Jaya Sarkar
Assistant Professor
jaya.sarkar@mahindrauniversity.edu.in
Dr. Jaya Sarkar is an Assistant Professor of English at the School of Law, Mahindra University. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from BITS Pilani-Hyderabad Campus. She is a Fellow of the Posthuman Lab and the Indian Posthumanism Network.
Dr. Jaya’s interests include Posthumanism, Disability Studies, Digital Humanities, and Media Studies. She has presented many papers in academic conferences and seminars and her research articles are published widely in international journals.
Ph.D.
2019-2023 BITS Pilani- Hyderabad Campus
Thesis Title- “Crip Embodiment and Posthuman Interactivity in Literary Protopias”
Supervisors- Dr. Anhiti Patnaik and Prof. Shilpaa Anand
NTA UGC NET
NTA UGC NET in English July 2019
M.A.
M.A. in English Language and Literature 2015-2017 University of Calcutta
B.A.
B.A. English Hons (2012-2015) Serampore College, University of Calcutta
Sep 2024 –present
- Assistant Professor, School of Law, Mahindra University (Sep 2024 –present )
March, 2023-July, 2024
- Worked as an Assistant Professor of English at MLR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (March, 2023-July, 2024)
Publications
2024
- Sarkar, Jaya. “Reijers, W., & Coeckelbergh, M. (2020). Narrative and Technology”. Journal of Posthumanism, vol. 4, no. 1, Apr. 2024, pp. 43-46. https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i1.3163 (SCOPUS Q2)
- Sarkar, Jaya. “‘Dance of Agency’: Conceptualising Architecture as Posthuman Through an Assessment of La Sagrada Família.” Edinburgh Architecture Research, vol. 38, no. 2, 2024, pp. 32–48. https://doi.org/10.2218/ear.2024.8925
- Patnaik, Anhiti and Jaya Sarkar. “Crip-Queer Ethics of Care in Amruta Patil’s Kari and Sybil Lamb’s I’ve Got a Time Bomb.” NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, vol. 32, no. 2, 2024, pp. 146-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2023.2300345 (SCOPUS Q2)
- Sarkar, Jaya. “Invisible Lives: Interrogating Cultural Traditions in Sarah Harris’s Prostitutes of God.” Cultural and Literary Traditions in India: History, Myth and Orality, edited by Prakash Chandra Pradhan, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024, pp. 12-23.
2023
- Sarkar, Jaya. “Interrogating Non-Normativity: Transgender Embodiment in Samantaral and Nagarkirtan.” Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema: Queer Visuals, edited by Srija Sanyal, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023, pp. 101-109.
2022
- Sarkar, Jaya. “Violent Delights and Bodies without Organs: Technologization of the Body in Love, Death & Robots.” Transpositiones: Journal for Transdisciplinary and Intermedial Culture Studies, vol. 1, no. 6, 2022, pp. 153–64. https://doi.org/10.14220/trns.2022.1.2.153
- Sarkar, Jaya. “Reconsidering Cartesian dualism and selfhood in Love, Death & Robots.” Convergence, 2022, pp. 1-14. (SCOPUS Q1) https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221110072
- Karmakar, Goutam and Jaya Sarkar. “Virus and Visible Reality: Biopolitics, Crime, and Disability in Peter May’s Lockdown.” Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, vol. 9, no. 18, 2022, pp. 306-323. (SCOPUS Q2) https://nalans.com/index.php/nalans/article/view/453
- Sarkar, Jaya. “Bodies and Expressions: Exploring the Aesthetics of Disability Performance Art.” Tête-à-Tête, vol. 1, no. 6, 2022. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/tete_a_tete/vol1/iss1/6
- Sarkar, Jaya. “From Devi to Bulbbul: Cinematic Representations of the Embodied Goddess.” Thematizations of the Goddess in South Asian Cinema, edited by Anway Mukhopadhyay and Shouvik Narayan Hore, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022, pp. 166-175.
- Sarkar, Jaya. “Digitalising Narrativity: Reimagining Art and Culture Through Interactive Storytelling.” Digitalization of Culture Through Technology, edited by Deepanjali Mishra and Sasmita Rani Samanta, Routledge, 2022.
- Sarkar, Jaya, and Goutam Karmakar. “Phantasmagoria of the Hegemonic Cultural Structure: Interrogating the Indian Urban Facade in Chetan Bhagat’s Half Girlfriend.” Popular Literature: Texts, Contexts, Contestations, edited by Rupayan Mukherjee and Jaydip Sarkar, ibidem-Verlag, 2022, pp. 223-237.
2020
- Sarkar, Jaya. “Reading Hypertext as Cyborg: The Case of Patchwork Girl.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, vol. 12, no. 5, 2020. (SCOPUS Q3) https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v12n5.rioc1s2n2
Review Articles
2022
- Sarkar, Jaya. “Rethinking Multiple Ontologies and Ecologies: A review.” EASST Review, vol. 42, no. 2, 2022. https://www.easst.net/article/rethinking-multiple-ontologies-and-ecologies-a-review/
Conference Proceedings
2022
- Sarkar, Jaya. “(Re)claiming the Non-animal: Interrogating Anthropocentrism Through Samit Basu’s Turbulence” Proceedings of the “Posthumanism and the Ecological Crisis” Conference, 22nd January, 2022. https://www.brainwareuniversity.ac.in/pdfs/proceedings/ncpec-seminar-2022.pdf
2021
- Sarkar, Jaya. “Indian Supercrip Cyborg: Deconstructing Normativity through Feminist Posthumanism.” Proceedings of the “Posthumanism and India” Conference, 13th June, 2021. https://posthumanism.in/articles/indian-supercrip-cyborg-deconstructing-normativity-through-feminist-posthumanism-by-jaya-sarkar/
Invited Lecture
Delivered a lecture on “Online Learning and Virtual Classrooms” in a One Week International Faculty Development Program entitled “Adapting English Language Teaching to the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, organized by the Department of English, Bharat Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, June 21-27, 2023.
Grants Received
– Travel Grant for attending the “Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities” Conference organized by University of Warsaw, Poland during July 11- 13, 2022.
– Grant for attending the “Politics of Technoscientific Futures Conference” organized by European Association for the Study of Science and Technology at Madrid during July 6-9, 2022.
Best Paper Awards
October 2020
“Shattered Nerves: Representations of Mental Illness in Young Adult Fiction” at the “Literary Diseases: Representation of Disease in Literature and Cinema” Conference, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.
April 2019
“Aestheticizing the Cyborg Entity: Showing and Telling the Posthuman in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl” in the category of Business Communication and Gender Studies at Alliance Management Studies International Conference.
Paper Presentations
- “Crip Humour: Exploring Subversion of Stereotypical Portrayals of Laughter at the Impaired” at “Wit, Humour and the Carnivalesque in Literature and Performance” Conference, IACLALS and BITS Pilani-Goa, February 15-17, 2024.
- “Situating the Process of Othering Within a Postcolonial Posthumanist Framework” at “Global Anthropo-Scene: Rethinking Sustainability and Cultural Preservation” Conference, Jadavpur University Kolkata, January 30-31, 2024.
- “Role of Technology in the Journey from Religious to Secular Pilgrimage: The Case of La Sagrada Familia” at “Religion and Technology in an Era of Rapid Digital and Climate Change” Conference, IIT Madras and RWTH Aachen University, November 21-23, 2023.
- ““Caught in between Two Worlds”: Exploring Vulnerabilities in Young Adult Literature” at “International Young Researchers’ Conference: ‘New Research in English Studies’”, English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, April 26- 28, 2023.
- “(Re)claiming the Non-human Animal: Interrogating Anthropocentrism Through Samit Basu’s “Turbulence” at “Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities” Conference, University of Warsaw, Poland, July 11- 13, 2022.
- “(Re)claiming the Animal through a Postcolonial Posthumanist Framework” at “Politics of Technoscientific Futures Conference”, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Madrid, July 6-9, 2022.
- “The Child of the Pandemic: Interrogating Biopolitics, Crime and Disability” at “The Child of the Future Conference”, University of Cambridge, June 30th- July 1st, 2022.
- “Visualizing Transnational Lesbianism using a Crip-Queer Framework” at “Queer Homing Desires Conference”, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, March 7-8, 2022.
- “Digitalizing Narrativity: Reimagining Art and Culture through Interactive Storytelling” at “Ethics and Aesthetics: Debates in Indian Arts, Literature, Enactment and Philosophy”, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, January 31- February 4, 2022.
- “Cyborg Communication: Linking Technology and Subjectivity” at “Distant Communications: making contact across time and space from antiquity to the digital age” Conference, University of Birmingham and University of Plymouth, July 21- 22, 2021.
- “Whisk, Share and Bite: Exploring the Gastronomic Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic” at “Food in/of Pandemic Conference”, Liverpool Hope University and Christ University, Bangalore, May 10-12, 2021.
- “Stitching and Splitting: Understanding the Pleasure of the Visual Text” at “Pan-NIT Humanities and Social Sciences Research Conclave”, NIT Warangal, January 8- 10, 2021.
- “Shattered Nerves: Representations of Mental Illness in Young Adult Fiction” at “Literary Diseases: Representation of Disease in Literature and Cinema” Conference, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, October 30th, 2020
- “Interrogating Interdisciplinarity: Difference, Relations and Inclusion” at “Interdisciplinarity and Comparative Literature” Conference, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, October 13-15, 2020
