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Smita Jha
Professor
smita.jha[at]hs.iitr.ac.in
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT
9760978228
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Research Interests
Communication Skills, Indian writing in English/Commonwealth Literature, Linguistics, Technical Communication, Post-colonial Studies, Contemporary literary theory, Feminist Theory, Gender/cultural Studies.
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Educational Details
CIEFL
1997
M.Phil, Stylistics
B.R.A.Bihar University
1986
First in First Class (Gold medalist), B.A. Honours
B.R.A.BIHAR UNIVERSITY
1988
First in First Class( Gold Medalist), M.A.
Central Institute of English and Foreign Language, Hyderabad
1997
PGDTE- (Post- Graduate diploma in teaching English), English
Bihar University
1992
Ph.D, English Literature
All India eligibity test
1992
NET, LITERATURE
Middlesex University , London
2016
Diploma, Neuro-linguistic programming
Professional Background
Professor
01 Jul 2020 - Present
IIT Roorkee
Associate Professor
01 Jan 2012 - 01 Jan 2015
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Assistant Professor
01 Jan 2007 - Present
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Lecturer
01 Jan 1992 - 01 Jan 2007
Bihar University
Reader
01 Jan 2000 - 01 Jan 2007
Bihar University
Research
Projects
TOPIC START DATE FIELD DESCRIPTION FINANCIAL OUTLAY FUNDING AGENCY OTHER OFFICERS
Gandhian Thought and Philosophy 01 Oct 2019 MINISTRY OF CULTURE 3, 50, 000 Ministry of Culture
Project on indigenous Language and Literature 11 Apr 2023 language and litearure 2.00 lakh Sahitya Akademi
Women empowerment 01 Oct 2015 WOMEN STUDIES 3 Lakh Government of Uttarakhand
Project on Drudgery Reduction & Women Empowerment 01 Feb 2011 Humanities 6.00 Lakhs Uttarakhand Women of Child Development Society, Uttarakhand
GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic Networks) 01 Aug 2017 Research 9.00 Lakhs MHRD
Project on Multiculturalism by Sahitya Akademi 01 Mar 2015 Humanities 2 Lakhs Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi & Government of Uttarakhand
2020 SATU Joint Research Scheme (JRS) Matched Projects 01 Jan 2020 Humanities - SATU , Taiwan University
Workshop on English language teaching 01 Sep 2012 Humanities 5 Lakhs British Council
Project on Unsung Heroes 01 Dec 2021 Humanities 2, 50,000 Ministry of Culture
FIG Project 01 Jan 2014 Stress Determination among the Students through Graphology One lakh SRIC,IIT Roorkee
Joint Research Scheme 01 Jan 2020 Research - Southeast and South Asia and Taiwan Universities




Publications
Defying the Binaries: Body, Desire and Sexual Identity in Nagarkirtan.
2022
Ruchi and Smita Jha | Routledge
Journal: Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Taylor and Francis ( Q1).
Weaponizing History: Watching Panipat in Post-Truth Times
2023
Acharya and Smita jha | Routledge
Journal: QUARTERLY REVIEW OF FILM AND VIDEO
Lands That Make Us: Decoding Maps, Landscapes, and Identities in Aaniya Asrani’s Portraits of Exile
2022
abinsha and Smita Jha | Routledge
Journal: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Pages: pp.1-15 ,
A Historical Survey of Indian Novels in English
2012
Smita Jha | Springer
Journal: Indian Journal of Gender Studies Pages: 102-110 ,
The Handmaid's Tale: Remapping Identity through Language
2017
Rachna Arora and Smita Jha | Re-marking
Journal: Re-marking Pages: impact factor journal , Volumes: 06 citation ,
Book Review on Literature, Culture & Society
2011
Smita Jha | Jawaharlal Nehru University
Journal: Journal of the School of Language
In search of sexuality and spirituality: The unveiled womanhood in Sarah Joseph’s The scent of the other side
2012
Smita Jha | Atlantic Literary Review Press
Journal: Atlantic Literary Review
Writing Bodies, Wording Illness and Countering Marginalization: Graphic Autopathographies as a Genre of Social Action
2021
Amritha Krishnan and Smita Jha | Taylor & Francis
Journal: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Pages: high impact factor journal , Volumes: 45 citation ,
Textuality and Sexuality: A Study of Edible Women
2015
Rachna Arora and Smita Jha | Atlantic Review of Feminist Studies
Journal: Atlantic Review of Feminist Studies
Reinventing Marginalized Voices: A Study of Volga’s The Liberation of Sita and Yashodhara.
2023
Ruchi Kumari and Smita Jha | Bridgewater University Press
Journal: Journal of International Women’s Studies Pages: high impact factor journal , Volumes: 20 citation ,
The Role of Cultural Schemata in Critical Reading
2017
Gautam Nasker and Smita Jha | International Education & Research Journal
Journal: International Education & Research Journal Pages: Scopus Indexed journal , Volumes: 16 citation ,
Defying the Binaries: Body, Desire and Sexual Identity in Nagarkirtan
2023
Ruchi Kumari and Smita Jha | Taylor and Francis
Journal: Quarterly Review of Film and Video Pages: impact factor journal , Volumes: 20 citation ,
Victim of Fate or Choice: A Study of Greene’s The Heart of the Matter
2012
Sresha Yadav and Smita Jha | The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies
Journal: 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies Pages: 159-166 , Volumes: 18 ,
Code hero in Ernest Hemingway: A Study
2015
Smita Jha | Atlantic Critical Review
Journal: Atlantic Critical Review
The Comic Stance: A Study of Malgonkar's Short Stories, Points of View
1999
Smita Jha | SAGE
Journal: AIR Pages: 103-109 ,
Revisiting the Classics: A Case Study of Moby Dick
2013
Smita Jha | Middle Flight
Journal: Middle Flight Pages: 210-221 ,
On lesbian Subjectivity and same-sex marriage: an interview with Ruth Vanita.
2023
Ruchi Kumari and Smita Jha | Taylor & Francis
Journal: Journal of Gender Studies Pages: high impact factor journal , Volumes: 40 citation ,
Interview with Anita Nair
2013
Niyathi Krishna and Smita Jha | The Atlantic Critical Review
Journal: The Atlantic Critical Review
Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tides: Mythology of Discovery
2005
Smita Jha | T& f, Routledge
Journal: TEXTUAL PRACTICE Pages: 80-83 , Volumes: XII ,
Quest for Identity in Chinua Achebe 's The African Triology
2023
Smita Jha | Re- Markings
Journal: Re-Markings Pages: 106-112 ,
Pragama Discourse Analysis of Aristotle’s Rhetoric
2014
Smita Jha | Journal of Linguistic Society (Scopus)
Journal: The Atlantic Literary Review Pages: 1-8 , Volumes: 15 ,
Doris Lessings: An Overview
2008
Smita Jha | Re-markings
Journal: Re-markings Pages: 88-99 , Volumes: copernicus journal ,
Locating the subaltern otherness”: Politics of identity in select Dalit Autobiographies
2014
Riya Mukherji and Smita Jha | Indian Institute of Dalit Studies
Journal: Social Action (Q1 IMPACT FACTOR) Pages: 28-35 , Volumes: CITATION:100 ,
Religion in Graham Greene
2003
Smita Jha | Journal of Philosophical Congress
Journal: Journal of Philosophical Congress Pages: 36-39 ,
Literature and Philosophy
2009
Smita Jha | The Quest, Ranchi
Journal: The Quest Pages: 22-27 ,
A Study of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock: Case History of a Killer
2012
Sresha Yadav and Smita Jha | The Atlantic Literary Review
Journal: The Atlantic Literary Review
Ethnicity and Identity: An Approach to Jhumpa Lahiri's the Namesake
2008
Smita Jha | SAGE
Journal: LITERARY PRACTICE Pages: 39-43 , Volumes: 30 ,
The Consciousness of Dalit Selfhood: Narration of History in Dalit Autobiographies
2014
Riya Mukherji and Smita Jha | TISS
Journal: The Indian Journal of Social Work (Q1 IMPACT FACTOR) Pages: 56-70 , Volumes: 23 ,
Women’s Body as the site of Encroachment: A critical Study of Amrita Pritam’s Novel Pinjar
2016
Rachna Arora and Smita Jha | Social Sciences Review
Journal: Social Sciences Review (Q1 IMPACT FACTOR) Pages: high impact factor journal , Volumes: 60 citation ,
A Study of Graham Greene’s Novels with New Insights: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature
2012
Sresha Yadav and Smita Jha | Routledge
Journal: European Studies (Q1 HIGH IMPACT FACTOR) Pages: 45-60 , Volumes: 50 ,
Loss of Human Values: An Approach to The Inheritance of Loss
2009
Smita Jha | springer
Journal: Criteria (Q1 Journal) Pages: 95-101 , Volumes: 8 ,
Linguistics and cognitive Paradigm in Meena’s Alexander’s Manhattan Music
2014
Smita Jha | Atlantic Journal , New Delhi
Journal: Atlantic Journal
Exploring the interrelationship between culture and learning: The case of English as a Second Language in India
2021
Krishna Pandey and Smita Jha | Taylor & Francis
Journal: Asian Englishes Pages: impcat factor journal , Volumes: 27 citation ,
Chinua Achebe's A Man Of People: A Critique
2007
Nagendra Kumar and Smita jha | Cyber Literature, Patna
Journal: Cyber Literature Volumes: xix & xx ,
Death in the novels of Virginia Woolf
2021
Smita Jha | Re-markings
Journal: Re-markings
Things Fall Apart: A Study by Chinua Achebe
2009
Smita Jha | IRCLAC, SAGE
Journal: International African Journal( SAGE) Pages: 96-110 , Volumes: 60 citation ,
Reconstructing Dalit Masculinities: A Study of Select Dalit Autobiographies
2021
Riya Mukherjee and Smita Jha | SAGE
Journal: Sociological Bulletin Pages: high impact factor journal , Volumes: 80 citation ,
Collective or Singular? Redefining the Depiction of Pain in Dalit Life Narratives
2015
Riya Mukherjee and Smita Jha | Punjab University
Journal: Dialogue Pages: high impact factor journal , Volumes: 90 citation ,
Character Analysis of Andrews in Graham Greene's The Man Within
2010
Sresha Yadav and Smita Jha | Language in India
Journal: Language in India Pages: 227-233 , Volumes: 10 ,
Shakespeare's Soliloquies: A Cognitive Analysis
2010
Smita Jha | Linguistic Society of India
Journal: Linguistic Society of India Pages: 222-225 ,
The Sinner-Saint Syndrome in Graham Greene’s Novels
2016
Smita Jha | Rupkatha Journal
Journal: Rupkatha Journal Volumes: 8 ,
Differential citizenship: questioning the dalit claim to equal citizenship through a projection of difference
2016
Riya Mukherji and Smita Jha | Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture
Journal: Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Pages: high impact factor journal , Volumes: 100 citation ,
Trauma, Memory, History and its Counter Narration in Thi Bui’s Graphic Memoir The Best We Could Do.
2021
Abhilasha Gusain and Smita Jha | Taylor & Francis
Journal: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Pages: 05 , Volumes: 12 ,
Q & A and The White Tiger
2010
Smita Jha | A Postcolonial and Global Perspective
Journal: A Postcolonial and Global Perspective Pages: 150-162 ,
Locating the Subalterns Otherness: Politics of Identity in Select Dalit Autobiographies
2014
Riya Mukherjee and Smita Jha | Social Action: A quarterly Review of Social Trends
Journal: Social Action: A quarterly Review of Social Trends Pages: 294-308 , Volumes: 64 ,
Truthful Hyperbole: Trumping Narrative in Post- Truth
2022
Arunava Acharya and Smita Jha | Pop Culture
Journal: Pop Culture
A Framework for Author's Identification of Questioned Documents: Forensic and Linguistic Convergence
2011
Sresha Yadav and Smita Jha | MJAL
Journal: MJAL: An International Journal Pages: 1-7 , Volumes: 10 citation ,
Pragna-Discourse Analysis of Aristotle Rhetoric
2014
Smita Jha | The Atlantic Literary Review
Journal: The Atlantic Literary Review Pages: 1-9 , Volumes: 15 ,
Narrating Vietnamese history is the best way to open a can of worms…”: in conversation with Marcelino Truong
2022
Abhilasha Gusain and Smita Jha | Taylor & Francis
Journal: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Pages: 3 , Volumes: 100 citation ,
‘The urge to know about the roots is just human, I guess’: Vietnamese Memories and Clément Baloup, an interview”
2022
Abhilasha Gusain and Smita Jha | Taylor & Francis
Journal: Visual Studies Pages: 47-53 , Volumes: 37 ,
Anita Desai, Margaret Atwood and Gloria Naylor: A Study of Female Psyche
2009
Smita Jha | Search: A Journal of Arts, Humanities & Management
Journal: Search: A Journal of Arts, Humanities & Management Pages: 80-91 ,
Women’s Body as the site of Encroachment: A critical Study of Amrita Pritam’s Novel Pinjar
2016
Rachna Arora and Smita Jha | Social Sciences Review
Journal: Social Sciences Review Volumes: 2 ,
A Saga of Female Bonding
2011
Anurag Kumar and Smita Jha | JALA
Journal: Journal of the African Literature Association Pages: 111-121 , Volumes: high impact factor journal ,
Theory of Impossibility of Knowledge: A Study of The Calcutta Cromosome
2010
Smita Jha | Dialogue
Journal: Dialogue Pages: 136-148 ,
The Sinner-Saint Syndrome in Graham Greene’s Novels
2016
Smita Jha | Rupkatha journal
Journal: Rupkatha journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pages: 161-168 ,
“Each Time a Book Comes out in which mental health is an important issue, we are taking a tiny step forward": An Interview with author Jerry Pinto
2021
Sheetal Yadav and Smita Jha | Atlantic Publishers
Journal: The Atlantic Literary Review Pages: 1-4 , Volumes: 22 ,
The Women of Brewster Place
2011
Anurag Kumar and Smita Jha | The Atlantic Literary Review
Journal: The Atlantic Literary Review Pages: 1-12 ,
Narrative of Protest: Interrogating the Aboriginal Identarian Ethos in Alice Nannup’s When the Pelican Laughed
2016
Riya Mukerjee and Smita Jha | IASE
Journal: Asian Quarterly Pages: 5-19 , Volumes: 99 citation ,
Samuel Clemens Sheds the Liberal Skin of Mark Twain: An Active Response to Pudd’nhead Wilson
2023
Chander Shekhar and Smita Jha | Forum for World Literature Studies
Journal: Forum for World Literature Studies Pages: scopus indexed ,
A Visual Dialogue: Practising Hospitality through the reading of Graphic Narratives.
2023
Abhilasha Gusain and Smita Jha | Taylor & Francis
Journal: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Pages: high impact factor journal , Volumes: 90 citation ,
Mad is an Everyday, Ordinary Word: Foucauldian Resemblance in Jerry Pinto’s Em and The Big Hoom
2022
Sheetal Yadav and Smita Jha | Diva Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.
Journal: Journal of Exclusion Studies Volumes: 12 ,
E- Women Indian Interview
2011
Smita Jha | Chicago Press
Journal: E Women
The Consciousness of Dalit Selfhood: Narration of History in Dalit Autobiographies
2015
Riya Mukherjee and Smita Jha | Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Journal: Indian Journal of Social Work Pages: 507-520 , Volumes: 76 ,
Proposing Protopia as a Vision for Better Future in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
2023
Shekhar Jakhad and Smita Jha | Project MUSE
Journal: Western American Literature
Bollywood as a Site of Resistance: Women and Agency in Indian Popular Culture
2023
Sheetal Yadav and Smita Jha | Bridgewater University Press
Journal: Journal of International Women's Studies Pages: 12 , Volumes: 25 ,
The Dark Dancer: A Critique
2011
Smita Jha | Atlantic Publisher, New Delhi
Journal: Illuminati Journal Volumes: II ,
Memory Shot Through Holes: The Idea of Postmemory in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees.
2023
Nancy Sharma and Smita Jha | Taylor & Francis
Journal: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Pages: high impact factor journal , Volumes: 50 citation ,
From Margin to Centre: Reading Gloria Naylor's Baily's Cafe
2011
Anurag Kumar and Smita Jha | Atlantic Critical Review
Journal: Atlantic Critical Review
English Tracing the Identity and Ascertaining the Nature of Brahmi-derived Devanagari Script.
2019
Krishna Kumar Pandey and Smita Jha | University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
Journal: Acta Linguistica Asiatica
Assertion or Transgression: A Critical Study of Surpankha as an Unwelcomed Girl Child in Kavita Kané’s Lanka’s Princess.
2023
Nancy Sharma and Smita Jha | Bridgewater University Press
Journal: Journal of International Women’s Studies Pages: 8 , Volumes: 25 ,
Exploring Criminological Perspectives in Anita Desai's Cry the Peacock
2011
Sresha Yadav and Smita Jha | IUP Journal of English Studies,
Journal: IUP Journal of English Studies Pages: 51-55 ,
The Development of Spelling Ability In Emerging Literates: An Investigation Of Different Models
2018
Krishna Kumar Pandey and Smita Jha | The International Journal of Indian Psychology
Journal: The International Journal of Indian Psychology
Narrative of One’s Own: Discerning Female Standpoint and Magical Realism in Githa Hariharan’s When Dreams Travel
2023
Sakshi Semwal and Smita Jha | Diva Enterprises
Journal: Journal of Exclusion Studies
Migration and Empowerment: The Experience of Women in Households in India
2012
Smita Jha ,Babita Sinha and Nalin Negi | Taylor and Francis
Journal: Journal Gender Studies Pages: 61-76 , Volumes: 21 ,
English Spelling Errors among Fifth-Grade Hindi Speaking Children
2018
Krishna Kumar Pandey and Smita Jha | Language Forum
Journal: Language Forum
"Many Truths Make the Big Truth.”: Magical Realism in O.V. Vijayan's The Legends of Khasak. Journal of Indian and Asian Studies
2023
Sakshi Semwal and Smita Jha | World Scientific
Journal: Journal of Indian and Asian Studies Pages: 1 , Volumes: 4 ,
Book Review on Sangya Balya
2012
Smita Jha | Impressions
Journal: Impression On line
‘Live simply that all may simply live’: Rethinking the Environmental Paradigms through Select Dalit Autobiographies
2016
Riya Mukherjee and Smita Jha | SAGE Publication
Journal: Sociological Bulletin
When the Powerpolis Paused: Representations of Political Trauma of Indian Emergency in Delhi Calm
2023
Nikitha Matthew and Smita Jha | Taylor & Francis
Journal: Critique Pages: 75-90 , Volumes: q 1 ,
To Learn from Nature, not to Exploit Her’: Postcolonial Green Speculations in Vandana Singh’s Indra’s Web and Widdam
2023
Sakshi Semwal and Smita Jha | Karadeniz Technical University
Journal: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies
Major Trends of Criticism regarding Graham Greene’s Novels
2012
Sresha Yadav and Smita Jha | The Atlantic Review Press
Journal: The Atlantic Review Pages: 38-51 , Volumes: 13 ,
The Prospects of Textual Glossing in Second Language Reading
2017
Gautam Nasker and Smita Jha | International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts & Science
Journal: International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts & Science
Monuments as “Sites of Memory”: Understanding the Sixteenth Century Monumental Past
2023
Nancy Sharma and Smita Jha | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Journal: 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature® The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies Pages: 67-78 ,
Narrating Vietnamese history is the best way to open a can of worms...”: in conversation with Marcelino Truong
2022
Abhilasha gussain & smita jha | Routledge
Journal: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Pages: , pp. 499-508. , Volumes: vol. 13, no. 3 ,
The urge to know about the roots is just human, I guess’: Vietnamese Memories and Clément Baloup, an interview
2023
Gussain and Smita Jha | Routledge
Journal: Visual Studies, Pages: pp. 47-53 , Volumes: vol. 37, no. 1-2 ,
A Visual Dialogue: Practising Hospitality through the reading of Graphic Narratives
2023
Gussain & Jha | Routledge
Journal: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Pages: pp 45-58 , Volumes: Vol 12 ,
Crisis of Identity in Chinua Achebe's A Man of People
2010
Smita Jha | Journal of African Literature, Philadelphia
Journal: Journal of African Literature (SAGE, Q1) Pages: 111-128 , Volumes: 55 citation ,
Illustrating Memory: Clément Baloup’s Vietnamese Memories and the Visual Representation of the Past
2024
Gussain & Jha | Sage, Scopus Indexed, Web of Science, Q1
Journal: Memory Studies. Pages: 56-68 , Volumes: Vol23 ,
Memory Shot through Holes”: The Idea of Postmemory in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees
2023
nancy sharma & smita jha | Taylor & Francis, Routledge-Scopus Indexed,
Journal: Critique: Studies in Cotemporary Fiction Pages: 89-110 ,
Bollywood as a Site of Resistance: Women and Agency in Indian Popular Culture
2023
yadav and jha | bridgewater usa scopus
Journal: Journal of International Women’s Studies, Volumes: vol 25 ,
Mad is an Everyday, Ordinary Word: Foucauldian Resemblance in Jerry Pinto’s Em and The Big Hoom
2022
Yadav and Jha | high scopus indexed
Journal: Journal of Exclusion Studies, Pages: Iss. 2, 2022 , Volumes: Vol.12 ,
The Names and The Nameless- People Who Make Up the City: A Reading of Harsho Mohn Chattoraj’s Kolkata Kaleidoscope
2022
Abinsha and Smita Jha | Routledge
Journal: International Journal of Comic Art
Each time a book comes out in which mental health is an important issue, we are taking a tiny step forward": An interview with Author Jerry Pinto.
2021
Yadav and Jha | Routledge
Journal: South Asian Review Volumes: Vol.22 ,
Reconstructing Dalit Masculinities: A Study of Select Dalit Autobiographies
2023
Mukherjee and Smita Jha | SAGE
Journal: . Sociological Bulletin, Volume 71 Issue
On lesbian subjectivity and same-sex marriage: an interview with Ruth Vanita.
2023
Ruchi and Smita JHA | Taylor & Francis (Q1).
Journal: Journal of Gender Studies Pages: 45-56 , Volumes: Vol 25 ,
Reinventing Marginalized Voices: A Study of Volga’s The Liberation of Sita and Yashodhara.
2023
Ruchi and Jha | Bridgewater State University (Scopus).
Journal: Journal of International Women’s Studies
Books
Narrativization of English Prose: A Study of Indianism, Dialogue, Translation, Transcreation, Transliteration and Coined Words in the Novels of Arun Joshi
Year: 2010 ,
Smita Jha | Jain Brothers, New Delhi
Partition: A Historical and Literary Perspective: The Horrors and Brutalities of Indian Partition
Year: 2010 ,
Smita Jha | VDM Publishing House, Mauritius
Manohar Malgonkar’s Narrative Style
Year: 2020 ,
Smita Jha | Bloomsbury Publishing
Various Shades of Forster’s Writings: An Assessment of Goalswirthy Lowes Dickinson and Marianne Thornton, 1797-1887: A Domestic Biography
Year: 2020 ,
Smita Jha | Notion Press
MONOGRAPH : Monograph: *Various Shades of Forster’s Writings:An Assessment of Goalswirthy Lowes Dickinson and Marianne Thornton , 1797-1887: A Domestic Biography, Notion Press, New Delhi. (Available on Amazon)
Year: 2020 ,
SMITA JHA | NOTION PRESS
* Concept of Amaranthine: The Deathless Major figures in E.M. Forster’s Novels
Year: 2023 ,
SMITA JHA | PROPOSED TO HARPER COLLINS
Contribution: AUTHOR ,
Ethics & Identity in contemporary Indian English Writing
Year: 2012 ,
Nawale, Jha Smita & Anandita Chatterjee | AUTHORS PRESS
Indian Aesthetics/Poetics and Reading of Indian English Literature,
Year: 2020 ,
SMITA JHA | yking
Journal of International Women's Studies
Year: 2023 , ISBN: ISSN: 1539-8706
Editors: Prof Smita Jha, | Journal of International Women's Studies Bridgewater State University
Contribution: Different authors , Pages: online , Volumes: Vol. 25
Collaborations
SATU
South East Asia Taiwan
Organized GIAN in association with Texas Tech University, USA.
Texas TechH University
Honors And Awards
Honors
Edwin Mellen Press, New York
2024
Adele Mellen Presidential Award for distinguished scholarship by Edwin Mellen Press, New York.
Jantuh, Hyderabad
2023
External Examiner
Osmania Univerity Hyderabad
2023
External Examiner
BHU
2023
External examiner
JANTUH, Hyderabad
2023
Member , Board of Studies
IIT Khargpur
2023
External Examiner
New York University
2023
Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Award to Ms Amritha Krishnan
Sant Longowal
2023
Member, Board of Studies
IIT Patna
2023
External Examiner
JNU
2023
External Examiner
UPSC
2023
Member, UPSC
NIT Agartalla
2023
External examiner
EFLU
2023
External Examiner
Delhi University
2023
External Examiner
Punjab University
2023
External Examiner
PEC, Chandigarh
2023
External Examiner
B.R.A Bihar University
1986
Gold Medal
English Language Teaching & Linguistics Studies international open-access journal published by Schol
2022
Member, Editorial board
American Research Center, University of Dublin, Ireland.
2009
Summer Fellowship
Cambridge University, UK.
2023
Best comic paper award with Scholar
B.R.A.Bihar University
1988
Gold Medal
Oxford Women's Leadership Symposium
2022
Best Paper Award with scholar , Oxford University
CIEFL,Hyderabad
1997
Distinction in Stylistics
British Columbia Law School, New York
2010
Visiting Research Fellowship
CIEFL, Hyderabad
1996
• Distinction in Phonetics
Michigan state university
2023
Post doctoral Fulbright Nehru award to Dr. Krishna Pandey
Government Hospital
2011
Blood Donation Award
Indian Medical Association
2009
Brand Ambassador
Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
2012
• Short-listed for Advanced reserach Fellowship
Nehru Fulbright Fellowship
2013
short-listed for Fulbright fellowship
Indian Medical Association for organizing a blood camp making national record of Blood donation, 201
2017
• Award of honor from IMA
Indian Medical Association
2010
Best Humanitarian Award
NSS,IITR
2011
Award of Honour
Uttarakhand Government
2009
Best Social Worker
MemberShips
Indian Philosophical Congress
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Life Member
Humanities Australian Association
15 May 2023 - 31 Mar 2026
Life Member
North Eastern Modern Language Association
01 Dec 2022 - Present
Member
IACLALS (Indian Association for Commonwealth Lit. & Lang.)
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Life Member
All India English Teachers Association
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Life Member
All India Linguistics Association
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Life Member
Melus-Melow
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Life Member
International Linguistics Association
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Life Member
Teaching Engagements
Teaching Engagements
Principles of Literature ( HS- 909 )
Spring
TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION ( 501 )
Autumn
Film and Literature ( IHS: 15 )
Spring
Research Methodology ( HSN911 )
Autumn
Modern Drama ( IHS-05 )
Spring
English ( 001 )
Spring
Linguistics ( IHS-12 )
Spring
Technical Communication ( HS-101 )
Spring
Students
SuperVisions
Crime and Environment in the novels of Graham Greene
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Other Supervisors: SMITA JHA, Scholar: Sresha Yadav
DYSTOPIA IN MARK TWAIN
06 Jul 2020 - 06 Aug 2023
Other Supervisors: NIL, Scholar: CHANDRA SEKHAR
lINGUISTIC STUDIES
16 Nov 2016 - 09 Sep 2020
Other Supervisors: NIL, Scholar: DR KRISHNA PANDEY
The Nature of Interaction in Second Language Classroom: A Study at Secondary Level in West Bengal.
06 Oct 2015 - 09 Jul 2019
Other Supervisors: NIL, Scholar: GAUTAM NASKAR
Feminism in the Novels of Gloria Naylore
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Anurag Kumar
The Poetry of H.L.V.Derozio:An Assessment
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Divya Dubey
Feminism in Manju Kapoor
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Other Supervisors: Rashmi Gaur & Smita Jha, Scholar: Reena Chauhan
Dalit Studies
01 Jan 2014 - Present
Other Supervisors: Prof Smita Jha, Scholar: Ms. Riya Mukherji
Socio-politico Condition of Independent India: A Study
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Other Supervisors: smita jha, Scholar: SUNIL KUMAR
Thematic Interpretation of E.M.Forster's Novels
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Archana Kumari
political history of Indian writing in english
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Other Supervisors: single, Scholar: Sndhya Rashmi
Ecriture Feminism in Margaret Atwood
01 Jan 2013 - Present
Other Supervisors: Smita Jha, Scholar: Ms Rachna Arora
Associate Scholars
MS SHRYANSH
IITR
LITERARY STUDIES
MR SHSHANK
IITR
THEATRICAL STUDIES
MR RISHAV
IITR
ELT
MS SUSHREE JENA
IITR
GENDER STUDIES
MS ISHITA MEHTA
IITR
DIASPORIC STUDIES
MS VANSHIKA
IITR
FILM STUDIES
MS WANI NAUTIYAL
IITR
GOTHIC NOVELS
Ms Sheetal Yadav
IIT Roorkee
Rape Culture in India
Ms. Sakshi Semwal
IITR
Magic Realism
Ms Amritha Krishnan
IITR
Medical Humanities
Ms Nikitha
IITR
Emergency Novels
Ms. Abinsha Joseph
IITR
Kartographic Study
Ms Sethuparvathy
IITR
KARTOGRAPHIC STUDIES
MS ABHILASHA GUSSAIN
IITR
GRAPHIC NOVELS
MS NANCY SHARMA
IITR
TRAUMA, MEMORY STUDIES
MS RUCHI
IITR
GENDER STUDIES
MR ARUNAVA
IITR
POTS TRUTH
Miscellaneous
Events
Macro Human Culture
07 Jul 2020 - Present
QIP, IITR
• workshop on performance management
07 Jul 2020 - Present
QIP
Workshop on Research Methodology
07 Jul 2020 - Present
QIP,IITR,ROORKEE
International conf. on Humanities & social sciences
01 Jan 2012 - Present
ICT
International Conference on Humor Studies
07 Jul 2020 - Present
International Humor Society
Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism
3rd International ELT CONFERENCE
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Amity University
International Conference on The divine and the human: Early modern mystic poets of India and Spain
07 Jul 2020 - Present
The Centre for Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
The Centre for Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in collaboration with GRISO, University of Navarra, Spain and the ICCR
01 Jan 2015 - Present
Research Methodology
01 Jan 2012 - Present
QIP, IITR
SHORT TERM COURSE ON MACRO HUMAN CULTURE
01 Jan 2010 - Present
quality improvement programme,IITR
Youth and Morality
07 Jul 2020 - Present
workshop on Melville
01 Jan 2010 - Present
American Research Centre
Fundamentals of Sociolinguistics
01 Jan 2014 - Present
QIP,IITR
workshop on performance management
01 Jan 2009 - Present
quality improvement programme,IITR
Art of Teaching
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Space(Dis)location
01 Jan 2012 - Present
Glasgow University
Significance of literary theory in Humanities & Social Sciences
07 Jul 2020 - Present
QIP,IITR
• One-day Workshop on Semiotic Approach to Feminist Studies
07 Jul 2020 - Present
QIP,IITR
33rd Linguistics Conference
01 Jan 2011 - Present
Linguistic Society of India
MELUS
01 Jan 2011 - Present
American Studies Centre
• Workshop on Research Methodology sponsored
07 Jul 2020 - Present
QIP, IITR,ROORKEE
National Conference on English Language Teaching
01 Jan 2011 - Present
UGC
Commonwealth Literature and language Studies
01 Jan 2009 - Present
Commonwealth Association
• One-day Workshop on Translation in Post-colonial India
01 Jan 2013 - Present
QIP, IITR
• One-day workshop on Challenges to Professionalism
01 Jan 2014 - Present
QIP,IITR
English Language Teaching In India: Problems & Strategies
07 Jul 2020 - Present
qip, IIT,Roorkee
Seminar on media and the new world order
01 Jan 2011 - Present
UGC
• One-Day workshop on Teaching English in India: Problem & Strategy
01 Jan 2016 - Present
QIP, IITR
SANKALP
07 Jul 2020 - Present
NSS, IIT,Roorkee
South Asian Literary Association
01 Jan 2011 - Present
SALA
Writing India: Revisiting Historiographies, Ideology, and Genre
07 Jul 2020 - Present
JNU
perspectives on Cosmology
01 Jan 2010 - Present
IIS
• Organized Global Initiative Academic Networking course (GIAN) on Semiotic Approach to Feminist Stu
07 Jul 2020 - Present
GIAN
Seminar on Text at work
01 Jan 2010 - Present
UGC
• Workshop on Brain, Computation and Learning
07 Jul 2020 - Present
IISC
Spanish Hispanism
01 Jan 2018 - Present
Rakta Pravah
01 Jan 2010 - Present
IMA
• International Conference on Women Empowerment
01 Jan 2018 - Present
National Conference on Culture and Contemporary in the Modern Novel in English in India
01 Jan 2003 - Present
UGC
International conference
07 Jul 2020 - Present
• Center for Spanish language studies
International conference on Partition
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Jamia Milia Islamia
47th All India English language conference
01 Jan 2003 - Present
AIETA
two-days International Seminar on Higher Education through Mother-Tongue: Problems and Prospects, MA
07 Jul 2020 - Present
• UGC Sponsored
commonwealth conference
01 Jan 2005 - Present
IITR
Commonwealth Literature and language Studies
07 Jul 2020 - Present
IACLALS
National Seminar on Trends in Contemporary Indian Poetry in English
01 Jan 2005 - Present
UGC
International Philosophical Congress 81st Session
01 Jan 2006 - Present
Philosophical Congress
Indian Diaspora
01 Jan 2018 - Present
• International Conference on Bicentenary year of Emily Bronte
01 Jan 2018 - Present
World Philosophical Congress
01 Jan 2009 - Present
Philosophical Congress
International Conference
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, March 22nd 2018
Indian Partition
01 Jan 2018 - Present
International Conference on India in Canada and Canada in India
01 Jan 2009 - Present
AEEII
• International Conferences on Human Rights
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Texas Tech, Lubbock, USA, April, 2018.
International Seminar on Exploring Cultural Relocations & Hybrid Identities
01 Jan 2009 - Present
IRJS
• International Conference on Bicentenary year of Emily Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
national symposium on Ethnicity, Identity and Contemporary Indian Literature
01 Jan 2008 - Present
Sahitya Akademi
53rd All Indian English Teachers' Association Conference
01 Jan 2008 - Present
AIETA
National Conference on Ethics and Aesthetics in Indian Literary Practices
01 Jan 2008 - Present
UGC
• National Conference on Swachha Abhiyaan
07 Jul 2020 - Present
NIREC
National Seminar on Treatment of Socio-Cultural Issues in Contemporary Indian English Novel
07 Jul 2020 - Present
UGC
• International Conference on Women Empowerment
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Niti Aayog
• 27th International Conference on Humour Studies
01 Jan 2015 - Present
Holy Name University
• International Conference of Linguistics Society
01 Jan 2016 - Present
Linguistic society of India
• International Conference of Linguistics India Society, Mysore
07 Jul 2020 - Present
Indian Institute of Languages, Mysore
National Conference on Women liberation and Portrayal of Women in Modern English Literature ish
01 Jan 2006 - Present
University Grant Commission
39th All Indian English Teachers' Conference
01 Jan 1990 - Present
AIETA
National Seminar on Indo-Anglian Fiction
01 Jan 1990 - Present
UGC
International Conference on Contemporary Issues
01 Jan 2010 - Present
Melus
Seminar on ContemporaryPoetrya
01 Jan 2005 - Present
UGC
Rashtriya Hindi Workshop
01 Jan 2009 - Present
IITR
Visits
AEEII Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre, Spain
2008-01-01
Chairperson of the conference
QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY , BELFAST, UK
2021-07-21
TALK
BUFFALO UNIVERSITY
2023-03-16
TALK
SOUTH ASIAN LITERARY ASSOCIATION , BOSTON.
2014-06-24
TALK
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY, UK.
2015-08-19
TALK
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, TEXAS
2018-07-26
TALK
National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore
2010-01-01
Guest Speaker
SRM University,Modinagar
2012-01-01
Guest Speaker
CHICAGO UNIVERSITY
TALK
SALA, LOS ANGLES , USA.
2012-05-24
TALK
Institute of Management Studies,Dehradun
2012-01-01
key-note speaker
Holyname University,OAKLAND, USA
2020-07-07
To interact with the research students
Institute of Technology,Dehradun
2012-01-01
Guest Speaker
NIT,Surat
2020-07-07
Subject Expert
NIT, Nagpur
2020-07-07
Faculty Development Program
Stanford University, CA, USA.
2015-01-01
To interact with the students of social Service, , 2015
University of Cordoba
2009-01-01
Chairperson/plenary speaker
Middlesex University, London
2016-01-01
To attend a course and to interact with students of Linguistics in Middlesex University, London
Indian Institute of Science
2010-01-01
Guest Speaker,Bagalore
JNU
2020-07-07
deliver a talk
Jamia Milia
2020-07-07
deliver a talk
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
2020-07-07
to deliver talk
Administrative Positions
Jury Member for Yuva Purushkar
01 Jan 2019 - 01 Jan 2019
Kendra Sahitya Akademi
Co Coordinator Cognizance
16 Mar 2013 - 20 Mar 2014
IIT Roorkee
Jury Member for Bal Purushkar
01 Jan 2020 - 01 Jan 2020
Kendra Sahitya Akamedi
Nodal Officer
01 Jan 2014 - Present
Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyaan, MHRD
Member
01 Jan 2014 - Present
Moderation Committee, Lok Seva Aayog, Uttarakhand
Programme Officer
01 Jan 2008 - 01 Jan 2011
National Service Scheme, IIT Roorkee
Member
01 Jan 2011 - Present
Admission Committee, IIT Roorkee
Faculty Advisor
01 Jan 2012 - 01 Jan 2017
National Service Scheme, IIT Roorkee
Departmental Representative
01 Jan 2010 - 01 Jan 2013
Board of Studies, IIT Roorkee
O/C Language Lab
01 Jan 2012 - Present
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IITR Roorkee
Member of Departmental Research Committee
01 Jan 2023 - Present
Department of HSS, IIT Roorkee
Wellness Warden
01 Jan 2018 - 01 Jan 2019
DOSW Organization, IIT Roorkee
Member
01 Jan 2010 - 01 Jan 2012
Convocation Committee, IIT Roorkee
Member
01 Jan 2011 - Present
Placement Cell, IIT Roorkee
O/C Time Table
01 Jan 2012 - Present
Department of HSS, IITR Roorkee
Member of Interview Committee
01 Jan 2009 - 01 Jan 2010
Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee
Co-coordinator for the Tech Fest Cognizance
01 Jan 2010 - 01 Jan 2011
IIT Roorkee
Seminars, Symposiums, Workshops Attended
  •  “A Deep Ecological Study of the Bhagvadagita: Unravelling the Environmental Discourse 3-day International Conference on the Topic, ‘“India, Asia and Australia: Oceanic Encounters and Exchanges” scheduled from 29th Jan 2020 to 31st Jan 2020, organized by the Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in collaboration with IASA, New Delhi & VCW, Rajghat.
  •  “Patterns Quest for Homes: a Critical Study of the Select Writings of V. S. Naipaul” in the Two-Day National Seminar on Displacement and Diaspora: Indian Literary Response held on 5 th & 6 th March 2020, in the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, University of Delhi.
  • “Injured Bodies and Medical Humanities” Two-Day International Conference on “Re-Negotiating the Spectacle- Gender, Body and Discourses in Films” organized by Sacred Heart College, Kerala. Date: 14-15 February 2020.
  •  “Avatar and the Deep Ecology: A Study of the Lived Eco-consciousness” in a National Conference on Ecological Humanities: Recent Paradigms, organized by the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Uttara hand (virtual), held during March 06-07, 2021.
  •  “It’s the price we pay for freedom.”; Alternate History, Vietnamese Horror, and Memory in Truong’s Graphic Memoir, Saigon Calling” at the Annual Graduate Conference, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, 14-15 January, 2021. The unifying theme for the conference being “Alterity”. (Online mode)
  • Participated in Panel Discussion on “Indian Diaspora during COVID 19: Coping Strategies and Future Prospects”, May 14, 2020 at 5:30PM IST conducted by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (www.grfdt.com)
  • Presented a paper at the “Fifth Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference” at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB).(The Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities) on April 8 ,9 2021
  • Title of the paper: “Writing Abortion, Narrating Agency: Rethinking Reproductive Justice through Graphic Medicine”
  • Presented a paper at “Graduate Research Meet 2019, Contemporary Trends in Humanities and Social Sciences” at IIT Guwahati, India on 1, 2 November 2019. Title of the paper: “Writing the Body: Engagement of Graphical Pathographies with Illnesses”
  • National Conference on Learning at Lady Irwin College, Delhi, Dec 6-7, 2019. (Paper presented on Perspectives on Neuro-linguistic Programming: An Approach to
  • learning Strategy)
  • International Conference on Women and Indian Shakespeare from 30th Oct to 1st Nov, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK.
  • (Paper Presented on Oedipus complex in the Film Haider: The Representation of Love and Hate Relationship between the Mother and the Son)
  • International Conference on Interrogating Gender: Literature, Law and Society in India, SPM College, New Delhi, August 9-10, 2019.
  • (Paper presented on Gender & Literature)
  • International Conference on Migration and Diaspora organized by
  • Department of English, Delhi University, March 8-9, 2019) (Paper presented on Migration and Indian Community in USA)
  • International Conference on Convergence & Divergence: Indian Writing in a Global Context-Canadian & Indian Perspectives, organized by Indo-Shastri Institute, New Delhi in association with the University of Pondicherry, 30-31 August, 2018. (Paper Presented on Ecriture Feminism in Margaret Atwood)
  • International Conference on Empowering Women: Fostering Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainability, jointly organized by NITI Aayog and Shri Ram College of Commerce, Office Of International Programs (OIP) at India
  • International Centre 16-17 July, 2018, New Delhi.(Paper presented on Ecofeminism and Women Empowerment)
  • International Conference on Bronte and Gaskell, Angelia Ruskin University, Cambridge, June 1, 2018.(Presented paper on Revisiting Bronte’s Wuthering Heights)
  • International Conference on Text, Context & Comparison, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA, April 6-7, 2018.(Paper presented on Literature & Culture)
  • International Conference on Partition Literature of India, Department of English,
  • Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, March 22nd 2018.
  • (Paper presented on Linguistic Pluralism in Lahiri’s In Other Words)
  • International Conference on Diaspora & Migration, Department of English, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, March 7th 2018.
  • (Paper presented on Horror & Brutalities of Partition)
  • *International Conference on Spanish Hispanic Studies, 8th March, JNU, New Delhi, 2018. (Paper presented on Revisiting the Spanish Myth: An Approch to Byron’s Don Juan)
  • International Conference on “Role and Responsibilities of Humanities and Social Sciences in Technical Education” held on 16-17 March 2012 at SRM University, NCR.
  • (Paper: Aspects on Metacognition)
  • 3rd International ELT Conference, March5-6, 2016, Amity University, Lucknow. (Guest Speaker: English Language Teaching: A challenge in India)
  • National Workshop on Linguistic Competence: A Requisite for Professional & Technocrats, 31st January, 2014.
  • (Guest Speaker: Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
  • Orthography in Dyslexia” Second International Conference on Linguistics Sri Lanka (ICLSL 2016), Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka Sri
  • Lanka (ICLSL 2016)
  • (Paper: Orthography in Dyslexia Co-author: Krishna Pandey)
  • Two-day workshop on "Rural Community Engagement, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan and
  • Social Responsibility, March 9-10, 2017, Hyderabad. (Guest Speaker: Social Work in IIT Roorkee)
  • 11th International Writers’ Festival, Udaipur, 14-15 October, 2016. (Guest Speaker: T.S.Eliot’s Tradition & Individual Talent)
  • International Conference of Commonwealth Literary Association (IACLALS), 22-24 January, 2016, kaktiya University, Warangal.
  • (Paper: Land of Contradictions: A Reading of Manu Joseph’s The Secret Men)
  • Three-Day International Seminar on Theory at Work: Text, History, and Culture, conducted by Department of English, BHU, in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi & ICSSR, New Delhi, 9-11 November, 2010.
  • (Paper: Merging Diversity in Wife)
  • International Conference on The Divine and the Human: Mystic poets of India and Spain! 7th and 18th September, Convention Centre, 2017, JNU, New Delhi.
  • (Paper: Mysticism & Ontologism in Mira Bai and John Cross)
  • International Conference on English Language, Literature & Linguistics Jointly Organized by Research Department of English, The American College, Tamil Nadu, 26th July, 2017.
  • (Paper: The Prospects of Textual Glossing in Second Language Reading co-author: Gautam Naskar)
  • UGC Sponsored two-days International Seminar on Higher Education through Mother-Tongue: Problems and Prospects, MARCH 7-8, Jadhavpur University, Kolkata, 2017.
  • (Paper: Developing Learner Autonomy in Reading, co-author: Gautam Naskar)
  • ICSSR Sponsored International Conference on Language, Ethnicity & Identity: 21st
  • –Century Perspectives, ELT Assam chapter, Tinsukia College, 11-12 February, 2017.
  • (Paper: Exploring the Relationship between Culture & Language Learning: A SLA Perspective, Co-Author: Gautam Naskar)
  • Seminar on Writing India: Revisiting Historiographies, Ideology, and Genre, JNU, New Delhi, 26-17 January, 2017.
  • (Paper: Perspectives on the various aspects of Ecofeminism)
  • Workshop on Brain, Computation and Learning, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 9-13 January, 2017.
  • International Conference Global Migration: Rethinking Skills, Knowledge and Culture 26-27 November 2016, Organized by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism, New Delhi.
  • (The Shifting Paradigm of Migration: An Approach to the Study of Diaspora)
  • International Conference of Linguistics Society, IIT, GUWAHATI, 2016. (Paper: Language Disorder in Early and later Childhood)
  • 27th International Conference on Humor Studies, June29-3 July, 2015, Holy Names University, California, Oakland, USA.
  • (Paper: Humor in Chaucer: A Study)
  • 2nd International Conference of South Asian History International Conference 17-19 Nov., 2014, Punjabi University, Patiala.
  • (Paper: Women in Indian Writing in English: A Review)
  • MELUS International Conference, Chandigarh, India, 9-11 February, 2013. (Paper: Ecofeminism in Chitra Divakaruni’s Mistress of Spices)
  • 39th All Indian English Teachers' Conference held at, Chennai, during 28-12-1990 (Presented Paper Titled Humanity in Mulk Raj Anand’s Novels)
  •  47th All India English language conference held at, Lucknow, 2002. (Presented Paper titled Chinua Achebe’s Novels: A Quest for Identity)
  • National Conference on Culture and Contemporary in the Modern Novel in English in India held at, B.R.A. Bihar University, during 19-11-2003.(Paper: D.H. Lawrence and his Novels: An Assessment)
  • Seminar on Contemporary Poetry held at, Muzaffarpur, during 20- 2005. (Paper presented on Indian English poetry)
  • National Conference on Women liberation and Portrayal of Women in Modern English Literature held at Muzaffarpur, Bihar, during 27-05-2006.
  • (Presented paper titled Tommy Morrison’s The Bluest Eye: An Analysis)
  • National symposium on Ethnicity, Identity and Contemporary Indian Literature in association with Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, held at , IIT,Roorkee, during 31- 03-2008 (Presented Paper titled Ethnicity and Identity: An Approach to The Namesake.)
  • International Conference on India in Canada and Canada in India held at, Cordoba, Spain, during 29-07-2009.
  • (Presented Paper titled Margaret Atwood & Anita Desai: A Probe into Female Psyche)
  • International Conference on Contemporary Issues held at, Chandigarh, during 25-02-2010. (Presented Paper titled The Namesake: A Cross Culture Exploration)
  • National Conference on English Language teaching held at, Jalandhar, during 26-02-2011. (Paper presented titled Second Language Learning: A
  • Universal Perspective)
  • International Conference of MELUS held at American Research Centre, Osmania university Hyderabad, during 24-09-2011.
  • (Paper: Revisiting the Classics: A Case Study of Moby Dick)
  • National Conference on Ethics and Aesthetics in Indian Literary Practices held at, Udaipur, 2008. ((Paper: Ethics & Identity in Contemporary Indian English Poetry)
  • International Conference on Diaspora & Migration, Department of English, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, March 7th 2018.
  • (Paper presented on Horror & Brutalities of Partition)
  • International Conference of Indian Association of Commonwealth Literary Association, Chandigarh, 20-23 Feb, 2014.
  • (Paper: Perspectives on Ecofeminism: A Marginal Approach to Divakaruni’s Mistress of Spices)
  • International Conference of Linguistics India Society, Central Institute of Indian Languages Mysore, 26-28 December, 2013.
  • (Paper: Viability of Sanskrit as Computer Language)
  • MELUS International Conference, Chandigarh, India, 9-11 February, 2013. (Paper: Magic Realism in Chitra Divakaruni’s Mistress of Spices)
  • 13th Annual International Conference of South Asian Literary Association Conference, Boston, USA, 2-3 January 2013.
  • (Paper: Linguistic and Cognitive Paradigms in Manhattan Music)
  • Two-day International Conference on Methods, Aesthetics & Gender in English Communication held at Petroleum University, Dehradun, 5-6October, 2012.
  • (Paper: Effective Communication in a Globalized World)
  • Space (Dis) Location International Conference organized by Glasgow University, Glasgow, UK, from 24th & 25th May, 2012.
  • (Paper: Dislocated Identity: A Study of Transnationalism in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife)
  • 33rd International Conference of Linguistics held at, Chandigarh, during 01- 10-2011. (Paper: Pragma Discourse Analysis of Aristotle’s Rhetoric)
  • International Conference on Perspectives on Cosmology held at, National Institute of Science, Bangalore, during 02-12-2010.
  • (Paper: Metaphysics & Modern Science: A Study)
  • Seminar on media and the new world order held at, Delhi University, during 05- 02-2011. (Paper: Reshaping Mind and Behavior: Media and Its Impacts, co- author: Sresha Yadav)
  • National Seminar on Treatment of Socio-Cultural Issues in Contemporary Indian English Novel issues held at, L.N.Mithila University, during 05-05-2007.
  • (Paper: The Hungry Tide: An Approach)
  • 11th Annual International Conference of South Asian Literary Association held at, Los Angels, USA, July, 2011.
  • (Paper: Myth & Realism: A Study of Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children)
  • Attended MLA (Modern Language Association) Conference, Los Angels, USA,2011.
  • National Seminar on Trends in Contemporary Indian Poetry in English held at,
  • M.D.D.M College, Bihar, during 20-12-2005.
  • (Paper: Theme of Alienation in in Contemporary Indo-English Poetry)
  • 53rd All Indian English Teachers' Association Conference held at, Hardwar, during 18-12-2008. (Paper: Realism in Indian Writing in English)
  • Participated& Presented Paper in the International workshop held at, Dublin,
  • University of Dublin, Ireland, during 18-07-2010.
  • International Conference of Commonwealth Literature and language Studies held at, Dharwad University, Karnataka, 2009.
  • (Paper: Nativization of English Prose: A Study of Arun Joshi’s Novels)
  • International Philosophical Congress 81st Session held at, Delhi University, during 15-12-
  • 2006.
  • (Paper: Literature & Philosophy)
  • International Seminar on Exploring Cultural Relocations & Hybrid Identities held at, Jaipur, during 15-08-2009.
  • International commonwealth conference held at, IITR, 2005. (Paper: The Dark Dancer: A Critique)
  • International Conference of Commonwealth Literature on Text at work held at, Bhubaneshwar, 2010.
  • (Paper: Literature & Film: A Globalization and Post-Colonial Perspective on Q&A & The White Tiger)
  • North-East MLA Conference, University of Buffalo, New York, March 23-26, 2023.(Paper Presented: “More Violent than Intimate: Consent, Coercion and Resilience in     South Asian Marital Settings”)
Courses Developed
  • Linguistics (for undergraduate students)
  • Film & Literature (for undergraduate students)
  • Medical Humanities (for undergraduate students)
  • Neurolinguistics & Emotionality (for First-Year students)
  • NPTEL: Neuro Linguistic Programming, 2017.
  • NPTEL: Interpersonal Skills, 2019.
  • NPTEL: Countering Stage Fright, 2023.
Book Chapters Published
  • Jha, Smita. Pidgins and Creoles, English Language Teaching, ed. Meenakshi Raman, Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, 2004, pp.199-206.
  • Jha, Smita. E.M.Forster: Theme of Self-Perpetuation, Studies in Literature in English, Atlantic Publishers, 2006, Vol.XII, PP.66-80.
  • Jha, Smita. A River With Three Banks: A Partition Novel, Perspectives on the Partition Fiction of the Indian Sub-continent, ed Tejinder Kaur &N.K.Neb, Nirmal Publication, Jalandhar, 2007,pp.195-202.
  • Jha, Smita. Honing Skills for Performance Management, Soft Skills, Jain Brothers, New Delhi,2009,pp.366-374.
  • Jha, Smita. Loneliness in Anita Desai's Female Characters, Erasing Barricades: Women in Indian Literature, Delhi, 2010, pp.84-90.
  • Jha, Smita. Ethics and Identity in Contemporary Indian English Poetry in Ethics and Aesthetics: Essays in Indian Literature eds. Seema Malik & Seema Kashyap, Creative Books: New Delhi, 2010, pp.198-204.
  • Jha, Smita. Crisis of Indian Secularism: A Study of Untouchable, Waiting for Mahatma and Train to Pakistan, Indo-English fiction: New Perspectives, ed. Dr. Nawale, Aadi Publication, Jaipur, 2011, pp.23-32.
  • Jha, Smita. Midnight’s children: A Study in Myth and Realism, Booker Prize Winner Indian English Novels, ed. Dr. Nawale and Dr. Bite, Avishkar Publications, Jaipur, 2011,pp.12-19.
  • Jha, Smita. The Inheritance of Loss: Perspective on Post-Colonial and Globalization Approach. Dr. A.k.Saini, Pointer Publication, Jaipur, 2011, pp.29- 37. 
  • Jha, Smita. Gender Perspectives on Women in India: Trials and Triumphs ed. Dr. Sweta Prasad, New Delhi, 2011pp.88-96.
  • Jha, Smita. Vedantic Aspect of the Albigensian Philosophy: A Study of the Serpent & the Rope, Global Responses to Indo-English Literature, ed.Dr. Nawale & Prof. Amrendra Sharma, Jaipur,2012, pp-56-67.
  • Jha, Smita. Indu in Dilemma: A Critical Analysis Shashi Deshpande’s Roots and Shadows, Shashi Deshpande’s Fiction: A Study ed. By Vishwanath Bite, Department of English, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Maharastra, 2012, pp.34-45.
  • Jha, Smita. Magic of Words: An Art to enrich Vocabulary, CT & ELT: Prospects and Perspective, Lambert Publishing, Germany, 2012, ed. Dr. Ashok K. Saini. Deptt. of English Language,State Council of Educational Research & Training, Uttarakhand, pp-25-36.
  • Jha, Smita. A Thematic Study of The Calcutta Chromosome, Amitav Ghosh, ed. Vivekananda Jha, BRPC Publication, New Delhi,2012, pp.55- 67.
  • Jha, Smita. English Language Teaching in India: Problems and Strategies Teaching of English: New Dimensions, New Delhi, 2011, pp-318-25
  • Yadav, Sresha & Smita Jha. Reshaping Mind and Behavior: Media and Its Impacts in Media and the New World Order, Wisdom Publications, Delhi: 2012, pp.194-199.
  • Jha, Smita. Indian Sensibility and Identity in the Poems of Ezekiel, Ramanujan and Parthasarthy, ed Ethics & Identity, Authors Press, New Delhi, pp-8-16, 2012.
  • Jha, Smita. Merging Diversity: Transnationalism in Bharati  Mukherjee’s Wife, Discursive Passages, An Anthology of Diaspora criticism, Yking Books, Vol1,2015, Jaipur, pp.229-239.
  • Jha Smita. Linguistics and Cognitive Paradigm in Meena’s Alexander’s Manhattan Music, Transnational Passages, An Anthology of Diaspora Criticism (ed. Ajay K.Chaubey & Bishun Kumar, Yking Books, Vol, 2015, Jaipur, pp.209-220.
  • A chapter titled “Memory, Forgetting, and Silence: A Critical Study of Nidhi Chanani’s Pashmina” has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming volume, Palimpsests of Identity and Memory, to be published as part of the South Asian Literature in Focus book series. (Routledge)
Conferences, Seminars, and Workshops Organized
  • One-day workshop on Performance Management Sponsored by Quality Improvement Programme, IITR, 26-09-2009.
  • One-day Workshop on Semiotic Approach to Feminist Studies organized by quality Improvement program, Indian Institute of Technology, India, 15/8/2010.
  • Short –Term Course on Macro Human Culture sponsored by Quality Improvement programme,IITR, 07-06-2010.
  • Workshop on Research Methodology sponsored by QIP, IIT Roorkee, 15-11-2012.
  • Short-Term Course on Research Methodology sponsored by quality improvement Programme, IIT,Roorkee, 15/6/2012.
  • Organized five-day workshop on Technical Communication with British Council, New Delhi, August, 2013
  • One-day Workshop on Translation in Post-colonial India, organized by Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Indian, 22/3/2013.
  • One-day workshop on Challenges to Professionalism, organized by Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Indian, 22/3/2014.
  • Short Term Course on Fundamentals of Sociolinguistics sponsored by quality improvement programme, IIT,Roorkee, 15/6/2014.
  • One-Day workshop on Teaching English in India: Problem & Strategy Sponsored by quality improvement programme, IIT,Roorkee, 15/2/2016.
  • Two-day National Seminar on Multiculturalism, Identity Crisis & Belonging in Indian Writing in English in association with Sahitya Akademi, March 21-22, 2015.
  • Short –term course on Significance of L iterary T h e o r y in Humanities & Social Sciences, July, 2017.
  • Organized Global Initiative Academic Networking course (GIAN) on Semiotic Approach to Feminist Studies, August, 2017.
  • TEQIP on Advance Pedagogy and Digital Tools June, 2019.
  • Two-day National Seminar on Gandhian Thought & Philosophy organized in association with Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, 22-23 October, 2019.
  • National Webinar on Perspectives on Post Truth Scenario, 25 June,2020.
  • COVID-19: Perspectives of Post-Truth Scenario June, 25,2020.
  • Two-day National Seminar on Unsung Heroes under the banner of Azadi Ke Amrit Mahotsav
  • organized in association with Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, 22-23 October, 2019.
  • Two-day National Conference on Women Empowerment and Indigenous Indian languages & Literature in association with the ministry of women empowerment and Child development and Sahitya Akademi, April 12-13, 2023.
Travel Grants

1.  UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies, 2010. (Travel & Stay)

2. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, 2021.