Research Interests: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Literature, Cultural Criminology, Queer Theory, Digital Humanities, World Literature.  

Anhiti Patnaik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (Hyderabad) where she teaches courses in Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, and Crime and New Media. Her areas of interest include Cultural Criminology, Queer Theory, Digital Humanities, Trauma Studies, and Victorian and Neo-Victorian Literature. She is currently supervising two PhD projects on gender and posthumanism in digital literature, and feminist criminologies in South Indian cinema.

 

Anhiti completed her PhD titled "Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics of Murder: Jack the Ripper to Dorian Gray" in the Department of Cultural Studies at Trent University, Canada, which was fully funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Anhiti is a Fellow of The School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University and The Institute of World Literature, Harvard University. Her work has been published in international journals such as Neo-Victorian Studies, Victorian Network, Brontë Studies, and Journal of World Literature. She has also published book chapters in Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and Image (McGill-Queen's University Press) and Horror Fiction in the Global South (Bloomsbury). 

 

She also composes short fiction and poetry, and won a travel prize sponsored by The School for the Study of Canada to visit Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in 2018 to study Oscar Wilde's influence on Maritime culture. Before pursuing her PhD abroad, she completed her M.Phil. in English Literature at the University of Delhi, Masters at St. Stephen's and was awarded the prize for Best Student in English at Lady Shri Ram College for Women.

 

She may be contacted at:
anhitipatnaik@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
 Consultation chamber. K 109
Telephone ext. 901  

 

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