CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
Richa Gupta is an Assistant Professor at Manipal Centre for European Studies and the Program Coordinator of MA European Literature and Culture. She is also the Coordinator of the Academic and Examination Committe at MCES. Her doctoral research was on the prose fiction of W G Sebald. She holds master's and bachelor's degrees in English Literature. She is currently working on a MAHE-funded project on the digital imagination of the Tulu region.
SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING
| Subject | Semester / Year |
|---|---|
| Political and Cultural Construction of Europe | I Semester |
| Theories of Literature and Culture – European Perspectives | II Semester |
| Globalisation, Culture and Literature | III Semester |
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
| Degree | Specialisation | Institute | Year of passing |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Literature | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta | 2023 |
| MA | English | University of Hyderabad | 2012 |
| BA | English | Presidency College, Calcutta University | 2010 |
AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH
Area of Interest
European literature and history, European intellectual history, anti-caste literature, Holocaust literature
Area of Research
Fiction of W G Sebald, 20th century European literature, fiction and historiography, fiction and spatial analysis
“The Politics of Space and Heterotopia in the Works of W.G. Sebald.”
December 2019
IAFOR Journal for Literature and Librarianship, vol. 8, issue 1