Dr. Sanra R
Designation: Assistant Professor
Biography:
- Sanra R is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Adani University. She completed her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in the domain of Childhood Studies. Her doctoral thesis investigated the representation of childhood in the works of contemporary African American women writers. The study explored the revisionist accounts of marginalized childhood experiences from a position informed by Critical Race Theory. She is particularly interested in the narrative gaze of children and representations of trauma and resilience in contemporary cultural texts. Her works have appeared in reputed journals in literary studies such as arcadia and The Black Scholar.
- Ph.D. in English from Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (2019-2025)
- M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Pondicherry Central University (2017-2019)
- B.A. in English Language and Literature from University of Kerala (2014-2017)
- Adani University since May 2025
- Childhood Studies and Trauma Studies
- Reji, Sanra and Nandha, Aparna. “Transgenerational Trauma, Belated Witnessing, and Resilience in Jacqueline Woodson’s Red at the Bone” arcadia, vol. 60, no. 2, 2025, pp. 222-234. https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2025-2016
- Reji, Sanra and Nandha, Aparna. Growing Up in the “Dirty South”: Precarious Black Childhoods in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones. The Black Scholar, vol. 55, no.1, 2025, pp. 48–62.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2024.2432443 - Nandha, Aparna and Reji, Sanra. “Haunted by the Past: Understanding History and the Aftermath of War in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost” arcadia, vol. 58, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2023-2004
- Reji, Sanra and Nandha, Aparna. Carnivalesque subversion and the narrative gaze of children: Taika Waititi’s Boy (2010), Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), and Jojo Rabbit (2019). Studies in Australasian Cinema, vol. 16, no. 1, 2022, pp. 2-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17503175.2022.2050591
- I contributed as one of the resource persons for the Staff Development Program held at Adani University in May 2025
