I am a researcher working in the area of Postcolonial, diasporic studies and comparative Literature. I received my PhD from King’s College London in 2018 on the topic “Folklore, Myth, and Indian Writing in English, 1930s-1960s”. My thesis examined the complex relationship between folklore, myth, and Indian writing in English, with reference to a number of novels and short stories written between 1930 and 1961. I have currently published a book entitled Postcolonialism, Folklore and Indian Fiction in English. I have also successfully organized two-day International Seminar on the cult of Jagannatha. The seminar was sponsored by ICSSR, NewDelhi, India.

PhD, Department of English, King’s College London

• Awarded Conference Grant (2, 50, 000) by ICSSR to organize International Seminar on Jagannath, 2020.
• Travel Grant, History of Art Department, University of Oxford, 2019
• King’s College London, Graduate Conference Award, 2014.
• Sahitya Akademi , India, Travel Grant Award, 2013.

• Amar, Shruti, “Woman and her condition in the Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore, and Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain”, in Dialogos (Romania),Vol.XXV No. 41/2024.DOI: 10.24818/DLG/2024/4108.
• Amar, Shruti, “Writing From Within”: Women, Folklore, and the Fiction of Sudhindra Nath Ghose”, in Dialogos (Romania), vol XXIII, 39(2022), 83-100.DOI:10.248 18/DLG/2022/39/07
• Amar, Shruti, and Kumari Neelam, ‘Reading Ramayana, Writing Tales: Bhakti Cult and the Songs of Rama’ in Dialogos (Romania) Vol. XXI, 37(2020), 18-29.
• Amar, Shruti, ‘Folk Imagination and Singing Women in the Short Stories of Mulk Raj Anand’ in Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 8, 21(2019), 1139-1156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2019.1649175
• Amar, Shruti, “The Short Stories as Akam: Folk Technique in R. K. Narayan’s An Astrologer’s Day”, in International Journal for Social Development, Vol. 7 (2019), 446-47.
• Amar, Shruti, ‘Family in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake: A Gendered Perspective’, in Dialogos, Vol. XVIII, 35 (2018), 56-64