National and International Conferences
- Dash, S. (2025). Crip Desire and Cultural Memory in Kanga’s novel “Trying to Grow” and Bose’s Film “Margarita with a Straw (2014),” Disability Studies Panel 1: Crip Bodies Crip Desire, 122nd Annual Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 20-23 November 2025.
- Dash, S. & Jaidka, A. (2026). Plates of Belonging:Food fatigue, student migration and everyday politics of eating, Poornima University, Rajasthan, 9-10 January 2026.
- Dash, S. (2024). Humour as Resistance: Faturananda’s Literary Critique of Society and Politics, IACLALS Annual Conference Wit, Humour, and the Carnivalesque in Literature and Performance, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, 15-17 February 2024.
- Dash, S. (2022). Battling Illness: A Select Reading of Odia Autobiographies, SSHM 50th Anniversary Conference ‘Resilience’, Swansea University, UK, 29 June-2 July 2022.
- Dash, S. (2019). Literature as a Weapon, P.G Medical Humanities Conference, Exeter University, UK, July 2019. (Received Travel Grant).
- Dash, S. (2018). An Imperialist’s Nostalgia, Osmania University Centre for International Programmes and Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies, 8-10 February 2018.
- Dash, S. (2018). Language politics and Re-seeing Indian society, a Hijra perspective: Close study of Arundhati Roy’s “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”, International Conference on “Politics and Letters: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”, Utkal University, India, January 2018.
- Dash, S. (2017). Odia Travel Narratives, Wolfson College, Oxford University, June 2017.
- Dash, S. (2017). Japan through Asian Lens, Intra-Asian Travel Project Conference, Delhi University, New Delhi, March 2017.
Talks/Panels
- Invited Judge for MINERVA, a research writing competition on “Myth Reimagined,” at Zephyr , April 25, 2026, the annual literary festival of the English Literary Society, Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.
- Invited Judge for “Samanvay 2026,” an Inter-DU Undergraduate Debate Competition (Ambedkar Jayanti Celebration), organized by the SC-ST Cell and the English Debating Society, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, April 9, 2026.
- Invited Guest of Honour for Cultural Day, November 29, 2025, Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board (NCWEB), Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College, University of Delhi.
- Chaired a session titled “Disability in Focus: Representation, Visibility, and Symbolism” at the International Conference on Framing the Margins,: Media and the Construction of Voice and Identity, Department of English, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, 25th of March, 2025
- Panelist for Book Launch and Discussion of Radhaland and Worlds Beyond by Padma Bhushan Ramakanta Rath Ed.Ambassador Jitendra Mishra , Miranda House, University of Delhi, November 27, 2024
Affiliations
- Member of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, India
- Member of Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association, USA
- Review Editor for Literary Oracle (ISSN: 2348-4772), indexed in ERIH PLUS and MLA International Bibliography.
- Served as peer reviewer for Peter Lang and Sage publications
Publications
- Dash, S. & Nayak, D. (2025). Reshaping disability discourse through alternative media: review of the graphic novel Mai, Media Asia, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2025.2559323 (Scopus indexed).
- Dash, S. (2020). Battling Illness with Literature, Muse India, Vol. 92, July-Aug. 2020. https://museindia.com/Home/ViewContentData?arttype=feature&issid=92&menuid=8951
- Dash, S. (2017). Illness and Human Dignity, SEARCH Journal, DDCE, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 2017.
- Dash, S. (2019). Japan through Asian Lens, Performing the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature, Pakshighar Publication, Bhubaneswar, 2019.
- Dash, S. (2018). Book Review: Mark Shand’s Travels on My Elephant: An Indian Journey, Café Dissensus E-Journal, Vol. XI, No. 2, 99, 15 June 2018. https://cafedissensus.com/2018/06/15/book-review-mark-shands-travels-on-my-elephant-an-indian-journey/