Description:
'Queer Representation in Literature and Culture' offers a timely and critical exploration of how queerness is depicted, negotiated, and resisted across diverse literary and cultural texts. Bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives, the volume examines queer identities, desires, and politics through the lenses of decoloniality, and intersectionality. With contributions that span literature, cinema, digital media, and popular culture, this book foregrounds voices and narratives that challenge heteronormative, and patriarchal frameworks. Accessible yet scholarly, it is an essential resource for those interested in the intersections of gender, sexuality, culture, and power in contemporary discourse.
Brief description: Dhishna Pannikot is an Associate Professor in English in the School of Social Sciences & Management, National Institute of Technology Karnataka. She specializes in travel writing, cultural studies, gender studies and comparative literature. She completed her MA, MPhil, and PhD at Pondicherry Central University and won the gold medal for the Best Meritorious PhD in 2010. She won the Venus International Foundation award, "Young Woman in Language Studies," for her contribution to and achievement in the field of English Language in 2017. She has widely travelled to countries including Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia to give talks at conferences and present papers. She won the best paper award at the IEDRC conference in Bali, Indonesia, in 2016. She is guiding ten research scholars in multidisciplinary areas of literature. She is a member of professional bodies including the Indian Association for Women's Studies, ASLE India, the International Economics Development Research Centre, and the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS). She had served as a resource person at numerous national and international conferences in India and abroad. She has published a book on 'Outcome Based Education: Towards a Pedagogic Shift' in 2016. She has published in various national and international journals, including Scopus publications.