About

describes herself as a life-long student and teacher of literature. She is passionate about reading, writing, teaching, travelling, working with youth and change-makers, and, above all, using literature as a powerful weapon to empower the marginalised.

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Dr Rositta is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK. She has been a School of Social and Political Science (SSPS) Research Fellow and Scholar in Residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, U.K. (2019-2020). Rositta completed her Masters in English (2008) from Andhra University, India, winning 6 awards and 2 gold medals, including the prestigious Acharya K.R.S. Iyengar Memorial Gold Medal. A UGC Senior Research Fellow (NET-JRF & SRF), she was awarded a Doctorate by Andhra University (2014) for her thesis on the citizen-state interface in post-independence India as reflected in Indian English fiction. She has also specialised in Subaltern Studies at the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda (2018).

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Rositta began her career as Lecturer in English at St. Joseph’s College for Women (Autonomous) Visakhapatnam (2008-2010). Further she served as Assistant Professor of English, Head of the Department (MA English) and Co-ordinator, Centre for Languages at GITAM University Visakhapatnam (2014-2021). Thereafter, she has been Associate Professor of English at Malla Reddy University, Hyderabad (2021-2022), visiting faculty in English at Government Women’s College (Osmania University), Begumpet, Hyderabad (2022-2023), and English language editor with Paper True India (2021-2024). 

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Presently, she is a consulting editor in Humanities and Social Sciences with Orient BlackSwan India, Chennai, as also a Cambridge English AS/A Levels Facilitator at Sancta Maria International School, Hyderabad. She also volunteers with Teach for Change, Hyderabad, is mentor for the International Schools Partnership Model United Nations (ISP-MUN) programme, and Co-ordinator for the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award for Young People (IAYP) India. She passionately looks forward to her forthcoming online initiative dedicated to English language and literature education. This will add significantly to her existing YouTube Channel  devoted to Communication Skills and Personality Development since 2021.

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Rositta is deeply interested in researching  post-colonial (especially Indian English) literatures that become a voice for the voiceless, and motivating youth to work for inclusive social development. She has successfully completed a research project (2018-20), working with women from the slums of Mumbai, under the guidance of renowned sociologist Prof Patricia Jeffery, University of Edinburgh, UK. Her project was titled, “The Missing and the Misunderstood: Documenting and Critiquing Female Agency and Its Representations during the 1992-1993 Riots in Western India.” Her presentation on this project was awarded the Best Research Paper Award by the Indian Institute on Management, Kozhikode, at the Second International Conclave on Globalising Indian Thought, December 2021. She also won the Best Paper Presentation Award at the PAN NIT Conclave on Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted by NIT Warangal in May 2024, for her paper on combating fake news in India.

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Her book Personal and National Destinies in Independent India: A Study of Selected Indian English Novels was published by Cambridge Scholars, UK in 2016. She has also authored two textbooks for the Universities of Pune and Madras with Orient BlackSwan India, apart from two edited volumes, over 35 academic publications and 30 paper presentations at global platforms. A book on existential humanities in the English classroom in India is under publication from Springer. She has been a columnist for three national magazines: Indian Currents, Youth Action and The Teenager, publishing nearly 50 popular articles. Fluent in five languages, she is deeply interested in translation, oratory, theatre and poetry. Her first volume of poems is under publication, even as she works on a second volume of poetry and her first collection of short stories.