Swarnika is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. Her teaching and research interests include gender studies, detective fiction, film studies, popular literature, and the psychological dimensions of literary and cultural narratives. She is particularly interested in the ways literature and cinema engage with questions of identity, power, memory, and representation.

Alongside her academic work, she is involved in creative writing and content development, with a continuing interest in the role of language in shaping narratives. Her research frequently brings together literary analysis, interdisciplinary inquiry, and close textual reading to examine how stories acquire meaning across different cultural and artistic forms.

She is also a trained Bharatnatyam and Kathak dancer, and her experience of the two forms has deeply influenced her understanding of performance, expression, embodiment, and spectatorship.