Revitalizing Health Through Humanities : Foregrounding Unheard Trends: Proceedings of the International Conference on Health and Humanities: Exploring Uncharted Terrains in Literary Paradigms

Health Humanities in contemporary times has enabled exploration of the unexplored chartered terrains in literary paradigms. Scholars in the field of Humanities and Sciences have been engaging with the praxis of applying concepts from both disciplines revising the approach towards Health Care and Humanities. Due to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary methodologies of reading literary texts, they have been reinforcing a paradigm shift from the conventional understanding of narratives in Literature and Health Care. Traditional discursive boundaries between the disciplines of Health and Humanities are collapsing due to a comprehensive and nuanced interpretation of the shared ontological foundation between the two – Humanism. Terminologies like Displacement, Dislocation, and Disjunction unite Health and Humanities and they also make the unknown, known. Health Humanities explores the different multitudes of narration in the literary arena and it represents diverse voices of literature. It also showcases the importance of re-reading a text owing to its autotelic status. The authors who have contributed chapters for this book have meticulously selected diverse texts and contexts, embedded in the dynamism of Health Humanities. This book is an impetus for academicians from the field of Humanities and Sciences who desire to venture into new epistemes towards Health Humanities.

Dr. L. Santhosh Kumar is an Assistant Professor of English at Kristu Jayanti College, Autonomous, Bengaluru, India. He has received three Honorary Doctorate Degrees from reputed Universities and Institutes. He has presented 48 papers at State, National, and International Conferences around the globe. He has published 44 research articles in National and International Journals, which are peer-reviewed, indexed in Scopus, and in books with ISBNs. He has also edited numerous books. He was a Gold Medalist in B.A. English at St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli. He was awarded the Best Researcher Award for the academic years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 by Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India. He is also on the Editorial Board of Literary Journals, which are peer-reviewed and Indexed in Scopus. He has delivered 139 talks at Workshops, Webinars, and National and International Conferences around the globe.

Dr. Barnashree Khasnobis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Kristu Jayanti College, Autonomous, Bengaluru. She completed her M.A. in English and PhD from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. Her PhD thesis dealt with the literary and cultural exploration of Khayal compositions. Born and raised in a family of Indian music practitioners, her passion for literature accompanied her love for music. She has published research papers on Ethnomusicology, Cultural Studies, and Indian English Poetry in national and international journals of repute. She is committed to inquiring into the unexplored realm of humanities where literature and music meet. She also invests her creative energies in writing poems and short stories.

Dr. Sreedevi Santhosh has been teaching for the last 19 years and currently works in the Department of English, Kristu Jayanti College (Autonomous), Bengaluru. She holds a PhD in English Studies and a PG Diploma in Translation Studies and Creative Writing. She has supervised PhD dissertations on Swedish Crime Fiction, Diasporic Studies in the Malayalam context, Gender and Sexuality studies, Graphic Novels, Travel Writings in the Malayalam Context, Food Writing and Collaborative City Spaces. Her areas of interest include Regional Studies and Cultural Studies. Her writings are featured on Zabaan-e-am podcast as South Asian Writers speak. She also serves in an advisory capacity on Doctoral Research Committees and Board of Studies.