Dr. Aratrika Das is an Associate Professor (English) in the School of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore. Her research interests include Nineteenth-
Century British Literature, Gothic, Medical Humanities, and Writing Pedagogy. She was
awarded research and travel grants from the Charles Wallace India Trust Grant (2013), the
International Travel Grant University of Delhi (2013), the British Society for the History of
Science (2014), International India-Edinburgh Institute (2014). She received the Young Faculty
Research Seed Grant 2022-2024 from IIT Indore.
She is currently working on two funded projects: “Teesta and Siliguri in Maps, Memories and
Music” on methods of archiving the social, ecological and cultural practices of South Asia,
funded by the India Foundation for the Arts; and “Critical Thinking and Writing Lab IIT Indore”
which seeks to create pedagogical tools and theoretical vocabulary from South Asia, funded by
the JP Narayan Center for Excellence in the Humanities 2023-25.
Her articles have appeared in Serial Killers and Serial Spectators: Cultures, Narratives,
Representations (Brill, 2024), Indian Genre Fiction – Pasts and Future Histories (Routledge,
2019), Sport, Literature, Culture (Orient Blackswan, 2015).
She has also designed courses for the MHRD-UGC, the European Union Project, Project E-
QUAL, and IIT Kharagpur.
