Dr Sanra Reji

Profile

Dr. Sanra Reji completed her PhD from IIT Ropar on the broad domain of childhood studies. Her thesis investigated the representation of childhood in contemporary African American fiction.

Research

Publications

• "What We Talk About When We Talk About Childhood Trauma" (2021) Postcolonial Text 16(3) (book review; co-authored with Aparna Nandha).
• "Carnivalesque subversion and the narrative gaze of children: Taika Waititi's Boy (2010), Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), and Jojo Rabbit (2019)" (2022) Studies in Australasian Cinema 16(1) (co-authored with Aparna Nandha).
• "Growing Up in the 'Dirty South': Precarious Black Childhoods in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones" (forthcoming in 2025) The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies 55(1).

Expertise