Trauma and Memory Studies: Responses from India and Beyond

Simi Malhotra is Professor and Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. Her research areas are contemporary literary and cultural theory, including post theoretical developments, with research guidance, teaching and publications primarily concerning the same. Her latest publications are the edited books Globalization and Sense-Making Practices: Phenomenologies of the Global, Local and Glocal (Routledge, 2024), Affective World-Making: Routing Planetary Thought (Routledge, 2023), Globalization and Planetary Ethics: New Terrains of Consciousness (Routledge, 2024), Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation (Springer, 2021) and Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges (Springer, 2021), and the co-authored books Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization (Würzburg University Press, 2021), and Ocean as Method: Thinking With The Maritime (Routledge, 2022). She is a recipient of several grants and awards including the 2020 DUO-India Professor Fellowship Award and the grant under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India sponsored ‘Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaborations’ (SPARC). Most recently, she has been awarded the University Grants Commission-Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service), UGC-DAAD Project Based Personnel Exchange Programme (PPP) 2021-22 to carry out a Project as Principal Investigator on “Mobile Feminisms: Gender, Social Media, Transnational Interactions” in collaboration with Prof Dr Mary Ann Snyder-Körber, English and American Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany. She has visited several universities on fellowships, to deliver talks and presentations including University of Munster, Munster, Germany (May 2023), Julius Maximilians Universität, Würzburg, Germany (May 2023) on UGC-DAAD Project Based Personnel Exchange Programme (PPP) and University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (2018).

Sheikh Sana Assad is a PhD Scholar at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Her doctoral work engages with Trauma and Memory Studies with a focus on transgeneration trauma, post-memory and prosthetic memory. Her work also focuses on affective politics, women's activism, and the role of literature in memory preservation. She has also presented her research at various national and international conferences across India and abroad. She has led several workshops at the University of Kashmir. She was Ministry of Education- SPARC fellow in Vernacular languages, in 2022, at the South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Farhana Tasnim is a PhD Scholar at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, and works in the field of Cultural Studies, Memory Studies and Trauma Studies. Her research centres on the literature of melancholia with a particular focus on the literary oeuvre of Orhan Pamuk. She has also participated in several seminars and workshops. She has also presented papers at national and international conferences.

Somya Charan Pahadi is a PhD Scholar at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia. Her areas of study are Trauma Theory, Memory Studies and Contemporary Indian Literature. Her research is on the intersection of Trauma and Childhood in the Indian context. She has presented papers at several national and international conferences across the country. She has taught English and Communication Skills in colleges across New Delhi.

Dr. Sango Bidani is a former faculty member of the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia. He was recently awarded his PhD degree, for his thesis titled A Critical Study of the Cinematic Adaptations of Devdas in the Indian Subcontinent. His areas of research interest are in the fields of Adaptation Studies, Film Studies, Translation Studies, Partition Studies and Trauma and Memory Studies. He has three book chapter publications to his name, the latest being “The Trope of the Bastard Child: A Close Study of Children of War (2014)” published in a volume titled Articulating Childhood Trauma: In the Context of War, Sexual Abuse and Disability in 2024.