Faculties - Department of Language & Literature

Ms Mami Kimura (木村真美 )

Japanese Language Instructor

Ms Mami Kimura is a Visiting Faculty in the School of Language & Literature, KIIT Deemed to be University, India for Japanese language and Culture. She has completed her bachelor’s degree from Shizuoka University, Japan. She is a native Japanese language teacher and an overseas volunteer of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). She has an experience of teaching at Japanese language schools in Tokyo, Japan and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Prof. Teeju Bhagat

Assistant Professor ( Spanish )

Ms. Teeju Bhagat is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Language & Literature, School of Liberal Studies, KIIT Deemed to be University, India. She is pursuing her PhD from Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies (CSPILAS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, specializing in Hispanic Philology and Literature. She holds a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) degree in Spanish Language and Literature, complemented by a Master of Arts and Bachelors of Arts degree in Spanish from the same university. She has done C1 level from Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi. She qualified UGC (NET-JRF) in December, 2018.
Ms. Bhagat has been selected to participate in a teacher training course for Spanish as a foreign language at the Centro Internacional del Español of the Universidad de Salamanca (CIEUSAL), Spain in September, 2024. She received Prof. Susnigdha Dey Conference Grant (2022) to present her paper in an international conference. She worked as a University Teaching Assistant at Jawaharlal Nehru University for two years, where she taught Spanish Language and Literature and also Portuguese certificate course. Moreover, she was empanelled as an Academic Counsellor for Masters of Spanish Language at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), and Guest faculty in DSEU (Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University).

She has book chapters and research articles published in reputed international book publications and in several peer-reviewed international journals. She has also presented several papers in international conferences on Hispanic and Lusophone studies. Her areas of research interest include Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Decolonial Studies, Popular Culture, Folklore Studies, Migration Studies, Linguistics and Cinema Studies. She is proficient in Hindi, English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages.

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Prof. Vishant Vikash Sinha

Assistant Professor ( German )

Mr. Vishant Vikash Sinha is an Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Languages and Literature, School of Liberal Studies, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India. He is pursuing a PhD in German Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi specializing in the intersection of verbal and visual narratives, particularly in Heinrich von Kleist’s works. Vishant also holds an M.Phil., M.A., and B.A. in German Studies from the same institution, where he gained valuable experience as a Teaching Assistant.

With a strong academic foundation and industry-oriented approach, Vishant has successfully integrated his research into practical applications. His expertise extends to teaching and curriculum development, where he emphasizes industry-relevant skills in German language, literature and cultural studies. At KIIT, he designs and delivers courses that prepare students to learn the language from scratch and engage with the global literary and cultural industries, focusing on contemporary German-speaking regions and their cultural histories.

Vishant’s research and academic contributions explore critical themes such as Migration in graphic novels, Intertextuality, Intermediality and Intersection of Mythology & Literature. He has been awarded the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) and has qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET) for Assistant Professorship, conducted by UGC, Government of India.

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Prof. Pravin Kumar Gupta

German Language Instructor

Mr. Pravin Kumar Gupta is working as a German language Instructor in KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar (Odisha) since August 2014. Along with imparting classes on German language proficiency he also teaches English (Language Lab) as well as Hindi in the University. Prior to his association with KIIT University, he was part of many corporate houses including Caliber Point, Deutsche Bank & S G Analytics. He has also worked as a corporate trainer at Wipro, Hyderabad in 2014

Mr Gupta has studied Advanced Diploma of Proficiency (ADOP) in German language from Osmania University, Hyderabad and B.A. in English from DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur.

Being a student friendly teacher, he has insight into both the corporate as well as academic world. He focuses on activity based, effective learning. During his tenure in KIIT University he has had the fortune of teaching students of various nationalities.

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Ms. Upasana Sarangi

Faculty Associate ( English )

Ms. Upasana Sarangi is a Faculty Associate in English and has been involved in the teaching of Communicative English, Legal English, and English language training. She is also a PhD scholar in English specialising in the area of Human Rights Literature. She has an academic background in the areas of literature, media, psychology, and digital marketing. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, feminisms and related theories, popular culture and psychoanalytic studies. She has presented papers relating to postfeminism, media culture, and decolonial values of literature. She has also worked as a content writer and journalist before initiating her academic journey.

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Dr. Gourab Chatterjee

Assistant Professor

Dr. Gourab Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor of English in the School of Languages, KIIT deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He has 8 years of undergraduate and postgraduate level teaching experience. Before joining KIIT he worked as an Assistant Professor of English in Adamas University. Prior to that he served as the Head of the Department in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Brainware University for two years.

Dr. Chatterjee pursued his BA, MA and MPhil in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University and obtained his PhD in Arts from the same University in 2018. He also did a Certificate Course in Swahili Language from the Department of African Studies, Delhi University.Being an avid reader and a researcher in the field of African Literatures, he is one of the founder members of the Centre for Studies in African Literatures and Cultures, Jadavpur University and taught there for nearly three years.He received State Fellowship from the Government of West Bengal and served the Department of Comparative Literature as a research fellow. He also worked as a Junior Research Fellow in the International School of Dravidian Linguistics, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala. During the time of MPhil, Dr. Chatterjee received the SRTT fellowship offered by the School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University. Dr. Chatterjee authored two modules in Project ePathshala, An MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development, India) Project under its National Mission on Education through ICT and took part in the Project Bichitra, funded by Ministry of Culture, Government of India, undertaken by the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University as a Project Operator. He presented papers in different international conferences and published book chapters and papers in various reputed journals. Dr. Chatterjee is also a proficient translator and undertook many translation projects. His research area includes Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Cross-Cultural Literary Studies, Orature and Literature, Reception Theory, Literary Theory and Literatures of Africa.

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Dr. Shipra Gupta

Assistant Professor

Dr. Shipra Gupta is an Assistant Professor of English in the School of Languages, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India. She has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate level students since 2014. Before joining KIIT she worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Translation and Life writing at Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar which was funded by the World Bank under the OHEPEE program.

Dr. Gupta completed her Masters and M.Phil. in English Literature with a specialization in American Literature and Film Studies from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. She obtained her Ph.D. Degree from KIIT Deemed to be University and her focus area was film remakes across cultures. She has presented papers on film studies/criticism in national and international conferences. Her research articles have been published in journals and as chapters in edited books that are indexed under Scopus, Springer and UGC. Her research interests include Media Studies, Culture Studies, various forms of Life writing and Trans-cultural Adaptations.

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Dr. Trina Bose

Assistant Professor

Ms. Trina Bose(PhD) is an Assistant Professor of English in the School of Language and Literature at KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India. She completed BA (English Honours) from the University of Burdwan in 2015 and MA in English Literature from Banaras Hindu University in 2017.She finished her doctoral research at Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar in 2023. She completed two online courses on anthropogenic climate change from Harvard University and University of Exeter in 2020. She participated in six FDPs and presented research papers at fifteen international conferences. She has book chapters (Bloomsbury India, Routledge) and research articles published in UGC-sponsored national, peer-reviewed, Web of Science-indexed international, and Scopus-indexed journals of repute.Her areas of research interest include Eco-fiction, Posthumanism, Memory Studies, Migration Literature, Gender Studies, Racism, and Postcolonial World Literature.

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Dr. Chaitali Choudhury

Assistant Professor

Dr. Chaitali Choudhury is an Assistant Professor of English at the School of Language & Literature, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar. She has completed her Ph. D. at the Department of Humanities and Science, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Odisha. Her areas of research include Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Religion and Literature.

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Dr. Tanmoy Putatunda

Assistant Professor & Coordinator

Dr. Tanmoy Putatunda is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanites, KIIT University. He is also a doctoral candidate in the Department of English, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. He has a cumulative teaching experience of 6 years in the Postgraduate and Undergraduate.

Prior to joining KIIT University, Mr. Putatunda served as the Head of the Department of English Language and Literature, Adamas University, Kolkata. He also taught in Bhairab Ganguly College (PG English), Belghoria, Kolkata, as a guest faculty and worked as an instructor in the Spoken English course conducted by Visva-Bharati. He secured first class in both Undergraduate and Postgraduate course of studies from Department of English, Visva-Bharati.Mr. Putatunda was awarded UGC- Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in 2013. He had been engaged in a research project undertaken by IIM Kozhikode. Mr. Putatunda has presented papers in national and international conferences and published research papers in prestigious academic journals and books. His research interests include Urban Studies and literary representation of cities, Literary Theories and Criticism, Postcolonial and Postmodern Literatures, Indian Literature in English, Travel Literature, Popular Literature, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, and Literature & Visual Arts.

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Prof. Debanjali Roy

Assistant Professor

Debanjali Roy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Language, KIIT University. She has a cumulative teaching experience of seven years in the Postgraduate and Undergraduate level of studies. Prior to joining KIIT University, she was a faculty member in the Department of English, Adamas University and also served the position of Assistant Dean, Students’ Affairs for a brief period.

She was a recipient of T.S. Sterling Scholarship for academic excellence in Undergraduate studies from Presidency College (presently University), Kolkata. Besides M. A. in English Language and Literature from University of Calcutta, she also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication from Jadavpur University. She is a pursuing her Doctoral degree from the Department of English, University of Calcutta and has significantly contributed to the field of Applied Linguistics and Literature through her research publications and academic affiliations. Her research and academic interest areas include Applied Linguistics and ELT, Elizabethan Theatre, Romantic Art and Literature, Modern Art and Literature, Popular Fiction and Culture, Film Studies, Creative Writing.

Her dedication towards academics received recognition in the form of Professional Scholarships funded by the Regional English Language Office (US Department of State). She was also an awardee of the Travel Grant sponsored by University of Calcutta to Oxford University, UK and the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Teacher Exchange fellowship for the year 2020 funded by the European Union.

Ms. Roy is a trained classical dancer and actively coordinates co-curricular activities in academic and professional space.

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Dr. Sasmita Kanungo

Assistant Professor

Dr. Sasmita Kanungo is an Assistant Professor of English in the Depart of Language, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. She is pursuing her Ph.D. from Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS), at University of Hyderabad. She has completed her M.A. and M.Phil in Applied Linguistics from University of Hyderabad. She has also done M.A. in English Literature from Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha.

Her research areas are Second Language Acquisition and English Language Teaching. Her academic as well as research interest is in Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Creative Writing and Communicative English. She has contributed to the field of Applied Linguistics through research publications. Also, she has participated and presented papers in Applied Linguistics at many national and international conferences and seminars.

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