Dr Gaana is an Assistant Professor in the area of Business Communication at IIM Jammu. She has been involved in higher education teaching, research, and academic administration since 2009. Her core research areas are in the fields of language pedagogy, cultural studies, narratives and storytelling. She has also completed training and development projects in effective reading and writing for freshmen engineers at leading Electronics and Communications companies.

She completed her doctoral work from University of Madras in the area of Postcolonial Studies and specifically on the Indian Ocean Hydrographies of Amitav Ghosh in his Ibis Trilogy. Her MPhil from University of Hyderabad, in the field of storytelling, studies the ‘textual refraction’ of Sandman narratives.

She has previously taught at Christ University, and Alliance University, Bangalore. She has been actively involved in development, design, and implementation of curriculum for English language and literary studies for undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

Gaana harbors a keen interest in forging her areas of research in reading narrative fiction and storytelling with emerging languages of work and professional communication. A trained musician, she also engages with Carnatic music at its interstitial existence of caste and gender.