Sheelalipi Sahana

Sheelalipi Sahana (she/her) is a PhD candidate in English Literature in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.

Her research interests include:

• Gender
• Space
• Materiality
• Postcolonialism
• Agency
• Travel writing
• Modernity.

Current and notable research projects/ publications:

• "Object as subject: Material agency in Ismat Chughtai’s “The Quilt” and “Chhoti Apa”", Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 58, no. 3, 2022, pp. 336-48, https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2021.2014348.
• “Look! It’s a she!”: Gender Anthropomorphism in Elizabeth Bishop’s Animal Poems”. Cerebration journal, Summer-Winter issue, 2020. https://www.cerebration.org/sheelalipi.html.
• “Sacred Duty: Walled Secularism in Independent India”. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Research Journal, no. 28, 1 Jul. 2019. https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.28.3050.
• “Role of Hegemonic Masculinity in the Marital Relationships of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and The Lady from the Sea”. DUJES: Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies, vol. 27, Apr. 2019. ISSN [Online] 2581-7833, https://bit.ly/325YeSP.
• “A Trip to Delhi: Women Reclaiming Freedom of Space and Movement”. Feminism in India, 29 Jan. 2021, https://feminisminindia.com/2021/01/29/delhi-rashid-jahan-women-travel-leisure/
• She has also contributed to GENDER.ED's ECR Spotlight Series: https://www.gender.ed.ac.uk/sheelalipi-sahana-ecr-spotlight/
• Sheelalipi has set up a Postcolonial Studies Network in Edinburgh which hosts reading groups, seminars and discussions.
• She is the co-founder of Tasavvur Collective, a consortium of early career researchers interested in the social, historical and literary representation of South Asian Muslims in cultural productions.