Kavya Mitchi D

Kavya Mitchi D is a researcher whose work engages with memory, trauma, spatiality, and the politics of remembering and forgetting. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the National Institute of Technology Calicut, where her research explores the intersections of memory and trauma.

Her research interests extend to questions of witnessing, trauma narratives, marginality, and the ways literature engages with difficult histories and collective memories. Her dissertation pays particular attention to spectral witnessing, haunting, resilience, and the ethical dimensions of remembering. She is also interested in interdisciplinary approaches that bring literary studies into conversation with cultural studies, memory studies, and contemporary social questions.

She has presented her research at national and international academic forums, including conferences organised by Dublin City University, the University of Western Ontario, the PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies, the University of Delhi, IIT Madras, and the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India, among others. She has received fellowships and conference grants from the University Grants Commission (UGC), Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), and National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).

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