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Ishanika Sharma

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of English

Email: Ishanika.Sharma@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Emory University, 2024
    Major: English
  • MA, Emory University, 2021
    Major: English

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • ENGL 3000 - Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation Skills, 1 course.
  • ENGL 4245 - Postcolonial Literature and Theory, 2 courses.
  • ENGL 5810 - Survey of Critical Theory, 1 course.

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Journal Article

  • Sharma, I. (2024). ““Just Us”: On the Haunting Pronouns of Partition". ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 55 (1) 77-104.
  • Sharma, I. (2023). “Puns Upon a Time: Beyond the Monologic Discourse of History in Sea of Poppies”. Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies. 10 (1/2) 37-53.

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Sharma, I. (Author & Presenter), Writing Across Emory (WAE) Workshop, Challenges to Bhopal Storytelling, Emory University, United States of America. (2024 - 1984).

    • Panel Presentation

  • Sharma, I. (Author & Presenter), Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Hurricane Katrina and the Rise of Postcolonial Disaster Studies, Modern Language Association, New Orleans, United States of America. (2025 - 2025).
  • Sharma, I. (Author & Presenter), Annual Conference on South Asia, Catastrophic Coming of Age in Khaufpur: Bildungsroman, Bhopal, and Beyond, Center for South Asia, U of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Sharma, I. (Author & Presenter), American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, “What Else is Left?”: Apokalis after Apocalypse in Animal’s People, American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Sharma, I. (Author & Presenter), Annual Conference on South Asia, Manto’s Hauntings, or, Pronouns Against Partitions, Center for South Asia, U of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).

    • Symposium

  • Sharma, I. (Author & Presenter), Bhopal at 40: Remembering and Storytelling Symposium, The Wrong Side of the Tracks: Navigating Bhopal Storytelling, South Asian Review, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Sharma, I., "CLASS Small Grant," sponsored by College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2024 - 2025).

Service

University Service

  • Guest Speaker, Sigma Tau Delta Commencement. (December 3, 2024).
  • Workshop Organizer, Graduate Program - Workshop on Teaching Literature. (August 12, 2024).

Professional Service

  • Editor, Journal Editor, Studies in the Novel. (August 19, 2024 - Present).