Books Authored/ Edited
- Mandal, M & Verma, K. (2025). Beyond Human Divide: Revisiting the Partition of India. Shivalik Prakashan. ISBN 978-93-48433-71-8.
- Verma, K & Mandal, M. (2025). Manav Vibhajan se Pare: Bharat Vibhajan Ek Purnavichar. Shivalik Prakashan. ISBN 978-93-48433-60-2.
- Verma, K & Mandal, M. (2025). Smritiyan 1947: Bangal Vibhajan ki Kahaniyan. Prabhat Prakashan. ISBN 978-93-5562-388-1.
Chapters in books
- “The ‘Woman’ in Kamala Das’ Poetry: A Reading of My Grandmother’s House and An Introduction” in Unveiling Identities: Exploring Indian Writing in English. Eds. Arunima Ray and Anurima Chanda. New Delhi: Worldview Critical Companion, 2024. ISBN: 978-81-97662-43-0. Pg. 59-68
- “A Commentary on Luce Irigaray’s Essay When the Goods Get Together” in A Critical Reader for Literary Theory. Ed. Anjana Neira Dev. New Delhi: Pinnacle Learning, 2017. ISBN: 978-93-83848225. Pg. 197-205
- “A Commentary on Mahatma Gandhi’s Essays Passive Resistance and Education” in A Critical Reader for Literary Theory. Ed. Anjana Neira Dev. New Delhi: Pinnacle Learning, 2017. ISBN: 978-93-83848225. Pg. 326-338
- “Narrating Queer Lives” (Unit 4) for the M.A Course in Women’s and Gender Studies, IGNOU: 2014. Course Code: MWG-008. Course Title: Gender & Life Narratives. MPDD/IGNOU/P.O 5H/JUNE2014. ISBN: 978-81-266-6704-8. Pg. 298-312
Papers Presented in National/International Conferences
- “Reclaiming Tara: Feminist Renewal of Epical Womanhood through Contemporary Mythic Fiction” in the International Conference on ‘From Heritage to Horizon: Indian Languages and Folklores’, Shyam Lal College, University of Delhi, 2-3 February 2026.
- “Mythic Subversion and the Politics of Memory: Analyzing Feminine Identity in Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi” (1997) and Koral Dasgupta’s Draupadi (2022)” in the International Conference INMS 2025: Memory, Narrative Designs, and Strategies of Preservation, IIT Madras, India, 27-29 October 2025.
- “Reimagining Ahalya: Analyzing Gender and Myth in the Retellings of Koral Dasgupta’s Ahalya (2020) and Sujoy Ghosh’s Ahalya (2015)” in the International Conference on Media and Marginality organised by The English Department, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, 24-26 March 2025.
- “Reimagining Queenship: Exploring Feminine Identity Politics through Contemporary Mythic Fiction” in the International Conference on CREATIVE 2025, Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan, 24-26 February 2025.
- “Her-Story”: Revisiting the Tale of Tara through the Narratives of New Age Women Writers” in the International Conference on Stories Matter, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 6-7 December 2024.
- “Tattoo Me Now: A Multicultural Study of Tattoo Making” in the International Conference on Contextualising The ‘Contemporary’ in Culture, IIT Madras, Chennai, 1 – 2 February, 2011.
- “Exploring Queer/Lesbian Identities: A Reading of Parvati Sharma’s Fiction” in the National Queer Conference on (Non) normativity…nevertheless! at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 23 -25 September, 2011.
- “The Love that dare not speak its Name: Interrogating Lesbian Representation in Indian literature” in New Research in English Studies: A Young Researchers’ Workshop organised by The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 25 -27 August, 2011.
Research Projects
- Kanchan Verma & Ms. Maitreyee Mandal. ‘Experiencing the Partition of India: Women in Hindi, Urdu and Bangla Short Stories’ funded by Shri Ram Education Foundation (Dr. Bharatram Research Grant 2024-25)