Ms. Anjitha Tom
Assistant Professor, Department of Arts and Humanities
Profile
Ms. Anjitha Tom
Assistant Professor, Department of Arts and Humanities
Ms. Anjitha Tom is an accomplished academic and Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts and Humanities at Christ Academy Institute for Advanced Studies. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies at Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, with her research focusing on queer identities and visual narration in contemporary graphic memoirs.
Ms. Anjitha holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching English from the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad; an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from the Central University of Kerala; and a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. Her academic specialization encompasses queer and feminist literary criticism, graphic narratives, cultural studies, and English language pedagogy, while her teaching interests extend to visual culture, gender studies, stylistics, and academic writing.
Her scholarly contributions have been published in reputed journals such as The Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Rupkatha Journal, and Literary Voice. She has presented papers at both national and international academic forums and is the recipient of the UGC-NET and the Maulana Azad National Fellowship.
A committed educator and researcher, Ms. Anjitha continues to explore intersections of literature, culture, and identity, contributing to meaningful academic discourse through her publications, conference presentations, and active engagement in emerging areas of literary studies.
Area
- Queer and Feminist Cultural Studies
- Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality
- Visual and Narrative Cultures
- Embodiment and Identity
- Academic Writing
- English Language Teaching
- Phonetics
Qualification
MA, PGDTE
Experience
1 Years
Publications
- Tom, Anjitha. “Review of I’m a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De La Cruz.” The Journal of Popular Culture (Wiley), 2024.
- Tom, Anjitha. “Exploring Transness Through the Graphic Memoir: Bishakh Som on Crafting Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2024.
- Tom, Anjitha. “Comic Elements as a System of Queer Expression: A Close Analysis of Gender Queer: A Memoir.” Literary Voice (WoS), 2024.
- Tom, Anjitha. “Review of Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2023.
- Tom, Anjitha. “Was/Is/Because.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (Forthcoming), 2024.
- “Adolescence as Analytical Lens: Patriarchal Conditioning, Emotional Detachment, and the Crisis of Empathy.” Literariness Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 2, March 2026.
- Tom, Anjitha, and Sushma V. Murthy. “Reorienting Visual Strategies as Queer Research Methods.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods, edited by Sophie Niang and Robel Abay. Bloomsbury. (Accepted; forthcoming 2028).
Paper Presentations
- “Queer Graphic Memoirs as an Autoethnographic Tool: A Study of Sharon Lee De La Cruz’s I’m a Wild Seed” — presented at the International Conference on Gender Studies (ICGS 2023), NITK Surathkal, September 2023.
- “Deconstruction of the Heterosexual Lie and the Establishment of Conscious Women Identification and Butch Identity in Snapshots of a Girl” — presented at the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Perspectives in English Language, Literature & Cultural Studies, Chandigarh University, July 2023.
- “Comic Elements as a System of Queer Expression: A Close Analysis of Gender Queer: A Memoir” — presented at the International Seminar on Popular Culture and Contemporary Literature, Pondicherry University, November 2022.
- “The Aspiration and Actualization of Hegemonic Masculinity in Charles Atlas Comic Ads” — presented at the International Lecture Series on Gender Coding in Children’s Narratives, St. Xavier’s College for Women, Kerala, March 2022.
- “The Study of Queer Ecological Symbols in Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen” — presented at the International Conference on Queer Ecologies, Christ University, April 2021.
- “Painting Queerness: Nudity, Sexuality and Subjectivity in the Works of Frida Kahlo” — presented at the National Seminar on Blurring the Boundaries: Theory as an Intertext, Alphonsa College, Kerala, February 2020.
- “Mapping Resistance: Indian Queer Graphic Narratives and Alternative Publishing Spaces” — presented at Global Digital Cultures: Text, Technologies, and Audiences, CHRIST (Delhi NCR), 23–24 February 2026.
Patents
- Real-time student performance monitoring and intervention system
FDP
- Participated in the Faculty Development Programme on Sustainable Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach, conducted by Mount Carmel College (Autonomous), Bengaluru, February 2026.
