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Dr. Sangjukta Roy

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Assistant Professor

English

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

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Memory studies, South Asian Migration Literature, Postcolonial writing

Transcultural Memory Studies in South Asian Migration Literature

Mail: sangjukta.roy@sru.edu.in

Educational
Qualifications
(From Highest)

2026

Ph.D in English

2018

M.A in English literature

2016

B.A Hons. in English

Key Publications

Roy, Sangjukta and Binod Mishra. "Ghosts of Conflict: An Interview with Shehan Karunatilaka on Memory, Myth, and Political History in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida." ariel: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 57 no. 1, 2026, p. 117-133. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ari.2026.a989322. Scopus Q1

Roy, S., Mishra, B. (2025). Remembering and Forgetting War Memory in Nayomi Munaweera's Island of a Thousand Mirrors. In: Malhotra, S., Assad, S.S., Tasnim, F., Pahadi, S.C., Bidani, S. (eds) Trauma and Memory Studies: Responses from India and Beyond. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-6374-3_16 (Scopus-indexed)

Roy, Sangjukta, and Binod Mishra. 2024. “Travelling Memories and Temporality: A Comparative Study of Queen of Dreams and Memories of Rain.” Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 71 (3): 268–89. doi:10.1080/20512856.2025.2528258. Scopus Q2

Sangjukta Roy and Binod Mishra. “Unveiling the Past: Palimpsestic Memory in All the Lives We Never Lived”. The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 16, no. 3, June 2025, pp. 117–39, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15815987. MLA-Indexed

Awards and Honors / Achievements

award

Awarded the best paper for“Unravelling Memory: The Collective, Spatial, and Temporal Ecology in The Moor's Last Sigh” at Indian Network for Memory Studies 2024 conference “Memory, Security, and Sustainability 2024” organised by IIT Madr

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