Assistant Professor

Dr Argha Basu

Department of Literature and Languages

Interests

  • Environmental Humanities
  • Communication Studies
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Feminist Philosophy

Faculty Details

Education

2011

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College,
Narendrapur, India
BA

2013

University of Calcutta
India
M A

2015

University of Calcutta
India
MPhil

2024

Indian Institute of Technology Patna
India
PhD

Experience

  • June 2025 – Present – Assistant Professor (Department of Literature and Languages - Easwari School of Liberal Arts) – SRM University AP
  • June 2024 – June 2025 – Assistant Professor (Department of English and Foreign Languages) – SRM Institute of Science and Technology (Kattankulathur)
  • July 2021 – June 2024 – Teaching Assistant (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences) – Indian Institute of Technology Patna
  • August 2016 – July 2021 – Assistant Professor (Department of Basic Engineering Sciences and Humanities) – Netaji Subhash Engineering College (MAKAUT)
  • August 2014 – August 2016 – Visiting Faculty (Department of English) – Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya (University of Calcutta)

Research Interest

1. Exploring the intersections of feminist philosophy, environmental humanities, and speculative storytelling, with a particular interest in how narratives challenge extractive logics and anthropocentric worldviews. It focuses on relationality, care, and multispecies ethics as conceptual frameworks to engage with questions of ecological justice, gendered subjectivities, and the imagination of alternative futures.

2. Introducing Communicative English through interdisciplinary encounters with fiction, sustainability narratives and practical necessities (considering the emergence of GEN-AI). It is concerned with reimagining classroom practices that move beyond functional language instruction toward critical, creative, and ethically (and culturally) attuned communication.

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2019 - UGC JRF

Memberships

  • IACLALS, the Indian chapter of the International ACLALS (Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) - since 2024
  • Utopian Studies Society Europe - since 2025

Publications

Publications in Journals

    • Poetics and Politics of Seclusion: Approaching Purdah through Intersectionality in Select Works of Indian Female Authors – A. Basu, P. Tripathi, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 35(3), 229–253 (2024) (Taylor & Francis, Scopus)
    • In Search of Redemption: Approaching Dalit Masculinities in Article 15 (2019) and Jai Bhim (2021) – A. Basu, P. Tripathi, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific 50 (2023) (Australian National University, Scopus)
    • Philosophy and Morality in Practice through Media Texts: Review of the Web Series Kaala Paani – A. Basu, P. Tripathi, Media Asia 52(2), 342–348 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2023.2290781 (Taylor & Francis, Scopus)
    • Beyond Reproduction: An Epistemological Search for a ‘Woman’ in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape and The Island of Lost Girls – A. Basu, P. Tripathi, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 15(1), 37–53 (2023) (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Scopus)
    • An Essence of Postmodern Truth(s): Analyzing “Motherhood” in Red Clocks by Leni Zumas – A. Basu, P. Tripathi, Forum for World Literature Studies 15(2) (2023) (Knowledge Hub, Scopus)
    • Indigenous Epistemology, Media, and the Representation of Women in Kantara – A. Basu, P. Tripathi, Journal of International Women's Studies 25(4) (2023) (Bridgewater State University, Scopus)
    • Calibrating the ‘Feminine’ and the ‘Speculative’ in Selective Short Stories of Vandana Singh – A. Basu, P. Tripathi, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 64(3), 512–524 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2022.2057213 (Taylor & Francis, Scopus)
    • Sex-Selective Abortion and Media: Review of the Film Jayeshbhai Jordaar (2022) – A. Basu, P. Tripathi, Media Asia 50(2), 313–316 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2022.2116536 (Taylor & Francis, Scopus)
    • Comprehending the Bleeding Body: Epistemological Violence and (Un)Tabooing Menstruation in Selective Media Texts in India – A. Basu, P. Tripathi, Journal of International Women's Studies, August Issue (2022) (Bridgewater State University, Scopus)
    • Book Review: Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers: Exploring Radical Potentials – A. Basu, P. Tripathi, AAG Review (2022) (Taylor & Francis)
    • In Search of a ‘Forest Consciousness’: Investigating the Heterotopian Design in Aranyer Adhikar (Right to Forest, 1977) by Mahasweta Devi – A. Basu, Cape Comorin, (Special Issue VI), November (2020)
    • Between the ‘inner’ and the ‘outer’ space: An Investigation into the Socio-cultural Location of Women in Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World – A. Basu, Official Journal of the Women’s Studies Department, Lady Brabourne College (2017)
    • A Decolonial Reading of the Dystopian Narratives About Feticide and Infanticide in Hindi Films – A. Basu, P. Tripathi, Kritika Kultura (Ateneo de Manila University), FORTHCOMING (Scopus)

Book Chapters

    • The Principles and Practice of Digital Content Writing – A. Basu, Digital Landscape: Communication in the 21st Century (Springer), FORTHCOMING.

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