Neepa Sarkar

Neepa Sarkar is a fiction reader for Mud Season Review and at present a writer, freelance editor and a researcher. She has taught in the Department of English, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore and was the Coordinator for MA English there. She has a Ph.D in English Literature and her thesis was on Literature and Collective Memory. She has presented papers in international and national conferences and has published chapters and articles in books and journals including History Today and Middle West Review, Irish Studies Review, The Confidential Clerk, Melus Melow Journal, Journal of Literature and Aesthetics (2015), Glocal Colloquies and The Himalayan Journal of Contemporary Research, H.P. University, Shimla. She won the Issac Sequiera Memorial Award (2018) for her paper on Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Two of her chapters on Partition Literature and Postcolonialism and Ecocriticism respectively have been published by De Gruyter Press and Lexington Books.  Also, her poetry has been published in an anthology brought out by Cyberwit publishers, India and Daath Voyage Journal (ISSN: 2455-7544). Her poems were shortlisted for the Srinivas Rayaprol Prize (2015). Her interests are Film Theory, Creative Writing, Memory Studies, Science Fiction and Literary Theory. Find her work at https://filmsliteratureandphilosophy.wordpress.com/.