ROY Ananya
Ph.D.
Supervisor
Professor David HUDDART
Telephone
3943 5710
Office
Fung King Hey 303C
Research Interests
Post-colonial literature and its ecologies, Environmental Humanities, Contemporary and Popular Fiction in the Anthropocene, Food studies (crisis, storage, and consumption), Climate and Science fiction, Gothic, Mythologies, and Gender Subaltern Studies.
Publications
Conference Papers
| 2025 | ROY A. (2025, August 12-14). “The Dynamics of Tidal Transformations in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide” under Edges at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE-UKI) Biennial Conference, University of Galway. |
| 2025 | ROY A. (2025, June 18-20). "Nautical Sounds and Arctic Coastal Horror in Dan Simmons' The Terror ". Paper presented online under Contemporary Coasts, at the Unquiet Shores Conference: Coastal Acoustics and the Terpsichorean Ocean, held in Edinburgh Napier University Craiglockhart Campus. |
| 2025 | ROY A. (2025, June 19-20). "Gendered Suffering in the Anthropocene: Women, Climate Crisis, and Speculative Fiction". Paper presented online under Crisis to Come: Speculative Fiction, at Women in World-Literature Conference: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion, held at the University of Warwick. |
Journal Articles
| 2022 | ROY, A., (2022). Unravelling the Visibly Invisible in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: Krogstad, a Contemporary Antagonist or a Saviour Grossly Misunderstood? Contemporary Literary Review India, 9(1), pp.28-34. |
| 2022 | ROY, A., (2022). The Evolution of Same-Sex Comics across Asia, amidst Stifling Patriarchy and Toxic Sexual Normativity. International Journal of English and Studies (IJOES), 4(7), pp.134-140. https://www.ijoes.in/papers/v4i7/19.IJOES-Ananya(134-140).pdf. |
| 2021 | ROY. A. (2021). The Moth and the Flame” and “Between Shades of Oblivion. International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies, 2(4). |
| 2020 | ROY, A., (2020). Adolescent Psyche and Expressionism in The Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar. International Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities, 8(10), pp.27-44. https://doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i10.10796. |
Others
| Book Review | |
| 2026 | ROY. A. (2026). Kate Foster and Molly Crozier (eds), The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation. The British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS). https://share.google/AgjrVJV3gAjbl5Crl |
Awards
| 2026 | (May) PhD International Mobility for Partnerships and Collaborations Awards for 2026-27, HK$50,000 |
| 2023 | (Jul) Proposal for the RIH Interdisciplinary Reading Group has been selected, HK$15,000 |