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Mayurika Chakravorty

Instructor, Department of English and Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Childhood and Youth Studies), Carleton University

I teach in the Department of English and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Childhood and Youth Studies) at Carleton University.
Research areas/interests:
> Postcolonial Fantasy and Science Fiction
> South Asian Literature and Popular Culture
> Representations of childhood/girlhood
> Diaspora Literature
> Literature and/of Globalization
> Pedagogical strategies in Humanities and Social Sciences

I teach courses in South Asian Literature, Global Literature, Postcolonial and Diaspora Literature, as well as the cultures and representations of childhood.

Experience

  • –present
    INSTRUCTOR (FULL-TIME), Carleton University

Education

  • 2012 
    SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UK, Ph.D., SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Grants and Contracts

  • 2019
    Republic of Childhood (Co-applicant)
    Role:
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada