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Sainico NINGTHOUJAM

Sainico NINGTHOUJAM
Contact Information
Email address: 
sainico.ningthoujam [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Doctoral Students
Stream: 
Literature
Specialization by geographical area: 
South Asia
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
21st-Century
Contemporary
Area(s): 
Fiction
Critical Theory
History & Theory of the Novel
Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Areas of interest: 

World literature; ecocriticism; landscape; postcolonial studies; uneven development; short story; literary form; historical fiction

Biography: 

Sainico Ningthoujam is a doctoral scholar whose research project focuses on literary narratives from South Asia to interrogate the imagination and representation of the environment. By examining literary form and aesthetics, she juxtaposes metropolitan and peripheral landscapes to explore uneven development in postcolonial environments.

Degree(s): 

M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2017
B.A. (Hons), University of Delhi, 2015

Selected publications: 

Articles and Reviews

“Banality of Violence: (Mis)Remembering the Past”.Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium, Special Issue: Modernities in the Contact Zone. Translating Across Unfamiliar Objects, Vol. 8 No. 1, 2023.

“Gender in Folk Tales: Re-reading Khamba Thoibi”. Zubaan Books E-essays. 2020.

Public Scholarship

“In Manipur, Violence Against Women, Impunity, and Apathy Show a Familiar Pattern of Events”. The Wire, July, 2023

“The Woman in Phanek: Various Contradictions of the Sacred Meitei Sarong.” Sahapedia, 2020.

“In conversation with National Awardee: Mayanglambam Radhamani Devi.” Sahapedia, 2020.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Tomlinson Doctoral Fellowship, 2022-2025
  • Sahapedia-UNESCO Research Fellowship, 2019-2020
  • Zubaan-Sasakawa Peace Foundation Research Grant 2019-2020
  • Anuradha Bhardwaj Award for Consistent Academic Excellence, 2014-2015
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