Ms Dheebika P | Arts and Humanities | Best Paper Award

PhD Scholar at IIT Madras,India

Dheebika is a Ph.D. candidate at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, specializing in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences. With a Master’s degree in English and Comparative Literature from Pondicherry University, she brings a deep understanding of literary theory and postcolonial narratives. Her research primarily focuses on the intersections of trauma, memory, and cultural identity, particularly in South Asian literature. She has presented papers at leading academic conferences, addressing themes such as identity formation, historical trauma, and memory. Dheebika’s work reflects a deep commitment to understanding how literature mediates complex histories and identities, and her ongoing Ph.D. research promises to offer significant contributions to these fields.

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Academic Background

• Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Duration: 2021 – 2026 (Expected)
• M.A. in English and Comparative Literature
  • Institution: Pondicherry University
  • Duration: 2019 – 2021
• B.A. in English
  • Institution: Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College
  • Duration: 2016 – 2019

Research Interest:

1. Postcolonial literature and comparative literature
2. Trauma and memory studies
3. South Asian and diasporic literature
4. Cultural identity and memory in literature
5. Representations of historical conflict and intergenerational trauma
6. Food practices and memory in conflict narratives

Awards and Fellowships:

• 2019: Best Paper Award at the National Conference, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli
• 2021: Bharathidasan University Endowment Scholarship

Presentations:

• 2022: “‘What if the tongue is cut out?’ – Reading Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous as ‘languaged trauma’” at PGR Symposium in Memory, Crisis, and Estrangement.
• 2023: “Hyphenated Cyprus: Reading ‘Things’ and identity formation in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees” at IIT Guwahati.
• 2023: “Remembering the Tamil Genocide: Intergenerational memory wars in Wijesinghe’s short fiction ‘Lunugama’” at EFLU, Hyderabad.
• 2024: “Cooking the Past: Food Practices as Markers of Memory in Sri Lanka’s Conflict History” at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Author Metrics:

• Publications: Two papers currently under review in South Asian Review and South Asian Popular Culture journals.

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