ACADEMIC PROFILE

Name:                                                      Basudhara Roy

Date of Birth:                                          17-03-1986

Designation & Present Position:          Assistant Professor, Department of English, Karim City College, Jamshedpur

Others:                                                 Academic Counsellor at IGNOU

Date of joining (on permanent post):  22^nd November, 2010.

Teaching experience:                           11 years.

Highest Qualification:                          Ph.D. in English

Topic of Ph.D. :                                       ‘Remapping the Self: Negotiating Cultural Space in the Short Fiction of Three Indian American Women Writers’

Areas of interest:                                    Postcolonial literature, Postmodern criticism, Diaspora      Studies, Culture Studies, Gender Studies, Ecological Studies

Areas of Specialization:                          Indian Writing in English, Linguistics Women’s Writing

Academic Achievements:

• University topper and Gold Medalist for B.A.(Hons.) English (B.H.U., 2007) and M.A. English, (B.H.U., 2009)
• UGC (NET-JRF), December, 2008.
• Awarded the Merit Award for Excellence in Academics by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, New Delhi (2009).

Member of Professional bodies:

• Forum for Contemporary Theory
• Indian Association for Women’s Studies
• All India Women’s Conference
• Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library
• Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics

Editorial Experience:              

• Managing Editor of Das Literarisch
• Review Editor for Gnosis and Daath Voyage
• Member of the Editorial Board of Teesta Review
• Has guest-reviewed articles for the journals Dialogue and TEXT
• Has reviewed articles for an edited collection of essays on Contextualising Migration: Perspectives from Literature, Culture and Translation brought out by GITAM, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hyderabad & Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru
• Has edited a special issue on ‘Figures of Thought: Collegiate Voices across Spaces’ for Setu: A Bilingual Monthly Journal published from Pittsburgh, U.S.A.                                                                                                                      

Papers Presented in Seminars/Conferences:

1. “Fractured Psyches: A Study of the Migrant South-Asian Wife” at the Interdisciplinary International Conference in English on Diaspora Space: Voices and Voyages at Jamshedpur Women’s College, Jamshedpur, 20^th-22^ndFebruary, 2010.
2. “Reclaiming the Mother within Motherhood: A Feminist Reading of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s ‘Naina’” at the International Seminar on Theory at Work: Text, History and Culture at B.H.U., Varanasi, 9^th-11^thNovember, 2010.
3. “De-Stereotyping Gender: Negotiating with Weak Men in Anita Desai’s In Custody” at the National Seminar on Reverting the Gaze: Analyzing the Portrayal of Male Characters in the Fiction of Indian Female Novelists at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, 30^th- 31^stMarch, 2011.
4. “Re-membering Myths, Re-scripting Memories: Exploring Feminist Engagements in Modern Indian English Poetry” at the National Seminar on Literature and the Subconscious: Dream and Memory as Narrative Structures in Indian Writing in English at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, 20^th-21^stDecember, 2011.
5. “Releasing Voices, Contesting Identities: Locating Postcolonial Echoes in Indian English Women’s Poetry” at the International Conference on Text, Culture and Performance: Postcolonial Issues organized by IACLALS at the School of Languages, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, 2^nd-4^th February, 2012.
6. “Mapping an Alternate Space: Reshaping Tribal Women’s Identities through Oral Performance” at the National Seminar on Folklore and Cultural Diversity in Tribal Areas of India at Graduate College, Jamshedpur, 14^th-15^thFebruary, 2012
7. “Old People in a New World: Exploring a Changed Culture-scape in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Short Fiction” at the National Seminar on New Trends in English Studies at Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka, Jharkhand, 7^th-8^thSeptember, 2012.
8. “Dickens’s Uneasy Men: Interrogating the Crisis of Victorian Masculinity in Great Expectations” at the National Seminar on Celebrating Charles Dickens: His Mind and Art at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, 3^rd-4^thApril, 2013.
9. “Professional Responsibility in Higher Education: Engaging with Ethical Considerations in the University Classroom” at the National Seminar on Ethics in Profession: Scope and Issues at Jamshedpur Women’s College, Jamshedpur, 21^st-22^ndJanuary, 2016.
10. “Tracing Ecocritical Configurations of Intimacy and Desire: Attempting a Green Reading of Kalidasa’s Meghaduta” at the National Seminar on Diversity and Relevance of Kalidasa Literature at Jamshedpur Worker’s College, Jamshedpur, Jharkand, 10^th – 12^th March, 2016.
11. “Crafting the Consumerist Subject of Desire: Capitalism, Culture and the Global Politics of the Electronic Market” at the Regional Seminar on Social Impact and Implications of E-Commerce at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, 16^th March, 2016.
12. “Interrogating Professional Practice in Higher Education: Some Considerations on Improving Teaching and Learning” at the NAAC Sponsored National Workshop on Enhancing Quality in Higher Educational Institutions at Nirmala College, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 30^th April-1^st May, 2016.
13. “Dramatizing Desire: Examining Tagore’s Return to the Theme of Forbidden Love in Chandalika” at the National Conference on Indo-Anglian Drama and Criticism: Coming of Age at Yogoda Satsanga Mahavidyalaya, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 11^th-12^th May, 2016.
14. “ ‘O brave new world that has such people in’t’: Reading Bakhtinian Polyphony in The Tempest” at the National Conference on Revisiting Shakespeare in the 21^st Century at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, 15^th- 16^th September, 2016.
15. “Recasting the Nation: Inclusive Nationalism and the case of Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Lagaan” at the Interdisciplinary National Seminar on The Depiction of Society and Culture in Hindi Cinema: Status and Directions at Jamshedpur Co-operative College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, 22^nd – 24^th September, 2016.
16. “Contesting Gender: An Inquiry into the Idea of De-gendering in Socio-Cultural Discourse” at the International Seminar on Challenging Patriarchy:A Humanist Perspective at Patna Women’s College, Patna, 26^th-28^th October, 2016.
17. “‘What have we here? a man or a fish?’: On Shakespeare’s Double Vision in The Tempest” at the XIII Annual International Conference of the Rajasthan Association for Studies in English on William Shakespeare through the Ages at Dr. K.N. Modi University, Newai, Rajasthan, 5^th-6^th November, 2016.
18. “Colonial Images, Postcolonial Realities: Unpacking the Construct of the Tribal Woman in Mahasweta Devi’s Outcast” at the UGC & ICHR Sponsored Interdisciplinary National Seminar on Women in Colonial and Postcolonial India: With Special Reference to Jharkhand at Nirmala College, Ranchi, 19^th-20^th November, 2016.
19. “Refiguring Belonging: Exploring Homelessness in Mapmaking: Partition Stories from Two Bengals at the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Remapping History and (Con)Textualising Literature: The Tragedy of Partition and the Fictional Narratives of the Indian Subcontinent at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, 26^th-28^th November, 2016.
20. “Interrogating Justice: Environmental and Ecological” at the ICPR sponsored International Conference on Environmental Justice: Culture, Resistance & Ethics at Dr. K.N. Modi University, Newai, Tonk, Rajasthan, 24^th -25^th March, 2017.
21. “Crafting Feminist Legacies: Re-telling Myth and Reclaiming the Woman as Hero in Meena Kandasamy's M/s Militancy” in the ICSSR sponsored International Conference on In Search of the Hero(es) within the Genre and Beyond at Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 23^rd - 24^th February, 2018.
22. “Research Ethics and Plagiarism” in the Multidisciplinary National Seminar on Higher Education: Vision and Transformation at Bokaro Steel City College, Bokaro, in association with NWDS (Jharkhand), 14^th - 15^th July, 2018.
23. “Interrogating Gender through a Feminist Framework” in the One Day National Seminar on Gender Disparity in Education & Workplace at B.D.S.L. Mahila College, Ghatshila, East Singhbhum, 5^th August, 2018.
24. “Locating Feminism: Theory and Practice" in the National Seminar on Transnational Feminism: Literature, Theory and Practice at Sourashtra College, Madurai, 21^st August, 2018.
25. “Phantomizing Certainty: Modernism, Post-modernism, and the Logical Development of Post-Truth" in the International Conference on Debating the Post-Truth Phenomenon: Indian Literature, Culture and Critical Discourse at D.A.V. PG College, Varanasi, 19^th - 20^th December, 2018.
26. “Legitimizing an Ideology of Distrust: An Arendtian Reading of Post-truth as a Cultural Phenomenon" in the International Conference on Literature: Culture, Society and Media Adaptation at K.T.H.M. College, Nashik, 4th-5^th February, 2019.
27. “Of Potent Matchboxes: Reading Women, Space and Power in the Short Fiction of Ashapurna Debi" in the International Conference on South Asian Literature, Culture, and Society at Barabazar B.T.M. College, Purulia, West Bengal, 27^th - 28^th February, 2019.
28. “Of Deep Ecological Connections: Reading Gulzar's Habu ki Aag and Other Stories within an Ecocritical Framework” at the National Seminar on Imagining the World: Literature, Philosophy, Myth and Reality at Guru Nanak College, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, 27^th - 28^th July, 2019.
29. “Homes in Transit: Examining Unhousement as a Trope of Diasporic Belonging in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Hema and Kaushik'" at the International Conference on Narratives of Diaspora: Voices of Marginality and Visions of Exile at Vasanta College for Women, Varanasi, 1^st - 2^nd August, 2019.
30. “Locating Home through the World: Assessing Rabindranath Tagore’s Ideas on Nationhood in Ghare Baire” at the International Seminar on Rethinking Rabindranath: Modernity, Coloniality, Decoloniality, at Centre for Studies in Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Jadavpur University, West Bengal, 6^th-7^th January, 2020.
31. “Between Agoraphobia and Claustrophobia: Negotiating Home in the Corona Consciousness” at the International Webinar on Cultural Stasis: Corona the Loss/Gain to Humanity at the Department of English, D.A.V. P.G. College, Varanasi, 2^nd-3^rd June, 2020.
32. “Between Language and Locality: A Study of Pavan K. Verma’s Translation of Gulzar’s Green Poems” at the Three-Day International Web Conference on Translation and the Glocal: Texts, Identity, Politics and Cultural Survival at the Department of English, Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. 27^th-29^th August, 2020.
33. “The Invisibilization of Sexual Violence and Poetry as Resistance: An Examination of Tishani Doshi’s Girls are Coming Out of the Woods” at the Three-Day International Seminar on Literatures from Indian Subcontinent: A Review of Different Dimensions at the Department of English, Iswar Saran P.G. College, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, 8^th-10^th January, 2021.
34. “Green Verses: Examining Ecospirituality in Contemporary Indian English Poetry” at the International E-Conference on Inculcation of Human Values through Literature organized by Zulal Bhilajirao Patil College, Dhule, Maharashtra, India in association with English Language Teachers’ Association of India, Khandesh Chapter on 20^th August, 2021.
35. “The Struggle for Womanhood: Locating Gender Angst in the Poetry of Two Transwomen” at The Three-Day International Virtual Conference on Multidisciplinary Socio-economic and Cultural Studies organised by Bishop Kurialacherry College for Women, Amalagiri, Kottayam, Kerala, India in collaboration with Cape Comorin Trust, India & Cape Comorin Publisher, India from 26-28 August, 2021.
36. “A Poetics/Politics of Place: Engaging with Contemporary Poetry from Northeast India” at the One-Day International Virtual Seminar on South-Asian Literature: Expansions and Explorations organized by the Department of English, School of Research, Arka Jain University, Jharkhand on 8^th September, 2021.
37. “The Right to be Human: Making a Case for Dignity of Life in Jatin Bala’s Stories of Social Awakening: Reflections of Dalit Refugee Lives of Bengal” at the Three-Day International Virtual Conference on Fourth World Literature organised by the Department of English & Research Centre, Nesamony Memorial Christian College, Marthandam, Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu, India in collaboration with Cape Comorin Trust, India & Cape Comorin Publisher, India from 9^th to 11^th September, 2021.

Workshops Attended:

1. Summer Course on American Culture and Civilization: Formation of the American Mind organized by the American Study Circle, Kolkata and held at Jamshedpur Women’s College, Jamshedpur, 20^th-21^stJuly, 2009.
2. UGC sponsored Inflibnet Awareness Programme for the colleges of Jharkhand held at Karim City College on 20^th December, 2010.
3. ISTE approved Short Term Training Programme on Research Methodology organized by the Department of Mathematics and Humanities, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, 27^thJune – 1^st July, 2011.
4. Short Term Course on Computer Applications organized by CALEM under the PMMMNMTT Scheme at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, 2^nd-8^th February, 2016.
5. Short Term Course on Data Analysis, SPSS and Minitab organized by CALEM under the PMMMNMTT Scheme at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, 16^th-22^nd May, 2016.
6. UGC-CPE funded Two Day Capacity Building National Workshop on Writing Research Paper at Nirmala College, Ranchi, 9th-10^th December, 2017.
7. Jharkhand English Authors' Conclave 2018 organized by the University Department of English, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, 19^th September, 2018.
8. Criteria Referenced Holistic Assessment of Writing organized by CeRTEL, XLRI, 28^th February, 2019.
9. Orientation/Training Program for Academic Counsellors organized by IGNOU, Regional Centre, Ranchi, at IGNOU Study Centre 32024, Karim City College, Jamshedpur, 2^nd March, 2019.
10. One Day Multilingual Poetry Translation Workshop Only Connect – Poetry Translation and Inclusivity of Languages at ICCR, Kolkata, jointly organized by Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library and Kolkata Translators’ Forum, on 22^nd February, 2020.
11. Three Day Online Workshop on Online Course Design, Development and Delivery organized by HRDC, University of Hyderabad, 7^th-9^th May, 2020.
12. Two Day Online Professional Development Programme on E-Content Development for MOOCs and Online Teaching organized by HRDC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 27^th-28^th May, 2020.
13. International Workshop on Research Methods and Approaches to Migration and Diaspora Studies organized by Centre for Diaspora Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India, in collaboration with Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London, U.K., 30^th June to 2^nd July, 2020.

Orientation/Refresher Courses/Faculty Development Programmes Attended:

1. Participated in the 83^rd Orientation Programme from 15.05.2015 to 11.06.2015 at UGC – Human Resource Development Centre at Ranchi University, Ranchi, and obtained Grade-A.
2. Attended a Two-Week Faculty Development Programme on Emerging Trends in Teaching, Learning and Research: A Trans-disciplinary Approach organized by Jamshedpur Women’s College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand in collaboration with Mahatma Hansraj Faculty Development Centre, Hansraj College, University of Delhi; 4^th – 17^th February, 2020.
3. Completed ARPIT Course in Gender/Women’s Studies from Swayam with a score of 89.05 marks.
4. Completed a Five-Day Online Faculty Development Programme on Rethinking Critical Theory and Praxis in the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by Tetso College, Dimapur, Nagaland, 13^th July – 17^th July, 2020.
5. Completed a Seven-Day Online Faculty Development Programme on Gender Sensitization organized by Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College, Purulia, West Bengal, 25^th July – 31^st July, 2020.

Research Papers Published:

1. “Stifled Voices in Diaspora Spaces: The Stereotype and the Housewife, A Study in Cultural Dislocation” in The International Journal of Culture, Literature and Criticism, Issue no. 3, April 2011. (ISSN: 0976-1608) p. 25-33.
2. “Daughters of Mothers, Mothers of Daughters: The Heritage of Shashi Deshpande’s The Binding Vine” in The Criterion, An International Journal in English, Volume 2, Issue 3, September, 2011. (ISSN: 0976-8165) p. 37-42.
3. “Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes: Negotiating Male Weakness in Anita Desai’s In Custody” in Contemporary Discourse, Volume 3, Issue 2, July 2012. (ISSN: 0976-3686) p. 131-136.
4. “Negotiating Intersections between Criminality and Culture: Examining Dickens’s Social

and Moral Critique of Victorianism in Great Expectations.” in TLV, Annual Refereed  Journal of English Language and Literature, Vinoba Bhave University, Volume 6, 2011. (ISSN: 0975-3230) p. 36-47.

5. “Re-inscribing the Mother within Motherhood: A Feminist Reading of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s short story ‘Naina’”in The Criterion, An International Journal in English, Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2012. (ISSN: 0976-8165).p. 1-6.
6. “De-pathologizing the Self: From Exile to Social Belonging in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Treatment of Bibi Haldar’” in The Discourse, A Bilingual Refereed Quarterly Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 3, October-December 2012. (ISSN 2278-0920) p. 123-139.
7. “Changing Betwixt Worlds: Negotiating Diaspora Conflict in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s ‘Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter’” in Global Journal of English Language and Literature, Volume 1, Issue 2, April 2013. (ISSN 2320-4397) p. 31-37.
8. “Breaking the Seals of Silence: Locating Female Voices in Anita Desai’s In Custody” in Pratidhwani: The Echo, A Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Karimganj College, Assam, Volume 2, Issue 3, January, 2014. (ISSN 2278-5264) p. 198-206.
9. “Voicing New America: Examining the South-Asian Presence in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness” in Literary Confluence, A Global Journal of English and Cultural Studies, I, July-December 2014. (ISSN 2349-6509) p. 93-103.
10. “Blending Worlds: Mapping Home and Belonging in the Short Fiction of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni” in Lapis Lazuli: An International Literary Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2, Autumn 2014. (ISSN 2249-4529) p. 98-112.
11. “Scripting Identities in Motion: Examining the Critique of Cultural Fixity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Discourse of Americanism” in Diaspora Space: Emergence of Transnational Literature, Keya Majumdar. New Delhi: Prestige Books International, 2014. (ISBN 978-93-82186-49-6) p. 203-215.
12. “Writing Possibilities: On George Eliot’s Feminism in Middlemarch” in Feminine Issues in the Writing of British Female Authors, eds. VivekanandJha and Ajit Kumar. New Delhi: VL Media Solutions, 2015. (ISBN 978-93-80820-72-9) p. 98-110.
13. “Centralizing the Margins: Examining the Politics of Age and Sexuality in Anita Rau Badami’s Short Story ‘Ajji’s Miracle’” in Lapis Lazuli: An International Literary Journal, Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2015. (ISSN 2249-4529) p. 110-119.
14. “Feminizing Myths, Rewriting Identity: Assessing the Deconstructive Potential of Smita Agarwal’s ‘Lopamudra’, Revathy Gopal’s ‘Yashodhara II’ and Sampurna Chatterjee’s ‘Conversation’” in Dialgoue: A Journal Devoted to Literary Appreciation, Volume XI, No. 2, December 2015. (ISSN 0974-5556) p. 63-68.
15. “Envisaging Emancipation through Routes of Desire: A Comparative Study of the Female Protagonists in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Treatment of Bibi Haldar’ and Ismat Chughtai’s ‘The Quilt’” in Daath Voyage: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in English, Volume 1, Number 1, March, 2016. (ISSN 2455-7544) p. 90-105
16. “Interrogating Man’s Place in Nature: Reading Kalidasa’s Meghadutamas a Deep Ecological Text” in An Interface: Selected Essays on Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 1, ed. Baisakhi Panda. San Francisco: Blurb, Inc., 2016. (ISBN 9-781367-6000683) p. 45-54.
17. “Translation as Communication: Examining the Short Fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri” in Socio-political and Cultural Discourse: Women, Literature and Struggle, Dr. Baliram Gaikwad and Dr. Ajit Kumar. Mumbai: New Man Publications, 2016. (ISBN: 978-93-83871-48-3)p.86-102
18. “Gender and Feminism: Examining the Discourse” in Daath Voyage: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in English, Volume 2, Number 1, March, 2017. (ISSN 2455-7544) p. 33-41
19. “Professional Responsibility in Higher Education: Engaging with Ethical Considerations in the University Classroom” in Ethics in Application, Dr. Kakoli Basak and Dr. Sanjay Kumar. Delhi: Disha International Publishing House, 2017. (ISBN: 978-9384782-88-7). p. 269-279.
20. “‘O brave new world that has such people in’t’: Reading Bakhtinian Polyphony in The Tempest” in Conscious Re-imaginings of Shakespeare’s Plays, Dr. Smriti Singh and Dr. Sweta Sinha. New Delhi: Bahri Publications, 2017. (ISBN: 978-93-83469-10-9). p. 46-60.
21. “Critical Professionalism in Higher Education: Integrating Ethics in Practice” inQuality Enhancement in Higher Educational Institutions: Issues, Practices and Perspectives, eds. Rashmimala Sahu and Afrinul H. Khan. New Delhi: R.K. Books, 2017. (ISBN 978-93-82847-32-8) p. 166-174.
22. “Between the Body and the Spirit: Discoursing Desire in Tagore’s Chandalika” in The Literati: A Peer Reviewed Journal Devoted to English Language and Literature, Summer & Winter (6.1 & 6.2) 2016. (ISSN 2248-9576) p. 35-43.
23. “Home Betrayals: A Study of the Dysfunctional Family in Two Short Stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni” in Indian Fiction in English: Post-colonial Discourses, eds. S.M. Yahiya Ibrahim and Papari Kakati. New Delhi: Adhyayan Publishers & Distributors, 2018. (ISBN 978-81-8435-609-0) p. 99-111.
24. “Legitimizing an Ideology of Distrust: An Arendtian Reading of Post-truth as a Cultural Phenomenon” in Research Journey: An International E-Research Journal, February 2019; Special Issue 111(A). (ISSN 2348-7143) p. 121-126.
25. “‘This poem jungles the culture’: Examining Strategies of Remythification in Meena Kandasamy’s M/s Militancy” in The Quest, December 2019, Volume 33, Number 2. (ISSN 0971-2321) p. 30 - 41.
26. “Of Deep Ecological Connections: Reading Gulzar’s Habu Ki Aag and Other Stories within an Eco-critical Framework” in Imagining the World: Literature, Philosophy, Myth and Reality edited by Varsha Singh. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2020. (ISBN 978-93-89824-92-6) p. 58 – 69.
27. “Of Potent Matchboxes: Reading Women, Space and Power in the Short Fiction of Ashapurna Debi" in South Asian Literature, Culture and Society: A Critical Rumination edited by Goutam Karmakar. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2020. (ISBN 978-8126931736) p. 13-24.
28. “Re-worlding our Language, Re-languaging our World: Postcolonial Poetic Inflections and Three Contemporary Indian English Voices” in Presentations of Postcolonialism in English: New Orientations edited by Jaydeep Sarangi. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2020. (ISBN 978-81-7273-383-4) p. 305-326.
29. “On the Necessity of Remembering: Jatin Bala’s Stories of Social Awakening: Reflections of Dalit Refugee Lives of Bengal” in Stories of Social Awakening: Reflections of Dalit Refugee Lives of Bengal edited by Jaydeep Sarangi. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2021. (ISBN 978-93-5207-543-0) p. 191-202.
30. “Homes in Transit: Examining Unhousement as a Trope of Diasporic Belonging in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Hema and Kaushik’” in Narratives of Diaspora: Voices of Marginality and Visions of Exile edited by Alka Singh, Manjari Jhunjhunwala and Rachana Pandey. New Delhi: ABS Books, 2021 (ISBN 978-93-91002-04-6) p. 51-63.
31. “An Ontology of Permeability: Tracing Radical Nonduality in the Poetry of Nabina Das” in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Vol. 44, Number 4, Winter 2021 (Supplement)

Book Reviews Published:

1. ‘Posing New Interventions in Provincial Writing: A Review of Panchanan Dalai’s Modernity and Provincial Writing: The Case of Manoj Das’ in Nuances: A Journal of Humanistic Enquiry 2, Issue 2; July-December, 2016. (ISSN: 2395-0943)
2. ‘A Review of Literary Theory: Textual Applications edited by S.K. Sagir Ali’ in Dialgoue: A Journal Devoted to Literary Appreciation, Volume XIV, No. 1, June 2018. (ISSN 0974-5556) p. 84-86.
3. ‘A Review of Making of the Indian Muse: Context and Perspectives in Indian Poetry in English’ edited by Goutam Karmakar in Muse India, Issue 85; May – June, 2019. (ISSN: 0975 – 1815)
4. ‘Exquisiting the Ordinary: A Review of Jaydeep Sarangi’s Heart Raining the Light’ in Setu: A Bilingual Monthly Journal published from Pittsburgh, U.S.A., December, 2019. (ISSN 2475-1359)
5. ‘Writing between Epistemologies: The Cosmopolitan World of Steffen Horstmann’s Jalsaghar’ in Setu: A Bilingual Monthly Journal published from Pittsburgh, U.S.A., March, 2020. (ISSN 2475-1359)
6. ‘A Review of Claus Ankersen’s River of Man: Indian Poems’ in Setu: A Bilingual Monthly Journal published from Pittsburgh, U.S.A., August, 2020. (ISSN 2475-1359)
7. ‘Of Journeying Between Worlds: A Review of Nitoo Das’s Crowbite’ in Borderless, December, 2020.
8. ‘Book Review: Eastern Muse: Poems from the East and North-East India, Edited by Malsawmi Jacob and Jaydeep Sarangi’ in  Education As Change 24, December, 2020.
9. ‘In a Burning Tongue: A Review of Soz’s Masculinity Digs a Grave over My Body’ in Setu: A Bilingual Monthly Journal published from Pittsburgh, U.S.A., January, 2021. (ISSN 2475-1359)
10. ‘Into an Unborn Age: A Review of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik’s The Untouchable & Other Poems’ in Contemporary Voice of Dalit, February, 2021.
11. ‘Review of Resonance: English Poetry from Poets of Odisha’ in Poetcrit, Vol. 34, No. 1, January-June, 2021 (ISSN – 0970-2830) p. 198-202
12. ‘A Review of Two Thousand Seventeen: Sesquicentennial Poems by Richard M. Grove and John B. Lee’ in Devour: Art & Lit Canada, Issue 010, Winter 2020/21. (ISSN 2561-1321) p. 36-37
13. ‘A Review of Nishi Pulugurtha’s The Real and the Unreal and Other Poems’ in Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 4, Number 1. May 2021. (ISSN: 2581-7094)
14. ‘Writing Empathy: The Polychromatic World of Ambai’s A Red-necked Green Bird’ in Café Dissensus Everyday, 10^th August, 2021.
15. ‘Poised between Contraries: A Review of Ram Krishna Singh’s Silence: White Distrust’ in Das Literarisch. Vol 4, Issue I, Jan-June 2021. (ISSN 2454-4647)
16. ‘The Intoxication of the Elsewhere : A Review’ in John B. Lee’s The Beauty of Being Elsewhere: Poems of Sojourns and Journeys. Canada: Hidden Brooks Press, 2021 (ISBN  978-1989786437)
17. ‘Poetics of Locality: A Review of Jaydeep Sarangi’s From Dulung to Beas: Flow of the Soul’ in Confluence: South-Asian Perspectives, August 2021. (ISSN : 2633-4704)
18. ‘The Necessity of Rebellion: A Review of Bina Sarkar Ellias’ Song of a Rebel and Other Selected Poems in Borderless, September, 2021.
19. ‘Insightful Essays’, Review Article on Prose Writings from North East India in The Statesman, 27^th September, 2021, p 11.
20. ‘Championing an Identity sans Signifiers: A Review of Kalki Subramaniam's We are Not the Others: Reflections of a Transgender Artivist’ in Setu: A Bilingual Monthly Journal published from Pittsburgh, U.S.A., September, 2021. (ISSN 2475-1359)
21. ‘Manifestations of Light in Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca’s Light of The Sabbath: Poems about Memories and the sacredness of Light in Different Truths, 23^rd October, 2021.

Interviews Published:

1. Interview with Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca in Writers in Conversation. 7. No. 2, August, 2020.
2. Interview with Poet, R.K. Singh in Poetcrit, Vol. 33 No. 2, July-December, 2020. P. 64 – 68.
3. “Continents of Communion”: Interview with Sanjukta Dasgupta on the Relevance, Theory and Craft of Translation in Women and Translation: A Study, Setu Special, November, 2020.

Books:

1. Migrations of Hope: A Study of the Short Fiction of Three Indian American Women Writers (Criticism; New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2019)
2. Moon in my Teacup (Poetry; Kolkata: Writers Workshop, 2019.)
3. Stitching a Home (Poetry; New Delhi: Red River, 2021)

Invited Lectures/Web Talks:

1. From Victorianism to Modernism: Examining the Turn delivered at the Centre for Academic Development, Karim City College on 20^th December, 2013.
2. Teaching Poetry to Primary Learners delivered at Central School, UCIL, Jadugoda on 27^th December, 2014.
3. Interpreting Poems in the One-Day Interactive Workshop on How to Read Poems organized by the Department of English, Guru Nanak College, Dhanbad, on 3^rd May, 2019.
4. Social Justice is the Goal of our Constitution for Prasar Bharti on 20^th February, 2020.
5. Transacting Gender in Nissim Ezekiel’s Night of the Scorpion in the Invited Web Talk Series organized by the Department of English, Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College, Purulia, West Bengal, 11^th May, 2020.
6. Reading Poetry: Sound, Sense and Critical Interpretation in the Online Lecture Series organized by the Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), Midnapore, West Bengal, India, 12^th May, 2020.
7. Cultural Militancy: A Reading of Mythological Transactions in the Dalit Feminist Poetry of Meena Kandasamy at the Gnosis Lecture Series, 5^th June, 2020.
8. Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’: 21^st Century Impressions in the Rainbow Lecture Series organized by the Department of English, Guru Nanak College, Dhanbad, 23^rd June, 2020.
9. Feminism in Two Week Online Lecture Series on Contemporary Critical Theories organized by Daath Voyage: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in English (ISSN 2455-7544), 1^st September, 2020.
10. Key Concepts in Cultural Studies at a Short Term Course in Cultural Studies organized by Daath Voyage: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in English (ISSN 2455-7544), 16^th September, 2020.
11. Between Race and Gender: An Introduction to Black Women’s Writing at the One-Day National Webinar on American Literature: The Saga of the New World organized by the Department of English, Krishnagar Government College, West Bengal, 26^th September, 2020.
12. Situating Feminism: History, Society and Politics in the 5-day International Workshop on Breaking the Stereotypes: A Paradigm Shift in Gender Studies organized by Mehr Chand Mahajan D.A.V. College for Women, Chandigarh, 5^th November, 2020.
13. The Poise of Poetry: Navigation and Arrival in the 4-day National Creative Writing Workshop Expanding the Creative Horizons organized by Mehr Chand Mahajan D.A.V. College for Women, Chandigarh, 7^th – 10^th June, 2021.
14. Authenticity, Decentering and Non-fiction: An Introduction to Prose Writings from North-East India in the Symposium on Non-Fictional Prose Writings organized by the Sahitya Akademi under its Webline Literature Series on 28^th June, 2021.
15. Unity and Integrity Strengthens the Country for Prasar Bharti on 28^th October, 2020.

Administrative Responsibilities:

1. Staff Member, Women’s Cell, Karim City College
2. Staff Member, IQAC, Karim City College
3. Advisory Member, Society for Promotion of Art and Culture, Karim City College
4. Assistant Coordinator, IGNOU Study Circle, Karim City College