured B Grade in PCM National Scholarship Examination

• Memory Studies Association (MSA)
• Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS)
• American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhanya-sankar-535342b2/
• https://sites.google.com/view/dlitesb/home
• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3080-4854
• https://www.scopus.com/59979194300

• Sankar, Dhanya V. & Banerjee, Sarbani, "Defamiliarizing memory and refugeedom in JJ Bola’s No Place to Call Home", African Identities, 2025, 10.1080/14725843.2025.2611077, Q1
• Sankar, D. V., & Banerjee, S., "Remembering and dislocation: Memory, materiality and imagination in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017)", Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1111/sena.70016, Q3
• Sankar, D. V., & Banerjee, S., “Writing Trauma and Postmemory in the Affect: An Analysis of The Mountains Sing (2020) by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai”, Journal of Family History, 51, 1, 93-114, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990251360244, Q3
• Sankar, D. V., & Banerjee, S., “Experientiality of Space in Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind”, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 27, 2, 134-163, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.27.2.0134, Q3
• Sankar, D. V., & Banerjee, S., “(Gendered) Transcultural Capital and Memory in Zahid Hussain’s The Curry Mile (2006)”, Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 25, 3, 61-75, 2025, https://doi.org/10.59588/2350-8329.1581, Q1
• Sankar, D. V., & Banerjee, S., “Being an Inessential Woman in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017)”, Journal of International Women’s Studies, 27, 4, 10, 1-20, 2025, https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol27/iss4/10
• Sankar, D., & Banerjee, S., “Through Traumatic (Mate)Realism and Strategic Essentialism: A Critical Study of Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess”, Violence and postcolonial marginalities in South Asian literature–1, Z. Hussain, G. Rabani, R. Samal, 63–81, https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/violence-and-postcolonial-marginalities-in-south-asian-literature-9798216266082/

• Peer-reviewed articles for the journal Sexuality & Culture, Springer
• Senior Research Fellow(SRF) at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (2023-Present)
• Junior Research Fellow(JRF) at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (2023-Present)
• Qualified UGC NET -2018 & 2019

• Mapping Other Worlds: Spatial, Cultural and Posthuman Narratives, International Conference on 'Embracing the Paradigm Shift: Navigating the Interdisciplinary Frontiers in Humanities and Social Science Research', IIT Roorkee, 2025-07-11
• (Gendered) Transcultural Capital and Memory: An Analysis of Zahid Hussain’s The Curry Mile (2006), International Graduate Meet on “(Re)imagining ‘Progress’”, IIT Bhilai, 2025-01-21
• Will ready-at-hand or Material present-at-hand? Analysis of Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes, International Memory Studies Conference 'Memory, Security and Sustainability, IIT Madras, 2024-09-16
• Demystifying Multiculturalism and Islamic Feminism in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017), International Interdisciplinary Conference “Memory, Transgression, Change”, University of Warsaw, Poland, 2024-04-18
• Experientiality of Memory in Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind(2016), Second Annual International Memory Studies Conference 'Memory, Ecology and Sustainability’, IIT Madras, 2023-09-20
• Social Imagination/ary in Kashmir through Prosthetic Memory: A Critical Analysis of the Short Film Panpompar(2019), Revamping Indian Tradition and Culture Through NEP 2020:Multilingual, Multicultural & Multidisciplinary Modes of Education, IIT Roorkee, 2023-08-18
• Recovering Maafa : Countermemory in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, International Interdisciplinary Conference- Memory, Forgetting and Creating, Inmind Support and University of Gdańsk, Poland, 2023-01-19
• Writing Trauma and Postmemory in the Affect: An Analysis of The Mountains Sing by Ngyuen Phan Que Mai, International Memory Studies conference ‘Memory in a Digital Age’, Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras, 2022-08-23
• Transgenerational memory and Counternarratives in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, International Interdisciplinary Conference-Humanrights, Violence and Dictatorship, Inmind Support and University of Poland, 2022-11-17
• Rememory through Prosthetic Memory: A Critical Analysis of the short film Panpompar, Memory, Trauma and Recovery at International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Warsaw and InMind Support, 2021-09-16
• Memory, Materiality and Imagination in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, 13th HPSCONF International Conference on Humanities, Psychology and Social Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021-11-05
• Recognition and Recreation: A Study on Memory and Food in Laura Esquivel’s novel Like Water for Chocolate, Food Memory Machines Workshop, IIT Madras, 2021-08-17
• Organised a seminar on “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE” for undergraduates under the aegis of Networkz Systems, 2021-01-01

• Quizzing
• Writing creative materials
• Travelling
• Debating
• Stamp Collection
• Badminton
• Dancing
• Sketching

• Dr. Sarbani Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 247667, sarbani@hs.iitr.ac.in, 8961511540
• Dr. Rolouahpuia, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 247667, puia@hs.iitr.ac.in, 8135830159
• Dr. Deepa L.C, Former Head of the Department of English, Associate Professor, Government Arts College, Trivandrum, Kerala, 695034, lcdeepa@gmail.com, 9495888925
• Dr. Gopakumar R, Principal and Head of the Department of English, Gregorian College of Advanced Studies, Alathara, Sreekariyam, Trivandrum, Kerala, 695011, rgk.dhamma@gmail.com, 9446473208