Amrita Satapathy is a faculty in School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar. Since her joining the institute in 2009 she has been involved with classroom teaching in various topics like Communication Skills, Technical Writing, Indian Writing in English and Creative Writing both in UG and PG level. Her area of research is Travel Writing and Life Writings. She has contributed academically in the form of journal papers, book chapters and reviews nationally and internationally. She has published two books- ‘Shifting Images’, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany (2011) and ‘Limning London’, Authors Press, New Delhi (2016). Her current areas of interests include Media and Popular Culture and Creative Writing. She can be reached at- asatapathy@iitbbs.ac.in

Seed Project on “Changing Images of England in Indian Writing in English: A Study of Selected Autobiographies” (Project No. SP020) sponsored by IIT Bhubaneswar SRIC/SMPP/2010/03 dated 21.07.2010

MHRD Sponsored GIAN WORKSHOP on TRAVEL WRITING: TEXTS, THEORIES, AND FRAMEWORKS FOR ANALYSIS from 19 December 2016- 29 December 2016

1. English for Communication- HS1L001 (3-0-1)
2. Learning English- HS1L002 (3-1-0)
3. Speaking and Presentation-(HS2L002) (3-1-0)
4. English for Technical Writing -HS7L001 (2-2-0)
5. Scientific and Technical Writing (HS7L013)- (2-0-0)
6. Indian Writing in English (Fiction)-HS7L004 (3-1-0)
7. Global Communication (HS3L004) (2-1-0)
8. Dimensions of Creativity in IWE (HS3L006) (2-1-0)

1. Dr. Sulagna Mohanty, Renewal of Myth in Four Postcolonial Novels: A Contrastive Study of Indian and Native American Fiction (2015)
2. Dr. Panchali Bhattacharya, Revival of Ecological Legends in North East Indian Literature: A Study from the Indigenous Women Writers’ Perspective (2022)
3. Dr. Trina Bose. Water Crisis in the Era of the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Analysis of Twenty-First Century Climate Change Novels. (2023)   
4. Dr. Manisha Mohanty- Reinventing the Self Through Food: A Comparative Study of Women’s Food Memoirs from India and the Indian Diaspora (2025)
5. Dr. Shraddha Jha- Gendered Mecchanism of Control: Emphasized Femininity, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Resistance in Contemporary Feminist Dystopias (2025)
6. Ms. Anwesha Sahoo- A22HS09005-Travel Writing (2022- Continuing)
7. Ms. Sumana Mukherjee- A23HS09009- Motherhood Studies (2023- Continuing)
8. Ms. Nilisha Biswal- S25EN09003- Diaspora Studies (2025- Continuing)

1. Sahoo, Anwesha, and Amrita Satapathy. “Travels, Texts and Terrains: Indian Women Mapping Unfamiliar Spaces.” Kemanusiaan The Asian Journal of Humanities, vol. 33, no. 1, May 2026, pp. 1–23, https://doi.org/10.21315/kajh2026.33.1.1.
2. Sahoo, Anwesha, and Amrita Satapathy. “Stepping into Forbidden Avenues: A Study of Biopics on Indian Sportswomen.” Women in India: Exploring Work, Life and Freedom, Routledge, 2025, pp. 169–181, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003665519-17.
3. Mukherjee, S., & Satapathy, A. (2025). Mom celebrities of Instagram: a literary analysis of momfluencing culture in Ellery Lloyd’s People Like Her (2021). Celebrity Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2025.2540763
4. Shraddha Jha & Amrita Satapathy (15 Sep 2025): Vermin women’s stigmatisation, expendability, and posthuman resistance: studying femicide in India as wasted lives through Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape (2008) and The Island of Lost Girls (2015), European Journal of English Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13825577.2025.2553587
5. Manisha Mohanty & Amrita Satapathy (30 Oct 2024): ‘I am what feeds me’: food as subversive voice in Padma Lakshmi’s love, loss and what we ate (2016), Food, Culture & Society, DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2024.2422679
6. Bhattacharya, Panchali and Amrita Satapathy. Deconstructing the Idea of Manhood in Indian Television Advertisements, In. Rethinking Media Studies Media, Meditation and Communication, Ananta Kumar Giri, Santosh Kumar Biswal (Eds). pp. 294- 311, Routledge, 2024
7. Satapathy, A., Bhattacharya, P. (2024). Climate Activism in Indian Regional Green Cinema: A Study of Bonani and Wade. In: Singh, P., Ao, B., Medhavi, D. (eds) Environmental Activism and Global Media. Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55408-7_14
8. Mohanty, Manisha, and Amrita Satapathy. “Recipe for Identity: Constructing the Self in Chitrita Banerji’s A Taste of My Life.” Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, vol. 11, nos. 1-2, 2023, pp. 75-89.
9. Jha, S., Satapathy, A. (2023). Sarah Macdonald’s Holy Cow as an Autoethnography: Locating Cultures in Cityscapes. In: Blyth, C. (eds) ‘Other’ Voices in Education—(Re)Stor(y)ing Stories. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5495-7_2
10. Bose, T., Satapathy, A. “The Crisis of Climate and Immigration in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 31 (2021): 473-489 https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/iulitera/issue/66087/871879, DOI: 10.26650/LITERA2021-871879
11. Jha. S., Satapathy, D.A. (2021). Hegemonic Masculinity, Oppressed Femininity and the(Un)Gendered Loss of Identities in a Dystopia. Academia Letters, Article 2854. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL2854
12. Satapathy, D.A., Bhattacharya, P. (2021). Indigenous Eco-Legends in Contemporary North East Indian Literature: Lessons in Ecological Conservation and Preservation. Academia Letters, Article 161. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL161
13. Satapathy, Amrita. The Idea of Femininity in Cinematic Rites of Passage in Bollywood Cinema. Ed. Santosh K Biswal, Krishna Shankar Kusuma and Sulagna Mohanty, Handbook of Research on Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema. IGI Global, PA:USA, (ISSN: 2475-675X; eISSN: 2475-6768), pp 76-92, July 2020
14. Satapathy, Amrita. Locating London in Prafulla Mohanti’s Through Brown Eyes. Localities, Pusan National University. Korean Studies Institute, Korea, Vol.4, Nov 2014, pp. 79-124, ISSN 2234-5663
15. Satapathy, Amrita. The Idea of the Oriental and the Occidental in Kim, A Passage to India and East, West. GSTF Journal on Education, Singapore Vol 1 (1), Aug 2013, pp.15-23, ISSN 2345-7171
16. Satapathy Amrita. Reconsidering the West in Early Autobiographies and Travel Writings in Indian Writing in English. Journal of Law and Social Sciences, Singapore, Vol 2 (1), Dec 2012 pp. 177-182. ISSN No 2251-2853
17. Satapathy, Amrita. The Idea of England in Eighteenth-century Indian Travel Writing. Comparative Literature and Culture 14.2 (2012), Thematic Issue New Work in Comparative Indian Literatures and Cultures, Ed. Mohan G. Ramanan and Tutun Mukherjee, Volume 14 Issue 2 (June 2012) Article X, Purdue University Press. ISSN 1481-4374 (http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol14/iss2/3/)

1. Literary London 2011 on Representations of London in Literature: An Interdisciplinary Conference organised by the University of Northampton, Kingston University, London, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK from 20 – 22 July 2011
2. 1st Annual International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics (L3 2012) organized by the Global Science and Technology Forum, Singapore from 9-10 July 2012
3. 2nd Annual International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics (L3 2013) organized by the Global Science and Technology Forum, Singapore from 17-18 June 2013
4. 5th International Conference on Arts and Humanities: Arts and Humanities as Visionary Practices in a Changing World, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 27-28 September 2018
5. 6th International Conference on Arts and Humanities: Decolonization in the Arts and Humanities, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-20 September 2019
6. Satapathy, Amrita presented paper titled “Deconstructing the Idea of Manhood in Indian Television Advertisements” at the 6th International Conference on Gender and Sexuality 2023 on “Gender and Sexuality in the 21st century: Why Does It Matter”, Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 19- 20, 2023

1.  Presented paper titled ‘Through Eastern Eyes’ in National Seminar on “Recent Trends in Literature of the Diaspora” (Khallikote Autonomous College, Berhampur, February 25th – 26th, 2009)
2.  Presented paper titled, ‘Identity and Resistance: A Brown Man’s Idea of England’ at the annual conference of the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) on Word, Image and Music in the Age of New Media: Postcolonial Readings  (Utkal University, Bhubaneswar from 4-6 January 2010).
3. Presented paper titled ‘Understanding the Fabled Land in Indian Writing in English (With Special Reference to Nehru’s Autobiography’ at the annual conference of the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) on Comparative Cultural Studies: Towards New Postcolonial Paradigms held in collaboration with The Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram from 27-29 January 2011.
4. Presented paper titled ‘The Politics of Travel: A Study of the Travel Memoirs of Mirza Sheikh I’tesamuddin and Sake Dean Mahomed’ at 2nd International Conference on Politics and Letters: The Function of Criticism at the Present Times organized by Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha from 23- 25 January 2018
5. Co-Presented paper titled, ‘Lifting the Veil: Portrayal of Lesbianism in Hindustani Cinema’ in the International Conference on ‘Towards Gender Equality: Overcoming Structural Barriers and Reclaiming Agency’ organized by the Centre for Gender Studies, Research and Development, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jagran Lakecity University, New Delhi (Virtual), 28-29 September 2021
6. Co- presented: Ms. Anwesha Sahoo and Dr. Amrita Satapathy, Paper- Stepping into Forbidden Avenues: A Study of Biopics on Indian Sportswomen, National conference on “Women@75: Work, Life and Freedom.”Organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Rourkela, from March 17th-18th, 2023
7. Co-presented: Ms. Shraddha Jha and Dr. Amrita Satapathy, paper- “Darlings (2022) a Portrayal of the Indian Woman’s Triumph over Patriarchal Violence, at the two-day National conference on “Women, Narrative & Agency: Enhancing Women’s Empowerment in India by Probing Violence, Gender Discrimination and Recuperation” & “Voices Unheard: An Approach to Indigenous Indian Literature.” Organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, from April 12-13, 2023
8. Co- presented: Ms. Anwesha Sahoo and Dr. Amrita Satapathy, Paper-‘ “Flesh” and “Sanki”: A Construal of Pratibha Ray’s Portrayal of Women from the Bonda Community’, at the two-day National conference on “Women, Narrative & Agency: Enhancing Women’s Empowerment in India by Probing Violence, Gender Discrimination and Recuperation” & “Voices Unheard: An Approach to Indigenous Indian Literature.” Organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, from April 12-13, 2023.
9. Sahoo, Anwesha, and Amrita Satapathy. “Solo Women Travellers and the Journey of Resilience: Looking into Tracks (2013) and Wild (2014).” International Conference on Drawing Meaning through Visual Narratives. Department of Languages, Presidency University, Bengaluru, 02-03 August 2023.
10. Sahoo, Anwesha, and Amrita Satapathy. “Translating the Travelling Eye: Kailash Chandra Bharatkar’s “Japan Jatra”.” Three-Day International Conference on Translating Literatures of the Global South: Challenges, Questions, and Debates. Department of English, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 18-20 July 2024.

1. Shifting Images, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany (2011)
2. Limning London, Authors Press, New Delhi (2016).

1. Satapathy, Amrita. Identity and Resistance: A Brown Man’s Idea of England. Word, Image, Music: Post-Colonial Readings in the Age of New Media. A Special Issue of SEARCH: A Journal of Arts, Humanities and Management.  Vol II, July 2010, Pg 86-99, ISSN 0974-5416
2. Satapathy Amrita. The Autobiography of an Indian Princess: Sunity Devee’s Idea of England, Journeys: Indian Travel Writing. Ed. Somdatta Mandal, Creative Books, New Delhi, 2013, pp. 282- 298, ISBN 978-81-8043-101-2
3. Mohanty, Sulagna and Amrita Satapathy. Formation and Reformation of Femininity: Depiction of Women in Indian Soap Operas, Visualization of Women in Literature, Media and Science. Ed. Rachel Bari, Women’s Resource Centre, Prasaranga Kuvempu University, Karnataka, 2014, pp 12-22, ISBN 978-93-83985-00-5.
4. Bhattacharya Panchali and Amrita Satapathy. Naga Folk Culture Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Easterin Kire’s ‘When the River Sleeps’. Literature and Environmental Discourse: Ecocritical Perspectives on Contemporary English Literature. Ed. Shubhajit Bhadra and Mukul S.K. Sarup Book Publications, New Delhi, 2018, ISBN 978-93-5208-113-4, pp. 112- 131
5. Mohanty, Sulagna and Amrita Satapathy. Crossing Boundaries in a Postcolonial Context: A Tale of Two Characters in Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring Rain. Ed. Ajay K Chaubey and Asis, De Mapping South Asian Diaspora: Recent Responses and Ruminations. Rawat Publications, New Delhi, ISBN 97881-3160901-9, pp. 117- 130, 2018
6. Satapathy, Amrita. The Idea of Femininity in Cinematic Rites of Passage in Bollywood Cinema. Ed. Santosh K Biswal, Krishna Shankar Kusuma and Sulagna Mohanty, Handbook of Research on Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema. IGI Global, PA:USA, (ISSN: 2475-675X; eISSN: 2475-6768), pp 76-92, July 2020
7. Satapathy, A., Bhattacharya, P. (2024). Climate Activism in Indian Regional Green Cinema: A Study of Bonani and Wade. In: Singh, P., Ao, B., Medhavi, D. (eds) Environmental Activism and Global Media. Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55408-7_14
8. Bhattacharya, Panchali and Amrita Satapathy. Deconstructing the Idea of Manhood in Indian Television Advertisements, In. Rethinking Media Studies Media, Meditation and Communication, Ananta Kumar Giri, Santosh Kumar Biswal (Eds). pp. 294- 311, Routledge, 2024
9. Sahoo, Anwesha, and Amrita Satapathy. “Stepping into Forbidden Avenues: A Study of Biopics on Indian Sportswomen.” Women in India: Exploring Work, Life and Freedom, Routledge, 2025, Seemita Mohanty, et al., (Eds). pp. 169–181, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003665519-17. 

1. Resource Person, Inservice Teacher’s Training Program for Sr.Secondary Teachers, DAV Pokhariput, Bhubaneswar, 21 May 2015
2. Resource Person, ‘Ishan Vikas Program’ initiated by MHRD, “Importance of Communication Skills”, 7 December 2015
3. Resource Person, ‘ICT in Teaching Literature’, Training Programme for Teachers of Primary and Secondary Sections, DAV Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, 10 May 2016
4. Resource Person, Teacher’s Training Programme for Child’s Centered Pedagogy, DAV Pokhariput, Bhubaneswar, 17 May 2016
5. Resource Person, ‘Teaching English through ICT’, Capacity Building and Training for PG Teachers in English, DAV Unit-VIII, 18 May 2016
6. Resource Person, ‘Communication Skills’, Capacity Building and Training for PG Teachers in English, DAV Unit-VIII, 19 May 2016
7. Judge, Inter School English Debate Competition among DAV Schools, Odisha, DAV Chandrasekharpur, 27 June 2016
8. Subject Expert, Seminar on ‘Fiction Holds our Interest More’, DAV Unit- VIII, 05 November 2016
9. Resource Person, Content Enriching Program 2018 for Senior Secondary Level English Teachers of DAV institutions, Odisha Zone-1 on the topic ‘Developing Content in Long Writing Tasks’, DAV, CDA, 20 May 2018
10. Resource Person, “English Writing Skills”, Vigyan Jyoti Pilot Project, IIT Bhubaneswar, 08 June 2018
11. Member, The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM), Colombo, Sri Lanka (2018- 2021)
12. Sessions Chair, 27th September, COMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA, AND CULTURE and 28th September, HIGHER ARTS EDUCATION, ICOAH 2018, Colombo, Sri Lanka
13. Sessions Chair, 20th September TEXTILE AND FASHION DESIGN, ICOAH 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
14. Resource Person, Mastering the Art of Interpersonal Skills: FDP on “Possessing The Two Wardrobes: Communication and Writing”, BVRIT HYDERABAD College of Engineering for Women, Hyderabad, 25-31 May 2020
15. Resource Person, Digital Education: Challenges and Road Ahead, Her- World, in collaboration with Policy Centre and Gender Lab, Miranda House, New Delhi, 16 January 2021
16. External Member of Borad of Studies, Amrita Viswavidyalayam, 2022- 2024

Reviewer: 

1. Reviewer, South Asian Diaspora http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rsad for Centre for Study of Indian Diaspora, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 2013.
2. Reviewer, Manuscript ID PPP-2019-0034: Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, John Hopkins Press, USA, December 2019
3. Reviewer, Handbook of Research on Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema, IGI Global, PA: USA, December 2019
4. External Examiner, for PhD thesis, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 2023
5. External examiner to review the PhD thesis, Dept. of HSS, C V Raman Global University, Bhubaneswar, Jan 2025
6.  External Member of the Board of Examiners for evaluation of the PhD thesis, Dept. of HSS, NIT Jamshedpur, October 2025
7. External Reviewer for evaluation of thesis, Dept. of HSS, IIT Madras, June 2025
8. External Reviewer for evaluation of thesis, Dept. of English, University of Hyderabad, July 2026
9. Reviewer, for Women’s Studies International Forum, Elsevier, 2025
10. Reviewer, for Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Routledge, 2026

• Best Superlative Presentation awarded to Dr. Amrita Satapathy for the Oral Presentation titled “Deconstructing the Idea of Manhood in Indian Television Advertisements” at The 06th International Conference on Gender and Sexuality 2023, “Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century: Why Does it Matter” 19-20 October 2023, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Awarded the Session’s Best Paper Award for presenting the paper titled “Unravelling the ‘Wonder’ in I’tesamuddin’s The Wonders of Vilayet”, at the 5th International Conference on Arts and Humanities (ICOAH- 2018) at Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Teaching Excellence Award 2015, IIT Bhubaneswar
• Master Trainer in Voice Training (Certificate in Voice Training Programme for Master Trainers from Directorate of Distance & Continuing Education, Utkal University, October 9th-14th, 2006)
• UGC-NET Qualified, December 2005
• First Class First Gold Medalist in Post Graduation, English, Utkal University (2000-2002).
• Banikantha Nimai Charan Harichandan Memorial Gold Medal, in Odissi Vocal Competition, by Utkal University (1997)

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