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Personal Details:

I love to read, teach, build my own PCs, and think about whether the cake is really a lie or not.

Contact Details:

K - 203, New Academic Block (NAB) Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Diamond Harbour Road Joka, Kolkata 700104.

Academics

Academic Background:

2013-2017: Ph.D., English Literature, Jadavpur University.
Thesis title: 'Joystick Stories: Re-Reading Narrativity in Video Games'.

2007-2009: M.A., English Literature, Jadavpur University.

Courses Taught:

IIM Calcutta: Managerial Communication II (MBA, Core, Term II) IIM Lucknow: Storytelling for Management (MBA, Elective) Communication for Management (MBA, Core) Written Executive Communication (MBA, Core) Communication for Management (PGP-WE, Core) Qualitative Research Methods in Communication (PhD, Elective)

Awards:

Decolonizing Feminist 'Knowledge': 'The Modern Woman' in Kazakh Influencer Culture: Best Paper, Critical Management Studies Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2023. 

Decolonizing Feminist 'Knowledge': 'The Modern Woman' in Kazakh Influencer Culture: Professor Anshuman Prasad Award for the Best Paper on Postcolonial Scholarship and Decolonial Practice, Academy of Management, 2023. 

Decolonizing Feminist 'Knowledge': 'The Modern Woman' in Kazakh Influencer Culture: Finalist, Carolyn Dexter Award (All-Academy), Academy of Management, 2023. 

Best Communications Elective at IIM Lucknow for the elective 'Storytelling for Management' (2019, 2020).

Past Projects:

IIM Kashipur and Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) (2016-2017) Co-Principal Investigator “Mitigating Disaster and Promoting Development in Uttarakhand: A Participatory Model for the State Civil Society and Media” - INR 12 lakhs from ICSSR University of Oxford, UK (2011 - 2012) Research Consultant ‘Indian Cities Beyond the Metropolis and Megacity’ Researched and wrote reports on neo-liberalisation with focus on youths in India. Hakka TV and Trees Music, Taiwan (2011-2012) Research Consultant Conducted literature survey on the Chinese community in Calcutta Prepared video footage of interviews with people from the Chinese community Coordinated and supervised a team of visiting scholars from National Taiwan University preparing documentaries on the Chinese community in Calcutta. McGill University, Canada and Jadavpur University, Kolkata (2009-2011) Researcher Worked on a project entitled ‘Women’s Empowerment and Education: Panchayats and Women’s Self Help Groups in India’ Conducted research in West Bengal and Mizoram Made a documentary titled ‘Voices of Women from Mizoram’

Experience

Work Experience:

Academia:

September, 2021 - present: Assistant Professor, Business Ethics and Communication Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
February, 2018 - September, 2021: Assistant Professor, Communication Area, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow.
April, 2016 - February, 2018: Assistant Professor, Communication Area, Indian Institute of Management Kashipur.

Industry:

2012 - 2016: Consultant, Programming Department, National Geographic Channel India

Research

Journal Publications:

1. Revisiting the Received Image of Machiavelli in Business Ethics Through a Close Reading of The Prince and Discourses - Published in Journal of Business Ethics (FT 50). 

Citation: Maity, M., Roy, N., Majumder, D. et al. Revisiting the Received Image of Machiavelli in Business Ethics Through a Close Reading of The Prince and Discourses. J Bus Ethics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05481-2 

2. Decolonizing Feminist 'Knowledge': 'The Modern Woman' in Kazakh Influencer Culture - Published in the Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.91bp 

3. ‘An Infinite Deal of Nothing’: critical ruminations on ChatGPT and the politics of language - Published in Decision. 

Citation: Roy, N., Maity, M. ‘An Infinite Deal of Nothing’: critical ruminations on ChatGPT and the politics of language. Decision 50, 11–17 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40622-023-00342-3 4. ‘I Should Have Died’: The Dissonant Dystopia of The Last of Us Part II. Accepted for publication in Jadavpur University Essays and Studies (Forthcoming). 

5. ‘Applying Kant's Ethics to Video Game Business Models: Which Ones Pass Muster?’ In Business and Professional Ethics Journal (Accepted, May, 2020. Scheduled for publication in Fall, 2020) [ABS 1; ABDC C] 

6. ‘Uncertainty as Entrepreneurial Motivation: Tuche, karma and the Necessity of Action’ in Philosophy of Management 19, pages 89–98 (2020). 

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-019-00122-z [ABDC C] 

7. ‘Many Materialities in Digital Florence: Assassin’s Creed II’, in Jadavpur University Essays and Studies, Vol. 30, 2016. 

Conferences:

Gamified Health: A Phenomenological Inquiry of Mental and Physical Health Apps During a Public Health Crisis at 8th International Communication Management Conference (ICMC) 2022 held online between January 5 - January 7, 2022. A previous version of this paper was accepted at the Author Development Workshop of Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ). This manuscript is currently being prepared for submission to MISQ, an FT 50 Journal. 

Narrative and Representational Ethics and Profit in the Marvel Cinematic Universe accepted for presentation (Critical Management Studies Division) at the 83rd Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2023. 

Decolonizing Feminist 'Knowledge': 'The Modern Woman' in Kazakh Influencer Culture accepted for presentation (Critical Management Studies Division) at the 83rd Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2023. 

'Data Intimacies' presented at National Conference on Queer and Trans* Livings, Experiences and Practices organised by Sappho for Equality. (Online, 2021) [Invited Speaker] 

'Gender and Digital Freedom: On Representations and Stereotypes' presented at 'Ctrl Alt Del: A Workshop on Digital Freedom and Online Safety' (Invited Speaker). This workshop was organised by

Point of View, Mumbai and Ebong Alaap, Kolkata, 2021. [Invited Speaker] 

‘Re-Imagining the Future: Addressing Inherent Biases in Artificial Intelligence’ presented at reconference - rethink, reimagine, reboot organized by CREA (Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action) in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2019. Received a scholarship from CREA to travel to Nepal and present the paper. 

‘The Algorithm of Desire’ presented at Young People's Sexuality: Issues in Contemporary West Bengal organized by Ebong Alaap in Calcutta, India, 2018. [Invited Speaker] 

‘The Prince’s Mirror Image: The Trace of Allegory in Games and Texts’ presented at International Journal of Arts and Sciences (IJAS) International Conference for Social Sciences and Humanities in Rome, Italy, 2017. 

‘Communicating Many Materialities in Digital Florence: Assassin’s Creed II’, presented at International Conference on Engineering, Science and Management, organized by Innovative Research Publication in Goa, India, 2016 

‘Contagion of Reality: The Cheater and the Nihilist in Modern Gaming’ presented at Work and Play: An Interdisciplinary Conference, organized by Futureworks School of Art and Design, Manchester, UK, 2016. 

Research Interests:

• Stories, culture and technology.

Books/Book Chapters:

• ‘Hot and Cool Media Theory’ in The Sage International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society (2019). 
• Contemplating Death: A Study on Video Games and the Culture of Death in New Directions in Media, eds. Islam and Roy. (Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2015)
• New Directions in Media, eds. Islam and Roy. (Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2015). ISBN: 9789384898816

Articles/Cases:

• 2020-2021: Invited Column, Anadabazar Patrika.