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Khairunnisa

Dr. Khairunnisa Nakathorige

Assistant Professor

Email Id :khairunnisa@manuu.edu.in

Phone :+91-8374346948

Educational Qualifications:Ph.D. (English)


Research Interests:

Gender and Sexuality studies, Folk literature, Postcolonial literature and Contemporary Indian drama

Profile of Khairunnisa Nakathorige

Khairunnisa Nakathorige teaches at the Department of English, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. She works in the areas of literature, gender and sexuality. Her research interests include Folk literature, Contemporary Indian drama and Postcolonial literature. In her doctoral thesis she explored the representation of incest in Indian narratives through a study of three contemporary plays and folktales. She is currently co-editing a book on Feminism and English Literary Studies to be published by Routledge, India.


Research Publication of Khairunnisa Nakathorige

  • Nakathorige, Khairunnisa. “Revisiting Incest: An analysis of Mahesh Elkunchwar’s Desire in the Rocks” in Recasting Gender: Feminism and English Studies in India. Routledge (Forthcoming).
  • Nakathorige, Khairunnisa. “The Ultimate Unspeakable: Discourse on Incest narratives in India”. New Academia, Vol. IV Issue I, January 2015.
  • Nakathorige, Khairunnisa. “Gender and narration in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic”. Thirdfront Journal of Humanities and Social Science. Vol.1, No.1, March 2013.