Supervisor, Lecturer, Module Coordinator
Dr. Giti Chandra
Supervisor, Lecturer, Module Coordinator
India
Short Bio
Dr. Giti Chandra is currently Senior Researcher and Lecturer with the GEST programme, and also teaches at the University of Iceland. She has been Associate Professor at the Dept. of English, St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and has taught in and been a fellow at Rutgers University, New Jersey, from where she did her Doctoral work on Women and Violence. She is the author of “Narrating Violence, Constructing Collective Identities: To witness these wrongs unspeakable” (Macmillan UK/US: 2009). She is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on the #MeToo Movement (due out in October 2020) and has given papers and presentations on the #MeToo movement in conferences internationally. She is the recipient of an EDDA grant for a book length study titled “In Visible Texts: Hidden and Spectacularised Violence in Colonial India and Africa”. Dr. Chandra has served as Chairperson of the College Complaints Committee Against Sexual Harassment in St Stephen’s College, Adviser to the Gender Sensitization Committee, and as the External Expert on the Sexual Harassment Complaints Committee at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. Dr. Chandra has also published two novels (with another due in January 2020), short stories, and poems.Supervision
Final project
Ibrahim Kadara
2024
Gender and Education, Gender and Religion
Final project
Baleseng Faith Maeneche
2024
Gender and Media, Gender and Colonialism
Final project
Akhil Neelam
2023
Gender and Political Representation
Mohamed Altamash Khan
2022
Gender Based Violence
Bakhan Hama Amin Qadir
2021
Gender and LGBTQI+
Final project
Jessica Madalitso Mandanda
2020
Feminist Movements and Discourse
Final project
Khwimani Isabel Mwasinga
2020
Gender, Peace and Security
Fátima António De Deus
2019
Gender Based Violence