Ananya Punyatoya is a PhD candidate at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research focuses on illness narratives, exploring their role in literary studies and building digital communities. She is also interested in internet cultures and popular culture, with a deep fascination for how digital spaces enable new forms of solidarity and community-building. She is currently writing her PhD thesis.

Research Project at EXC Temporal Communities:

From Canon to Commons: Global Community Building through Narratives and Shared Sickness in the Digital Realm