Chitra Bajpai

Chitra Bajpai is a research fellow at the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow, India.  She is presently working on her doctoral thesis titled “Water, Ecology, and Society: Reading Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement, M.M Vinodini’s Thirst and, Neela Madhab Panda’s Kadvi Hawa” that investigates the representation of water in those creative works. Her research focuses on delineating the issues of global climate change and disturbed water ecologies and their cause and effect on the Indian subcontinent.

As an active student and scholar in her academic life so far, she held the position of the President of the drama club at her undergraduate college. A bibliophile and cinephile, she believes the thought experiments of literature and films can offer unique resources for activating concern and creative thinking about the planet’s environmental future. She has been actively participating in many film and documentary appreciation programs with the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. She works as a language teacher with an NGO “Promak Foundation” from the last 4 years. She excels primarily as a teacher because she harmonizes in herself a deep understanding of human psychology, elements of precise concentration, and sharp intelligence.

As a Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant, Ms. Bajpai intends to explore the role of language in building links among nations, development, and global citizenship. An aspiring teacher, she proposes to amalgamate both the languages comprehensible to her and bringing their respective cultures and transformations along with finding inspirations and creating reflections.