Education:

1. Bachelor’s Degree: English (Hons.) Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
2. Master’s Degree: Dibrugarh University (Department of English)
3. B.Ed, Dibrugarh University.
4. Ph.D.: Tezpur University (Department of English and Foreign Languages)

Professional Experience:

• Head, Department of English, Dibrugarh University 29/08/2019 till 29/08/2022
• Chairperson, Centre for Women’s Studies, Dibrugarh University 30/05/2019 till date
• Teaching M.Phil&Ph.d Scholars since 2015
• Chairperson, Centre for Women’s Studies, Dibrugarh University 1^st June, 2016 -30/11/2017.
• Head of the Department of English (i/c) 23^rd January 2010- 30^th June 2013.
• Teaching English Language and Literature at the Post Graduate Level since May, 2005.

Specialization: Language and Literary Theory

Research Interests: Language and Literary Theory, Shakespeare, Victorian Women’s Writing, Modern and Postmodern Fiction, Women and Gender Studies

Other Responsibilities

• Expert Member, Board of Sports Studies, Sri SriAniruddhadeva Sports University
• Expert Member, Board of Studies, Department of English, Assam Women’s University
• Member of Sub-Committee on Women Empowerment Constituted by the Government of Assam on 01/08/2021 to Draft Report on the Indigenous Assamese Muslims
• Member of Internal Complaints Committee, Brahmaputra Cracker &Polymer Limited, Dibrugarh Assam
• Member of the Advisory Committee of Journals in affiliated colleges of Dibrugarh University.
• Vice Chancellor’s nominee of the Board of Studies (BOS) in J.B. College, Jorhat.
• Member of the Equal Opportunity Cell, Dibrugarh University.
• Member of the Gender Sensitization and Complaint Committee Against Sexual Harassment (GSCCSH) from December, 2013- November, 2016.
• Member, Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Dibrugarh University , 2011-2013; 2017-2018

Projects:

• Was a part of the project titled Stories behind a Hot Cup of Assam Tea: Listening to the Voices of Women Labourers in the Tea Gardens from June 2016 to November 2017. The project was funded to the Centre for Women’s Studies, Dibrugarh University by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India.
• Nodal Officer of a Major Research Project on “Domestic Violence”, sponsored by the National Commission for Women, New Delhi, 04/02/2021.

Participation as Resource Person

• Resource Person at a Seminar for Students, on the topic, “Nineteenth Century Women Novelists” hosted by the Department of English, Tinsukia Women’s College, 20^th March,2023.
• Resource Person at the ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on “Writings from North East India: Trends and Issues” organized by the Department of English, Gargaon College, in collaboration with IQAC and Gargaon College Central Library, 24-25^th February, 2023
• Keynote Speaker at a National Seminar on “Right to Speedy Justice for Women-Role of Fast-track Courts in Delivering Justice to Women in North-east India”, hosted by Tinsukia Commerce College, with sponsorship by National Commission for Women, New Delhi, 20^th January, 2023
• Resource Person at a session on 18/11/2022 for a Refresher Course on “Women Empowerment: Issues and Challenges” hosted by the UGC Human Resource Development Centre, Gauhati University, 16/11-01/12/2022
• Resource Person at a Students’ Seminar on “Figuring Women in Shakespeare” hosted by SIES College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Mumbai, 17^th October,2022
• Keynote Speaker at a National Seminar on “Identification of Abusive Relationships and Prevention of Domestic Violence”, sponsored by the National Commission for Women, New Delhi and organized by DigboiMahila Mahavidyalaya, 8^th March,2022.
• Keynote Speaker at a National Seminar on Contemporary Gender Issues: Prospects and Challenges ,Organised by Nitaipukhuri College, Sivasagar, Assam, 26^th and 27^th October,2021.
• Panelist at a Online Discussion on “Inter-caste Marriages, the Historical Perspectives, hosted by tellmeyourstory.bizon 9^th September,2021.
• Panelist at an Online Discussion on Stories of Displacement & Resettlement Caused by Floods tellmeyourstory.biz in association with Environmental Humanities Centre, Amsterdam, 19^th May,2021
• Invited Speaker to a StudentOriented talk on “Exploring Gender through Literature, Sibsagar Girls’ College, Sibsagar, Assam, 18/02/2021
• Participated as Resource Person in a Refresher Course on Gender Studies organised by UGC HRDC, Gauhati University (Department of Women’s Studies), 15/12/2020.
• Presentation of a Web Lecture on “Sexual Politics on Meme Culture at a International Webinar on Cultural Studies and Popular Culture organised by DigboiMahila Mahavidyalaya on 13^th October, 2020.
• Key note Speaker at the Inaugural Session of the One week Online National Level Faculty Development Programme on Suffering and Survival: The Role of Women during COVID 19,7^th September, 2020, organised by Golaghat Commerce College.
• Speaker at a National Webinar on “Gendering the Pandemic: Issues &Voices , organised by Duliajan College, Assam, 20/08/2020
• Resource Person at an International Online Faculty Development Programme on Gender Sensitisation organised by Barabazar BTM College, Purulia West Bengal, 25^th -31^st July, 2020
• Resource Person at a National Workshop on Translation sponsored by ICSSR, conducted by Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati 21^st, October, 2019
• Resource Person in “Uttaran: Three Month Introductory Training Programme for the State Civil Services (ACS, APS, etc) Examination, 2019, organised by Skills Training Centre , Dhakuakhana and Sub-Divisional Administration, Dhakuakhana in collaboration with Dhakuakhana College, 8-9 April, 2019
• Resource Person of Training the Trainer Programme (under RUSA) at Namrup College, 19-22 Dec. 2017
• Participation as Resource Person in workshops on Women Empowerment in colleges affiliated to Dibrugarh University.
• Key Note Speaker at a National Seminar on Violence Against Women in India ,DigboiMahila Mahavidyalaya, 29^th July, 2017
• Guest Speaker at Sessions on Women Empowerment and Gender Sensitisation in Public Sector Units like Oil India Limited and Brahmaputra Cracker &Polymer Limited

Others

• External Examiner of Ph. D theses
• Supervision of M. Phil and Ph.D Scholars at the Department of English, Dibrugarh University.
• Participant in discussions and talks organised by All India Radio, Dibrugarh

 

Research Publications:

• Understanding Nature, Reading/Writing Fiction: An Analysis of BarbaraKinsolver’sFlight Behaviorpublished in Gnosis (An International Journal of English Language and Literature), October, 2020 issue
• Islamophobia and the Post 9/11 Paradox of Familiarity: Reading Kamila Shamsie’sHome Fire, Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES) Vol. 27, 2019.
• The Word and the World: Reading Paul Ricoeur’sThe Rule of Metaphor (p.123-137), Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES) Vol. 24, 2015.
• Figures and Facticity: A reading of Lacan’s Ecrits (pp.95-111),DUJES, Vol.23, 2014.
• Words and Things:A Study of Austin’s How to do Things with Words(pp.103-116), DUJES, Vol.22, 2013.
• The Language of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Language (pp.66-74), DUJES, Vol.21, 2012.
• Women, Men and Morals (pp. 176-183), DUJES, Vol. 16, 2007.
• Sexual-Textual Politics in Forster’s A Passage to India, DUJES, Vol. 15 (2005)

Chapters in Books:

• “The Word and the World: ‘Figuring’ out the ‘Sense’ in Measure for Measure” (pp.47-56), in Women and Literature, Dr. Anita Mahanta, published by Golden Jubilee Celebration Committee, Naharkatiya College, 2015.
• “The Kite’s Daughter” (Eng. translation of LakshminathBezbaroa’s ‘SilonirJiyek’) (pp.207-14), in Bezborua: The Man and his Works by Dr. Ananda Bormudoi. Publication Division: Dibrugarh University, 2014.
• Assamese Translation of Chapter 10 of Plato’s Republic (pp. 1-43), in EUROPIYA CINTA (NirbacitaRasanarAnuvad) ed. By Dr. Nava Kumar Handique, published by Dept. of Assamese, Dibrugarh University.

Papers presented in Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Symposia:

• Presented a Paper titled “Inner Turmoil and Outer Conflict: Exploring the Woman Question in Padmarag” at the Virtual International Conference on “Multiple Dimensions of South Asian Literary Imagination: Classic to Contemporary” organized by Yonphula Centenary College, Bhutan, 10-12 September, 2020.
• Presented a Paper at titled “Climate of Denial?: Tracing the Anthropocene in PurabiBormudoi’s Selected Short Stories” at a National Seminar on Recent Issues in Literature and Language Studies organized by the Department of Assamese, DIbrugarh University , 30/03/2019
• Presented a Paper titled ,”Antigoneand Terror: Reading Kamila SHamsie’sHome Fire” at the International Conference on “9/11 and the Beginning of the End of Liberal Democracy: Fictional Perspectives” organisedby the Centre of Advanced Studies, Dept. of English , Jadavpur University, 27-28^th February, 2018
• “Personalising the Public: Reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland”at the 16th Annual SALA Conference, on “Cultural Practices in the South Asian Public Sphere”, 4-6 January 2016 organised by South Asian Literary Association at Texas (USA)
• “Man-aging Nature: A Study of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior” at the 18th International Conference organised by The Forum on Contemporary Theory in collaboration with Depts. Of History and English, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, 20-23 December, 2015.Theme: “The Wider Significance of Nature”
• “Ricoeur, Figurative Language and Measure for Measure” at the National Seminar on Re-inventing Shakespeare: Recent Trends in Shakespeare Criticism 6-7 March, 2013, organised by Department of English, Dibrugarh University.
• “The River as a Metaphor for ‘In-betweenness in Nguigi’sThe River Between” at the International Seminar on River, Society and Sustainable Development 26-29 May, 2011organised by Dibrugarh University