Jagannath in the South Asian Literary and Folkloric Tradition

Shruti Amar is Assistant Professor of English at KIIT University, India. She received her PhD from King’s College London in 2018. Her research interests include bhakti tradition in South Asia, gender studies and folklore. She has published research articles in wide range of journals including Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies and Dialogos.Swati Samantaray is presently working as Professor in the School of Humanities at KIIT University, India. She earned a PhD degree in English from Utkal University, India. Her publications include The Mystic Flights of Tagore, Mysticism: A Literary Quest for Ultimate Reality and Folklore: A Key to Cultural Understanding. As a member of the Theosophical Society, she delivers talks on spiritualism. Her fields of interest are mysticism, eco-criticism, feminism, existentialism, cultural and film studies, folkloristics, and digital and medical humanities.