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Ms Ashitha Mary Christopher

Ashitha Mary

Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India

Email: ashitha.c@learner.manipal.edu

Profile

Ashitha is a PhD Candidate and Dr. T. M. A. Pai PhD Fellow in Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Studies at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). Her doctoral research examines disidentifications and the politics of (in)visibility in non-normative childhoods in India, through auto/biographical narrative analysis. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the Piramal Foundation, the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), and MAHE. Her research has appeared in journals including Sexuality and Culture, the Journal for Cultural Research, and the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.

Research

Publications

  • Christopher, A. M. (2024). “The Boy in the Cupboard”: Children in Indian Comics and Their Subversion of Heteronormative Interpellation. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 15(5), 699-716. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2024.2313049.

  • Christopher, A. M. (2024). From Silence to Canvas: The Role of Artivism in Transforming Gender and Sexuality Norms. Sexuality & Culture, 29(1), 97-121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-024-10256-6.

Expertise

Gender and sexuality studies, childhood studies, auto/biographical studies, literary and cultural theory.
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