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Dr. Tiasa Bal
Dr. Tiasa Bal

Assistant Professor (Grade II)

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  • 2017-2023 PhD, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

  • M.A. English, The English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad

  • Educational Qualifications

    • 2017-2023 PhD, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

    • M.A. English, The English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad

    Journals

    Bal, Tiasa, and Gurumurthy Neelakantan. “Trauma, Diasporic Consciousness, and Ethics in Nicole Krauss’s Forest Dark.” Humanities, vol. 11, no. 6, 2022.

    Bal, Tiasa, and Gurumurthy Neelakantan. “Memory, Uncanny, and Spectrality in Joseph Skibell’s A Blessing on the Moon.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 48, no. 3, 2025, pp. 149–61.

    Bal, Tiasa. “Memory and Remembering in Brotherless Night.” Memory Studies Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 2026, pp. 237–53.

    Bal, Tiasa. “Trajectories of Holocaust Writing in Post-War America: 1940s–2020s.” Literary Voice, vol. 1, no. 18, 2022, pp. 261–266.

    Books (Refereed)

    Bal, Tiasa, and Gurumurthy Neelakantan. “When Holocaust Meets Indian Partition: Anita Desai’s Critique of Genocidal Violence in Baumgartner’s Bombay.” Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India, edited by Srirupa Chatterjee and Sharada Chigurupati, Routledge, 2025, pp. 52–63.

    Bal, Tiasa. “Unearthing the Real in the Magical: Holocaust Memory and Magic Realism in Select Post-Holocaust Fictions.” Holocaust vs. Popular Culture: Interrogating Incompatibility and Universalization, edited by M. Mandal and P. Das, Routledge, 2023, pp. 175–87.