Dr Somdatta is an Assistant Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur. She teaches across the undergraduate level as well as offers PhD level courses. She is committed to teaching English Literature in a way that is politically informed, socially inclusive, and critically generative. She has taught and teaches courses on cultural studies, crime fiction, Indian writing in English, life writing, popular cultures of South Asia
Somdatta’s research focuses on the broad themes of urban cultural studies, space and spatiality, crime fiction, Indian writing in English, life writing, popular cultures of South Asia. She has published in the field of graphic narratives and has written about films and TV series in their connection with crime, migration and border studies. More generally, her research focuses on the relationship between infrastructures, borders, urban planning, the built environment, crime and criminality, and literary and cultural narratives. Somdatta is the author of a number of book chapters, peer reviewed articles and reviews on these areas, and supervises doctoral work in these and related fields. She has worked and is working on several privately and government funded research projects on the urban underclass.
Principal Investigator
- Testimonios of Domestic Servitude: Narratives, Patterns and Praxis of Gendered Domestic Labour in Kolkata
Ph. D. Students
Agrima Mishra
Area of Research:
Angelina Thomas
Area of Research: Cultural/Literary Studies
Aratrika Mandal
Area of Research: World Literature
Asha Rani Horo
Area of Research: Indian English Fiction
Navami T S
Area of Research: Indian Writing in English/Subaltern Literature
Nilanjana Saha
Area of Research: Diasporic literature
Nithin T
Area of Research: City Studies/ Cultural Studies
Ritam Sarkar
Area of Research: Graphic Narratives/Literary City
Shivam Goswami
Area of Research: Crime Fiction
Somjeeta Pandey
Area of Research: South Asian Literature, Eco-Criticism & Feminism
Sriya Das
Area of Research: City Studies/Crime Fiction
