Rate My Professor Sharmila Narayana

Dr. Sharmila Narayana is a Professor of English Studies at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be) University, Bangalore Central Campus. She holds MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees, having completed her doctorate in October 2016 under the guidance of Dr. R. Rajagopal, with a focus on the works of Afro-American writers Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. With over 25 years of teaching experience, Dr. Narayana has been with Christ University since 2009, teaching writing skills to first-year law students and managing the Centre for Social Action. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Charge of the Christ University Law Journal, a member of the Board of Studies for Law, and Chairperson of the Anti-Ragging Squad. Her administrative and academic roles underscore her commitment to fostering legal education intertwined with humanities.

Dr. Narayana's research specializations include Cultural Studies, Feminist Literature, and Environmental Humanities, encompassing ecocriticism, environmental ethics, postcolonialism, diaspora, feminism, gender studies, trauma, identity, and literature's role in social justice. She supervises eight PhD scholars and has guided numerous MPhil and PhD theses on topics such as challenges to female sexuality in marital relationships, representation of race, gender, and disability, subversive female heroism, indigenous feminism, reinforcement of sexism through internet memes, literary cartography of urban spaces, climate catastrophe and environmental ethics, Buddhist interpretations of deep ecology, embodiment of nature in Mohiniyattam, and mysticism in poetry. Key publications feature 'Cultural Disconnection and Identity Transformation: Exploring Posthumanism in Brandon Hobson’s The Removed' (Literature and Aesthetics, 2025), 'Literary Cartography of Performance Ecologies in Sheela Tomy’s Valli' (South East Asian Review of English, 2024), 'Challenging the logic of domination: An ecofeminist reading of Louise Gluck's selected animal poems' (Agathos, 2024), 'Patriarchy and Wifehood: A Feminist Reading of One Part Woman and Singarevva and the Palace' (The IUP Journal of English Studies, 2024), 'India’s Handling of the Covid-19 Crisis: Could a Rights-Based Approach Overcome Systematic Inadequacies?' (Asian Affairs, 2022), 'The challenge of gender stereotyping in Indian courts' (Cogent Social Sciences, 2022), 'Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle as a Text on Secular Discourse' (The IUP Journal of English Studies, 2020), and 'Rhetoric as an instrument for Manipulation and Distortion of Truth: An analysis of Orwell's 1984' (Journal of Dharma, 2017). Her scholarly contributions appear in journals indexed by Scopus and Web of Science, reflecting her impact at the intersection of law, literature, and cultural critique.