Debanjali Roy
Assistant Professor I
Dr. Debanjali Roy (she/her) presently works an Assistant Professor of English in School of Liberal Studies, KIIT Deemed to be University, India. She has completed her Ph.D. from the Department of English, University of Calcutta. Recipient of the prestigious T.S. Sterling Scholarship for academic excellence from Presidency College (presently University), Kolkata, she graduated First Class in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses of studies in English Literature and has received recognition from international organisations of repute, including a travel grant to Oxford University, UK, Erasmus Mundus Teacher Exchange Fellowship, UK and scholarships from Regional English Language Office, US Embassy, India. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in Mass Communication from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Her academic contributions include publications in journals listed in UGC-CARE and indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. She has also co-edited a book titled Language and Cross-Cultural Communication in Travel and Tourism: Strategic Adaptations published by Apple Academic Press, Taylor and Francis, USA. She has delivered talks and chaired sessions related to literature and culture studies in several national and international conferences and is presently associated with international organisations as the RELO Alumni Association, Association for Women’s Rights in Development, ELTAI to name a few. In 2023, she received the award for presenting the Best Paper in the International Conference on Rethinking Education in the Age of AI held in Chitkara University by EDUREFORM, European Union. Her interest areas include Educational AI, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Women’s Writings in English, Queer studies, Popular Fiction and Culture and Film Studies
M.A.(Eng. Lit.), PGDMC, Ph.D.
Awards & Honours
"Woman of Substance Award in the category of Excellence in Education by Women of Substance Network & Awards, #SheInspire Magazine, 2023. Chaired a session on Building Memories: The Influence of Systems in the International Conference on Memory, University of Oxford, UK, 2023. Invited for delivering lectures and conducting sessions in the General Attribute Development Programme (GADP) conducted by BOPT(Eastern Region), Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, 2021 and 2022."
"1.Queering/Querying the Nation: Interrogating Alternative Mythography In Devdutt Pattanaik’s Shikhandi. The World of the Orient, 2023. DOI: 10.15407/orientw2023.03.171 (Scopus indexed)
2.From Textbooks to Chatbots: Integrating AI in English literature classrooms of India. 2023. Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 2023. DOI: 10.20368/1971-8829/1135860 (Scopus indexed)
3.The Self, the Other And the Avatar: Analysing Communication and Identities in Metaverse. Journal of Content, Community and Communication, 2023. DOI: 10.31620/JCCC.09.23/04 (Scopus indexed)
4.Populism, OTTs, and Stardom: Demystifying the Aura. Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century, Springer, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9859-0_412-1
5.From Anonymity to Identity: Orality in Three Women Poets from North-East India. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2022. DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v14n2.ne34 (Scopus indexed)
6.The Paradox of Free Will: Scrutinizing (Pseudo) Individualization Through Indian Television Commercials. Human Arenas, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s42087-022-00273-y (Scopus indexed)
7.Of Pandemic and Pedagogic Reconstruction: An Epistemological Enquiry into Digital Education in India. Evolution of Digitized Societies Through Advanced Technologies, Springer, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2984-7_5
8.Tyrannous Minds and Tamed Bodies: The Curious Case of Irene Adler from Canon to Screen. 2021. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2021. DOI: 10.21659/RUPKATHA.V13N4.44 (Scopus indexed)
9.Deconstructing language classrooms: A study of digital learning in the Indian context. IUP Journal of English Studies, 2020. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/deconstructing-language-classrooms-study-digital/docview/2464178308/se-2 (Scopus indexed)"