Ammrito Roy
Graduate Assistant, Ph.D.
Biography
Ammrito Roy is a Ph.D. student in English Literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research focuses on Global Anglophone Literature and Digital Humanities, particularly how online spaces facilitate new modes of storytelling and how global voices shape digital discourse.
He earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from National University, Bangladesh, and recently completed an M.A. in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where his thesis examined narrative adaptability in Reddit’s political communities. His work connects literary study with digital methods such as text analytics, NLP, corpus studies, and data mining to understand how stories move across media and cultures. This research introduced a new form of digital storytelling, which he terms the Reddit Narrative/Storytelling Genre.
As an instructor of First-Year Composition, Ammrito helps students develop their voices through critical inquiry and digital literacy. He views writing as a social and intellectual practice that links personal experience with broader cultural conversations.