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Prof.Debashrita Dey

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Humanities and Social Sciences

Email: debashrita[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

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Research Interest: Health Humanities, Ageing Studies (Literary & Cultural Gerontology), Care Narratives, Feminist Studies, Narrative and Media

Curriculum
Vitae
Publications

Teaching

1. Health, Culture, and Humanities (NHSD546)- UG/PhD Level

2. Communication Skills (NHSA101)- UG Level

3. Communication Skills Lab (NHSA102)- UG Level

 

Academics

PhD - Indian Institute of Technology Patna

MA - Banaras Hindu University 

BA - St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta 

Position

1. Assistant Professor, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad - July 2025 - Present

2. Assistant Professor, Symbiosis Law School Pune, Symbiosis International (Deemed) University- January 2025 – July 2025

3. Assistant Professor, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai- June 2024 – December 2024

4. Teaching Assistant, IIT Patna - September 2020 – May 2024

Awards and Honors

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

SELECT JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. Dey, Debashrita & Tripathi, Priyanka. (2024). Too Old For Photosharing?: (Re) Construing Successful Ageing through Select Instagram Handles of Indian Elderly Female Influencers. Educational Gerontology (Taylor & Francis). https://doi.org/10.1080/03601277.2024.2368318.

  2. Dey, Debashrita & Tripathi, Priyanka. (2024). Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon: Reflections on the agentic cinematic portrayals/ presence of Zohra Sehgal in British Indian films. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. (Taylor & Francis). https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2024.2329924.

  3. Dey, Debashrita & Tripathi, Priyanka. (2024). ‘Robbed out of mind’: Reflections on Alzheimer's and gendered subjectivity in select Indian literary narrative. Journal of Aging Studies (Elsevier), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101211.

  4. Dey, Debashrita & Tripathi, Priyanka. (2024). Ageing, Alzheimer’s, and Precarity: Comprehending Vulnerabilities and Care Approaches in Select Indian Literary Fictions. SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English. (Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya). https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/SARE/article/view/53097/17033.

  5. Dey, Debashrita & Tripathi, Priyanka. (2022). “Queen of Misery” Nirupa Roy: Re-reading the Filmic Mother of 1980s Through Alternate Care Dynamics. Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Taylor & Francis), https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2022.2154526.

  6. Dey, Debashrita & Tripathi, Priyanka. (2022). Ageing identities and narratives of loss: (Re)Contextualising cognitive degeneration in ‘reel’ space and ‘real’ lives. Jindal Global Law Review (Springer), https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41020-022-00179-4.

  7. Dey, Debashrita & Tripathi, Priyanka. (2022). Compromised well-being: Implications on Female Geriatric Abuse during the COVID-19 Crisis in India. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare (Emerald Publishing), DOI: 10.1108/IJHRH-02-2022-0008.

  8. Dey, Debashrita & Tripathi, Priyanka. (2022). The Embodied Feminine Self: (Re) Constructing the Ageist Discourse in Select Indian Television Advertisements. Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Taylor & Francis), DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2022.2097574.

  9. Dey, Debashrita & Tripathi, Priyanka. (2021). Reconceptualising the (In) Visible Aging Self of Women in Select Bengali Films. South Asian Popular Culture (Taylor & Francis), DOI: 10.1080/14746689.2021.1965312

  10. Dey, Debashrita & Tripathi, Priyanka. (2021). Understanding the Efficacy of Teleconsultation in Assuaging Abuse Against Indian Women during Covid-19 Outbreak. Journal of Content, Community & Communication, DOI: 10.31620/JCCC.12.21/16.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Dey, Debashrita & Tripathi, Priyanka. (Forthcoming). Narratives of loss and care: Reading Indian advertisements through spousal bereavement and generational support. In Bernard Wilson & Sung-Ae Lee (Eds.), Ageing Asia: Multimedia Representations of Ageing and Older Adults in Asian Societies.

  2. Dey, Debashrita & Tripathi, Priyanka. (2025). De/Sexed ageing: Representations of female sexual subjectivities in select Indian media texts. In A. Viswamohan (Ed.), Women in contemporary Indian films and media. Routledge.

EDITORIAL ISSUE

Tripathi, Priyanka, Janet Wilson, and Debashrita Dey, editors. Gendered Space / Gendering Space: Reconfiguring the Representation of Gender Performativity in Postmillennial Indian Media Texts. Special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing, forthcoming, Taylor & Francis.

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  1. Dey, Debashrita and Priyanka Tripathi. “Continuity in Discontinuity’: Interpreting the Practice of ‘Narrative Care’ for Alzheimer’s in Select Indian Literary Texts" in Health in/of the Humanities, the Women in Literature, organised by The 65th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, 14–16 November 2024.
  2. Dey, Debashrita and Priyanka Tripathi. “The ‘Senile Hag’: Representations of Disability with Ageing and the Embodied ‘Other’ in Middle English Fabliaux” in Body Matters! Disability in English Literature to 1800, organised by the University of California, Santa Barbara, Early Modern Centre Conference, 1st-2nd March 2024.
  3. Dey, Debashrita. “The Senile Mind: Reflections on Alzheimer’s and Feminine Ageing Self in Select Indian Literary Texts” in Disability in South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora Annual Convention, organised by Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 5th-8th January 2023.
  4. Dey, Debashrita and Priyanka Tripathi. “‘Abhi Toh Mein Jawan Hoon’: Reflections on the Agentic Portrayal of Zohra Sehgal in British Asian Onscreen Adaptations” in Diaspora Screen Media Network International Conference, organised by Birmingham City University, UK, 17th-18th March 2022.
  5. Dey, Debashrita. “Rethinking Solidarity: (De) Gendered Empathy and (Inter) Subjectivity in Rituporno Ghosh’s Films” in the digital workshop titled Imaginations and Mediated Performances of Solidarity in (and beyond) South Asia, jointly organized by the Department of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region at Humboldt University, Berlin (GAMS) and Media Series of Doing Sociology Blog (JNU) India, 4th – 5th October 2021.

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

1. Received Major Research Project grant of Rs. 17,60,000 for the study titled “Healing Through Place and Affective Pilgrimage among Senior Citizens in Jharkhand”, funded by ICSSR, April 2026 [Ongoing].

2. Received Faculty Research Scheme grant of Rs. 4,79,644 for the study titled “Understanding Illness, Language and Clinical Encounters in Mining Affected Regions of Jharkhand”, funded by IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, May 2026 [Ongoing].

Guidance

1. Aryama Nandi (25DR0265) - Ongoing

2. Arthya Pandey (25DR0340)  - Ongoing

3. Taniya Roy (26DR0038)- Ongoing

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