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Dr. Z. D. Lalhmangaihzauva

Speaker

Dr. Z. D. Lalhmangaihzauva

Assistant Professor, Mizoram University

Dr Z. D. Lalhmangaihzauva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Culture Studies at Mizoram University. His research interests include literature, cultural and trauma studies, gender studies, and postcolonial theory.

He has authored five book chapters (2014–2023), published by prominent presses including Bloomsbury, Sahitya Akademi, and Writers Workshop, along with nine peer-reviewed research papers exploring cultural memory, globalisation, gender, trauma, and disability in literature. He has delivered several invited lectures (2023–2024) on popular culture, postcolonial readings of Mizo cultural expression, and men's studies, and has presented eleven research papers (2013–2025) at national and international seminars and conferences, including those organised by Pachhunga University College, Aizawl, New Literaria, the University of Rome Tor Vergata, LCIR Cambridge, Tamanghasset University, Algeria, and Mizoram University.