Sreemoyee Bhattacharyya
PhD - Second Year
B.A. English and Creative Writing, Ashoka University
M.Phil. Children’s Literature, Trinity College Dublin
moyeeb@brandeis.edu
Research Interests
Elegy, New Materialisms, Feminist Theory, decolonial methods, Environmental humanities, Children’s Literature, poetry and medicine
Presentations
"Dying 'Things' and Eco-Identity in Savi and the Memory Keeper." Because It Lasts: Time and Space in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Media, University of British Columbia, June 2022.
“Moody Materiality in Meena Kandasamy’s ‘Elegy to my first keyboard’.” NEMLA, Boston, March 2024.
“Limbs, Flesh, Etcetera: Choreographic and Carnal Power in Sarah Crossan’s One.” Looking Back, Looking Forward, Children’s Literature Association Conference, May 2024.
Awards
Gilmore-Valenze Prize
Mandel Dissertation Innovation Grant 2023-2024
Brandeis-India Fellowship (Summer 2024)
Publication
"Spirals On Skin," in Reimagining Queer Utopias: Voices from South Asia. (Shuddhashar, 2022).
Favorite Works
Obit by Victoria Chang, The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam, Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli, Savi and the Memory Keeper by Bijal Vachharajani