Faculty Details

Title: ‘Global South’ and ‘Feminism’ as Conceptual Categories: Some Reflections

Name of Conference: Comparative Reflections on Gender and Higher Education in India

Title: On Spatial Dimensions of Partition in Srijit Mukherjee's Rajkahini

Name of Conference: Revisiting Partition: concepts, dynamics and manifestations with special focus on North- east India

Title: The Grammar of Shock, Absorption and Loss: Reflections on Trauma

Name of Conference: Language Literature and Cognition

Title: Recrafting Human Bodies: Metamorphosis of the Human into the Cyborg in William Gibson’s Neuromancer (with Papori Rani Barooah)

Name of Conference: International Journal of Arts and Sciences

Title: Quest for Place in Emotionally Displaced Space: Strategies of Countering Trauma in Jahnabi Barua’s Rebirth and Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia’s Antoreep (with Ratan Deka)

Name of Conference: Reflections on Changing Indian Society

Title: Trauma and Mourning: Absent Spaces of Japanese Soldiers in Guwahati War Cemetery (with Dibya jyoti Borah)

Name of Conference: Indian History Congress

Title: Class, Literature and Assamese Modernity: Perspectives from Hiren Gohain’s Criticism (with Arfan Hussain)

Name of Conference: Vernacular Modernities

Title: The Global, the Glocal and the Postmodern: Perspectives from Selected Works of Hiren Gohain (with Arfan Hussain)

Name of Conference: From Globalisation to Glocalisation

Title: Ethnicity and the Colonial Encounter in Post-Independence Assamese Fiction: A Reading of Rongmilir Hanhi, Iyaruingom and Ejaak Manuh Ekhon Aranya (with Dibya Jyoti Borah)

Name of Conference: Ethnicity, Identity and Literature

Title: Trauma and the Other: Home and the World in Mamoni Raisom Goswami’s Tez Aru Dhulire Dhuxarito Pristha (with Dibya Jyoti Borah)

Name of Conference: Contemporary Assamese Literature

Title: Ethnicity, Identity and Trauma: Exploring Displacement in Uma Kanta Sharma’s Ejak Manuh Ekhan Aranya (with Ratan Deka)

Name of Conference: Ethnicity, Identity and Literature

Title: Negative Image of Northeast India with Reference to Media Marketisation (with Payel Chakrabarti)

Name of Conference: Journalism in the Age of New Media

Title: A Study of Communication for Positive Imaging through Media Representation (with Payel Chakrabarti)

Name of Conference: Human Factors: Innovation and Usability in Product Development

Title: Communication for Sustainable Perception Aiming at Children (with Payel Chakrabarti)

Name of Conference: Emerging Trends in Communication

Title: Effective Media Representation: Referencing the Northeast (with Payel Chakrabarti)

Name of Conference: Research Methodology in Journalism and Mass Communication: Dewesternising Media studies

Title: Eating Out: Perspectives from the Sociology of Consumption

Name of Conference: Cultural History of Culinary Practices in Northeast India

Title: Defamiliarising the Familiar: A Reading of Selected Short Stories of Shashi Deshpande (with Merry Baruah Bora)

Name of Conference: Tradition and Transformation

Title: Rasa, Dhvani and Santarasa: The Primacy of Affective Cognition in Sanskrit Literary Criticism

Name of Conference: Biannual Congress of Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturwissenschaft, (IGEL)

Title: The Birth of Self-Fashioning: Understanding Autonomy through Foucault

Name of Conference: What is Autonomy? Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group and the Ford Foundation

Title: Media Ontology and Democracy: A Theoretical Approach (co-presenter V. Prabhu)

Name of Conference: Mass Media and Challenges of the 21st Century with Reference to Northeast India

Title: 'Powerful Infidel Heteroglossia’: Reading Contemporary Cyborological Texts through Bakhtin

Name of Conference: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Aesthetics of Transgression

Title: Cognitive Shakespeare: The New Direction in Shakespeare Criticism and its Relevance

Name of Conference: 3rd World Shakespeare Conference on Shakespeare across Cultures

Title: From Hard Poetics to Situated Interpretation: Broadening the Scope of Literary-Cognitive Studies

Name of Conference: Cognition and Literary Interpretation in Practice

Title: Renegade Renunciate: The Aghora Trilogy of/on Vimalananda

Name of Conference: Traditional Knowledge Systems of India

Title: Humanism / Heroism: Some Reflections on Edward Said’s Presidential Address to the MLA

Name of Conference: Edward W. Said and the Politics of Culture

Title: The Grandeur is for Real: Modernity, Cognitive Science and the Reinstatement of Rationality

Name of Conference: Rethinking Modernity, University of Jaipur, sponsored by Forum for Contemporary Theory and India Studies Program, Louisiana State University, USA

Title: Narratives and Dynamical Systems: Some Reflections on Narratology and Cognitive Science

Name of Conference: Narrative Theory and Practice, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Tezpur University

Title: The Topographical Imperative: Locale as Identity Constructor/Construct in Selected Poetry of the Northeast

Name of Conference: Fifth International Conference of Forum on Contemporary Theory, and India Studies Program, University of Louisiana, Shreveport, USA, on Constructing Identities: Local and Global

Title: Representations of the East: American Evangelist Writing on Assam

Name of Conference: International Conference on International Perspectives on American Studies in Asia in the Pacific Era, Salisbury State University, Maryland, USA, and Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand

Title: Society, Senses and Sensibilities: Doris Lessing and the Encounter with London

Name of Conference: 8th International Women and Society Conference

Title: Evangelical Literature and Orientalist Representation: American Baptist Missionaries in Assam

Name of Conference: Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Title: Problems and Responsibilities of the Working Woman

Name of Conference: Problems and Responsibilities of Women

Title: ‘Whitey Cockroaches’: Status of White Women in Colonial Culture

Name of Conference: The Status of Women and Social Change

Title: A Study of Ideological Representation of Labour in the Context of Selected Assamese Novels. Aitihya – The Heritage, Vol XV, Issue I, 2024, pp. 168-180. ISSN 2259-5399.

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Shivajit Dutta

Title: Ethnicity and the Colonial Encounter in Post-Independence Assamese Fiction: A Reading of Rongmilir Hanhi, Iyaruingom and Ejaak Manuh Ekhon Aranya. Problematics on Ethnicity, Identity and Literature. Eds. A.C. Barua and H.K. Nath. Guwahati: ISEIL / SPS India. 311-16, 2012

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Dibya Jyoti Borah

Title: Interaction between Patriarchy and Nature / Women in Mamoni Raisom Goswami, ICSSR-NERC Sponsored Three Day International Seminar on Environment Across Disciplines: Perspectives in the 21st Century, Department of English, Bodoland University, 9-11 February, 2022

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Ratan Deka

Title: Home Away from Home: Ethnic Identity in the Context of Migration and Assimilation, International Conference on Recent Advances in English Studies (virtual), organised by PG Department of English, Bhatter College, Danten in collaboration with Central University of Haryana and Yonphula Centenary College, Royal University of Bhutan held in July 3-4, 2021

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Ratan Deka

Title: Loss and the Hunt for the Land/ Motherland / Homeland in Jangam. 2nd International Conference on The Land In Literature, The Literature of The Land (Special Focus on Northeast India and Southeast Asia), Department of English, Gurucharan College, Silchar, Assam 9-10 February, 2020, sponsored by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Ratan Deka

Title: Living With / Living Away From Nature: Trauma Psychosis in Mamoni Raisom Goswami’s Chenabar Sont, National Seminar on Environmental Awareness: Issues, Concerns and Challenges, Nalbari College, Nalbari 27 – 28 August, 2016

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Ratan Deka

Title: Rescue or (Re)-Creation? A New Historical perspective on Rita Choudhury’s Novel Makam

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Theory at Work: Text, History and Culture; Benaras Hindu University, Department of English in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi, and ICSSR, New Delhi; November 9-11,2010. Ratan Deka

Title: Tragedy and Trauma of India’s Partition in Savage Anguish, ICSSR-sponsored International Seminar on Language, Ethnicity and Identity: Twenty First Century Perspectives,Tinsukia College, 11 to 12 February, 2017

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Shivajit Dutta

Title: Ethnicity, Identity and Trauma: Exploring Displacement in Umakanta Sharma’s Ejak Manuh Ekhan Aranya, Seminar on Problematics of Ethnicity, Identity and Literature, Sibsagar College, 11-14 October 2012

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Ratan Deka

Title: Quest for Place in Emotionally Displaced Space: Strategies of Countering Trauma in Jahnabi Barua’s Rebirth and Bhabendra Nath Saikia’s Antoreep, Reflections of Changing Indian Society in Indian English Fiction, 376-386, 2012

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Ratan Deka

Title: Narrating Memory and Collective Trauma: A Reading of Rita Choudhury’s Mākām, Women’s Writing from North–East India, 222-229

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Ratan Deka

Title: Ethnicity, Identity and Trauma: Exploring Displacement in Umakanta Sharma’s Ejak Manuh Ekhan Aranya, in Problematics on Ethnicity, Identity and Literature, 105-111, 2012

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Ratan Deka

Title: Historical Silence and Makam, Verve 26-29, 2018

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Ratan Deka

Title: Intertextuality between Rupalim and The Artist’s World, International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies Vol 8, Issue 2, 2021 (April-June): 93-97

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Shivajit Dutta

Title: Tragedy and Trauma of India’s Partition in Savage Anguish, Perspectives 766-769, 2018

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Shivajit Dutta

Title: Alienated Labour and its Effects in Umakanta Sarma's In the Forest, the Songs and Shackles, Research Journal of English Language and Literature Vol 9, Issue 2 2021 (April-June) 113-116

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Shivajit Dutta

Title: Ideological representation of Creative and Alienated Labour in Rupaborir Palas, International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies Vol 8, Issue 3: 76-85, 2021

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Shivajit Dutta

Title: Ideas of Creative and Alienated Labour, Over-determined Reality and Point of Entry in Dinanath Sharma’s Nadai", Aitijya, vol.13, Issue no.1, pp.180-90 [2022]

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Shivajit Dutta

Title: Sahitya-Tatwa Aru Matadarshar Kunwali. Uttaran 63-68 [2022]

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Shivajit Dutta

Title: Mahim Borar Kathoni Barir Ghatot Nimna-Madhyabitta Shrenir Jeevanadarsha. Dogo Rangsang, vol.9, Issue no.16, pp.132-139 [2022]

Name of Publications by Doctoral Students: Shivajit Dutta

Title: Literature

Name of Interns: Swapnaneel Das

Title: Literature and Political Science

Name of Interns: Ayan Barman

Title: Literature

Name of Interns: Sagarika Kalita

Title: Literature

Name of Interns: Purbasha Konar (Completed}

Title: Literature

Name of Interns: Shakshi Agarwal {Completed)

Title: Development Studies

Name of Interns: Tezaswita Choudhury (Completed)

Title: Poetics

Name of Interns: Kirti Sharma (Completed)

Title: Seminar on Poetry from North East India, Gangtok, Sikkim, 1998

Name of Invited Lecture: The Hills as Metaphor in the Poetry of North-east India

Title: Chair, International Conference on International Perspectives on American Studies and Cultural Studies in Asia in the Pacific Era

Name of Invited Lecture: Chair

Title: Methodology in Gender Studies

Name of Invited Lecture: Resource Person, Research Methodology, Womens’ Studies Research Centre, Gauhati University, 1996

Title: Reading in an Age of Electronic Media

Name of Invited Lecture: North East India Book Fair

Title: Missionary Literature in Assam, Indian Council of Historical Research, Northeast Branch, 2007

Name of Invited Lecture: Chair

Title: Problems of Women in Enterprise

Name of Invited Lecture: World Bank Regional Gender Forum

Title: Young Social Scientists' Meet

Name of Invited Lecture: Literature and Society: A Marxist Approach

Title: National Seminar on Feminist Concerns in Indian Writing in English by Women during the Post-Colonial Era

Name of Invited Lecture: Keynote Address

Title: The Cognitive Turn

Name of Workshop: Intensive Course for Young Researchers, Theory after Derrida, The 3rdTheory/Praxis Course

Title: The New Integration: Cognitive Science and Literary Studies

Name of Workshop: Integrating Humanities and Social Sciences in Technical Education

Title: ICT and the New Pedagogy: Reshaping the Cultural Politics of Education, Power and Curriculum

Name of Workshop: ICT and Development

Title: Cognitive Approaches to Literature

Name of Workshop: Research Methods

Title: Deconstruction as a Method

Name of Workshop: Research Methods

Title: Marxist Literary Criticism

Name of Workshop: Research Methods

Name of Short-term Course: Industry and Ecology: Perspectives on Development in Northeast India (with Prof Sukanya Sharma)

Name of Short-term Course: QIP Short-Term Course on Science, Technology and Society, December 13-17, 2010