Sainico NINGTHOUJAM
World literature; ecocriticism; landscape; postcolonial studies; uneven development; short story; literary form; historical fiction
Sainico Ningthoujam is a doctoral scholar whose research project focuses on literary narratives from South Asia to interrogate the imagination and representation of the environment. By examining literary form and aesthetics, she juxtaposes metropolitan and peripheral landscapes to explore uneven development in postcolonial environments.
M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2017
B.A. (Hons), University of Delhi, 2015
Articles and Reviews
鈥淏anality of Violence: (Mis)Remembering the Past鈥�.听Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium, Special Issue: Modernities in the Contact Zone. Translating Across Unfamiliar Objects, Vol. 8 No. 1, 2023.
鈥淕ender in Folk Tales: Re-reading Khamba Thoibi鈥�. Zubaan Books E-essays. 2020.
Public Scholarship
鈥淚n Manipur, Violence Against Women, Impunity, and Apathy Show a Familiar Pattern of Events鈥�. The Wire, July, 2023
鈥淭he Woman in Phanek: Various Contradictions of the Sacred Meitei Sarong.鈥� Sahapedia, 2020.
鈥淚n conversation with National Awardee: Mayanglambam Radhamani Devi.鈥� Sahapedia, 2020.
- Tomlinson Doctoral Fellowship, 2022-2025
- Sahapedia-UNESCO Research Fellowship, 2019-2020
- Zubaan-Sasakawa Peace Foundation Research Grant 2019-2020
- Anuradha Bhardwaj Award for Consistent Academic Excellence, 2014-2015