Dhishna P

Designation:

Associate Professor

Date of Joining at NITK:

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Professional Experience:

Total 16 years, at NITK 13 years

Contact Details

E-mail:

dhishna [at] nitk.edu.in

Telephone:

+91- 824 - 2474000 -3232 (Ext)

Mobile:

8747857785

Faculty (author) Identifiers

Academic Background

• Ph.D English, (Pondicherry Central University , 2010)
• M Phil English, (Pondicherry Central University, 2005)
• PGDCA ((DDE) Pondicherry Central University, 2006)
• P G English & Comparative Literature, (Pondicherry Central University, 2004)
• B A Functional English ( Malabar Christian College, University of Calicut, 2002)

Areas of Interest

Travel Writing and Cultural Studies
Gender Studies
Film Studies
Literature & Environment
English and Comparative Literature
Professional Communication

Supervision of Ph.D

7 completed, 6 ongoing

Significant Publications

Book Publications

1.Pannikot, Dhishna. (Ed). Navigating Gender Identity in India: Social and Cultural Perspectives on Gender Sustainability. Leeds: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2026. ISBN 1837081950.

2.Pannikot, Dhishna and Tanupriya (Ed). Queer Representation in Literature and Popular Culture. USA: Vernon Press. July 2025. ISBN 13-979-8881902865.

3.Pannikot, Dhishna and Bijuna C Mohan (Ed). Outcome Based Education: Towards a Pedagogic Shift. New Delhi: Authors Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-9352073214.

Journals

1.Baburaj, Athira, Dhishna Pannikot and Kiran Raveendran. Journeys of Remembrance: Deciphering ‘Traveling Memory’ in Siddhartha Deb’s The Point of Return. The IUP Journal of English Studies. Vol. 21 Issue 2. ISSN: 0973-3728 April-June 2026. P27-38. DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2026.21.2.27-38. (Scopus Indexed)

2.Supthita Pal and Dhishna Pannikot. Indigenous Response to Ecocrises in the Indian Film Kantara (2022) and the Video Performance (2021) of Sila, a Canadian Play.Quarterly Review of Film and Video. P1-23. 26 Aug 2025 ISSN: 1050-9208. https://doi.org/10.1080/ 10509208. 2025. 2546212. (Scopus Indexed)

3.Kiran Raveendran and Dhishna Pannikot. Queer Desire and Surveillance Optics: Exploring Foucault’s Panoptic Regime in the Indian Biographical Film Aligarh. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 1 Aug 2025. 42(3) P783-798. ISSN: 10509208 https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gqrf20.DOI:10.1080/

10509208.2023.2242069. (Scopus Indexed)

4.Baburaj, Athira and Pannikot, Dhishna. Endurance and Ethical Considerations in the Everyday Within the Necropolitical Realms of Northeast India: An examination Through Literature. Journal of Human Values.Sept 2025, Volume XI. Issue 23. DOI:10.1177/0971685 8241312283. P1-10. (Scopus Indexed)

5.Kiran Raveendran and Dhishna Pannikot. A life trolled to pieces by social media: review of the film Vikruthi. Media Asia.10 Oct 2024. P1-7.https://doi.org/10.1080/01 296612.2024.2413244 P1-6(Scopus Indexed)

6.Supthita Pal and Dhishna Pannikot. Climate Collapse and the Rise of the Posthuman: A Study on Karen Malpede's Other Than We: A Cli-Fi Fable.Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities.2024. Volume16 Issue3. P1-12. DOI10.21659/rupkatha.v16n3.13g (WoS Indexed)

7.Baburaj, A., Pannikot, D. Emerging Sisterhood and Women’s Solidarity in Northeast Indian Fiction. Australian Feminist Studies, 2024, 39(121), pp. 315–331. DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2025.2469571. (Scopus Indexed)

8.Baburaj, Athira and Pannikot, Dhishna. Dynamics of Ethnic Boundaries: Rethinking Insider-Outsider Dichotomy in Northeast India. Peace Review. 769-779. July 2024. ISSN: 10402659. DOI: 10.1080/10402659.2024.2379450. (Scopus Indexed)

9.Baburaj, Athira and Pannikot, Dhishna. Mnemonic Communities of Displaced Indigenous People: Northeast Indian Narratives of Cultural Memory. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies Aug 2023, Volume XI. Issue 23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.32. P 272-287. (Scopus Indexed)

10.Kiran Raveendran and Dhishna Pannikot. Screening the (Trans)Gender Stereotypes: Locating Butlerian ‘Gender Performativity’in Indian Films. Quarterly Review of Film and Video.2023. ISSN 10509208. P1-19. DOI 10. 1080/ 10509208.2023. 2275537.(Scopus Indexed)

11.Supthita Pal and Dhishna Pannikot. Ecological Crises of the Capitalocene: A Study on Colleen Murphy’s The Breathing Hole. 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature. The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies Vol. 29(3). Sept 2023. 27-39. ISSN 01285157 http://doi.org/10.17576/3L-2023-2903-03P 27-39.(Scopus Indexed)

12.Tanupriya & Dhishna Pannikot. “Cultural Violence, Violent Gendering, and Abjection: Discourses on Sites of Violence the Sites of Violence through Trans Women’s Narratives from India.” Journal of International Women’s studies. Vol. 24 Issue 6, On Violence and Resistance: Narratives of Women in South Asia. Oct 2022. P1-13. 24(6). 8. ISSN: 15398706 https://vc.bridgew.edu /jiws/vol24/iss6/8. (Scopus Indexed)

13.Tanupriya & Dhishna Pannikot. “Enactment of Gender and Performing Selves: A Study on Hijra Performativity.” Journal of Language, Literature and Culture. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. P 27-48. 22 April 2021. ISSN: 20512856 https://doi.org/10.1080/20512856.2021. 1882027(Scopus Indexed)

Achievements

1. Athira B and Dr. Dhishna Pannikot received the best paper award for the coauthored paper with Athira B, titled " Multiple Sovereignties and Necropolitics in Northeast India: Analysing the Conflict Narrative in Mitra Phukan's The Collector's Wife and Veio Pou’s Waiting for the Dust to Settle" presented at the ATHENA-2023 International Conference, held during 5-7 December 2023, organized by the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh.
2. Dr. Dhishna P received Sri Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan “The Best Teacher award in English and Comparative Literature” on 5th Sept 2021 organized by CPACE and IMRF, Andrapradesh, India.
3. Dr. Dhishna P received The Venus International Foundation award of “Young Woman in Language Studies” for the contribution and achievement in the field of English Language on 4th March 2017 organized by VIF, Centre for Women Empowerment at Chennai, Tamil Nadu India.
4. Dr. Dhishna P received the Best Paper Award for the paper entitled “Connotations of Culture and Identity: A Study on the Significance of Cross-Cultural Interactions” in the international Conference on "Identity, Culture and Communication (ICICC 2016)" sponsored by International Economics and Development Research Centre (IEDRC), which was held from 12th to 14th November, 2016 at Kuta Central Park Hotel, Bali, Indonesia.
5. Tanupriya and Dhishna P received the Best Paper Award for the paper entitled “Exploring Kinesthetics of Gender Identity through Select Transgender Autobiographies.” in the International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) 2016.
6. Dr. Dhishna P won Rev Father Lawerence Sundharam Gold Medal for the Best Meritorious Ph D Scholar in English, Pondicherry Central University, 2010.

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