Dr. Tara Sonali Saldanha is an Assistant Professor of Strategy & Consulting (Communication) at the Goa Institute of Management. 
Prior to joining GIM, she has worked at:

• Assistant Professor (Communication), May 2025- September 2025, School of Business Management, SVKM’s NMIMS, Mumbai
• Institute Teaching Assistant, July 2019- July 2024, IIT Bombay, India
• Assistant Professor (English), June 2017- May 2018, June 2018-May 2019, Dhempe College of Arts and Science, affiliated to Goa University, India

Journal Publications

• Saldanha, Tara Sonali. “Stories in Service: The Figure of the Ayah Storyteller in Anglo Indian Literature.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2025 (peer reviewed, IF 0.6, Q1. Scopus-listed), https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2025.2533508.
• Saldanha, Tara Sonali. “Building the Raj: The Role of Anglo-Indian Women in British India.” Muse India, no. 77, Jan-Feb. 2018, https://museindia.com/Home/ViewContentData?arttype=articles&issid=77&menuid=7647.

Book reviews

• Review of The Colour Thief, by Stephen Aitken and Sylvia Sikunder, The Book Review, Vol. XLII, No 11, November 2018, pg. 15.
• Review of When the Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth, The Book Review, Vol. XLII, No 11, November 2018, pg. 22.
• Review of Shrinking Vanita by Manjula Padmanabhan, The Book Review, Vol. XLII, No 11, November 2018, pg. 35.
• Review of The Other: Stories of Difference by Paro Anand, The Book Review, Vol. XLII, No 11, November 2018, pg. 39.Book reviews
• Review of The Colour Thief, by Stephen Aitken and Sylvia Sikunder, The Book Review, Vol. XLII, No 11, November 2018, pg. 15.
• Review of When the Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth, The Book Review, Vol. XLII, No 11, November 2018, pg. 22.
• Review of Shrinking Vanita by Manjula Padmanabhan, The Book Review, Vol. XLII, No 11, November 2018, pg. 35.
• Review of The Other: Stories of Difference by Paro Anand, The Book Review, Vol. XLII, No 11, November 2018, pg. 39.

“CookwithLaxmiVlogs: Reframing Indian Domesticity Online” as part of the panel “Evolving Identities Through Material and Media Culture of the Indian Subcontinent,” 2025 South Asian Studies Association Conference, SOUTH ASIA & SOUTH ASIANS: Interactions Within and Beyond the Region, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles from 28 February-2 March 2025.

“#maidturnedcomedian: Deepika Mhatre’s Stand-up Comedy as Life Narrative,” IACLALS Annual conference Wit, Humour and the Carnivalesque in Literature and Performance, 15-17 February 2024, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Campus

“Literary Representations of Storytelling and Ayahs in Colonial India,” From Colonial Modernity to Decolonisation: The British Empire and Beyond, 15-16 September 2023, University of Auckland.

“A Room Not Quite Her Own: Writing and Domestic Work in Baby Halder’s A Life Less Ordinary,” IACLALS in collaboration with Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi Annual Conference 2023 (Online) on Metropolis and Margins: Shifting Configurations in Literature and Language Studies, April 26-29, 2023

“Reading Literary Representations of Storytelling and Ayahs in Colonial India,” British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference, University of Leeds, UK, 3-5 April 2023

“Reading Life Narratives of Women Domestic Workers in India” at Life Narrative Futures: An International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) networking event for graduate students and early-career researchers. Online, 29 October 2021

“Exploring Movement, Space, and Place in Tejubehan’s Drawing from the City,” Virtual International Conference on Postcolonial Studies in Comics and Graphic Narratives from South Asia Decolonising the Panel, Deconstructing the Gutter. IIT Patna and Postcolonial Studies Association UK, 25-26 September 2021

“An Examination of Claims to Authenticity and Taboo in Selected Food Narratives of Postcolonial Goa,” international conference titled Region/ Nation/ Trans-Nation: Literature- Cinema Interface, 2019, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India, 31 January-2 February 2019

Invited lecture, Baby Halder’s A Life Less Ordinary for the course HS 660: Author, Authorship, Authority, Masters by Research programme, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, 4th September 2025.

Participant, III/LSE Workshop Inequalities Bound in Histories of the Colonial and Postcolonial, LSE, London, 20-21 May 2024

Participant, workshop on Research Writing, Centre for Writing Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, at IIT Bombay, 19-20 April 2024

Resource person (Charles Wallace India Trust grantee), Orientation session on international research opportunities, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IITB, 5 November 2025

Resource person, workshop “Getting Started with Academic Writing” for final year English honours students at Dhempe College of Arts and Science, Goa, 13 February 2024

Invited lecture, “Authorship in Baby Halder’s A Life Less Ordinary” to undergraduate students of the Department of Humanities and Languages, Flame University, Pune on 7 November 2023, as part their course Autobiography Studies

Resource person, workshop “Getting Started with Academic Writing” for final year English honours students at Dhempe College of Arts and Science, Goa, 3 January 2023


Fellowships/ Grants

2023 Short Research grant, Charles Wallace India Trust
2019-2024 Teaching Assistantship, IIT Bombay
2012-2015 Dhirubhai Ambani Undergraduate Scholarship