Scholarship. Dialogue. Culture. Collaboration.
A not-for-profit scholarly collective dedicated to English language, literature, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary humanities. We create an intellectually inclusive and ethically grounded platform for academic collaboration, publishing, and cultural engagement.
Building bridges across disciplines, cultures, and communities
The Sapientia Initiative is a not-for-profit scholarly collective dedicated to English language, literature, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary humanities. We seek to create an intellectually inclusive and ethically grounded platform for academic collaboration, publishing, and cultural engagement.
We believe in the power of accessible knowledge and the importance of fostering dialogue across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Our work is driven by a commitment to ethical scholarship and the democratization of academic discourse.
Through our journal Creativitas, conferences, and collaborative research projects, we aim to reshape how humanities scholarship is produced, shared, and experienced in the 21st century.
Diamond Open Access scholarly publishing
Within less than three years, Creativitas has achieved indexing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the MLA Directory of Periodicals. The journal is committed to accessible, non-commercial, and ethically driven scholarly publishing.
As a Diamond Open Access journal, we ensure that knowledge remains freely available to readers and authors alike, removing financial barriers to academic participation and discourse. Our peer-review process maintains rigorous academic standards while fostering constructive dialogue between reviewers and authors.
Building a sustainable future for humanities scholarship
To establish a sustainable and respected academic and cultural body that supports scholarship, publishing, interdisciplinary dialogue, and accessible knowledge dissemination. We believe knowledge should be free to produce and free to read.
To foster intellectual exchange that transcends geographical, disciplinary, and institutional boundaries. We seek to amplify voices from the Global South and underrepresented scholarly communities.
To build networks of scholars who work together across traditional academic silos. Our collaborative projects bring together literature, environmental studies, visual culture, and digital humanities.
To evolve into a larger interdisciplinary academic and cultural organization supporting multiple journals, conferences, public humanities initiatives, collaborative research projects, and independent scholarly publishing ventures.
To expand beyond the academy by creating public lectures, workshops, and digital resources that make humanities scholarship accessible to broader communities and contribute to civic discourse.
To develop a sustainable publishing ecosystem that includes journals, edited volumes, monographs, and digital projects—all operating under ethical, non-commercial, and open-access principles.
We welcome diverse theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, and scholarly voices. We actively seek to include researchers from marginalized institutions and underrepresented regions.
All our activities—from peer review to editorial decisions to conference organization—are guided by transparent, fair, and accountable ethical standards. We oppose predatory publishing and exploitative academic practices.
We uphold Diamond Open Access as a fundamental principle: no charges for authors, no paywalls for readers. Knowledge produced with public support should be publicly available.
Within three years, Creativitas has achieved DOAJ and MLA indexing. Our next goal is Scopus indexing and expanding our readership across six continents. We track citations, downloads, and geographic reach.
We measure success not just by metrics, but by the scholarly communities we nurture. Our peer reviewers, authors, and readers form a growing network of humanities scholars committed to ethical practice.
We are committed to building institutional structures that outlast individual involvement. Our governance model, editorial workflows, and funding strategies aim for long-term viability without compromising principles.
The scholars and administrators driving our mission forward
PhD Research Scholar at St. Xavier's University, Kolkata. A UGC-NET qualified scholar with extensive engagement in comics studies, speculative fiction, popular culture, and environmental criticism. Founder and Managing Editor of Creativitas, overseeing peer review, editorial ethics, and scholarly outreach. His interdisciplinary research foregrounds visual culture as a critical site for examining ecology, memory, marginality, and contemporary cultural politics. His writings have appeared in reputed journals and Scopus-indexed publications.
Faculty Member of English at Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, India. Previously served as a UGC Senior Research Fellow at the University of North Bengal. His areas of research interest include Subaltern Studies, Planetary Studies, and Ecopoetics. He recently co-edited The Planetary Subaltern: On Indian History, Theory, and Texts in the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2026).
PhD Research Scholar and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal. MA from Banaras Hindu University in English Literature. Currently working on the gastronomic evolution of Calcutta for her doctoral project. Her research interests lie at the intersection of food, city space and literature. She enjoys cooking, exploring food trails and creative writing.
PhD scholar in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Gandhinagar. Previously Visiting Faculty at Presidency University, Kolkata. His research focuses on Global Modernism with a specified focus on Deconstructivist Philosophy and the Bengali Literary Tradition. His interests comprise Continental Philosophy and Autobiographical Studies, Twentieth Century Literature, Modernism and Postmodernism, Bengali Vernacular Literature and World Literature. He holds his Masters from the University of Calcutta.
Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal, India. Her work purveys into the fields of ecocritical theory, environmental humanities and allied areas. She edited Staying Together: NatureCulture in a Changing World (Lexington Books, 2023) and contributed chapters to edited volumes published by Springer Nature and Routledge.
Assistant Professor of English at Falakata College, University of North Bengal. PhD from North-Eastern Hill University (2022) with a thesis on "The Jatrapala Tradition of West Bengal: A Study in Theatrical Communication." Former Guest Faculty at EFLU Shillong. Specializations include Gender Studies, Partition Literature, Performance Studies, and Folk Theatre. She has co-edited Borderless Boundaries of the Mind: Revisiting the Partitioned Selves (2021) and guest-edited Café Dissensus (2023). She has also co-edited books on folk cultures of India (2024, 2025).
PhD in English Literature from Savitribai Phule Pune University. Bachelor's from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and Master's from Jadavpur University. His research explores how history influences the way we read literature, with extensive writing on Indian drama in the postcolonial period. Previously worked at ABP's The Telegraph. He is a regular presence on the Kolkata theatrical stage.
Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India. She has completed her PhD in the Department of English, University of North Bengal. Her areas of research interest include Environmental Humanities, Climate Fiction, Subaltern Studies, and South Asian Literature. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Gender Studies, South Asian Review, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. She has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes published by internationally renowned publishing houses.
PhD scholar at the University of North Bengal. Completed her graduation from Gokhale Memorial Girls' College, Post Graduation from the University of Calcutta, and M.Phil from Rabindra Bharati University. She has worked as guest faculty and FIP lecturer at Vivekananda College for Women, Kolkata, and as Assistant Teacher at Armenian College and Philanthropic Academy. Currently Assistant Professor at Rampurhat College. She has published multiple literary articles in international peer reviewed journals and edited three books.
PhD student and UGC Junior Research Fellow in English Studies at the University of North Bengal. M.A. (2022) and B.A. (2020) from the University of Calcutta. Research interests include posthumanism, environmental humanities, blue humanities, decoloniality, urban studies, comics and graphic novels, Indian Writing in English and anthrozoology. He has presented papers at the Universities of Exeter and Kent, UK, and Southern New Hampshire University, USA. Contributor to The Palgrave Handbook of Virtual Reality Literature (forthcoming).
PhD Candidate and UGC Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, University of North Bengal. Her doctoral thesis focuses on a geocritical study of select twenty-first-century Kashmiri literature in English. Her research interests include Kashmir studies, geocriticism, and postcolonial studies.
Assistant Professor of English at St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College and Guest Teacher at Kalyani University. Editing and Content Consultant at Khasra Khata and Assistant Editor at Creativitas. Research fellow at the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, currently pursuing her PhD on self-representation in visual art, particularly autobiographical graphic narratives. Her M.Phil examined Pardhan Gond nature-culture representations. She has presented at the University of Perpignan (France), IIT Patna, and other institutions, and received the RUSA Travel Grant. Published in Routledge volumes and journals of repute.
PhD scholar at Howard University, Washington DC. At Howard, her work focuses on sociogenic disability studies in Black and Dalit feminist literatures from early 19th to 21st century. She is also currently working on her legacy project called 'The Lost Heirs of Dalit Heirlooms' that is slated to release globally in February 2026.
PhD Research Scholar at St. Xavier's University, Kolkata. A UGC-NET qualified scholar with extensive engagement in comics studies, speculative fiction, popular culture, and environmental criticism. Founder and Managing Editor of Creativitas, overseeing peer review, editorial ethics, and scholarly outreach. His interdisciplinary research foregrounds visual culture as a critical site for examining ecology, memory, marginality, and contemporary cultural politics. His writings have appeared in reputed journals and Scopus-indexed publications.
Faculty Member of English at Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, India. Previously served as a UGC Senior Research Fellow at the University of North Bengal. His areas of research interest include Subaltern Studies, Planetary Studies, and Ecopoetics. He recently co-edited The Planetary Subaltern: On Indian History, Theory, and Texts in the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2026).
PhD Research Scholar and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal. MA from Banaras Hindu University in English Literature. Currently working on the gastronomic evolution of Calcutta for her doctoral project. Her research interests lie at the intersection of food, city space and literature. She enjoys cooking, exploring food trails and creative writing.
PhD scholar in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Gandhinagar. Previously Visiting Faculty at Presidency University, Kolkata. His research focuses on Global Modernism with a specified focus on Deconstructivist Philosophy and the Bengali Literary Tradition. His interests comprise Continental Philosophy and Autobiographical Studies, Twentieth Century Literature, Modernism and Postmodernism, Bengali Vernacular Literature and World Literature. He holds his Masters from the University of Calcutta.
Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal, India. Her work purveys into the fields of ecocritical theory, environmental humanities and allied areas. She edited Staying Together: NatureCulture in a Changing World (Lexington Books, 2023) and contributed chapters to edited volumes published by Springer Nature and Routledge.
Assistant Professor of English at Falakata College, University of North Bengal. PhD from North-Eastern Hill University (2022) with a thesis on "The Jatrapala Tradition of West Bengal: A Study in Theatrical Communication." Former Guest Faculty at EFLU Shillong. Specializations include Gender Studies, Partition Literature, Performance Studies, and Folk Theatre. She has co-edited Borderless Boundaries of the Mind: Revisiting the Partitioned Selves (2021) and guest-edited Café Dissensus (2023). She has also co-edited books on folk cultures of India (2024, 2025).
PhD in English Literature from Savitribai Phule Pune University. Bachelor's from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and Master's from Jadavpur University. His research explores how history influences the way we read literature, with extensive writing on Indian drama in the postcolonial period. Previously worked at ABP's The Telegraph. He is a regular presence on the Kolkata theatrical stage.
Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India. She has completed her PhD in the Department of English, University of North Bengal. Her areas of research interest include Environmental Humanities, Climate Fiction, Subaltern Studies, and South Asian Literature. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Gender Studies, South Asian Review, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. She has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes published by internationally renowned publishing houses.
PhD scholar at the University of North Bengal. Completed her graduation from Gokhale Memorial Girls' College, Post Graduation from the University of Calcutta, and M.Phil from Rabindra Bharati University. She has worked as guest faculty and FIP lecturer at Vivekananda College for Women, Kolkata, and as Assistant Teacher at Armenian College and Philanthropic Academy. Currently Assistant Professor at Rampurhat College. She has published multiple literary articles in international peer reviewed journals and edited three books.
PhD student and UGC Junior Research Fellow in English Studies at the University of North Bengal. M.A. (2022) and B.A. (2020) from the University of Calcutta. Research interests include posthumanism, environmental humanities, blue humanities, decoloniality, urban studies, comics and graphic novels, Indian Writing in English and anthrozoology. He has presented papers at the Universities of Exeter and Kent, UK, and Southern New Hampshire University, USA. Contributor to The Palgrave Handbook of Virtual Reality Literature (forthcoming).
PhD Candidate and UGC Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, University of North Bengal. Her doctoral thesis focuses on a geocritical study of select twenty-first-century Kashmiri literature in English. Her research interests include Kashmir studies, geocriticism, and postcolonial studies.
Assistant Professor of English at St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College and Guest Teacher at Kalyani University. Editing and Content Consultant at Khasra Khata and Assistant Editor at Creativitas. Research fellow at the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, currently pursuing her PhD on self-representation in visual art, particularly autobiographical graphic narratives. Her M.Phil examined Pardhan Gond nature-culture representations. She has presented at the University of Perpignan (France), IIT Patna, and other institutions, and received the RUSA Travel Grant. Published in Routledge volumes and journals of repute.
PhD scholar at Howard University, Washington DC. At Howard, her work focuses on sociogenic disability studies in Black and Dalit feminist literatures from early 19th to 21st century. She is also currently working on her legacy project called 'The Lost Heirs of Dalit Heirlooms' that is slated to release globally in February 2026.
Whether you are a scholar seeking to publish, a reader hungry for rigorous humanities work, or an institution interested in collaboration—we welcome you to the Sapientia community.
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