Chitra Sankaran

Associate Professor
English Language and Literature,
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
National University of Singapore
ellcs@nus.edu.sg 
(65) 6516 3935

Brief Introduction

A/P Chitra Sankaran is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in National University of Singapore (NUS), with a joint appointment at the University Scholars Programme (USP). A/P Sankaran is no stranger to USP. In fact, she was in the pioneering batch of USP professors 20 years ago. She was a key part of the group of staff who visited Harvard University, in the early years of USP, in developing the structure and pedagogy for one of USP’s core curriculum, also known as Writing and Critical Thinking (WCT). She received her PhD in Anglophile Literature from the University of London.

Learn more about A/P Sankaran in this interview under USP Highlights.

Teaching Modules @ USP

A/P Sankaran teaches in the domain of Humanities and Social Sciences. She offers the following module:

Research Interests

  • Environmental Humanities, specifically with ecological criticism or ecocriticism for short.
  • Gender issues that inflect ecological problems – this field is called ecofeminism.

Titles of Independent Study Modules (ISMs) Previously Supervised (for USP students)

  • Recovering Female Subjectivity In Greek Mythology
  • Nature As Unknown: Ecological Horror'S Environmentalism

Publication List

You may view A/P Sankaran's publications HERE.

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