M.A (Gauhati University), M.Phil (Dibrugarh University), Ph. D (Gauhati University)

Specialization: American Literature, Life Writing

 

Areas of Interest
Fiction studies, Translation Studies, Life Writing, Women's Studies, Postcolonial Studies

Journals

1.“ When the Subaltern Speaks Herself: Postcolonial Self-fashioning in Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord”, Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies, Vol.23, 2014. ISSN 0975-5659 

2.  “Autobiography as Dialogue: A Reading of M.K. Gandhi’s The Story of My Experiments With Truth and Verrier Elwin’s The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin” , DELVE: A Research Journal of Nowgong College, Vol.III, 2014. ISSN-2278-7402

3. “English vs Vernacular: English studies and the Politics of Translation in the Postcolonial Context”, DELVE: A Research Journal of Nowgong College, Vol.IV, 2015. ISSN-2278-7402

4. "Contextualising Crisis in Women's Autobiography: A Reading of Sabita Goswami's Man Gangar Tirat" ANVIKSA: A Bilingual Referred Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, Vol. IV, 2017. ISSN 2348-067X

5.  "The 'Self' that is Very 'Public': A Reading of Assamese Women's Autobiographical Narration", Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies , Vol 26, 2017. ISSN 0975-5659 (Print) 2581-7833 (online)

6. "Prak Oupanibexik Assamat Shali Kheti aru Rajya Gathan Prakria: Ek Bikalpa Drishtibhnagir Prayujaniyata" a translation of " A Note on Wet Rice Cultivation and State Formation in Pre-colonial Assam: Need for an Alternative Perspective" by Uttam Bathari. Aalap, Vol V, April-September, 2019.

7. "Domesticity and Everyday Life of Women in Late Colonial Assam: A Reading of Two Women's Autobiographical Narratives", The Mirror, Vol VII, 2020. ISSN 2348-9596

8. "Modir Xashankalat Antarangiya Pujibadar Ruprekha" a translation of "Contours of Crony Capitalism in the Modi Raj" by A.K Bhattacharya and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Aalap, Vol VI, October, 2019-December, 2020.

9. "Women’s Education as a Site of Self-formation: Understanding Indira Miri’s Moi Aru NEFA. Srotaswini: UGC CARE listed Biennial Bilingual Journal. Vol. V, 2020-21. ISSN- 2277-5277.

10. "Subversive Narratives of Borders and Nations: Reading Debendranath Acharya's Jangam and Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace", Society and Culture in South Asia. Sage Journals, June 16, 2022. ISSN-2398617, eISSN- 23949872. 

11."Bodies in Transit: Women, War and Violence in Select Fiction from Nepal" Journal of International Women's Studies, Volume 24, Issue 6 on Violence and Resistance: Narratives of Women in South Asia, October 2022. ISSN:15398706.

Book Chapters

 

1. " A  Sister's Confession". Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond ed. Namrata Pathak and Dibyajyoti Sarma, Routledge India, 2022. ISBN- 9781032425276.

2."Teaching Postcoloniality through The Grass Is Singing", English Teacher's Accounts :Essays on the Teacher, the Text and the Indian Classroom ed. Nandana Dutta, Routledge, New York and London, 2021.ISBN- 978-0367610562

3."A Study of Select Women’s Autobiographies from Assam as Explorations of the Domestic and Everyday Life" Interface : Language, Ecology and Gender in Northeast India ed. Sabreen Ahmed. Exceller Books, 2021.ISBN- 978-9390746255

4.“Love at First Sight: A Translation of Lakshminath Bezbaroa’s Pratham Darshanat Opaja Prem”, Bezbaroa: The Man and His Works ed. Ananda Bormudoi, Publication Division, Dibrugarh University, 2014. ISBN 978-81-927849-9-1

5."Chandraprabha Saikiani", Warp and Weft: Makers of Modern Assam ed. Hirendranath Dutta and Stuti Goswami, National Book Trust, India, 2018. ISBN- 8123787154.

6."Women and Nature: Troubled Territories in the Domain of Patriarchy" Female Author-ity: Women's Short Story Writing in Assamese(1980-2015) ed. Pori Hiloidari, Papyrus Books, Guwahati, 2020. ISBN- 99788193896495.

7."Collective Identity and  Political Narrative: The Freedom Struggle in Select Women's Self-narrraions from Assam", Gender, State and Society ed. Sabyasachi Mahanta, DVS Publishers, Guwahati, 2022.ISBN- 978-93-85839-69-6.

1. Late Medieval to Elizabethan Age
2. Victorian Age
3. Classical Literary Critcism to the New Critics
4. Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 
5. European Literature
6. Gender Studies (Generic Elective)
7. Literature and Politics (Generic Elective)
8. Cultural Studies I: Discourse(Discipline Specific Elective)
9. American Literature (Discipline Specific Elective).
10. Inter-disciplinary Course on Women’s Studies :A Multidisciplinary Approach( a 12 credit course offered in lieu of GE and AEC across three semesters)