Shyamasri Maji

Shyamasri Maji is an Assistant Professor in English at Durgapur Women’s College (affiliated to Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol). She completed her MA, M.Phil and PhD in English from the University of Burdwan in West Bengal, India. The title of her doctoral thesis is “Anxiety of Representation in Select Anglo-Indian Writers.” Areas of her research interest include Diasporic Studies, Postcolonial literature and the Anglo-Indian community. Her articles have been published in international journals such as Antipodes, Indialogs, Doc On-Line, International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies and Third World Thematics (Routledge). Her book reviews have been published in Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature. She is the recipient of Independent Research Fellowship 2018-19 at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. Under this fellowship programme, she completed a short-term research project on select documentary films on the Anglo-Indian community. She writes short stories and poems in English, some of which have been published in Muse India (“The Nettle Leaves”), Six Seasons Review (“Maya’s Apartment”), Story Mirror (“The Birthday Party”), Setu (“Skin Poems”), Kolkata Fusion, Café Dissensus, Indian Periodical, Borderless Journal and Teesta Review. Contact: shyamasri.2010@gmail.com