PRIYANKA TRIPATHI

Priyanka Tripathi is an associate professor of English and head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India. She is the co-executive editor of the Journal of International Women’s Studes (JIWS). She has been awarded a visiting research fellowship (2022–2023), by the Institute for Advanced Studies
in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, for her project titled ‘Optimizing Caste Intersectionality: A Decolonial
Reading of Gender-based Violence in Select Subaltern Fiction in India’. She has published extensively in Indian Literature, Journal
of Graphic Novels and Comics, GeoHumanities and Economic and Political Weekly amongst others. She has received several grants, such
as the JIWS fellowship 2021–2022 (Bridgewater State University), the Shastri Conference and Lecture Series Grant (SCLSG) 2021–2022, the Post-colonial Association Grant 2020–2021 and the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) Conference Gant 2020 amongst others.
She has also worked on several government-sponsored projects related to gender issues. She works in the area of gender studies,
South Asian fiction, GeoHumanities and graphic novels.