Jasmine Sharma

Affiliation

Assistant Professor , School of Letters

Email

jsharma1@aud.ac.in

Orcid

ORCID: 0000-0001-6243-9105

Qualification

PhD in English from The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, (2017-2021)
M.A in English from the University of Delhi, (2014-2016)
B.A (H) in English from the University of Delhi, (2011-2014)
Diploma Course in French Language from Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, New Delhi, (2011-2013)

Past Experience

Worked as an Assistant Professor (Regular) at Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies- Technical Campus (VIPS-TC), Affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi from September 2022- May 2024.
Worked as an Assistant Professor (Guest) at Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College (ARSD), Affiliated to University of Delhi from February 2020- August 2022.
Worked as a Teaching Assistant (TA) at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar from August 2017- February 2020

Area of Expertise

Science and Speculative fiction
Contemporary Literary Theory
Posthuman Literatures
Climate Fiction
Environmental Humanities
Blue Humanities
Medical Humanities
Law and Literature (Legal Futurism)
Interdisciplinary Studies

Awards

University Grants Commission- Junior Research Fellowship in English Literature (2016)
MHRD travel grants to present research papers in prestigious conferences held at the University of London, UK, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Osmania University, Hyderabad, and Indian Institute of Technology Chennai.
Letter of Recognition for Excellent Research Work by the Management of Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, New Delhi.

Publications

Book

Sharma, Jasmine. Technoculture in the Science Fiction Novels of Margaret Atwood. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, United Kingdom. [ISSN: 978-1-5275-3194-9 Book/Monograph, International]

Journal Publications/Book Chapters indexed in Scopus

Sharma, Jasmine. “Shaping Online Discourses: Strategic Discourses on Social Media Content Moderation,” Digital Landscape: Communication in the 21^st Century. Springer Nature. (Forthcoming)
Sharma, Jasmine. “Solastalgia, Climate Anxiety and Posthuman Agency in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne.” SIC: Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation, No. 2- 06/2025, pp. 1-17.
Sharma, Jasmine. “Stories of Water/ Storied Water: Agential Realism and New Thalassology in the 21^st Century Literary Classroom,” ANGLICA: An International Journal of English Studies, Vol. 33, No.3, pp. 75-95, 2024.
Sharma, Jasmine. “Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain: A Fable for our Times” Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, University of Malaysia, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 173-178, 2022.
Sharma, Jasmine. “Reading a Feminist Epistemology in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam.” Elope: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, Vol 17, No. 1, 2019, pp. 111-124. [with Rano Ringo]

Journal Publications indexed in UGC- Care

Sharma, Jasmine. “Stoicism, Temporality, and Ustopia: Ted Chiang’s The Merchant and the Alchemist Gate as Philosophical Science Fiction,” IIS University Journal of Arts, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 60-74, 2024.
Sharma, Jasmine. “Ecological Apocalypse and Gyno Rebellion in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake,” dialog, Issue no. 35, Spring 2020, pp. 1-17. [with Rano Ringo]

International Peer-Reviewed and Referred Articles in Journals and Edited Books

Sharma, Jasmine. “Preserving Earth, Preserving Life: Rethinking Nature through Eco-autobiographical Mediation in Pamela Gale Malhotra’s From the Heart of Nature,” Cultural Conversations; Bridging Traditions, Edited by Salonee Priya, Anshu Gagal, and Meetu Bhatia Kapoor, Bloomsbury, 2025, pp. 22-29
Sharma, Jasmine. “Return to the Imaginary: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Disability in James Barrie’s Peter Pan” Foregrounding Disability Studies in Literature and Visual Arts, Edited by Anil K. Aneja, and Nidhi Vats, Oxford University Press, 2025, pp. 90-100.
Sharma, Jasmine. “A Factory of Detachable Parts: Interrogating Corporeality and Technobodies in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale,” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom, Vol. 52, No. 3 pp. 47-59, 2023.
Sharma, Jasmine. “Violating the Ecotopian Promise: Reading Colonial Extraction in Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain: A Fable for our Times,” Science Fiction Research Review, Rochester, Michigen, USA, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 26-31, 2023.
Sharma, Jasmine. “Productive Futures: The Political Economy of Science Fiction.” A conference report in Vector by British Science Fiction Research Association, May 2020. [Conference report]
Sharma, Jasmine “DO TIME NOW, BUY TIME FOR FUTURE: Phallic Deception and Techno-Sexual Agency in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last.”MESSENGERS FROM THE STARS: Centre for English Studies, University of Lisbon, Editorial no. 4, pp. 73-87, 2019. [with Rano Ringo]
Sharma, Jasmine “Think of Yourself as Seeds: Sexual Fetishism and Body Politics in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Creative Forum, Vol. 32 no. 1-2, pp. 141-156, 2019. [with Rano Ringo]
Sharma, Jasmine. “Thinking Back Through Our Mothers: Female Heroes of Mahabharata.” Bharatiya Pragna: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Indian Studies, Vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 15-20, 2017.

Seminar/Conferences

Conferences:

Two-day National Seminar on Decoding the Partition L(i/a)nes: Reflections on Language, Literature and Culture, 6-7 February 2018,organized by Kirori Mal College in collaboration with National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language (NCPSL) MHRD, Govt. of India held at Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, Delhi. (Title of the paper- Rows of Naked Women: Subaltern Bodies and the Trauma of Partition in Selected Progressive Writings).
Three-day International Conference on Commonwealth Literature, 8-10 February 2018, Organized by Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies in collaboration with Osmania University Centre for International Programs at Osmania University, Hyderabad.(Title of the paper- Some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed: Reading an Ecofeminist Scholarship in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake).
Three-day International Conference on Interrogating Disability Studies: Literature, Culture, Performance, 8- 10 March 2018 held at The University of Delhi, Delhi. (Title of the paper- The Symbolic Castration: Disability and the Case of Children’s Literature)
Three-day International Conference on Workshop of Horrible Creations: Two Hundred Years of Imagined Humans, 22-24 November 2018 held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata(Title of the paper- Gynoid’s Rebellion in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina)
Three-day International Conference on Worlding SF, 4-6 December 2018 held at The University of Graz, Austria (via Skype). (Title of the paper: “Do Time Now, Buy Time for Future”: Phallic Deception and Techno-sexual Agency in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last)
18^th MELOW International Conference on Sunny pleasure Domes and Caves of Ice: Utopias and Dystopias in World Literature held at Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi 15-17 March 2019: Shortlisted as one of the top three papers for the ISM award at this conference. (Title of the paper- Power, Sexuality and Techno-Scientific Dynamics in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy)
Three-day International Conference on Productive Futures: The Political Economy of Science Fiction held at University of London, United Kingdom, 12- 14 September 2019.(Title of the paper- The Technocultural Consumption of Food in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy)
Two-day International Conference on Digital Humanities Forum: Bodies, Justice, Future (via Zoom) held at The University of Kansas, U.S.A, 3-4 October 2019.(Title of the paper- Video-gaming, pornography and the world of techno-cultural consumption in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy)
Three-day International Conference on Rethinking Violence at The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, 23-25 January 2020. (Title of the paper- Exploring Techno-archival Memory in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale)
Three-day International Conference on When it Changed: Women in SF and Fantasy since 1972, 3^rd- 5^th December 2022, organized by Science Fiction Foundation and University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.(Title of the paper- A Factory of Detachable Parts: Reading Corporeality and Techno-Bodies in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale]
Two-day International Conference on SF+Extraction, 8-9 October 2022, organized by London Science Fiction Research Community (LSFRC), University of London, United Kingdom. (Title of the paper: Violating the Ecotopian Promise: Reading Colonial Extraction in Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain: A Fable for our Times).
Two-day National Seminar on Trees and Literature: Varied Paradigms. 18-19 April, organized by ARSD College, University of Delhi in collaboration with Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).(Title of the paper- Preserving Nature, Preserving Life: Re-thinking Nature through Eco-Autobiographical Meditation)
Three-day International Conference on Mahabharata across Asia: Ancient Indian Knowledge Systems Transcending Spatio-temporal Boundaries. 29-31 May, 2023, organized by English and Foreign Language University in collaboration with Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). (Title of the paper presented: Reinscribing the Self: The Posthuman Philosophy of Bhagavad Gita)
Three-day International Conference on Cofutures 2023: Community, Speculations, and Technopolitics, 15-17 June, 2023 organized by University of Oslo, Norway. (Title of the paper: The Polemics of Multispecial Solidarity in Jeff Vandermeer’s Borne).
Three-day International Conference on Religion and Technology in the Era of Rapid Digital and Climate Change, 21-23 November 2023, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Chennai. (Title of the paper: Spirituality, Ontology, and Consciousness: Exploring Posthuman Dimensions in Indian Mythology)
Three-day International Conference on Emerging Trends in Humanities and Social Sciences, 11-13 February 2025, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) Shibpur.(Title of the paper: Unmasking the Hypocrisy of Pharmaceutical Capitalocene in Select Science Fiction Novels)
Two-day International Conference on Aligning Sustainability with Indian Knowledge Systems for a Viksit Bharat, 18-19 February 2025, organized by Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, New Delhi in collaboration with ICSSR. (Title of the paper- Decolonizing the Island Story: Legal and Environmental Shields for Empowering the Indigenous Tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands)

Workshops:

GIAN Workshop on Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century at Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, 6-16 December, 2017.
TEQIP Workshop on Self, Techne and Biopolitics at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 17 -21 January, 2019.
Short-terms course on Film Studies at Indian Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU), 6-10 November, 2023.
Faculty Development Program on Reading and Researching the Literature of Crisis at National Institute of Technology Trichy in collaboration with UNESCO Chair on Vulnerability Studies, University of Hyderabad, 22-28 January 2024.
UGC-Madan Mohan Malaviya Teacher Training Program at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore Madhya Pradesh on NEP Orientation and Sensitization from 5-14 June 2024.
Faculty Development Program on Researching Cultural Vulnerability: Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges at National Institute of Technology Trichy in collaboration with UNESCO Chair on Vulnerability Studies, University of Hyderabad, 27 January -01 February 2025.
Short Term Course on Environmental Humanities at the University of Hyderabad, 01 May- 07 may 2025.
UGC-Madan Mohan Malaviya Teacher Training Program at Hansraj College, University of Delhi in collaboration with Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, New Delhi on NEP Orientation and Sensitization from 19-27 May 2025.