Dr. Andy Silveira is an Associate Professor of Communication in the Strategy and Consulting Area at the Goa Institute of Management. They have twelve years of industry experience in Learning, Design and Development in several organizations, such as, Deloitte and J.P. Morgan. and 11 years of teaching in the Non-Corporate Sector. Their research interests are space and sexuality, queer studies, narrative inquiry and autoethnography. They also have been spearheading a project for the last six years entitled Queering Goa which fosters conversations on diversity in society in Goa.

Courses taught: Management Communication, Effective Negotiations, Queering Management and Organization, Mental Health at Work: An Experiential Course in Kayaking.

Publications:

• Canon. “Giving a Queer Account of the Self and Culture.” The New School for Social Research, New York, Spring 2010
   

Journal articles:

• Silveira, A. (2025). A critical autoethnography of queering religious monuments and a museum. Visitor Studies, 1–18.
• Andy Silveira, Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday, Anukriti Dixit, Taniya Mondal, Rachita Donti & Aditya Kailas Redig. (2025) “By standing up for another, I derived strength to stand up for myself’: Queer coalition work in an Indian-business school, Qualitative Research in Management and Organizations.
• Andy Silveira, Karman Khanna & Priya Kataria. A Uses and Gratifications Approach to Examining Lo-Fi Music Genre Popularity among Indian Gen Z during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Music Perception, 42(5), 505–522.
• Sharma, P, Balakumar, S, Silveira, A & Firoz, M. (14 May 2024): Exploring the Nexus of Assistance-Seeking Engagement in Travel Communities: Role of Destination Knowledge and Advocacy, International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, DOI: 10.1080/15256480.2024.2350008.
• Silveira, A & Rajan, S. (2024). Bloodstained Barcodes: What we buy feeds a genocide. Journal of Customer Behaviour. Vol 23 (2–3), 174–176.
• Silveira, A. (2022). Pursuing the Sacred: Discovering the Profane. Journal of Autoethnography, 3(4), 445–458.

Book Chapters:

• Amaladass, Anand Ed., “Abel, Maddela” Indian Christian Thinkers, Vol 2., Satya Nilayam Publications, 2006

Other articles:

• Silveira, A. (2024, July 22). Queering Konkani, My Mother Tongue. In Plainspeak by Tarshi, Issue: Queering as a Way of Life.
  https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/queering-konkani-my-mother-tongue/
• Silveira, A. (2024, May 18). The Touch. In Plainspeak by Tarshi, Issue: The Pandemic and Sexuality.
  https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/the-touch/
• The Quest for Gender-Inclusive Educational Spaces,” Hindustan Times, June 24, 2022
• Silveira, A. (2020, August 3). The Mask of Age. In Plainspeak by Tarshi, August 2020 Issue: Innovation and Sexuality.
  https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/the-mask-of-age/
• Silveira, A. (2019, November 15). Claiming our Spirituality Differently and Imaginatively. In Plainspeak by Tarshi. November 2019 Issue: Spirituality and Sexuality.
   https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/claiming-our-spirituality-differently-imaginatively/
• Silveira, A. (2019, July 15). Meanings, Naughty and Potent. In Plainspeak by Tarshi. July 2019 Issue: Erotica and Sexuality.
  https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/meanings-naughty-and-potent/
• Silveira, A. (2019, June 1). Does the Underwear Brand Really Matter? In Plainspeak by Tarshi. June 2019 Issue: Class and Sexuality.
  https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/does-the-underwear-brand-really-matter/
• Silveira, A (2010). “Giving a Queer Account of the Self and Culture.” Canon: The Interdisciplinary Journal of the New School for Social Research, New York.
• “Words that Articulate Pride,” New Indian Express, February 7, 2010.

Conferences:

• Silveira, A., (2024, December) Trans-forming Law: Negotiating Rights for Transgender Persons in India. Transformative Constitutionalism and Gender Identity, Heidelberg, Germany.
• Silveira, A., (2024, October) Queering Religious Monuments and a Museum through Autoethnography and Critical Narrative Analysis in Visitor Studies. Globalizing Indian Thought, London.
• Khanna, K & Silveira, A., (2024, May) Envisioning Beyond-Human Desires: Exploring Objectum-Sexality Through a Theological Lens. Beyond Humanism Conference, Poland.
• Silveira, A., Khanna, K & Kataria, P. (2024, Jan) Examining Post-Pandemic Popularity of Lo-Fi Music in India: A Uses and Gratifications Approach to Examining Lo-fi Music Genre Popularity in Indian Gen Z. INDAM, Goa.
• Silveira, A. (2024, Dec) Queering Business and Management Education Spaces Through (Ephemeral) Coalition Building: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Study. Paper Development Workshop in Organization and Management Studies, SPJIMR, Mumbai.
• Silveira, A. (2023, May 3–5) Online Porn Archives: The Sexuality-Assemblage.10th Early Career Researcher’s Paper Development Workshop, Graz, Austria.
• Silveira, A. & Roy, R. (2023, Jan 3–5) Flowers that Bloomed in Fire: A Queer Theorization of Care and Relationships. International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative, Florida, USA.
• Silveira, A. & Banday, M. (2022, Nov 30– Dec 2) Unencumbered care: Queer-feminist resistances, contestations and solidarities within higher education in neoliberal times. Feminist Matterings: Gender Studies Conference, Oulu, Finland.
• Silveira, A. (2022, Feb 18–20). Unusually Indecent Lives: Queering Faith and Autoethnography. 4th Conference on Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion, University California, Riverside, USA.
• Silveira, A. & Roy, R. (2022, Jan 3–5) Depicting Kama Stories: Queering Kamasutra and Autoethnography. International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative, Florida, USA.
• Silveira, A. (Nov 2019) Colorful Workspaces. Samvaad, PR & Media Conclave at MDI Murshidabad, West Bengal.
• Silveira, A. (2019). (Un)Holy Erotic Institutions. TISS, Mumbai.
• Silveira, A. (2017). Articulating and Envisioning Queer Lives in India, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
• Silveira, A. (2014). Articulating Sexual Identities in Public, Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad.
• Silveira, A. (2011). Dissident Queers, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
• Silveira, A. (2010). Giving a Queer Account for the Self. New School for Social Research, New York.
• Silveira, A. (2006). Indian Gay and Lesbian Writing. University of Madras, Chennai.
  
  
   

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