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MONOGRAPHS

• 24 June 2024 [MONOGRAPH]. Anita Desai’s India: The Religious Plague, Holocaust, Decadence and Remembrance. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN: 9783838219561. [https://cup.columbia.edu/book/anita-desais-india/9783838219561]. [Post- and Decolonial Literature, Subalternity, Marginality and Politics of Culture]

 

DIGITAL RESEARCH PROJECT

• Associated Digital Project: The Sella Woollen Mill in Biella: A Digital Archive of Pietro Sella’s Epistolary Correspondence (1820-1837) - Open Literature, University of Turin (https://www.openliterature.unito.it/sella-woollen-mill-in-biella) [Digital Humanities, Industrial Literature and Politics of Culture].

 

ARTICLES

• [FORTHCOMING] [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL]. “Protean Whiteness and Hyphenated Flesh: Colonial Mimicry, Reproductive Extraction, and Subaltern Resistance in Doris Lessing and Ismat Chughtai.” Linguae & - A Journal of Modern Languages. A, ANVUR. [Postcolonial Anglophone Literature, Memory, Feminist Subalternity and Marginality]

 

• [FORTHCOMING] [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL]. “Coolie Crossings: Indo-Guyanese Women’s Poetic Memory of Indenture.” Il Tolomeo. A, ANVUR. [Post- and Decolonial Caribbean Anglophone Literature, Memory and Material Culture, Subalternity and Marginality, Digital Humanities]

 

• [FORTHCOMING] [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL]. “Mnemosyne Avant la Lettre: Rossetti’s “Sonnets for Pictures” and the Afterlife of the Italian Renaissance.” CoSMo. A, ANVUR. [Modernist British Literature]

 

• [FORTHCOMING] [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL]. “The Aesthetic of Awe and Attrition: Visualising the Toxic Sublime in Victorian Industrial Narratives.” Open Library of Humanities journal (OLHJ). [Victorian British Literature, Industrial Literature, Ecocriticism and Politics of Culture]

 

• [FORTHCOMING] [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL]. “Threads of Resistance: Feminist Materialism and the Labour of Double Colonisation in Bombay and Biella Textile Mills.” De Genere. A, ANVUR. [Industrial Literature, Gender Studies, Politics of Culture, Subalternity and Marginality]

 

• 14 January 2026 [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL]. “Precarious Agency: Gendered Resistance and Structural Oppression in The God of Small Things.” Illuminazioni. https://www.rivistailluminazioni.it/2026/01/11/harjot-banga/ [Subalternity and Marginality]

 

• 15 July 2025 [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL]. "From Pollution to Parable: The Green/Blue Aesthetics of Textile Production in a Changing Climate." ZoneModa Journal. A, ANVUR. https://zmj.unibo.it/ [Politics of Culture, Ecocriticism and Digital Humanities]

 

• 1 July 2025 [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL]. "Lanterne nel buio digitale: Riconquistare l’autorità e gli archivi di dissenso di Amitav Ghosh contro la cultura degli influencer." Ricognizioni. https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/11903/9980 [Digital Humanities and Politics of Culture]

 

• 9 December 2024 [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL]. “Unheard Voices: The Migrant Workers of Mumbai’s Cotton Mills and Narayan Surve’s Poetic Legacy.” Il Tolomeo. A, ANVUR. http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2024/01/007 [Dalit Literature, Industrial Literature and Urban Studies]

 

• 8 July 2024 [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL]. “Symbiotic Narratives for a De-colonial Turn: Exploring the Arboreal Identity in Sumana Roy’s Out of Syllabus.” Lagoonscapes. http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2024/01/004 [Decoloniality, Ecocriticism and Politics of Culture]

 

• 13 January 2024 [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL]. “Silent Witness and Suffering Waters: Environmental and Cultural Transformations along the Meenachal River in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things”. Postcolonial Interventions Vol. 9, no. 1. 40-66. ISSN 24556564. [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10658046]. [Post- and Decoloniality and Ecocriticism]

 

BOOK CHAPTER

• [FORTHCOMING] [BOOK CHAPTER]. “Voices of Resilience: Exploring Marginality and Resistance in Mumbai's Cotton Mills and Chawls through Ravan and Eddie.” Routledge [Urban Studies, Subalternity, Marginality, Industrial Literature and Politics of Culture]

 

CONFERENCES

• [TBA - 25-29 May 2026]. Paper Presentation. “Poetry as a Subaltern Archive: Narayan Surve’s Testimony of Migrant Labour in Bombay’s Cotton Mills,” 19th EACLALS. University of Turin.

 

• 30.01.2026. Paper Presentation. “The Realist Revolutionary: Bhagat Singh’s Secular Humanism and the Ideological Schism in Indian Anti-Colonialism,” Asian Entanglements (ISA). University of Turin.

 

• 11.09.2025. Paper Presentation. "Gendered Labour and Double Colonisation: Women in the Textile Industries of Biella and Bombay," 32nd AIA Conference is HUMAN, HUMANE, HUMANITIES. VOICES FROM THE ANGLOSPHERE. University of Turin.

 

• 09.12.2024. Paper Presentation. “The British Colonial Idea and Its Adaptation in Bombay’s Chawls and Biella’s Workers’ Villages,”  Frontiere e confini della ricerca: saperi e metodologie nello spazio digitale e tecnologico. University of Turin. 

 

• 31. 05.2024. Paper Presentation. “Strategic exoticism as a new face of magic realism in The God of Small Things,”  A Kind of Magic. University of Turin. 

 

• 7.05.2024. Paper Presentation. “Evolutionary Metamorphosis: Unveiling Feminist Perspectives in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things,” Metamorphoses and Fluidity: Ever-Changing Shapes in the Stream of Time. University of Tor Vergata. 

 

• 25.02.2024. Paper Presentation “Sumana Roy: An Ecocritical Intellectual Figure in Postcolonial India,” International Conference: Navigating Sustainable Futures: Literary Reflections on Precarious Lives and the Anthropocene. Indian Institute of Technology Patna & School of Liberal Arts Bennett University, Greater Noida in association with University of Toronto, Canada, University of Northampton, UK, Aarhus University, Denmark and University of York, England. 

 

• 09.02.2024 Paper Presentation “Unveiling Traumas: Old Delhi's Historical Violence and Collective Memory in Anita Desai's Novels,” AfterWords: Reconsidering Narratives of Trauma and Violence in the Humanities. Trinity College Dublin. 

 

CREATIVE WRITING

• [FORTHCOMING] Short Story (The Drowning Man's Map) in Tiger Moth Review.

 

• [19/04/2026] Short Story "The Sacred and the Starved" in Chakkar: An Indian Art Review (https://www.thechakkar.com/home/thesacredandthestarved).

 

• [22.01.2026] Translation of Lalla Romano's Poems in Usawa: Literary Review (https://usawa.in/issue-14/poems-from-lalla-romano-poesie-einaudi-torino-2001/).

 

• [3.10.2025] Poem (Ashes of Migrants) in The Hooghly Review Poetry Special, "Fictile Feelings."

 

• [8.9.2025] Poem (The Koel's Cry) in Majlis Mag (Issue 01: Uprising), The Cambridge Majlis and University of Cambridge.

Temi di ricerca

- Anglophone Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature and Cultural Studies

- Industrial Literature: Cotton and Woollen Mills in Mumbai and Biella

- Urban Studies (Transformations): Cotton and Woollen Mills in Mumbai and Biella and their Transformations

- Memory and Material Culture

- Subalternity and Marginality: Dalit Literature and Gender Studies

- Politics of Culture

- Postcoloniality, Decoloniality and Ecocriticism

- Victorian and Modernist British Literature

- Digital Humanities

Gruppi di ricerca

• Turin Interdisciplinary Group of Environmental Humanities Research (Tigehr)

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