Indian Classical Literature

Childhood Studies

• Ph.D. (Pursuing) , , University of Delhi
• M.Phil (English) , 2009 , University of Delhi
• NET (English) , 2009 , UGC
• M.A. (English) , 2007 , University of Lucknow

Associate Professor, Hansraj College, University of Delhi (2023-Present)

Assistant Professor, Hansraj College, University of Delhi (2010-2023)

      Undergraduate 

      Indian Classical Literature

      Children’s Literature

      Graphic Narratives 

      Literature in Social Spaces

      Digital Communication

      Media and Communication Skills

      Postgraduate

      The Long 18th Century

      The Long 19th Century

N/A

     2024-2025

     Coordinator, Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Programme

     Member, Hostel Committee

     Member, Garden Committee

     Member, Dramatics Society

     Member, Department Admissions Committee

     Member, Department Timetable Committee

     2023-2024

     Department Nominee, NAAC Criterion 2

     Member, Garden Committee

     Member, Hostel Committee

     Member, Department Admissions Committee

     Member, Department Timetable Committee

     2022-2023

     Core Team Member, External Examinations

     Member, North-East Cell

     Member, Hostel Committee

     Department Nominee, NAAC Criterion 2

     Member, Department Admissions Committee

     Member, Department Timetable Committee

     2021-2022

     Core Team Member, OBE Examinations

     Core Team Member, External Examinations

     Member, SPIC-MACAY Committee

     Member, North-East Cell

     Member, Hostel Committee

     Department Nominee, NAAC Criterion 2

     Member, Department Admissions Committee

     Member, Department Timetable Committee

     2020-2021

     Member, Special Admissions Enabling Committee

     Member, SPIC-MACAY Committee

     Member, Library Committee

     Member, Women’s Development Cell

     Member, Hostel Committee

     Department Nominee, NAAC Criterion 2

     Member, Department Timetable Committee

     2019-2020

     Member, Academic Audit Committee

     Member, Environment Awareness Committee

     Member, Women’s Development Cell

     Department Nominee, NAAC Criterion 3

     Member, Department Admissions Committee

     2018-2019

     Member, Academic Audit Committee

     Member, Grievance Committee

     Member, Entrepreneurial Cell

     Member, SPIC-MACAY Committee

     Member, Environment Awareness Committee

     Department Nominee, NAAC Criterion 3

     Member, Department Admissions Committee

     2017-2018

     Member, Environment Awareness Committee

     Member, SPIC-MACAY Committee

     Department Nominee, NAAC Criterion 3

     Member, Department Admissions Committee

     2016-2017

     Member, Central Timetable Committee

     Member, Department Admissions Committee

     Department Nominee, NAAC Criterion 3

     2015-2016

     Teacher-in-Charge, Department of English

     Member, College Admissions Committee

     Member, Monitoring Committee

     Member, Central Purchase Committee

     Member, Hostel Committee

     Member, Library Committee

     Member, Sports Committee

     Member, Central Workload Committee

     Member, Central Timetable Committee

     2014-2015

     Member, Students’ Welfare Committee

     Member, Canteen Committee

     Member, Screening Committee (English)

     Member, Department Admissions Committee

     2011-2012

     Member, Publications Committee

     Admission Incharge, B.A. Programme

     Member, Department Admissions Committee

N/A

A collective translation project titled "Selected Essays of Srilal Shukla" under Centre for Academic Translation and Archiving (CATA), Department of English (University of Delhi) in 2014-15.

• Book Chapter: “The Colour of Hope” in Powerless published by CultureCult Press (2025) ISBN 9788198538406.
• Book Chapter: "Then and Now" in Train, Tracks and Tales published by Notion Press (2024) ISBN 9798894468310.
• Book Chapter: "Leviathan" in Masks of Sanity published by Wicked Shadow Press (2024) ISBN 9788197231087.

• Article: “The Unfinished Highway” in Parcham Online published by the Parcham Magazine (2025).
• Article: "Arrow of Justice" in The Prized Myths and Fairy Tales published by the MockingOwl Roost magazine (2024).
• Article: "Nature and Childhood in Ruskin Bond's Short Stories" in Vol. 2, No. 08 (2023) ISSN-0974-536X. 
• Article: "Happily Ever After: Rethinking Andersen's Fairy Tales in The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar" in Vol. 4, Issue 2 (2023) ISSN 2582-6158. 
• Article: "Literacy and Liberation in Baby Halder's A Life Less Ordinary" in Vol. 8, Issue 5 (2023) ISSN 2455-6580. 

• “Trauma, Guilt and Selfhood: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence” at the National Seminar on Intersection of Psychology and Literature in Contemporary Literature in English: Themes and Perspectives organised by Fakir Mohan University, Odisha on 28 March, 2025. 
• “From Innocence to Horror: The Fragility of Childhood in Shakespeare’s Macbeth” at the International Conference on Shakespeare Adaptations up to the 21st Century organised by Mahatma Gandhi Central University from 10-11 March, 2025.
• “War, Wisdom, and Moral Decay in Dharamvir Bharati’s Andha Yug” at the National Seminar on Reviving and Reimagining Indigenous Knowledge Traditions in Contemporary Discourse organised by Rajiv Gandhi University from 27-28 February, 2025.  
• “Marriage, Motherhood, and Malador in Amrita Pritam’s ‘Stench of Kerosene’” at the International Conference on Work and Smell: Comparative Perspectives organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London from 25-26 April, 2024. 
• “Kalidasa’s Green Canvas: The Ecological Ethos of Abhijnanasakuntalam” at the two-day National Conference on “Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Challenges and Opportunities” organised by IGNOU from 25-26 April, 2024.
• "A Wrinkle in Time: Locating Dislocation(s) in Kamleshwar's Kitne Pakistan" at the Literary Dislocation(s) Seminar Series jointly organised by Queen's University Belfast and Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris) on March 5, 2024. 
• "Sense and Nonsense in Sukumar Ray's Abol Tabol" at the International Conference on Logic and Modern Literature organised by the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) from 14-15 September, 2023.
• "Afghanistan and the Game of Dice in the Mahabharata" at the International Virtual Colloquium on From the Kabuliwala to the Fall of Kabul: Afghanistan in Popular Imagination organised by the University of Liberal Arts, Dhaka (Bangladesh) from 30-31 October, 2021.
• "The Colonised Body in Nineteenth-Century Bengal" at the CALLIOPE International Conference on Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations (late 18th - early 20th centuries) organised by the University of Helsinki (Finland) from 10-12 May, 2021.
• "Nineteenth-Century Lucknow through the Eyes of Umrao Jaan Ada" at the International Conference on Culture, Civilization and Multidisciplinary Studies in Social Sciences organised by Sehr-i Ayasofya, Istanbul (Turkey) from 20-21 January, 2021.
• "Recasting Folktales as Tele-serials" at the National Webinar on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Folklife: Challenges and Perspectives organised by the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, University of Delhi from 19-21 November, 2020.
• "One Mahabharata, Many Voices: Exploring the Iridescent Nature of Dharma" at the International Webinar on Peace, Poetry and Pluralities organised by Ambedkar University from 2-4 October, 2020.
• "The Green Mahabharata: An Ecocritical Reading" at the International e-Conference on Rethinking the Post Colonial: Texts and Contexts organised by Assam University from 25-27 September, 2020.
• "It's Not What it Looks Like: Deceptive Curses in the Mahabharata" at the Virtual International Conference on Multiple Dimensions on South-Asian Literary Imagination: Classic  to Contemporary organised by Yonphula Centenary College, Trashigang (Bhutan) from 10-12 September, 2020.
• Reviewer and Panellist for a Book Discussion Session on Ambedkar: India’s Crusador for Human Rights (2019) at the Oxford Bookstore on 14-04-2019.
• “Curse as a Facilitator of Action and Terminator of Complexity in the Mahabharata” at the 17th WSC organised by University of British Columbia (Canada) from 9-13 July, 2018.

• Delivered a Lecture as an Invited Speaker on “Ecological Imagination in Indian Classical Literature: A Study of Abhijnanasakuntalam” organised by B.R. Ambedkar University on June 5, 2024.
• Delivered a Lecture as an Invited Speaker on "The Rise of the Novel" organised by Maharishi Dayanand University on January 29, 2022.
• Delivered a Lecture as an Invited Speaker on "Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi for Today's Youth" organised by Gurugram University on October 2, 2021.
• Delivered a Lecture as an Invited Speaker on "The Dramatic Art" organised by Maharishi Dayanand University on June 29, 2021.

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• One-week International FDP on “Future-Ready Classrooms: Cutting-Edge Teaching and Learning Methods for the 21st Century” organised by Mindanao State University, Philippines from 25-31 January, 2025. 
• Two-week Online Training Programme on “NEP 2020 Orientation and Sensitization Programme” organised by MH-MMTTC, Hansraj College from 1-14 February, 2024.
• One-week Online FDP on "Communication Skills: Significance in an Ever-Changing Classroom" organised by UGC-HRDC Panjab University from 23-29 August, 2022.
• One-week (Online) Interdisciplinary FDP on "Interdisciplinary Studies and Higher Education: Prospects and Challenges" organised by Dyal Singh College and MHFDC, Hansraj College from 26-31 July, 2021.
• Online Weeklong Workshop on Assessment and Evaluation organised by Teaching Learning Centre, Tezpur University from 14-19 December, 2020.
• One-week (Online) Faculty Development Programme on "Moving Towards New Normal though Effective Online Teaching organised by Kalindi College and MHFDC, Hansraj College from 1-7 December, 2020.
• Online National Workshop on “Design and Develop: Online Assessment” organised by Teaching Learning Centre, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University from 8-10 June, 2020 with A+ grade.
• Online Short Term Course on “Research Methodology in Humanities” organised by Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh from 26-30 May, 2020.
• Online National Workshop on “Design and Develop: Audio and Video e-Resources” organised by Teaching Learning Centre, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University from 26-28 May, 2020 with A+ grade.
• Online National Workshop on “Design and Develop: Text and Image e-Resources” organised by Teaching Learning Centre, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University from 13-15 May, 2020 with A+ grade.
• Online Faculty Development Program “Experiential Learning: Gandhiji’s Nai Talim” organised by FDC, Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education of MHRD from 11-15 May, 2020.
• Two-week Faculty Development Programme “Managing Online Classes and Co-Creating MOOCs” organised by Teaching Learning Centre of MHRD, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi from 20-04-2020 to 06-05-2020.
• Workshop on “Online Basic Training on Use of ICT in Teaching” organised by Teaching Learning Centre of MHRD, Tezpur University on 20-23 April, 2020.
• Two-week ‘Refresher Course in English & Foreign Languages’ organised by UGC-HRDC, Himachal Pradesh University from 1-13 July, 2019 with ‘A’ grade.
• Two-week Faculty Development Programme on 'Gender, Research Methods and Pedagogies (Interdisciplinary)’ organised by Mahatma Hansraj Faculty Development Centre of MHRD, Hansraj College, University of Delhi from 20-11-2018 to 03-12-2018.
• One-week workshop on ‘Use and Development of Open Educational Resources’ organised by Faculty Development Centre of MHRD, HNB Garhwal University from 12-18 October, 2018.
• One-week 'Workshop on Academic and Creative Writing’ organised by UGC- HRDC Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education, University of Delhi from 20-26 September, 2016.
• Workshop on ‘Journalism Terminology: Uses and Difficulties’ organised by the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology of MHRD at Hansraj College, University of Delhi from 14-15 September, 2015.
• Four-week ‘Orientation Programme (OR-80)’ organised by UGC-HRDC Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education, University of Delhi from 25-05-2015 to 20-06-2015 with ‘A’ grade. 

• Prize for the Best Poem at the 2024 Creative Writing Contest organised by MockingOwl Roost, an internationally recognised  literary magazine.
• Best Short Film Citation at the 25th CEC-UGC Film Festival, 2024.
• Best Paper Presentation Award for the paper titled "One Mahabharata, Many Voices: Exploring the Iridescent Nature of Dharma" at the International Webinar on Peace, Poetry and Pluralities organised by B.R. Ambedkar University from 2-4 October, 2020.
• UGC Travel Grant for presenting a paper titled “Curse as a Facilitator of Action and Terminator of Complexity in the Mahabharata” at the 17th WSC organised by University of British Columbia from 9-13 July, 2018.