Soumyaa
Nayak is a
Research Scholar at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of
Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India. She is currently researching on
women’s writing in Odia literature and exploring the scope of health humanities
in the same arena. Her interdisciplinary research interests draw from
literature, literary history, and health humanities. Soumyaa Nayak’s research
aims to draw a relation between health as a concept and the cultural
aspirations of Odia society and how it gets reflected in the literary space
created by women.