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Nagendra Kumar
Professor
nagendra.kumar[at]hs.iitr.ac.in
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee
91-01332-285711
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nagendra-kumar-56367622
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South Asian Literature & Culture, Modern Literature,Contemporary Fiction and Critical Theories, Indian Writing, Soft Skills, Communication Skills, Indian Diaspora, Dalit Studies, Postcolonial Literature
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Educational Details
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
1998
Ph.D., Diaspora Literature
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
1994
M.A., English Literature
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
1992
B.A.(Hons), English Literature
Professional Background
Professor (HAG Scale)
01 Jan 2022 - Present
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Professor
04 Apr 2014 - Present
IIT Roorkee
Associate Professor
15 Apr 2008 - 03 Apr 2014
IIT Roorkee
Assistant Professor
21 Jan 2004 - 14 Apr 2008
IIT Roorkee
Lecturer (On Contract)
06 Mar 2002 - 20 Jan 2004
IIT Roorkee
Lecturer in English
30 Sep 1999 - 02 Mar 2002
Arunachal University, Itanagar (A.P)
Lecturer in English
18 Nov 1996 - 27 Sep 1999
Veer Kunwar Singh University, Ara, Bihar
Research
Projects
TOPIC START DATE FIELD DESCRIPTION FINANCIAL OUTLAY FUNDING AGENCY OTHER OFFICERS
“ Indian Surrogates as Migrant Workers: Being Professional” 06 Oct 2021 Gender Studies 12.21 Lac The National Commission for Women, New Delhi Prof. A J Mishra & Prof. Pooja Garg
Reviving Memories Through Cuisine: Tracing Cultural Consciousness and Social Identity of Kashmiri Pandits' 15 Feb 2024 Cultural Studies 9 lac Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, India Dr Anurag Kumar, SMVDU, Jammu




Books
The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee: A Cross Cultural Perspective
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Publications

1.      2025. This body that is not ours: the technopolitics of the Africanfuturist body in The Old Drift. African Identities. (With Mahesh Krishna).

2.      2025. The agony of Jesmin’s body: A critical reading of Tahmima Anam’s ‘Garments.’ South Asian Popular Culture. (With Shivalika Agarwal).

3.      2025. Book Review: Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice. Journal of International Women’s Studies. (With Radhika Sharma).

4.      2025. Fullmetal Alchemist and the Hero’s Journey: Decoding the Monomyth in Hiromu Arakawa’s Shōnen Masterpiece. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture. (With Kunal Debnath).

5.      2025. Skin Scarred by Structural Violence: A study of Vitriolage in India. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. (With Radhika Sharma).

6.      2024. Metropolitan metamorphosis: posthuman transformations in the urbanized world of ‘Good Hunting.’ Journal for Cultural Research. (With Mahesh Krishna).

7.      2024. Pleasure and Beyond: A Psycho-pathological Study of Anna KareninaA Journal of Russian and Comparative Literary Studies. (With Shivalika)

8.      2024. “Toast is me. I am toast”: The Mnemotechnics of Consumption and Technohybrid Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”. Literature & Aesthetics. (With Pritikana Karmakar).

9.      2024. Using Experiential English Language Teaching Strategies for Young Learners: Perspectives of Indian Teachers Concerning NEP 2020. Journal of English Language Teaching. (With Amal Tom).

10.  2024. “Let Me In”: Analysing the Firefly Funhouse Match (2020)IAFOR journal of Arts and Humanities. (With Kunal Debnath)

11.  2024. Representing Environmental Disaster in the Anthropocene: Varun Thomas Mathew’s The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay as an Ecodystopia. East-West Cultural Passage. (With Manoj Rajbanshi).

12.  2024. “I wanted to show the faces of these migrant workers, their struggles to breathe and their undignified deaths”: In conversation with Pooja ChangoiwalaJournal of Postcolonial Writing. (With Pritikana Karmakar)

13.  2024. Hindu Gods, Demons, and Concepts in Naruto: Analyzing Masashi Kishimoto’s Mythopoeic Vision. Literary Voice (With Kunal Debnath).

14.  2024. Exploring the Ethical and Aesthetics Representations of Wetlands in Literary Texts: A Comparative Eco-Critical Study3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature The South East Asian Journal of English Language Studies. (With Swapnit Pradhan)

15.  2024. Unmasking the Educational Hegemony: Restructuring of Precarious Minds in Hichki (2018) and Super 30 (2019). Ars Aeterna. (With Saumya Agarwal).

16.  2024. “Our Moon has these blood clots, and it is no use hiding them”: In conversation with Rahul Pandita. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. (With Madhav Dubey).

17.  2024. Colonized Brown Motherhood: Em and the Big Hoom, Imelda and Indian Mothering. Women: a cultural review. (With Shivalika Agarwal).

18.  2024. “It’s Turning You into… Extensions of Itself”: Consciousness and Connectivity in David Walton’s The Genius Plague. Literature & Aesthetics. (With Saswati).

19.  2024. “Life, please listen. I have some very important things to say”: A conversation with Ambikasutan Mangad. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. (With Rahul Vijayan).

20.  2024. Widowed Mothers on Screen: Transcending Narratives in Select Indian Movies. Literature &  Aesthetics. (With Charul Kanwat)

21.  2024. Queer Metamorphosis: Examining Manobi’s Endeavour to Become a Heterosexual Woman after Transgender surgery in A Gift of Goddess Laxmi: A Candid Biography of India’s First Transgender Principal. Literature & Aesthetics. (With Kamal Barman).

22.  2024. “Was There Any Martyrdom Worse Than This?”: Literary and Television Representations of “Comfort Women” of WWII. Literature &  Aesthetics. (With Khushboo Verma).

23.  2024. Book Review: Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture, by Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Rao Garg (eds.). University of Bucharest Review (With Kishan Kumar Mishra).

24.  2024. Climate Change, Urban Dystopia, and Unimagined Communities: Reading Prayaag Akbar’s Leila. Literature & Aesthetics. (With Manoj Rajbanshi).

25.  2023. Disgusting desire: The Windup Girl as both object of desire and abject body. Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research. (With Mahesh Krishna).

26.  2023. Intersecting Realms: boys, media and the dynamics of sex education. Media Asia. (With Vishal Raj).

27.  2023. “For Rats Died in the Streets; Men in their Homes:” The Pharmacology of Human Rat Relationship in Camus’ The Plague. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literature. (With Pritikana Karmakar).

28.  2023. Breaking the Cycle: Resisting the Violence and Reclaiming Voices in Sarah Polley’s Women Talking (2022)Quarterly Review of Film and Video. (With Khushboo Verma).

29.  2023. Fatness, Baldness, and Skin Colour: Exploring the Consequences of Body Shaming and Self-Acceptance in Da Thadia (2012) and Bala (2019). Literary Voice. (With Kishan Kumar Mishra).

30.  2023. The space of ‘betwixt and between’: liminality and activism in Keum SukGendry-Kim’s Grass (2019). Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. (With Khushboo Verma).

31.  2023. Advertising Fatherhood: review of the film Trial Period. Media Asia. (With Vishal Raj).

32.  2023. Disability and Fashion Identity: A Critical Study of Margarita with a Straw (2014). Literary Voice. (With Preeti).

33.  2023.  Do I Exist: Deconstructing the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Anvita Dutt’s   Qala. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Taylor and Francis. (With Shivalika)

34.  2023. The Surrogacy Literacy of the Indian Surrogate: The Filmy Way. Media Watch. (With Priyadarshini Mishra)

35.  2023. Visualising "unhomeliness" and tracing trauma in Malik Sajad's graphic memoir Munnu: A Boy from KashmirJournal of Graphic Novel and Comics. (With Madhav Dubey)

36.  2023. Portraying murder and sexual abuse: review of the film CuttputliMedia Asia. (With Himangi Priya)

37.  2023. Mothers Born or Produced? An Analysis of the Mother- Daughter Relationship in Well- Behaved Indian Women. Journal of International Women's Studies. (With Shivalika Agarwal)

38.  2023. Realism, family dynamics and morality: review of the film Vadh. Media Asia. (With Vishal Raj)

39.  2023. Exploring the Aesthetics of Sexual Violence in Therese Park’s A Gift of the Emperor (1997): A Study on Korean Comfort Women. Literary Voice. (2023). (With Khushboo Verma)

40.  2023. Destabilizing ‘Development’: A Critique of Capitalocene in Sara Joseph’s Gift in Green. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies11(21). (With Swapnit Pradhan)

41.  2023. “Giving Birth is One Way but Not the Only Way…”: In Conversation with Saumya Dave. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy. (With Shivalika Agarwal).

42.  2023. “I believe there are as many motherhoods as there are mothers”: In Conversation with Jerry Pinto. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. (With Shivalika Agarwal)

43.  2023. Interrogating Survival and Sustainability in the Ecocinema Kantara. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. (With Swapnit Pradhan).

44.  2023. “Novel Experiential Teaching Approaches for School Teachers Teaching English to Students with Specific Learning Disabilities.” An Insight on English Language Teaching, edited by Dev Brat Gupta, Vinod Bhatt and Jeton Kelmendi, Biblioteka. 2023, 51-67. (With Amal Tom and Manish Asthana)

45.  2022. The Politics of Preservation: Unbuilding Universal Norms of Environmentalism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide. Literature & Aesthetics. 32(2) (2022) 236-249. (With Swapnit Pradhan)

46.  2022. Resituating the ‘Dominant Caste’: A Critique of Existing Narratives about Brahmins in S. L. Bhyrappa’s Grihabhanga: A Broken Home. Literature & Aesthetics. 32(2) (2022) 374-384. (With Kishan Kumar Mishra)

47.  2022.  Dalit Humanism: Marginal Spatial Reality as a Site of Dalit Counterpublic in Bama’s Sangati  and Tulsiram’s Murdahiya. Contemporary Voice of Dalit (With Anurag Kumar and Isha Malhotra).

48.  2022. The Subaltern Widow: Revisiting Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s RohiniLiterature & Aesthetics, Vol. 32. No. 1 (with Charul Kanwat)

49.  2022. Race, sexuality and prostitution in colonial Singapore: reading J.G. Farrell’s The Singapore GripSouth East Asia Research (with Prashant Maurya) 

50.  2022. Magic(al), Environment and Malayalam Literature: Narrating the Slow Death of Aathi and Kasargod, Book chapter in Indian Feminist Ecocriticism, eds. Douglas A. Vakoch and Nicole Anae, Lexington Books pp. 163-174 (with Rahul V)

51.  2022. The Corporality of Trauma and Testimony: Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol. 14, Issue 2 (with Khushboo Verma)

52.  2022. Decoding the imperial “grip” in J.G. Farrell’s The Singapore GripRupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol. 14, Issue 2 (with Prashant Maurya)

53.  2022. Postmodern Elements in Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s Akira (1988). Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews, Vol. 10, No. 1 (with Kunal Debnath)

54.  2022. Elder Abuse and Its Literary Representation. In: Rajan S.I. (eds) Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy. Springer, Singapore. (with Prashant Maurya & Parul Rani)

55.  2022. Dissecting the Doubtful Darwin: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanist Posthumanism in Galapagos, Scrutiny 2 Vol. 26 No. 1 pp. 76-90 (with Ankit Raj)

56.  2021. The Prisoner of Gender: Panopticon, Persuasion, and Surveillance of Women in Kavita Kane's Menaka's ChoiceUniversity of Bucharest Review: Literary & Cultural Studies Series. 2020, Vol. 10 No. 2 pp. 89-101 (with Meenakshi)

57.  2021. Magic on Wheels: A Study of Re-engagement, Re-enactment and Re-staging the Stereotypes of Performativity and Performance of Persons with Disabilities in the Choreography of Syed Sallauddin PashaRupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol.13, Issue 3 (with Radhika Sharma).

58.  2021. "Trick or Treat!": The Trickster Figure in Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slapstick, The Explicator, Vol. 79, Issue 4, pp. 155-159 (with Ankit Raj) 

59.  2021. Going Online! Use and Effectiveness of Online Mode of Instruction in the Teaching of English LanguageRupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol.13, Issue 2 (with Amal Tom) 

60.  2021. Contesting the man-eater animal(ity): changing paradigms of the colonial-colonised relationshipNeohelicon Vol. 48 pp. 751-768 (With Parul Rani) 

61.  2021. A Deviant or a Victim of Pervasive Stigmatization: Wicked Women in Kavita Kane's Lanka's PrincessJournal of International Women's Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 9 (with Meenakshi Chauhan)  

62.  2021. Effect of partial compulsory attendance on academic performance of technical education students. Innovations in Education and  TeachingIinternational (With Asha Kaushik and Pankaj Kumar) 

63.  2021. Finding the "Bluebird" in Kurt Vonnegut's BluebeardANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews (with Ankit Raj) 

64.  2021. Disability, Disease, and the Deceased: Reading Health and Justice in Animal's People. Media Watch, vol 12, no. 1, pp. 58-66 (with Rahul V)

65.  2020. Colonial Medicine & Cholera: Historicizing Victorian Medical Debates in J.G.Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur. Southeast Asian Review of English, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 53-73 (with Prashant Maurya)  

66.  2020. Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi and its topicality. South Asian Popular Culture, vol. 18, no. 3 (with Prashant Maurya)  

67.  2020. The Member of ‘Quality’ and the ‘Other’: Colonial fallacy and othering in James G. Farrell’s TroublesPertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 28, no. 1 (with Prashant Maurya) 

68.  2020. The Hero at a Thousand Places: Kurt Vonnegut’s SlaughterhouseFive as Anti-MonomythCritique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (With Ankit Raj)   

69.  2020. Techniques to Improve English Communication for Enhancing Employability of Non-Native SpeakersLiterary Voice, Vol. 12, Issue 1 (with Asha Kaushik)

70.  2020. Stepping Out of the Difference: Discerning the Dalit Female Standpoint in Bama’s Sangati, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, (with Yogisha)

71.  2020. A Theatre Called Spectacle: Phantasmagorical Urban Space and A Strange and  Sublime Address, South Asian Review, (with Sovan Chakraborty) 

72.  2020. Jim Corbett’s My India: A Study of Ideological OthernessRupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol.12, Issue 1, pp. 1-14. (with Parul Rani) 

73.  2019. Demystifying the Non-human Animal: Analyzing Animal Agency through the Select Narratives of Jim CorbettRupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in  Humanities, Vol. 11, Issue 3, pp. 1-14. (with Parul Rani) 

74.  2019. Writing Drought Then and Now: A Comparative Assessment of Sarat Chandra  Chattopadhyay’s ‘The Drought’ and Anita Agnihotri’s  ‘Remembering’Caesura: Journal of Philological & Humanistic Studies, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (with Prashant Maurya) 

75.  2017. Resistance and Recuperation: Developing a Dalit Feminist Standpoint in Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke., Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Vol. 9, Issue 2 (with Yogisha)              

76.  2017.  Foregrounding the Animal Stance: A Critical Study of Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol. 9, Issue 3 (with Parul Rani) 

77.  2017. Man-Eaters of Kumaon: a Critique of Modernity Rupkatha Journal on  Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol. 9, Issue 1 (with Parul Rani) 

78.  2017.  Linguistic Dialogism in The God of Small ThingsThe Indian Journal of English Studies, Vol.55 (with Devendra Kumar Sharma & Binod Mishra) 

79.  2016.  ‘Seeing Double’: Exploring the Flâneur’s Gaze in Amit Chaudhuri’s A New WorldRupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol. 8, Issue 3 (with  Sovan Chakraborty) 

80.  2014.  The White Tiger: A Socio-pragmatic Response,  Journal of English Language and Literature, Vol.1, Issue 2, (with Devendra Kumar)  

81.  2011. Shaking the Roots of Western Science in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta  Chromosome,  ASIATIC, Vol.5, Issue 1 (with Sanjit Mishra)

82.  2010.  Images of women in Hindi Dalit and African American Literature: A Cross-Cultural Study”, The IUP Journal of English Studies    Vol. 5, Issue 4 (with Anurag Kumar) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Honors And Awards
Honors
IIT BHU Varanasi
2023
External Member, Senate
IIT BHU (Varanasi)
2024
Member, Research Advisory Committee
IIT (BHU) Varanasi
2019
Member, Senate
IIT Roorkee
2015
Outstanding Teacher Award
Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria
2006
Fellow of Salzburg Seminar Session 434
American Studies Research Center,Hyd
1996
Teachers Research Grant
BHU Varanasi
1995
BHU Research Scholarship
Govt of India
1992
Merit Scholarship
BHU, Varanasi
1992
B.H.U Prize for securing First Rank in English at B.A.Honours Level.
MemberShips
All India English Teachers' Association
31 Aug 2020 - Present
Life Member
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
01 Mar 2019 - 28 Feb 2025
Member, Senate
DIT University, Dehradun
02 Mar 2022 - Present
Member, Board of Studies
PSG, Coimbatore
01 Jan 2022 - Present
Member, Board of Studies
LPU, Jalandhar, Punjab
01 Jan 2022 - Present
Member, Board of Studies
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Una, Himachal Pradesh
01 Nov 2021 - Present
Member, Research Committee
Lingaya's Vidyapeeth, Faridabad
01 Sep 2021 - Present
Member, Board of Studies
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, J&K
21 Feb 2018 - Present
Member, Board of Studies
Chandigarh University, Chandigarh
02 Aug 2021 - Present
Member, Board of Studies
GITAM University, India
01 May 2019 - 31 May 2021
Member, Board of Studies
NIT Jalandhar
01 Jul 2021 - Present
Member, Student Research Committee
National Institute of Technology, Mizoram
01 Jan 2021 - Present
Member, Research Committee
National Institute of Technology, Puducherry
01 Jan 2020 - Present
Member, Research Committee
IKG Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab.
06 Feb 2015 - 31 Dec 2018
Member, Board of Studies
Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun
01 May 2018 - 31 Dec 2020
Member, Board of Studies
National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, Uttarakhand
04 May 2016 - 31 Aug 2020
Member, Board of Studies
SLIET (Deemed to be University), Longowal, Punjab
01 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2018
Member, Board of Studies
Maharishi Markendeshwar (Deemed to be University) Mulana, Haryana.
01 May 2014 - 31 Dec 2018
Member, Board of Studies
CCSJM Kanpur University
01 Feb 2014 - 31 Dec 2018
Member, Board of Studies
Teaching Engagements
Teaching Engagements
Technical Communication ( HS501 )
Spring
Soft Skills ( HSI 101 )
Autumn
Research Methodology in Language & Literature ( HSN 911 )
Spring
Communication Skills ( HSN - 001 )
Autumn
Research Methodology in Language and Literature ( HSN 911 )
Autumn
Fiction of Indian Diaspora ( IHS 911 )
Spring
Art of Fiction ( HSN 003 )
Spring
Preparatory English ( HS002 )
Spring
The Fiction of Indian Diaspora ( IHS14 )
Spring
Students
SuperVisions
Mental Health and Spatial Studies
02 Jan 2023 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Saumya Agarwal
Medical Humanities
03 May 2024 - 30 Jun 2028
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Shubhangi
Health Humanities, India
11 Jul 2024 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Shreyaa Gajraj
Trauma Studies, India
14 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2030
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Ms Tulsi Sharma
Indian Literature in Translation, India
14 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2030
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Harsh Srivastava
Disability Studies
18 Jul 2022 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Preeti
Bodies That Don’t Matter: Reading Posthuman Bodies in Select Works of Biopunk Fiction
25 Jul 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Mahesh Krishna
Revisiting Widowhood: Analysing Remediation and Postmemory in Select Indian Movies
24 Jul 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Charul Kanwat
No-body is Perfect: Decoding Body Shaming in Contemporary Indian Movies
26 Jul 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Kishan Kumar Mishra
Mycohuman Metamorphosis: Bodies and Spaces as Ecological Borderlands of Alteration and Anxiety in Select Fungal Narratives of Ecohorror
25 Jul 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Saswati Swayamprava
The Dystopian City Scape in Post Millennial Indian English Fiction
10 Feb 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Manoj Rajbanshi
Influences of Hindu Mythology in Select Manga Anime: A Critical Study
10 Feb 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Kunal Debnath
No Dose Without Poison: A Technopharmacological Reading of Select Contagion Narratives
17 Aug 2020 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Pritikana Karmakar
Self-Achievement v/s Self-Denial: A Critical Study of Interdependence in the Identity Development of Mothers and Daughters through Select Indian Novels
16 Aug 2020 - 12 Jun 2024
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Shivalika Agarwal
The Trauma of Displacement: Memory, Migration and Space in Select South Asian Narratives
16 Aug 2020 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Madhav Dubey
Use of ICT Tools in ELT: Experimental Learning to Students with Specific Learning Disabilities
26 Dec 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Amal Tom
To See, or Not to See: Exploration of the 'Fictional Psychopaths' in Select Asian Narratives
09 Dec 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Himangi Priya
Spaces as a Cite of Socio-Cultural Conflict: Transgender People's Spatial Reclamation in Select Indian Narratives
20 Nov 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Kamal Barman
'Not all men are men': A Critical Study of Men and Masculinity in Select Indian texts
18 Nov 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Vishal Raj
The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusions in Select Indian English Novels
11 Nov 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Swapnit Pradhan
Facing the 'Comfort Women': Representation and Reckonings of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery in Select Asian Amewrican Narratives
12 Jul 2019 - 30 Aug 2024
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Khusboo Verma
Longing for Belonging: A Study of Select Fictions on Transnational Commercial Gestational Surrogacy
07 Jul 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Priyadarshini Mishra
Toxic Spaces and Eco-Consciousness: Analysing Toxic Discourse in Select Indian Novels
27 Dec 2018 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Rahul V
Postmodern Monomyth: An Archetypal Reading of Kurt Vonnegut's Select Novels
27 Dec 2018 - 31 Jan 2023
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Ankit Raj
From Deviants to Extraordinary Bodies: A Literary Study of Disability in Select Indian Novels
27 Dec 2018 - 12 Jul 2024
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Radhika Sharma
Deconstructing Mythology: A Feminist Revisionist Analysis of Kavita Kane's Select Novels
28 Dec 2017 - 18 Jan 2023
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Meenakshi
Critiquing the Imperial Past: A Study of JG Farrell's Empire Trilogy
11 Jul 2017 - 10 Aug 2021
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Prashant Maurya
Mapping the Subaltern Standpoint: A Reading of Select Dalit Female Narratives
01 Jan 2014 - 15 Aug 2018
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Ms. Yogisha
Understanding the 'Animal': A Study of Jim Corbett's Narratives
01 Jan 2015 - 13 Jun 2019
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Parul Rani
Queer Space:A Study of Select South Asian Narratives
01 Jan 2014 - 01 May 2020
Other Supervisors: Dr Pashupati Jha, Scholar: Meera Singh
The Dialectics of Modernity: The Novels of Amit Chaudhuri
01 Jan 2013 - 29 Dec 2017
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Sovan Chakraborty
Decolonizing English: An Analysis of Select Indian English Novels
01 Jan 2013 - 25 May 2017
Other Supervisors: Dr. Binod Mishra, Scholar: Devendra Kr. Sharma
Partition of India: A Literary-Historical Perspective
01 Jan 2011 - 25 May 2017
Other Supervisors: Dr. Sanjit Kr. Mishra, Scholar: Santosh Kr. Yadav
Multiculturalism and Diaspora: Short Stories of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Jhumpa Lahiri
01 Jan 2010 - 28 Aug 2013
Other Supervisors: Dr Sanjit Kr. Mishra, Scholar: Mr. Yarra Jaipaul
Marginal Space as Site of Resistance: A Study of the Novels of Gloria Naylor
01 Jan 2009 - 30 May 2012
Other Supervisors: Dr Smita Jha, Scholar: Mr. Anurag kumar
The Depiction of Lotus in Mughal Architecture: A Critical Study
01 Jan 2008 - 16 Aug 2011
Other Supervisors: Dr. Ila Gupta, Scholar: Ms. Manu
Myths and Their Significance in the Novels of Bharati Mukherjee
01 Jan 2003 - 30 Aug 2006
Other Supervisors: Dr.P. Jha, Scholar: Ms. Sumati
From Tradition to Modernity: Women in the Novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya and Shobha De
01 Jan 2001 - 30 Jun 2004
Other Supervisors: Dr. P. Jha, Scholar: Ms. Sangeeta Yadav
Miscellaneous
Events
Art of Communication Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference
01 Jan 2017 - Present
Interdisciplinary Research Foundation
International Conference for Social Sciences and Humanities
01 Jan 2017 - Present
ICSS
International Conference on Interpersonal Communication & Social Interaction, ICSI-2013
01 Jan 2013 - 04 Jan 2013
ICSI
Fourth International Shaw Society Conference
01 Jan 2011 - 04 Jan 2011
International Shaw Society
”, International Conference on Social Science and Humanities (ICSSH 2009)
01 Jan 2009 - 03 Jan 2009
International Conference on “Orientations: Language, Learning and Translation
01 Jan 2008 - 03 Jan 2008
Ministry of Education, Oman
Salzburg Seminar
01 Jan 2006 - 03 Jan 2006
Salzburg Global Seminar
5th Arts and Humanities Conference
01 Jan 2019 - 04 Jan 2019
Copenhagen
International Management Conclave on Revisiting Ancient Indian Scriptures for Investigating Sublime
01 Jan 2020 - 03 Jan 2020
One Week FDP on Development of Career in Higher Education India in the 21st century
01 Jan 2020 - 07 Jan 2020
Invited to deliver Plenary talk on the topic "Culture and Communication: An Overview" at National Seminar on English Studies in India: Changes and Challenges, organised by The Department of English, BHU, Varanasi.
01 Jan 2016 - 06 Jan 2016
FDP on Research Writing, Publishing, and Presentation
01 Jan 2020 - 06 Jan 2020
Bhasha Awam Pradyogiki
01 Jan 2010 - Present
International Webinar on Advanced Professional Writing
01 Jan 2020 - Present
Five day TEQIP Workshop on “Soft Skills and Effective Classroom Management”
01 Jan 2019 - Present
FDP on “An Understanding about Elements of Classroom Teaching and Course Assessment”
01 Jan 2019 - Present
Two Day TEQIP Sponsored Workshop on “Strengthening Career Prospects with Communication & Presentatio
01 Jan 2019 - Present
Two Day TEQIP Sponsored Workshop on “Innovative Methods of English Language Teaching and Learning”
01 Jan 2019 - Present
TEQIP-III Workshop on “Soft Skills: Importance in the Technical World”
01 Jan 2019 - Present
International Literature & Arts Festival (Valley of Words)
01 Jan 2017 - Present
Linkages between Communication and Culture: An Overview
01 Jan 2016 - Present
Problematics of Intercultural Communication
01 Jan 2015 - Present
Visits
NTU, Singapore, Singapore
2009-10-09
Invited Speaker
Alexandria, Egypt
2023-03-09
To participate in Women of the World International Conference
Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria
2006-09-30
Fellow of Salzburg Seminar 434
Sohar University, Oman
2008-02-26
Invited Speaker
University of Guelph, Canada
2011-07-25
Invited Speaker
University of Lugano, Switzerland
2013-10-03
Invited Speaker
Prague, Czechia
2017-10-31
Invited Speaker
University of Warsaw, Poland
2017-03-24
Invited Speaker
Copenhagen, Denmark
2019-06-24
Invited Speaker
Nandi, Fiji
2023-02-15
To participate in Vishwa Hindi Sammelan
Administrative Positions
Head of Department
01 Feb 2018 - 01 Feb 2021
Department of Humanities & Soc. Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Chairman, Institute Medical Emergency Fund Committee
01 Nov 2020 - Present
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
President, Mandir Management Committee
01 Jan 2019 - Present
Shri Saraswati Mandir, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Chairperson, Institute Sports Council
01 Jul 2023 - Present
IIT Roorkee, India
Chairman, Rajbhasha (Hindi) Cell
01 Jan 2014 - 01 Jan 2019
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Treasurer, Faculty Forum
01 Jan 2009 - 04 Jan 2012
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Chairperson Department Research Committee
06 May 2021 - 05 May 2023
Humanities& Social Sciences
In-charge, Rajbhasha (Hindi) Cell
01 Jan 2008 - 01 Jan 2014
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Chief Warden (Radhakrishnan Bhawan)
10 May 2010 - 30 Jun 2014
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Chief Purchasing Officer
01 Jan 2008 - 01 Jan 2009
Coordination Committee of Bhawans, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Member (Institute Information Dissemination Committee)
30 Sep 2019 - 30 Sep 2021
Indian Institute OF Technology Roorkee
Staff Advisor (Literary Section)
01 Jan 2009 - 01 Jan 2013
Cultural Council, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Editor, Manthan (The Annual Magazine of IIT Roorkee)
01 Jan 2008 - 01 Jan 2019
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Staff Advisor (Cricket)
01 Jan 2009 - 01 Jan 2013
Sports Council, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Warden (Rajendra Bhawan)
01 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2009
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Officer in Charge (Language Lab)
01 Jan 2003 - 01 Jan 2010
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee