Assistant Professor

Dr Rajbir Samal

Department of Literature and Languages

Interests

  • Literary Food Studies
  • Critical Sensory Studies
  • Dalit Literature

Education

2017

Fakir Mohan University
India
B.A.

2019

Banaras Hindu University
India
M.A.

2025

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
India
Ph.D.

Experience

  • July 2025 – Present – Assistant Professor (Grade-1) – SRM University-AP
  • March 2024 – June 2025 – Lecturer – Atal Behari College, Bhadrak, Odisha

Research Interest

  • Interested in locating the intersectionality of food and marginal identities in literary and cultural texts coming out of South Asia
  • Understanding socio-cultural construction of human senses and their entanglements with caste and other marginalized identities

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2019 – NET-JRF – University Grants Commission, India

Memberships

  • Core Member, Indian Network for Food Studies

Publications

Journal Publications

  • (En)gendering Indian Kitchen: Discourses of Gender, Space and Women in Ambai’s ‘A kitchen in the corner of the house’ – R. Samal and B. Mishra, Journal for Cultural Research (2025) (Scopus)
  • Otherized Food, Racialized Bodies: Discourses of Food, Smell and Racism in Nicholas Kharkongor’s Axone – R. Samal and B. Mishra, South Asian Popular Culture, 22 (1), 1-15 (2024) (Scopus)
  • Politics of Food and Gender in Bulbul Sharma’s The Anger of Aubergines and Eating Women, Telling Tales – R. Samal and B. Mishra, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 65 (2), 358-66 (2024) (Scopus)
  • A Widow’s Diet: Negotiating Politics of Food and Widowhood in The Anger of Aubergines – R. Samal and B. Mishra, IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship, 12 (2), 23-34 (2023) (Scopus)
  • Gendered Cooking and Indian Marriages: Reading Tarla from a Feminist Viewpoint – R. Samal and B. Mishra, Feminist Media Studies, 24 (3), 651-55 (2023) (Scopus)
  • Odouring Foodscapes, Ordering Gender: Mapping Women and Caste in Samskara and The Weave of My Life – G. Thiyagaraj, R. Samal and B. Mishra, Agenda, 37 (1), 72-84 (2023) (Scopus)
  • (En)gendering diaspora: Negotiating food, culture and women in select Indian diasporic novels – R. Samal and B. Mishra, Ars Aeterna, 15 (2), 43-55 (2023) (Scopus)

Books/Edited Volumes

  • Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature – Z. Hussain, G. Rabani, and R. Samal, Bloomsbury. (Forthcoming)

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