Anushmita Mohanty

  • Graduate Instructor, English
  • Plan A Literature and Cultural Theory, PhD

Education

  • MA, World Literatures in English, University of Oxford
  • BA, English Honours, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi 

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ENGLISH 102-212 College Writing and Research No Meeting Pattern
ENGLISH 102-213 College Writing and Research No Meeting Pattern

Courses Taught

  • ENGLISH 101 -  Introduction to College Writing
  • ENGLISH 102 -  College Writing and Research
  • ENGLISH 215 - Introduction to English Studies

Teaching Interests

  • Postcolonial literature
  • world literatures
  • children's literature
  • fantasy fiction
  • Asian literature
  • women's writing

Research Interests

  • Literary Pedagogy
  • Education
  • History of English
  • Transnational Literature
  • Reading Practices
  • History of the Book
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Children's Literature 

Awards

2023 Chancellor's Graduate Student Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of English, College of Letters and Sciences

2023 Digital Humanities Teaching Fellowship Award

2022 Chancellor's Graduate Student Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of English, College of Letters and Sciences

2020 Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellowship

Selected Publications

"Manjula Padmanabhan's Feminist Dystopian Science Fiction", Interstellar Flight Magazine Anthology, ed. Holly Lyn Walrath, 2021. ISBN-10: 1953736149

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