Her seminar focused on a Partition film titled, Silent Waters (2003) and argued that it subverts patriarchal religio-nationalism and re-envisions the totalized history of the two national constructs through the liminal figure of the female protagonist Ayesha. Her discussion of the film focused primarily on two things, the notion of female agency and honor killings during Partition, to explore Ayesha’s liminal subjectivity against the twin discourse of patriarchy and a virulent religious fascism. She also focused on the history of the “Recovery Act” of Partition to argue for a nuanced understanding of agency in understanding Ayesha’s subjectivity.

Dr. Amrita Ghosh is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Linnaeus University's Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Some of Ghosh’s research interests are postcolonial theory and literature, border studies, the intersection between theory and praxis and future studies. Ghosh is currently working on two projects on literature from Kashmir and an anthology on the Bengal Partition.