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TEACHING STAFF
Name of the Faculty: Dr. Pratusha Bhowmik
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Dept. of English, Bodoland University
Mobile No. : 7002317289
E-mail ID :pratushabhwmk72@gmail.com
Date of Birth :13-05-1986
Area of Research : Gender and Sexuality Studies, Trauma Studies, Women"s Studies
Work Experience : 10 years, 7 months and 26 days
Teaching Interest : History of English Literature, South Asian Literatures, Partition Studies, Research and Pedagogy
RESEARCH PUBLICATION
| Title of the Paper | Name of the Journal | Indexed by Scopus/ Web of Science/UGC Care (Yes/No) | Impact Factor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Co-authored). “Negotiating Eco-Disaster: Locating Non-Human Encounter in Minoli Salgado"s Post-Tsunami Narrative A Little Dust on the Eyes” | English Forum: Journal of the Department of English, Gauhati University, Vol. 10 & 11:: 2022-2023. 189-203. A UGC Care Listed Journal, ISSN: 2279-0446 | Yes | 2023 | |
| (Main Author). “The "queer nation": moving beyond boundaries? A study of select South Asian novels”. | In D. Biswas and J. C. Ryan (Eds.)., Nationalism in India: Texts and Contexts. Routledge (Scopus Indexed). 160-176. ISBN: 978-1-032-02004-4 | Yes | 2022 | |
| (Co-authored). "Mob Lynching, Death and Trauma in The Shadow Lines.” | Caraivéti: Peer reviewed and Refereed Biannual International Journal, V(1), 214-220. www.caraiveti.com A UGC Care Listed, Peer-reviewed and Referred Biannual International journal. ISSN: 2456-9690 | Yes | 2022 | |
| (Co-authored). “Climate Change, Woman and Disaster: Locating Climate Crisis and Woman"s Victimhood in Arif Anwar"s The Storm”. | NIU International Journal of Human Rights, ISSN: 2394-0298, Vol. 9(VI), 60-65. 2022. UGC Care Listed Journal. | Yes | 2022 | |
| (Main Author). “The Intersection of Trauma, Food and Identity in Khaled Hosseini"s The Kite Runner”. | Margins: A Journal of Literature and Culture, IX, 2019-2020, 26-44. https://journals.gauhati.ac.in/margins/past-issues UGC Care Listed Journal, ISSN: 2250-0731, 2021 | Yes | 2021 | |
| (Main Author). “Text and Context: Classroom as a Site of Contention”. | International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 6(1), 18-35. http://ojed.org/jimphe. https://doi.org/10.32674/jimphe.v6i1 OJED, International Peer-reviewed journal, ISSN: 2474 - 2546 Print/ ISSN: 2474 - 2554 Online | No | 2021 | |
| (Main Author). “Reading Trauma in Temsula Ao´s These Hill called Home: Stories from a War Zone and Easterine Kire´s Bitter Wormwood”. | In N. Saharia (Eds.)., Kaleidoscopic. Purbayan Publications. ISBN: 978-93-87263-34-5 | No | 2018 | |
| (Main Author). “Negotiating Diasporic Sensibility and Homosexual Identity: Reading Shyam Selvadurai´s Funny Boy”. | JONER: Journal of North East Region, 2(5), 127-134. UGC Listed journal no. 63983, Peer Reviewed, ISSN: 2321 -0583, Indexed in International Institute of Organised Research (I2OR) S. No. 5548 | Yes | 2017 | |
| (Main Author). “Reading narrative strategies in selected South Asian fiction”. | Transcript: Journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, IV. 100-108. Peer Reviewed, ISSN: 2347 - 1743 | No | 2016 | |
| (Main Author). “Representation of Childhood in Conditions of Conflict in Shamsie´s In the City by the Sea and Jayawardena´s Sam´s story”. | Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies, 25, 53-67. Peer Reviewed, ISSN: 0975 -5659 | No | 2016 | |
| (Main Author). “Dreams and Desires in Girish Karnad´s Naga-Mandala: Play with a Cobra”. Transcript: | Journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, II, 94-100. ISSN: 2347 - 1743 | No | 2014 | |
| (Main Author). “Exploration on the condition of Modern Indian Women in Anita Desai´s novels Cry, The Peacock and Fasting, Feasting”. | Glimmer, 172-191. ISBN: 978-81-910812-6-8 | No | 2014 | |
| (Main Author). “Parsis and Partition: Reading Bapsi Sidhwa´s Ice-Candy-Man in context”. | Transcript: Journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, I, 86-103. ISSN: 2347 - 1743 | No | 2013 | |
| (Main Author). “Modernism´s Response to Colonialism: A Critique”. | PROTOCOL: Journal of Translation, Creative and Critical Writings, VII(1), 44-53. ISSN: 0973 - 9807 | No | 2013 | |
| (Main Author). “Exploration of Women´s space in Bapsi Sidhwa´s The Crow Eaters”. | Drishti: the Sight, II(1), 90-95. Peer Reviewed, ISSN: 2319 -8281 | No | 2013 |
BOOKS
| Title of the Book | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|
| (Co-authored). Advancing Socially Driven Scholarship: The STAR Certified Researcher Training Program. | Maryland: STAR Scholars, ISBN: 978-1-957480-24-4 | 2023 |
| (Editor). Transcript: Journal of Literature and Cultural Studies. A Peer reviewed journal, ISSN: 2347-1743. | Published by Department of English, Bodoland University in collaboration with Authorspress. | 2023 |
| (Co-edited). (UN)MAKING GENDER: RE-INVENTING SELVES. | New Delhi: Authorspress. ISBN: 978-93-5529-279-7 | 2022 |
| (Co-authored). How to Write and Publish Effectively: Writing Support Group Guidelines. | ebook. STAR Scholars https://books.google.co.in | 2020 |
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
| Degree/Course | Name of the Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| M. A. in English | Gauhati University, Assam, India | 2010 |
| M. Phil. in English | Gauhati University, Assam, India | 2012 |
| Ph. D. in English | Gauhati University, Assam, India | 2018 |
WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCES ATTENDED
| Name of the Conference | Sponsoring Agency | Title of the Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 9th October, 2023: International Conference on Postcolonial Literature and its Perspectives | Department of English, Bijni College, Assam. | Plenary Talk on “Text to Context: Addressing Marital rape”. |
| 11th February, 2022: International Webinar, Environment across Disciplines: Perspectives on the 21st century | Sponsored by: ICSSR-NERC Department of English, Bodoland University, Assam, India. | “Locating Refugee Crisis vis-à-vis Climate Change in Amitav Ghosh"s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island.” |
| 23rd March, 2022: International Webinar, Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Postcolonial Literature | Publication Committee, Aligarh Muslim University. | “Communal Conflict and Mob Lynching in Bhisam Sahni"s novel Tamas.” |
| 29th April, 2022: International Webinar, Gender, War and Memory- An Interdisciplinary Approach | Department of English and History, Bishop Caldwell College. | “Climate Change, Woman and Disaster: Locating Climate Crisis and Woman"s Victimhood in Arif Anwar"s The Storm.” |
| 21st February, 2022: Invited Lecture | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assam down town University, Guwahati, Assam, India. Virtual. | “Interrogating Rape/Marital Rape: Reading Select Fictional Texts.” |
| 10th June, 2021: International Webinar, Processes of Memory: Towards a New Understanding | Department of English, Bodoland University, Assam, India | “The Use of Traumatic Memory as a Narrative Strategy in Select South Asian Novels”. |
| 8th June, 2021: Invited Lecture | Department of English, Sapatgram College, Assam, India. Virtual. | “Women"s Writing and Feminist Awareness in Indian Writing in English”. |
| 8th January, 2020. International SALA Conference 2020, Seattle, Washington, USA South Asia in the Academy: Classroom Practices, Professional Citizenship, and Intellectual Agency |
South Asian Literary Association (SALA) | “Teaching Contemporary South Asian Fiction: Classroom as a Site of Contention”. |
| 8th February, 2020. International Seminar on Reconfiguring Nationalism: Protest and Acquiescence, Kokrajhar, Assam. | Department of English, Bodoland University, Assam, India. | “Queer Voices of Dissent and the Nation in SJ Sindu"s Marriage of a Thousand Lies.” |
| 23rd September, 2020: Invited Talk | Faculty of Media Studies and Humanities, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Haryana, India. Virtual. | “Locating Indian Partition in Literature and Films”. |
| 7th February, 2019. International Seminar on Identity, History and Narrative in Contemporary Afghan Literature | Department of English, Gauhati University, Assam, India. | “Reflections on Food and Trauma in Khaled Hosseini"s The Kite Runner”. |
| 24th January, 2019: International Seminar on Cartographies of Understanding/Imagining: Explorations into Travel Narratives | Amrita School of Arts and Sciences in association with Amrita Centre for Research and Development (ACRD), Kochi | “Traversing Boundaries: Reading Amitav Ghosh"s In an Antique Land.” |
| 22nd and 23rd February, 2019: National Seminar on Society, Economy and Polity of North East India | School of Social Sciences, Bodoland University, Assam | “Ethnic Self and Identity: A Study of Select Modern Bodo Short Stories”. |
| 14th April, 2017. International Seminar, Nation and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Perspectives | Department of English, University of Gour Banga, Malda, India. | “Child and the Nation: Reading Sidhwa"s Ice-Candy-Man and Selvadurai"s Funny”. |
| 18th November, 2017: International Seminar, Narratives of Violence and Terror in Khaled Hosseini"s The Kite Runner | Department of English, NEHU, Shillong in collaboration with NEC, Shillong and ICSSR-NERC, Shillong. | “Representation of Trauma and Violence in Khaled Hosseini"s The Kite Runner”. |
| 26th February, 2016. International Seminar, Politics, History and Fiction in South Asia with special focus on Pakistan and North East India | Department of English, Gauhati University, Assam, India. | “Representation of Contested Sites: Locating Childhood in Kamila Shamsie"s In the City by the Sea”. |
| 28th January, 2016. International Seminar, Exploring Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives | Department of English, University of Gour Banga in collaboration with the British Council, Malda, India. | “Tracing Trauma in the Child Narrator: A Study of Ice-Candy-Man and The Shadow Lines”. |
| 19th December, 2015. International Seminar on Socio-Economic Development of South Asian Countries-Past, Present and Beyond | Rangiya College in association with NEFA and Department of Political Science, Bodoland University, Assam, India. | “Narrativizing Home and Conflict in Ru Freeman"s On Sal Mal Lane”. |
| 29th November, 2014. National Seminar, Impact of Conflict on Children | Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, Bodoland University, in collaboration with UNICEF, Assam Field Office, NERSWN & NEDAN Foundation, Kokrajhar, Assam, India. | “The Child Narrator in Times of Conflict in Elmo Jayawardena"s Sam"s story”. |
| 12th March, 2014: National Seminar on Navigating Diaspora | Department of English, Assam University, Silchar, India. | “The Problematized Identity in Sri Lanka: A Study of Shyam Selvadurai"s Funny Boy”. |
| 24 February, 2013: International seminar on “Women and Partition in Ice-Candy-Man” | Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar (BTAD), Assam. | “Women and Partition in Ice-Candy-Man”. |
WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
| Name of the Conference | Sponsoring Agency |
|---|---|
| Program Coordinator(s)/Facilitator(s). STAR Certified Scholars Training Program. 4th March-15th April, 2023. | STAR (Society of Transnational Academic Researchers) |
| Coordinator. International Webinar on “The Interface of Indigenous and Global: Re-structuring Culture, Economy and Society, Department of English, Bodoland University, 16th-17th March, 2023 | Department of English, Bodoland University |
| Program Coordinator(s)/Facilitator(s). STAR (Society of Transnational Academic Researchers) Professional Development Program, 16/04/2022-27/05/2022 | STAR (Society of Transnational Academic Researchers) |
| Co-convener, International Webinar on “Interrogating Gender: Challenges and Possibilities of Plural Feminist Standpoints”, 8th-9th March, 2022. | Department of English in collaboration with The Centre for Women"s Studies, Bodoland University |
| Convener, 15 Day Online Workshop (FDP) on “Research Methodology across Disciplines: Re-thinking Ethnicity, Gender and History during the Pandemic”,16th August to 30th August, 2021. | Department of English, Bodoland University |
| Convener, International Webinar on Re-thinking Age-ing, Disease and Death in 21st Century, 13th -14th September, 2021. | Department of English, Bodoland University |
| Member of the Organizing Team (Professional Development Program), South Asian Writing Group 2020, February – May, 2020, a 3-month long research and writing workshop/training for 24 scholars from 20 different specializations and 12 different institutions across South Asia, Feb-May 2020 | Facilitated by Dr. Shyam Sharma, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, Stony Brook University, SUNY, New York, USA. |
| Academic Coordinator, International Seminar on “Reconfiguring Nationalism: Protest and Acquiescence”, 6th –8th February, 2020. | Department of English, Bodoland University, Assam, India. |
| Program Coordinator, National Seminar on “Environment, Happiness and Health: Re-reading Literature in 21st Century, 14th and 15th November, 2019. | Department of English, Bodoland University, Assam, India. |
| Program Coordinator, 11 Day Workshop on “Research Methods in Literary Studies”, 11th –21st September, 2019. | Department of English, Bodoland University, Assam, India. |
| Member of the Organizing Committee at the International Seminar on “Orality: the Quest for Meaning” in 2016 | Department of English, Bodoland University, Assam, India. |
| Joint Coordinator (Academic) in International Seminar, “Globalisation to Glocalisation” in 2013 | Department of English, Bodoland University, Assam, India. |
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
| Name of the Assignment | Duration |
|---|---|
| Department Library, in-charge | 3 years (2019-2022) |
| Coordinator, M.Phil and Ph. D Programs in the Department of English, Bodoland University | 4 years (1st February 2019–Present) |
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
| Nature of Activity | Details |
|---|---|
| Participated as a Resource person (2015) | Community Extension Programme at Chikhnajhar Foraishali, Bishmuri, BTC, Assam |
MEMBERSHIP OF VARIOIUS COMMITTEE/ SOCIETIES
- Member, STAR (Society of Transnational Academic Researchers)
- SALA (South Asian Literary Association Membership) (2020-2021)
- Member, DRC
- Member, DAC
- Member, NAAC (Governance, Leadership and Management Committee)
- Member of NAAC Steering Committee, Bodoland University in 2015
- Member of Prospectus Committee, Bodoland University in 2015
- Member of Cultural Sub-committee of the Foundation Day Observation committee of Bodoland University in 2016
- Member of the Organizing Committee in the National Seminar on Rural Women, Bodoland University, in 2017
- Member of the Diploma and Certificate courses drafting Committee, Bodoland University in 2018
- Member of the Youth Festival Organizing Committee, Bodoland University in collaboration with Department of Sports and Youth Welfare, BTC, 2019.
- Member of the Literary committee in Inter-College Youth Festival organized by Bodoland University in 2019.
- Preparation of Convocation Brochures committee member, 2nd Convocation 2021
- Member of Certificate Distribution committee, Bodoland University, 2021