Dr. Swathi Krishna S

Publications

1″Rainbow in Gethen: Queer Utopia and Community Collectivism in Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘Coming of Age in Karhide.'” Literature Compass, October 2023, Wiley, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12746. (with Aleena A. Paul)
2″Traversing Ruins: Kristen Radtke’s Post-Apocalyptic Dark Tours in Imagine Wanting Only This.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, August 2023, Taylor & Francis Online, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2249537. (with Namitha Soman)
3“Violence and Taoist Ethics in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest.” UKL: The Journal of Ursula K. Le Guin Studies.(Accepted, 2023) (with Aleena A. Paul) (Research Note)
4“Roads, Misogyny, and the Rape Culture in Joyce Carol Oates’ Rape: A Love Story and Cara Hoffman’s So Much Pretty.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, vol. 34, no. 3, Nov. 2023, pp. 196-219, Taylor & Francis Online, DOI: 10.1080/10436928.2023.2239697. (with Srirupa Chatterjee)
5″Louisa May Alcott.” Women Who Changed the World: Their Lives, Challenges, and Accomplishments through History. Vol. 1. Cardice Goucher (Ed.). Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO Press, 2022, pp. 32-38, publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440868252. (Book Chapter)
6″Between Maternity and Autonomy: Radical Mothering in Mona Simpson’s Anywhere but Here”. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 63, no.2, Aug. 2021, pp. 232-246.
Taylor & Francis Online, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2021.1959291 (with Srirupa Chatterjee).
7″The Politics of Fear: Female Horror, Male Violence, and Space in Contemporary Hindi Cinema.” Ghosts, Monsters, and Occult: The Politics of Popular Culture in India. Dibyakusum Ray and Riksundar Banerjee (Eds.). Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press. (Invited Chapter, Forthcoming) (with Mahima Raj C.)
8″From Controversy to Credence: Discredit, Blasphemy, and Counterculture Sexuality in
John Updike’s Couples.” Global Literatures since World War II: Critical Perspectives from India, edited by Srirupa Chatterjee and Sharada Chigurupati. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Forthcoming) (with Srirupa Chatterjee) (Book Chapter)
9“No Longer Innocent: Male Gaze, Violence, and Female Kinship in Kishwar Desai’s The Sea of Innocence.” Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India, edited by Swathi Krishna S., and Srirupa Chatterjee. Maryland, USA: Lexington Books, 2023, pp. 19-31. (with Srirupa Chatterjee) (Book Chapter)
10″Apocalyptic Imagery in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.” The Explicator, vol. 75, no. 4, Dec. 2017, pp. 234-238, Taylor & Francis Online, doi: 10.1080/00144940.2017.1379464. (with Srirupa Chatterjee)
11″Mina Loy’s PARTURITION and L’Écriture Féminine.” The Explicator, vol.73, no. 4, Nov. 2015, pp. 257-261, Taylor & Francis Online, doi: 10.1080/00144940.2015.1087377. (with Srirupa Chatterjee)
12Wages for Housework Campaign. Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection, edited by Peg A. Lamphier and Rosanne Welch, ABC-CLIO Press, 2017. (Encyclopedia Entry)
13Dreams. Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present, edited by Patrick J. Hayes, ABC- CLIO Press, 2016. (Encyclopedia Entry)
1″Negotiating Feminine Autonomy and Identity: Diasporic Anxieties in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices”. The IUP Journal of English Studies, vol. 9, no.3, Sept.2014, pp. 7-16, IUP Publications Online.
1The Difficult Road: Migration Crisis and Diego Quemada Diez’s The Golden Dream”. Webinar entitled “Theorizing Humanities in the Times of Crisis” organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Ropar, India from 21-23 September 2020.
2“Feminist Mythos: Revisionist Mythmaking in Meena Kandasamy’s Ms Militancy.” International Conference on “Globalization: Prospects and Challenges.” Osmania University Centre for International Programmes, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. March 03-05, 2020.
3“Reclaiming the Road: The Resilient Female Traveler in Joyce Carol Oates’s Rape: A Love Story.” The 50th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Washington, DC, USA. March 21-24, 2019.
4“Pragmatism and the Working-Class Woman in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven.” The 47th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Hartford, Connecticut, USA. March 17- 20, 2016.
5“Dismantling the ‘Sacred Maternal’: Motherhood in Mona Simpson’s Anywhere but Here.” Conference titled “Grappling with the Sacred.” Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, India. January 21_24, 2016.
6“Eros and Blasphemy in John Updike’s Couples.” The14th MELUS-India/ MELOW-International conference titled “Damn the Book, Gag the Voice: Literature and Censorship.” Chandigarh, India. February 20- 22, 2015.
7“Negotiating Female Autonomy and Identity: Diasporic Anxieties in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices.” Conference titled “‘Building Bridges’: Contemporary Research in Gender Studies.” Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Hyderabad, India. March 24– 26, 2014.
1“Female Adventurer and the Counterculture in Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying.” National Seminar on “Themes and Narratives in Postwar American Fiction.” Osmania University Centre for International Programmes, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. December 27- 28, 2016.