Dr. Paromita Patranobish’s work focuses on the intellectual history of the body in modernity, and the conceptual and aesthetic links between embodiment and ecology. She is currently Assistant Professor of English, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, where she teaches UG and PG courses, along with curating, designing, and teaching Certificate Credit research courses on Environmental Humanities, Critical Plant Studies, British Modernism, Visual Culture, and Postmodern Theory.

She is also passionate about curriculum design with a focus on innovative pedagogies, and faculty development initiatives, and is currently part of the core team at the Centre for Learning, Development and Transformation (CLDT), and Department of Holistic Education, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.

She has previously worked as a Visiting Lecturer in Delhi University, Shiv Nadar University, and Ambedkar University Delhi, where she designed and taught undergraduate and Postgraduate Courses on Gender Studies, Postmodernism, 19th Century Anglophone literature, Children’s and Young Adult Literature, and Postcolonial Literatures. She writes and researches on topics at the intersection of gender, embodiment, environmental humanities, disability and neurodivergence, and nonhuman ecologies. Her doctoral thesis looked at disembodiment and spectrality in Virginia Woolf's writing, and she is currently working on a monograph on waste and environmental toxicity in South Asian speculative writing and visual culture. Her academic articles have been published in Studies in Travel Writing (Taylor and Francis, 2019), SFRA Review (April 2023), Journal of Posthumanism (Transnational Press, 2023), Hakara Bilingual (2021), Globalization and Planetary Ethics: New Terrains of Consciousness (Routledge, August 2023), Global Journal of Animal Law (2024), Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (Taylor and Francis, 2024) Science Fiction Studies, (DePauw University, August 2024), Economic and Political Weekly (October, 2024) South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (forthcoming, October 2025), and Anglia (forthcoming, July 2025).

She also works as a freelance writer and her creative nonfiction, and book and art reviews have been published in Hakara Bilingual, The Bombay Review, Gulmohar Quarterly, Scroll, Cafe Dissensus, Stir World, The Brazen Collective, The Chakkar: An Indian Arts Review, and The Assam Tribune, among other publications.

Publications

Technologies of Becoming-Imperceptible in Ritwik Ghatak’s Ajantrik (1958)

Paromita Patranobish

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 48(5), 2025

Articulating Visual Infrastructures of COVID-19 in the Global South through Pandemic Photography

Paromita Patranobish

Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, vol. 6(2), 2025

The Ruined Archives of W. G. Sebald

Paromita Patranobish

vol. 143(2), 2025, pp. 1-20

Commoning and Commemoration in Vesper

Paromita Patranobish

Economic and Political Weekly , vol. 59(42), 2024

Speaking Crows and Alien Fish: Nonhuman Cosmopolitanisms in Satyajit Ray's Speculative Fiction

Paromita Patranobish

Science Fiction Studies, 2024

Semantic Scholar DOI

Discard Ecologies and the ‘Hyposubject’ in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007)

Paromita Patranobish

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2024

Semantic Scholar DOI

Radiant Ecologies: The Biopolitics of Animal Photography in Exclusion Zones

Paromita Patranobish

Global Journal of Animal Law, vol. 12(1), 2024, pp. 116-135

Book Review of "Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and Earthly Coexistence"

Paromita Patranobish

Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, 2024

Semantic Scholar DOI

‘“I am also a we”: Pathic Communities and the Globalization of Affect in The Wachowskis’ Sense8.’

Paromita Patranobish

Zahra Rizvi. Simi Malhotra Shraddha A. Singh, Routledge , 2024

Discard as Extractive Zone in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide

Paromita Patranobish

Science Fiction Review, vol. 53, 2023

Bloom, Lisa E., (2022) Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic

Paromita Patranobish

Journal of Ecohumanism, 2023

Semantic Scholar DOI

Enchantment as Pedagogy in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’ (The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha)

Paromita Patranobish

58: Special commemorative issue: 100 years of Satyajit Ray – the indefinable genius (Issue 58), 2021

Travelling cultures: religion, travel, and subjectivity in V.S. Naipaul’s Among the Believers and William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives

Paromita Patranobish

Studies in Travel Writing, 2019

Semantic Scholar DOI

Quidditch Incorporated: Sport, Fantasy and the Consumer Child

Paromita Patranobish

Fields of Play: Sport, Literature and Culture, Poonam Trivedi, Fields of Play: Sport, Literature and Culture, Orient Blackswan, 2015

Talks

Waste, Toxic Embodiment, and Speculative Futures with Dr. Paromita Patranobish
Organic Filaments Network

https://youtu.be/Le9vgDSrX00?si=8jrMqkKcdwvsgIdg

Embodying Poison: Toxic Ecologies and Impure Bodies in Literature,” Invited Lecture for Department of Literary and Cultural Studies, Flame University, Pune, 17 February, 2025

“Toxic Ecologies: Waste Studies, Abject Bodies and the Environmental Humanities.” Invited Lecture for National FDP on Environmental Humanities in Practice: Integrating Research and Teaching, National FDP, Christ University, Delhi-NCR Campus, 22 June 2024

“Virginia’s Room: Space, Body and Aesthetics in the Woolfian Text” Invited Lecture, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, 4 December 2023

Excremental Landscapes and "Hyposubjects" in Contemporary Eco-speculative Fiction (book proposal) presented at The Bucknell Summer Institute 2022, hosted and organized by the Bucknell Humanities Centre, Bucknell University, from June 6 to June 17, 2022

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