Staff:
Ms Jihasa Vachharajani
Ms Jihasa Vachharajani's M. Phil dissertation was on “Spectacles of Difference: Early Modern English Drama, Travel and Mercantile Writing”
Dr Samrita Sinha
Dr Sinha’s article “Pathologies of Body Fiction: A Comparative Study of Margarita with a Straw and Kuch Bheegay Alfaaz” was published by Temple University Press, Pennsylvania, USA, in May 2024. Some of her current research work is listed below.
- Sinha, Samrita. “Pathologies of Body Fiction: A Comparative Study of Margarita with a Straw and Kuch Bheegay Alfaaz” in Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture eds. Dr Srirupa Chatterjee and Dr Sweta Garg. Temple University Press, 2024
- Chattopadhyay, Dhrupadi & Samrita Sengupta Sinha. “‘Currying Identities’: A Literary Re-Crafting of South-Asian Identities through Diasporic Women’s Cookbooks”, Humanities Journal, MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), Vol. 13, No. 1, 2024, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/h13010022
- Sinha Samrita and Nabanita Sengupta (eds.). Female Protest Narratives: A Literary and Cultural Representation from South-Asia, Routledge, 2023.
https://www.routledge.com/Female-Narratives-of-Protest-Literary-and-Cultural-Representations-from/Sengupta-Sengupta-Sinha/p/book/9781032223780
- Sinha, Samrita. “In Conversation with Arundhathi Subramaniam”, Interview of poet, Arundhathi Subramaniam published in Museindia, an online literary e-journal, issue 112 (Nov-Dec, 2023) ISSN – 0975 1815 https://museindia.com/Home/ViewContentData?arttype=feature&issid=112&menuid=10863
Ms Sinha has published several articles in both National and International journals and contributed to book chapters. Her publication details can be found at her ORCID account “0000-0003-1021-4988”.
Ms Nishtha Dev:
Ms Dev's current research interests include Translation (Theory and Practice), Popular Culture, Graphic Narratives, Visual Literacies and Critical Theory. She is working towards her doctoral thesis on Graphic Fiction on which she has also published articles and presented papers in national and international conferences. A few of her notable publications include:
• Dev, Nishtha. “Gendered Heroisms: A Study of Select Stories From The Amar
Chitra Katha”. Akademos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary and Culture Studies.Publisher: Purulia: Registrar Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University. ISSN : 2583-2875 Vol.- II ISSUE– II (JULY, 2022).
• Dev, Nishtha.”On Reading and Writing Climate: A Few Notes on Parismita
Singh’s The Hotel at the End of the World.” Sophia Lucid. A Peer-reviewed Multi-disciplinary Journal. Volume-II.Publisher: IQAC Sophia College (Autonomous), 2023, Mumbai- 400026
• Dev, Nishtha “Fairy Tales and Crystal Palaces: Negotiating with the Hegemonic
images of Gender and Identity in Amruta Patil’s ‘Kari’”. Sengupta, Nabanita, and Samrita Sengupta Sinha, eds. Female Narratives of Protest: Literary and Cultural Representations from South Asia. Taylor & Francis, 2024.ISBN-10 : 1032223782. ISBN-13 : 978-1032223780
• Dev, Nishtha. “Laura Mulvey”. Gupta, Neeta. Seema Suri and P.K.Satpathy.
Literature and Cinema Department of Distance and Continuing Education. Campus of Open Learning/School of Open Learning. University of Delhi, 2023. ISBN: 978-19169-68-9.
In addition to this, she has been invited as a resource person for FDPs and workshops some of which are listed below.
• Keynote speaker and resource person for a Workshop on “Soft Skills,Communication Skills and Employability Skills” organised by Adarsh College in 2017
• Resource person for a Faculty Development Program on “Communication Strategies & Pragmatics for Teaching Pedagogy” from July 25, 2022-July 30, 2022 by JIIT, Noida
• Resource person for the Certificate Course on “History of English Literature” in 2022 and 2023, offered by the Department of English, Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi
Dr Elwin Susan John:
Dr Elwin Susan John’s research articles have been published in reputed journals and as book chapters. The following are some of her current research highlights.
- Issue editor, Cafe Dissensus, Issue 72 on Epidermal Metaphors and Narratives in India, 2024
- In 2023, she co-edited a volume titled, Media Technology and Cultures of Memory: Mapping Indian Narratives which was published by Routledge.
- Dr John has been invited as a resource person in academic sessions, some of which are listed below:
o “The Human Subject: Disability and Post-Apocalyptic Narratives”, organised by the Department of English, Government College, Daman on July 21, 2020
o “Translating Boundaries: Nation, Culture and Body”, organised by the Department of English, SH College, Chalakudy, Kerala on March 26, 2021
o National FDP on “Recent Trends in Literature”, organised by Marthoma College, Perumbavoor, Kerala on November 12, 2021
o “An Introduction to Medical Humanities”, at St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai on August 10, 2022
Dr (Sr) Ananda Amritmahal (Superannuated)
- Dr. (Sr.) Ananda Amritmahal’s doctoral thesis was “A Feminist Critical Perspective on the Work of Shashi Deshpande and Mahasweta Devi”
- She has also worked on “The Representation of Women in Kiran Nagarkar's Cuckold ” as well as on the epistemological and methodological foundations of Women's Studies (“New Wineskins: Women's Studies Today” , “A Shift in Perspective: Epistemology and Pedagogy in Women's Studies” and “Rethinking the Canon: The Interface between Women's Studies and Established Systems of Knowledge”)
- Another area of interest for Sr. Ananda is feminist re-readings of myth and scripture, and feminist spirituality and theology. She is frequently invited as a resource person to speak on these topics.
- Further, Sr. Amritmahal collaborated on a research project entitled “A Comparative Study of Some Indian and European Women Mystic Poets (Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Janabai and Mirabai)” They have presented papers on aspects of this topic as resource persons at various academic programmes.