Dr. Ambika Bhatnagar

Assistant Professor – Humanities

Ms. Ambika Bhatnagar

Interest Area(s)

  • Disability Studies
  • Queer Studies
  • Graphic Novels
  • 20th Century British Literature
Ambika is a UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) scholar certified in December 2018 with a 99.91 percentile. She is highly passionate about what she does. She incorporates various creative assessment tools like Kahoot, Canva, and Mentimeter, to test the learning graph of students’ basis of their presentation and other formative skills. Her doctoral dissertation develops a multifaceted approach that examines narratives of physical impairment in Indian English Novels. Through her teaching and research experience, she has presented papers at international conferences in India and abroad, including institutions such as IIT Patna, King’s College London, and Delhi University. Furthermore, she has obtained certifications from prestigious institutions such as Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Ministry of Human Resource Development in India.
  • PhD (2021- pursuing)
  • UGC NET JRF (2018)
  • MH SET (2016)
  • MA English (2012-2014)
  • BA (Hons.) English (2009-2012)
5 Years
  • Narratives of Disability: A Study of Selected Indian English Novels.
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A. International Conference
  • 9 National & International Conference Presentations
    The Confluence of Disability and Queerness in 1st World Disability Conference on ‘Contemporary Interventions in Disability Discourse’, jointly organized by Enabling Unit, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi and Divyang Employees’ Welfare Association (DEWA)
  • Contours of Disability, Hegemony and Subversive Carnival in Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey in ‘King’s India Institute Graduate Conference 2022- Change & Continuity in South Asia: Unpacking Identity, Security & Technology, organized by King’s India Institute, King’s College, London and South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore
  •  Recalling the Nuances of Queer in Hindu Vedic Literature in Contemporary Trends and Development in Cultural Studies and the Humanities organized by New Literaria in collaboration with the Department of History, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  • Graphical Representation of Invisible Disability in Georgia Webber’s Dumb in The International Virtual Conference on Humanities through Literature, Film and Media organized by the School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai
  • Grammar of Gutter and Grids: Deciphering Delhi Calm in Decolonising the Panel, Deconstructing the Gutter hosted by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Patna in association with Postcolonial Studies Association UK
  • Investigating Kaleidoscopic Presentation of Trans Identities in Decolonising the Panel, Deconstructing the Gutter hosted by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Patna in association with Postcolonial Studies Association UK
  • Queer Mysticism: Projections and Resistance in Amruta Patil’s Kari in Decolonising the Panel, Deconstructing the Gutter hosted by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Patna in association with Postcolonial Studies Association UK (co-authored)
  • Exploring Gendered Identities in Indian Mythology in International Conference on “Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: Issues, Facts and Approaches”, organized by Altinbas University, Turkey
  • Homosexuality as a Way to Self-Discovery in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, in International Conference on “Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: Issues, Facts and Approaches”, organized by Altinbas University, Turkey (co-authored)
  • 4 Papers in UGC Care Listed Journals
  • 4 Book Chapters