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Dr. Kanika Godara

Assistant professor

Kanika Godara is currently working as Assistant Professor in School of Liberal Education, Division of English. Her PhD topic is titled “Theorizing Anthropocene and Climate Fiction: A Study of Selected Literary Works.” She is an avid reader and has a keen eye for detail and research. She has an ongoing project with Springer, where she is currently a Section Editor of the upcoming “Encyclopaedia of the Anthropocene”. Member of the International Research NetworkEducation in the Anthropocene” to WERA (World Education Research Association) from May 2024.

Qualification

  • Ph.D. in English from Central University of Haryana
  • M.A. in English from Panjab University
  • B.A. (Hons) English from Miranda House, Delhi University

Publications

  • Presented papers at several conferences at both national and international levels covering all the Tier 1 institutes, Cambridge Assessment English, University of Frankfurt, University of Angers, University of Leeds, IIT Delhi, IIT Patna, DU, EFLU Hyderabad, VIT Chennai, NIT Andra Pradesh, BHU, CURAJ.
  • Denise Riley’s Socialized Biology: Navigating the Boundaries Between Social and Biological Realms in Library Progress International (SCOPUS) Vol.44, No.3, Jul-Dec 2024: P.138-151
  • “Navigating the Anthropocene: A Critical Analysis of Climate Fiction in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140” in an upcoming book titled “Revisiting Anthropocentrism: Literary and Cultural Representations of Ecological Issues” by Springer Publication on 25th March 2024
  • “Narratives of Resilience: Human and Non-Human Resistance in Climate Fiction during the Anthropocene” in Arcadiana Journal EASLCE (European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment), 8th March 2024
  • “Narrating the Anthropocene: A Study of Climate Fiction in the Age of Human Impact” in Peer Reviewed International Journal of English and Studies (IJOES) Vol 6, Issue-1, January 2024
  • “Delineating Anthropocene and Climate Fiction in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and MaddAddam” in UGC Care Journal of Oriental Institute  72, July-September 2023,ISSN: 0030-5324 (Offline)
  • “From Science to Storytelling: The Evolution of Cli-Fi in Addressing the Anthropocene” inSCOPUS Journal Webology, 18, No.6, November 2021, ISSN:1735-188X
  • “Welcome to the new time, to our Epoch: The Anthropocene,” in Purakala UGC Care Journal. Vol-31, Issue-52, June 2020, ISSN:0971-2143.
  • Simulacra and Science-Fiction: The Simulation Argument,” in International Research Journal of Management Sociology & Humanities (IRJMSH)“in Vol-11, Issue-, Feb 2020, ISSN: 2277-9809(0) 2348- 9359(P)
  • “Portrayal of Metamodernism in Contemporary Literature” in the book Intercultural and Marginalised Voices in Contemporary Literature. ISBN 9788194679912 in 2020

Area of Interest

  • Anthropocene
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Critical and Cultural Studies
  • Speculative Fiction