Ashwarya Samkaria is an Assistant Professor of English at Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, University of Delhi. She also teaches Literatures in English at University of Delhi’s School of Open Learning (SOL) and Non Collegiate Women’s Education Board (NCWEB). She also has a Masters in Performance Studies
from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi. Her areas of interest are ecological literary criticism, postcolonial studies, women’s writings, and performance studies. She writes on the intersection of literature and environment. Her book chapters feature in edited collections such Environmental Humanities in India (Springer), Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India (Lexington Books), Exploration of Current Ecological Issues and Concerns in Graphic Narratives (Routledge, forthcoming), and Reading Contemporary South Asian Literature: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Approach to name a few. Her research papers have been published in reputed peer-reviewed journals such as Ecozon@ (European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment), The Research Post, Essence & Critique, and Transcript. Her article on body and protest performance has been published in Performance Research (Taylor & Francis).
Trained in (neo)classical dance form ‘Odissi’, she has performed abroad and extensively in India. Her ecofictions have been published by EcoCast, official podcast of the ‘Association of the Study of Literature and Environment’ (ASLE), Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment (BASCE), and Samyukta Fiction.
She is an Executive Council Member (Delhi-NCR region) at Ecosophical Foundation for the Study of Literature and Environment (EFSLE) and an EFSLE lifetime member.