Dr Pritikana Karmakar received her doctoral degree in July 2025 from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Her research focuses on the psychopolitics of medicine in contagion narratives. She is specifically interested in the dynamics of psychopower at the intersections of disease, technological interventions and biomedical apparatuses of the modern world. Her research is published / forthcoming at Symposium, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Literature and Aesthetics and EDUL.