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Shruti Das

Prof. Shruti Das

Designation: Head of the Department

Qualification: M.A, M.Phil.,Ph.D

Phone No.: 9438435130

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6148-1093

VIDWAN ID: https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/174536

Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=qUprg10AAAAJ&hl=en

E-mail ID: drshrutidas@gmail.com

Prof. Shruti Das is currently Head, P.G. Department of English, Berhampur University and Director, Centre for Canadian Studies and Chairperson, Board of Studies for English, Berhampur University. She has her Ph.D on Toni Morrison’s Fiction from Utkal University, Odisha. She is a translator, creative writer and a critic, writing bilingually in English and her native tongue Odia....

She has participated, presented papers and chaired sessions in many National and International Seminars on English language, literature and Communication skills in India, USA and Europe. She has been a visiting Lecturer in 2 Universities in Poland. She has the distinction of being placed in the ALA Directory of Scholars, Princeton University, USA. She has published more than 75 research papers and also many creative work in National and International Journals of repute and anthologies. She also has Twelve books including three volumes of poetry to her credit. Her recent publications include two Book Chapters published from Routledge, two from Rowman and Littlefield and a Book from Bloomsbury. She is Member Board of Studies of many Universities and Colleges, member Board of Editors and member Advisory Body of many National and International Literary Journals and the Editor of Literary Oracle: An International Journal of Literature and Culture. Her poetry has been published in many anthologies and journals in India and abroad. A translator and public speaker of repute, she has received international acclaim and has been placed in the Bibliography of Commonwealth Writers for her first volume of Poems and has received the ASLE Travel Award-2019 at the University of California at Davis. Her special interests are Ecocriticism, Critical Theory, Postcolonialism, South Asian Feminism, Translation, Linguistics and English Language teaching. She has organised 4 National and 5 International Conferences, FDPs, and Workshops in the Department since 2013 and has created a YouTube Channel for the department as a repository of distinguished Web lectures. She instituted the Biyotkesh Tripathy Best Paper Awards that are given at the Conferences organized.

Ecocriticism; African-American and South Asian Feminism and Culture; Postcolonialism; ELT, Indigenous Literature and Indian Aesthetics

Books

  • From Margin to the Centre:  A Toni Morrison Reader. Mangalam Publishers, New Delhi, 2009. ISBN: 978-93-80013-00-8
  • Contemporary Communicative English. S. Chand Publications, New Delhi,2009. Rpt.2010, 2013. Revised Edition- 2014. ISBN: 978-81-219-3169-4 [ Includedin Syllabus in BA, B.Com, MA courses in Berhampur University & in The New Unified Syllabus for B.Com Course in Odisha]
  • A Daughter Speaks : A Collection of Poems. AuthorsPress , New Delhi, 2013. ISBN: 978-81-7273-801-3
  • Lidless Eyes (Collection of Poems) Partridge India (A Penguin Random House Publication), 2015. ISBN: 978-1-4828-4856-4
  • Language Learning Skills: Teachers’ Perception. AuthorsPress , New Delhi, 2016. ISBN: 978-93-5207-070-1
  • The Widening Gyre: An Anthology of Poetry, Prose and One-Act Plays. Eds. R N Panda and Shruti Das. Oxford University Press: Delhi,  2016. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-947261-1
  • Rethinking Environment: Literature, Ethics, Praxis. Ed. Shruti Das. AuthorsPress, Delhi, 2017.  ISBN: 978-93-5207-466-2
  • Form and Finesse: Business Communication and Soft Skills. Orient Blackswan 2017. ISBN: 978-81-8390-146-8
  • Performing the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature. Ed. Shruti Das, B.Tripathy and D. Routray. Pakshighar Publication, 2019. ISBN: 978-81-932167-3-5
  • Earth Song: An Anthology of Poems Ed. Shruti Das. AuthorsPress, Delhi, 2020.  ISBN: 978-93-89615-46-3
  • Environment and Culture in the Anthropocene. Ed. Shruti Das. AuthorsPress, Delhi, 2020.  ISBN: 978-93-89615-46-3
  • Sustainable Environments and Interspecies Ecologies: Literature, Theory and Praxis. Ed. Shruti Das. Bloomsbury, 2023. ISBN: 978-93-56406-41-4

Journal Articles

  • Das, Shruti and Mandal, Ranjit (2024) “Book Review: Organized Muslim Women in Turkey: An Intersectional Approach to Building Women’s Coalitions,” Journal of International Women’s Studies: Vol. 26: Iss. 1, Article 22. Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol26/iss1/22  (ISSN: 1539-8706, Scopus)
  • To Be or Not to Be: Cultural Crisis and Politics of Caste in U.R. Anantha Murthy’s Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man. Literary Oracle. Volume 7.1, May 2023. Pp.86-95. https://doi-ds.org/doilink/06.2023-34959984/LITERARY ORACLE/06.2022-56536579/V7.1/MAY2023/A07
  • Ecophobia : The Poetic Vision of W.B.Yeats. RJBU Vol 5. June 2023. ISSN: 2250-1681. Pp.28-31 https://www.buodisha.edu.in/webadmin/public/upload/files/RJBU_2023.pdf
  • Toni Morrison’s Home: An Ecolinguistic Analysis Literary Studies: A Peer Reviewed, Open access Journal of Language, Literature and Culture. [Journal of the Literary Association of Nepal] Vol 36, March 2023. ISSN: 2091-1637  Pp. 13-24. DOI:https://doi.org10.3126/litstud.v36i01.52092
  • “Soft Power, Crisis of Existence and the Tribal People of Kerala: a Study of Mother Forest, the Unfinished Story of C. K. Janu. Literary Studies: A Peer Reviewed, Open access Journal of Language, Literature and Culture.[ Journal of the Literary Association of Nepal] Vol 35,March 2022. ISSN: 2091-1637 Pp109-117.DOI:https://doi.org/10.3126/litstud.v35i01.43680
  • “Counter-narrating: Reconstructing “Sita” in Amish’s Sita: Warrior of Mithila” University of Bucharest Review: Literary and Cultural Studies Series. Volume 11(2) 2021pp. 117-129 ISSN: 2069-8658.  [Scopus Q3]Impact Factor: 0.61DOI: 10.31178/ubr.11.2.9https://www.sciencegate.app/app/document/download/10.31178/ubr.11.2.9https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100228742&tip=sid&clean=0
  • “Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses” with Anita Lundberg and Andre Vasques Vital. eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics.Vol. 20 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis. Pp. 1-31 ISSN:1448-2940 https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021 [Scopus Q1]
  • Das, S., &Routray, D. Climate Change and Ecocide in Sierra Leone: Representations in AminattaForna’sAncestor Stones and The Memory of Love.eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics,20(2), 2021. Pp.221-239.ISSN:1448-2940https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3812 [Scopus Q1]
  • “Dialectics of Trauma in the Short Stories of Alice Munro” Scholars: Journal of Arts and Humanities. eJournal,  Site: www.cdetu.edu.np/ejournal/  Central Department of English, Tribhuban University, Nepal. Vol 3.2, August 2021.  ISSN:2773-7829; E-ISSN:2773-7837        Pp. 87-92. (First Author)DOI:https://doi.org/10.3126/sjah.v3i2.39426
  • “Écriture Feminine and the Poetry of Langston Hughes” Literary Studies: A Peer Reviewed, open access Journal of Language, Literature and Culture.[ Journal of the Literary Association of Nepal] Vol 34 January 2021. ISSN: 2091-1637 Pp 202-212DOI:https://doi.org/10.3126/litstud.v34i01.39540
  • “The Dislocated Self: Trauma in Wendy Pearlman’s We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled” Drishti: The Sight Vol IX, Issue 2 (Nov 2020- April 2021)Pp.84-88 ISSN: : 2319-8281 [UGC Care List. Sl.No.42.]  (Supervisor)
  • “Anima- Animus and Male Bildungsroman: A Study of Hermann Hesse’sSidhartha and Stepenwolf”. Literary Oracle: A peer Reviewed Journal of Literary Insight. Vol III, Issue 1&2, December 2020. Pp 22-32. ISSN: 2348-4772. (First Author)
  •  “Indigenous People of Niyamgiri and Foucault’s Heterotopia” Drishti: The Sight. Vol.9.1. July 2020. Pp.86-91 ISSN: 2319-8281 [UGC Care List. Sl.No.42.]
  • “Trauma and Transgender Space in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” University of Bucharest Review: Literary and Cultural Studies Series. Volume 9.2 2019 pp. 44-53 ISSN: 2069-8658.  [Scopus Q3]doi: 10.31178/UBR.9.2.5
  • “Creation Myth in the Tribal Literature of Odisha” Odisha Review. Nov. 2019. Pp.66-70. ISSN 0970-8669
  • “Toni Morrison: An Obituary…” Writers Editors Critics (WEC)9.2 Sept. 2019. Pp. 12-15. ISSN: 2231-198X
  • “Subalternizing Nature towards Ecological Crisis in the Andamans: Reading PankajSekhsaria’sThe Last Wave: An Island Novel.” International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML)Volume 9. 1 (July 2019) Pp. 13-22. ISSN: 2231-6248
  • “Politics Of Narration:Mythical Discourse In Kire’s Son Of The Thundercloud.” University of Bucharest Review: Literary and Cultural Studies Series. Volume 8.1, 2018. Pp. 16-24. ISSN: 2069-8658.  [Scopus]
  • “Ecopolitics in the Dasavatara in Jayadeva’s ‘Gitagovindam’” Muse India: The Literary e-Journal. Volume 80 (July-August 2018) ISSN: 0975-1815  Ecopolitics%20in%20Gitagovindam.html?arttype=feature&issid=80&menuid=7889
  • “Politics of Nationhood and Linguistic Human Rights.” Periodic Research.  Volume 6 Issue 3, February 2018. Pp. 88-91. ISSN: 2231-0045 E-ISSN: 2349-9435
  • “Political Representation in Ishiguro’s an Artist of the Floating World and the Remains of the Day.” [With DeepshikhaRoutray] Asian Resonance: A Peer-reviewed Multi-Disciplinary International Research Journal. Volume VII, Issue:2, April 2018. Pp.117-121 P ISSN No. 0976- 8602, E ISSN: 2349-9443
  • “Dalit Aesthetics: Situating SharankumarLimbale’s Poetics” Studia Anglia Resoviensia: International English Studies Journal. Volume 14, 2017. Pp. 16-28. ISSN 1641-7666 (print)  ISSN 1898-8709 (on-line) DOI 10.15584/sar
  • “Need of Communicative Language Teaching and its Needs.” [with RutuparnaSahu] IJELLH Volume IV, Issue XI, Nov 2016  – ISSN 2321-7065 pgs.527-536. http://ijellh.com/dm-content/uploads/2016/01/1.-Dr-Shruti-Das-paper-final-.pdfSJIF 2016= 5.7
  • “Human Rights and the Knowing Subaltern: The God of Small Things- A Case Study”. IJELLH Volume IV, Issue I, Jan 2016  – ISSN 2321-7065 pgs.1-10. http://ijellh.com/dm-content/uploads/2016/01/1.-Dr-Shruti-Das-paper-final-.pdfSJIF 2014 = 4.287
  • “Life in Colonial India: Reading through Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Six Acres and a Third (ChhaManaAthaguntha)” Orissa  Review LXXII No.6. Jan 2016. 18-23. ISSN 0970-8669
  • “Concepts of Dialogism: A Study of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha in the Light of Mikhail Bakhtin’s Philosophy.” [With DeepshikhaRoutray] Literary Oracle. Vol 2.1&2, 2015. Pgs. 36-46 ISSN: 2348-4772
  • “ChitraDevekaruni’s Sister of my Heart and the Feminist Project of Sisterhood” IJELLH Volume III, Issue IX, November 2015  – ISSN 2321-7065 pgs.360-367 [With Samita Mishra].http://ijellh.com/chitra-banerjee-divakarunis-sister-heart-and-the-feminist-project-sisterhood/  SJIF 2014 = 4.287
  • Rasa: A Theoretical Overview”. WEC (An International Bi-annual Refereed Journal of English Language and Literature)Vol 5.2 ( Sept 2015). pgs. 40-45. ISSN 2231-198X. Indexed. Print. And  “Rasa: Indian Aesthetic Theory Revisited”Asian Resonance 2017 “Rasa: Indian Aesthetic Theory Revisited” 6.2, April 2017. Pp. 55-58. P ISSN No. 0976- 8602, E ISSN: 2349-9443
  • “Ancient Indian Dramaturgy: A Historical Overview of Bharata’sNatyasastra” Research Scholar : An International Refereed e-journal of Literary Exploration. Vol. 3.3. August 2015. Pgs-133-140. ISSN 2320-6101. Web.
  • “ The Self-effacing Woman: A Study of Kate Keller in Arthur Miller’s All My Son’s” International Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities.Volume III, Issue VI, August 2015 – ISSN 2321-7065 pgs.63-70 [With Samita Mishra]. http://ijellh.com/the-self-effacing-woman-study-kate-keller-arthur-millers-all-sons/SJIF 2014 = 4.287
  • “Lifestyle Migration and a Burst Utopia in JhumpaLahiri’sThe Lowland”. European Academic Research, Vol.Iii, Issue 4/ July 2015.  ISSN 2286-4822, ISSN-L 2286-4822
  • IMPACT FACTOR: 3.4546 (UIF) , DRJI VALUE: 5.9 (B+). pgs. 39896-40000
  • “ Language as a Badge of Nationalism” ICFAI Journal of English Studies. March 2015. Print. ISSN:0973-3728
  • “Draupadi – A Changing Cultural Image” Labyrinth : An International Journal of Postmodern Studies. Jan 2015. ISSN : 0976-0814.& in Orissa  Review  LXXI No. 9. April 2015. 66-72. ISSN 0970-8669
  •  “Mo Kahani – The Memoir of KunjaBihari Dash: A Portrait Gallery of Premodern Rural Odisha” Orissa  Review LXXI No. 5. Dec 2014. 10-16. ISSN 0970-8669
  • “Ireland and W.B. Yeats an Ecofemenistic Connection” Research Journal of English Language and Literature. Vol. 2.4 , 2014. 117-123.ISSN:2395-2636(P):2321 – 3108(E)  Impact Factor: 1.107 (2014)
  • “Indian Philosophical Thoughts and the Shaping of W. B. Yeats” Research Scholar : An International Refereed e-journal of Literary Exploration. Vol. 2.3. August 2014. Pgs-333-338. ISSN 2320-6101. Web.  www.researchscholar.co.inhttp://www.researchscholar.co.in/downloads/49-dr.-shruti-das.pdf (with Tanuja K Nayak). Impact Factor: 0.998 (IIFS)
  • “Self as Extended Metaphor: The God of Small Things”. GJELL. Vol 2.2, April 2014.Pp.14-23. ISSN 2320-4397 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/globaljournalofell/
  • “Problematics of Bonding in Toni Morrison’s Paradise”. Research Journal of English Language and Literature. Vol. 2.2 , 2014. ISSN:2395-2636(P):2321 – 3108(E)  Impact Factor: 1.107 (2014)  Pp167-174
  • “Acqusition for Effective Speaking Skill for the Second Language Learners of English: Issues and Challenges”. With Bishnu P. Mohapatra. The Criterion: An International Journal in English. Vol 5. 3 , June 2014. Pp.80-85. ISSN :0976-8165. Indexed.
  • “ Politics of Feminist Narrative in NandikaKesari”. Re-Markings. Vol 13.2 March 2014. Print. ISSN 0972-611X & in Muse India  Issue 46 : Nov-Dec 2012. ISSN 0975-1815. Web.
  • “Toni Morrison’s Paradise and the question of Feminine Cohesion.” Reflections: A Journal of English Studies.Vol 8.1 March 2014. Print.
  • “ Dialectics of Perception: Europe as a Sub-text in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things” . ICFAI Journal of English Studies. 8.4 December, 2013. Print. ISSN:0973-3728 . Scopus Indexed
  • “Against Odds: Identity and Survival – South Asian Literature in English.” European Academic Research, Vol. I, Issue 7/ October 2013  ISSN 2286-4822, ISSN-L 2286-4822 Impact Factor: 3.4546 (UIF) , DRJI VALUE: 5.9 (B+). pgs. 1570 – 1585.  www.euacademic.org
  •  “Multi-Faith Curriculum for Secular Education: Restructuring the National Curriculum Framework 2005.” Asian Resonance: A Peer-reviewed Multi-Disciplinary International Research Journal. Volume II, Issue 3, July 2013. Pgs 160-165. ISSN No. 0976- 8602. Print. Impact Factor- 3.676
  • ‘Subversive Politics of Racism in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.’  Research Scholar : An International Refereed e-journal of Literary Exploration. Vol. 1.3. August 2013. ISSN 2320-6101. Impact Factor: 0.998 (IIFS)   Web.  www.researchscholar.co.in
  • ‘Critique of Anglophilic Nostalgia in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.’      Contemporary Discourse. Vol 4.2, July 2013. ISSN 0976-3686.
  • ‘Sweeping away footprints: Untouchables then and now’- Looking ThroughArundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.’ Global Journal of English Language and Literature. April 2013. Volume 1. Issue 2. Pp. 108-117. ISSN 2320-4397 Website: https://sites.google.com/site/globaljournalofell/
  • Toni Morrison Challenges Marginality. Labyrinth : An International Journal of Postmodern Studies. April 2013. . ISSN :0976-0814. Print.
  • Past Significance and Present Meaning in Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Rebati.  Orissa       Review. Vol. LXIX no.6. Jan 2013. ISSN 0970-8669
  • “ A secondary World for Children in PanditNilakanthaDas’sKonarke”. Creative Writingand Criticism. 9.2, April 2012.pp. 112-118. ISSN 0975-2390
  • “  Claiming Identity: The Female Voice in the Poetry of NandiniSahu”. IJLL, July- Dec 2012. ISSN 2278-9170
  •  “Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula’ “. Ravenshaw Journal of English Studies.  Vol8.2, 1998. Print.

Book Chapters

  • “Feminism as Pop Fantasy”Feminism and Recent Fiction in English. Sushila Singh. Prestige Publications, New Delhi, 1990. ISBN: 81-85218-22-6
  • “Productive Imagination in Toni Morrison’s Paradise”.Twentieth Century Women Writers. Ed. Monica Gupta. Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, 2000. ISBN: 978-81-7156-959-5
  • “A Critique of Toni Morrison’s Feminism”. Feminist English Literature. Ed. M.K. Bhatnagar. Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, 2003. ISBN978-81-7156-824-6
  • Un Programme ScolaireMultireligieux Pour UneSeculariste: La Restructuration Du National Curriculum Framework Indien En 2005” in Education Et Secularisme : Perspectives Africaines et AsiatiquesEdited . Evelyn Harquart-Turner and LudmilaVolna. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2013. P. 49-68. ISBN 978-2-343-01916-1
  • “ Draupati Respond Au Mahabharata DansYajnaseni De Pratibha Ray” in A Rebours: UneAutreMondialisation, Luttes et Identities Edited KarimaZerouali. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2014. pgs 221-224. ISBN 978-2-343-03908-4
  • ‘” Let the Centre Look for Me” : Toni Morrison Negotiates the Margins’. Negotiating Margins: African American and Dalit Writings. A. Karunakar. Prestige Books International, New Delhi and Sydney, 2014. ISBN- 978-9382-186458
  • “Intertexual Study of Limbale’s Aesthetics” Subaltern Speaks: Selected Essays on SharankumarLimale JayadeepSarangi. Cyberwit.net Publications : Allahabad, 2015. ISBN:978-81-8253-572-5
  • “Narrative Humour in Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Six Acres and a Third” Negotiating the Nation: Colonial Post-Colonial and Transnational Fictions. MadhusmitaPati, SambitPanigrahi and Subhra Prakash Das. AbhishekPrakashan: Delhi, 2015.61-67. ISBN: 978-81-8390-146-8
  • “Diversity, Language, Currents and Counter Currents in Myanmar” Literatures of South Asia.Eds. HumaJavedSubzposhet al.ABS Books: Delhi, 2016. 116-127. ISBN: 978-81-932415-09
  • “From Eco-sensibility to Ecofeminism.” Rethinking Environment: Literature, Ethics, Praxis Shruti Das. AuthorsPress: New Delhi, 2017 Pgs.49-59 ISBN: 978-93-5207-466-2
  • “The God of Small Things: An Allegory of Trauma”.Neocolonial Literature: A Collection of Critical Essays. Eds. Silima Nanda, AratiBiswal and SmitaSinhaAuthorsPress,, New Delhi, 2017 100-109 ISBN: 978-93-5207-495-2
  • “Ruptured History and the Politics of Language in Myanmar”. Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema. Cornelius Crowley, GeethaGanpathi-Dore and Michel Naumann Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne,UK, 2017 Pp.169-182. ISBN: 978-1-4438-9887-4
  • “Foreword” in The Crisis of Imagination Peter Lang Publication, 2018.
  • “Animals, Environmental Justice and Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello” with Tanuja K. Nayak. Re-Imagining the Limits of the Humans. Peter Lang Publications, 2019. Pp. 41-54 ISBN: 978-3-631-78054-1
  • Language Ecology in the Mythic Narrative of Eaterine Kire’s Son of the ThundercloudGlobal Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique. Lexington Books, USA, 2019. 137-142. ISBN: 978-1-4985-9822-4
  • “Climate Change, Storytelling and Sustainability: Reading Green Grass, Running Water(1993) and Son of the Thundercloud (2016)” Environment and Culture in the Anthropocene. Shruti Das. AuthorsPress, Delhi, 2020. ISBN: 978-93-89615-46-3 Pp. 70-77
  • “Precarity of Existence: Indigenous People in the Andaman Islands, A Reading of PankajSekhsaria’sThe Last Wave A.Karunakar, B.Vijaya and Nageshwar Rao Konda. Prestige Books International, 2020. ISBN: 978-81-943009-5-3 Pp. 25-37
  • “Politics of Colour: White Opacity and Toni Morrison” American Literary Studies in Postmillenial India: Critical Perspectives. Eds. Sharada Chigurupati and Nageswara Rao Konda. Lexington Books, USA, 2023. 125-138. ISBN: 978-1-66690-625-7
  • “Dialectics of Nature and Culture”. Interrogating Eco-Literature and Sustainable Development: Theory, Text and Practice. Eds. Sharbani Banerjee Mukherjee and Soumitra Roy. Routledge, 2023. ISBN: 978-1-03220-665-3.
  • “Green Criminology and the Himalayas: Revisiting the Ecodisaster in Kedarnath Valley” Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives. Eds. Scott Slovic, Joyjit Ghose and S. Maiti. Lexington Books, USA, 2023. Pp. 37-48. ISBN: 978-1-66693-641-4
  • “Dialectics of Perception: Europe, a Subtext in Arundhati Roy’s The God of small Things.” Proceedings of International Symposium on Imaginary Europes. University of Portsmouth, UK. 13th September,2012.
  • ‘“Let the Center look for me”: Toni Morrison Negotiates Margins’. Proceedings of International Seminar on Negotiating Margins: African American and Dalit Writings. 17-19 Dec. 2012. Osmania University Center for International Programmes, Hyderabad.
  • “ Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things – An Autobiograhical Fiction” Conference Proceedings of National Conference On Writing the Self: Autobiography as a Cultural and Historical Discourse. 17-18 Jan. 2014. Department of English Ravenshaw University, Odisha.
  • “Narrating Nation: Ecofeminist Evaluation of Yeats” Conference Proceedings of International Conference on Performing the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature. 8-9 Feb, 2019. Post Graduate Department of English, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha. Pp. 235-248.

Poetry: In International Journals, Anthologies from India and USA

  • Ph.D : Awarded -07; Pursuing – 7
  • M.Phil: Awarded -18
  • M.A. Dissertation: Awarded – 82

  • Translating Sanskruta o Sanskruti from Odia to English
  • Bikram Das: A Memoir- Work undertaken for Sahitya Akademi

  • Pre-Doc. course: Research Methodology; Trends in the development of Literary and Critical theory; Critical theory and Indian Aesthetics.
  • Post Graduate Classes: • Shakespearean Drama; • New literatures in English; • British and African-American Fiction; • Modern Poetry (Yeats, T.S. Eliot); • Linguistics and English Language Teaching;
    • Environmental Humanities

  • National Conferences- 40
  • International conferences-35
  • Conferences outside India- 20
  • Invited talks delivered- 70
  • Workshops attended- 10

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Tropical Imaginary and Climate Crisis. eTropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics. September 2021. James Cook University, Australia.Vol 20.2, 2021.
  • Associate Editor, Scholars:Journal of Arts & Humanities (SJAH). Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
  • Associate Editor, Translation and Languages (Algerian Scientific Journal platform) 2020-
  • Member, National Advisory Committee of Online International Conference on Geopolitics in Post-Covid Era: Emerging Dimensions and Dynamics, 11-12 September, 2020. Organized by UGC-HRDC Osmania University in collaboration with HISS, Hyderabad, Telengana State, India.
  • Awarded the prestigious ASLE, USA, Travel Award 2019 for a project on “Heterotopia of Crisis: Niyamgiri and the DongriaKondhs”
  • Awarded the EFSLE Travel Grant 2019 to travel to University of California to present Paper
  • Wrote the “Foreword” in The Crisis of Imagination Peter Lang Publication 2018.
  • Placed in the ‘Directory of Scholars’, The American Literature Association Princeton University, USA.
  • Placed in the Select Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature among Distinguished Commonwealth Writers 2012-2014. For first volume of Poetry :A Daughter Speaks. Published by AuthorsPress, 2014. List prepared by Sage Publications, UK, 2014.
  • Member Scientific Committee in the 3rd SidiBel Abbes Inter/national Conference on EFL / TEFL and Intercultural Understanding19-20November 2014, UDL OF SIDI BEL ABBÉS, ALGERIA Faculty of Letters, Languages and Arts, Department of Foreign Languages. Section of English
  • Member Board of Directors ( DHE Nominee), Barabati Institute of Management for BCA & MBA 2013-
  • Member Advisory Board. Journal of Higher Education and Research Society. A Refereed International. ISSN 2321-9432. http://herso.org/editorial-committee/
  • Member International Advisory Board, European Academic Research : International Multidisciplinary Research Journal. ISSN L 2286-4822. Online, Peer-reviewed, Refereed. Published from Romania, Europe. Web. http://www.euacademic.org/boardEditors.aspx
  • Member Board of Editors, RJELAL a Refereed Journal of English Language and Literature. ISSN:2321 – 3108
  • Member Executive Committee Alumni Association, P.G. Department of English, Ravenshaw University.
  • Felicitated by BRM League of Institutions, Orissa as Distinguished Author. 2nd April, 2010 at BRM Authors Meet, Bhubaneswar.

  • Member IQAC Team for Criterion VII of the AQAR 2020-22
  • Organized the Distinguished Lecture Series in Literature and Culture for the Department of English [ 15 Lectures between August 2020 and May 2023: 8 National and 7 International]
  • Organized 05 International and 04 National Conferences and 03 Poetry Festivals as Convenorbetween 2016-2023.
  • Organized a two Day OHEPEE Sponsored National Webinar on “Woman: Representations in Literature and Culture” during 8-9 March 2021.
  • Designed and Drafted the M.A and M.Phil/Pre-PhD Syllabi [CBCS Pattern] for Berhampur University, 2020, 2022, 2023
  • Edited the proceedings of the International Conference on “Environment and Culture in the Anthropocene” 2020.
  • Edited the proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Narrating the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature’, 8.2.2019.
  • As Head, lead the Department during the NAAC Visit in April 2016 and made a presentation before the NAAC Team.
  • As Member Board of Studies, restructured the MA (English) Part I and Part II SyllabiIntroduced and Designed Linguistics and ELT in Semesters I, II and III. 2013-15 & 2014-2016, 2020, 2022, 2023
  • Designed and Implemented the teaching of Linguistics as the second Special (Optional) Paper for MA in BU and taught it.2014-
  • Restructured the English Honours Syllabus of Berhampur University introducing History of English Language at the Hons. level. 2013-2015
  • Helped design the syllabus for Add-on course on Communicative English for Berhampur University.2013-14
  • Conducted a National Seminar on American Puritanism 21 July, 2015, as Director.
  • Established the Nature Reading Club in the department of English, BU. As Head of the Department in 2015.
  • As Head, lead the Department during the NAAC Visit in April 2016
  • As Director, organized a three-day International Conference on ‘Re-Thinking Environment: Literature, Ethics and Praxis’ during 28-30 Dec. 2016.
  • Edited the proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Re-Thinking Environment: Literature, Ethics and Praxis’, 30.12.2016.
  • Designed 5 Papers for MA English Syllabus of Berhampur University in the CBCS Pattern.: Linguistics, ELT , Modern Poetry, Commonwealth Literature and Professional Writing 2015-16
  • Designed the M.Phil/Pre-Ph.D syllabus of Berhampur University, 2017
  • External Adjudicator for PhD & M Phil Thesis- EFL University; Osmania University; Pondicherry University;Solapur University, Maharashtra; Acharya Nagarjuna University, AP; Andhra University, Amaravati University, M.P. among others.
  • Question Setter for PG, Central University Jammu; for Ph D Course Work IIS University, Rajasthan and IGNTU, Amarkantak, Osmania University among others.

  • Member of ASLE, USA
  • Life Member EFSLE, India
  • Member Global Footseps, UK
  • Member Melow, India
  • Member American Language Association (ALA)
  • Life Member of Asia-Pacific Writers Association, Australia.
  • Life Member of SARI, Paris, France.
  • Member of Tree Sisters, a group dedicated to philosophizing and communicating with Nature.
  • Life member of IACLALS
  • Life member of IAAS.
  • Life member of OUCIS (Formerly ASRC, Hyderabad).
  • Member, ELTAI
  • Life member Utkal Sahitya Samaj.
  • Life member Pandit Nilakantha Smruti Samiti.
  • Secretary BUTA (2021);
  • Vice President BUTA (2020)
  • Co-Convenor Joint Action Committee of Odisha Universities, 2020
  • Joint Secretary EFSLE-LEGH, Odisha Chapter, 2023