Karim City College

Prof. Ashok Kumar Dash

Assistant Professor

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Qualification: MA (English), MA (LSW), LLB

Date of Joining (on Adhoc ): 03/11/2009

Teaching experience (in years) : 14 years (in Karim City College) & 06 years( in other colleges)

Area of Interest: Creative Writing

Area of Specialization: Fiction

 

Seminars, Conferences & Workshops:

  1. Presented a paper entitled Feminism and Beyond and contributed services in the organization of UGC Sponsored National Seminar ‘Reverting the Gaze: Analyzing the portrayal of male Characters in the fiction of Indian Female Novelists’, held at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, 30-31 March 2011.
  2. Contributed services, as a member of the Organizing Committee, in the organization of UGC sponsored National Seminar entitled ‘Literature and the subconscious: Dream and Memory as Narrative structure in Indian writing in English’, held at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, 20-21 December 2011.
  3. Rendered services in the organization of UGC Sponsored National Seminar entitled ‘Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and the Scenario of Higher Education in India’, held at Karim City College, Jamshedpur Jharkhand, 26 March 2012.
  4. Presented a paper entitled Dickens- His Art of Characterization and Narration in the UGC Sponsored National Seminar ‘Celebrating Charles Dickens: His Mind and Art’ , held at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand,   3-4 April 2013.
  5. Rendered services as a Member of the Organizing Committee for organizing UGC Sponsored National Seminar entitled ‘Remapping History and (Con) Textualising Literature: The Tragedy of Partition and the Fictional Narratives of the Indian Subcontinent’, held at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, 26-28 November 2016.
  6. Participated in the Special Lecture on Subaltern? delivered by Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, at Midnapore College (Autonomous), Midnapore, West Bengal, 30 May 2019.
  7. Participated and presented a paper entitled “From Text to an Act: An Analysis of the Re-creation of Tagore’s Chokher Bali by Rituparno Ghosh” in the three-day international web conference titled ‘Translation and the Glocal : Texts, Identity, Politics and Cultural Survival’ organized by the Department of English, Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, 27-29 August, 2020.
  8. Successfully completed the one-day workshop on “NEP 2020: A Visionary Roadmap towards Transforming Indian Education focused on Science, Technology, Research and Skill Development” on 5 September 2022, organised by Faculty of Science and Faculty of Commerce, Karim City College, Jamshedpur in association with The National Academy of Science (Jharkhand Chapter), C/O CSIR National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
  9. Participated at the Two-Day National Interdisciplinary Conference on “Agriculture and Rural Development and their Share and Stake in Overall Economic Growth” organized by Faculty of Commerce, Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand in Collaboration with NABARD, Jharkhand Regional Office, Ranchi and Sponsored by the Department of Higher and Technical Education, Govt. of Jharkhand, 4-5 January 2023.

 

Publications:

Creative Writings:

  1. … And It Matters (poetry) published in ‘The Challenge’ (ISSN No : 2278-9499), Vol.23, No. 2, 2014
  2. The Fiery (poetry) published in ‘Das Literarisch’ (ISSN No : 2454-4647), Vol. I, 2015.
  3. It is Monsoon Again (poetry) and The Cycle (poetry) published in ‘Das Literarisch’, Vol. II, Issue I, 2016.
  4. The Hunt (short story) and Nocturnal Ordeal (poetry) published in ‘Das Literarisch’, Vol. 3, Issue I, 2020.
  5. Striking Back (Poetry translation) published in ‘Das Literarisch’, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2020.
  6. The Rainbow (short story) published in ‘Das Literarisch’, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2021.
  7. Counterpoint (short story) published in May 2021 (Special Issue) of ‘Setu’, a bilingual monthly journal (ISSN 2475-1359) published from Pittsburgh, USA.
  8. Light Ultimate (poetry) published in ‘Das Literarisch’, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2021.
  9. Metavision (poetry) published in ‘Das Literarisch’, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2022.

 

Other Academic / Administration Responsibilities: 

  1. Functioning as Faculty Coordinator in KALA (KCC Arcadia of Literary Appreciation) A Deptt. Of English Initiative, Karim City College, Jamshedpur.
  2. Taking Professional/Communicative English Classes from time to time.
  3. Evaluating answer scripts of UG English Papers .
  4. Served as Manager (Personnel) with M/S Hindustan Copper Limited (A Govt of India Enterprise) for 27 years at its unit at Ghatsila.
  5. Discharged the responsibility of judging self-composed poetry competition of students in English and Bangla category on 22/02/2021 under the forum ‘We… the Poets’ (SPArC).
  6. Discharged the responsibility of judging Essay competition of students in English category during the celebration of “Communal Harmony Week” (from 17-21 May 2022) organized by NSS Unit of Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.