PhD Supervision
Rajalekshmi K. "The Home We May Not Have: Place in the Poetry of J.H. Prynne." Submitted December 2021; defended April 2022.
Deepsikha Changmai. “The ‘Indianness’ of the Indian Graphic Novel: Traditions, Texts, Contexts.” Submitted January 2020; defended 30 June 2020.
V. Neethi Alexander. “Gothic Technologies in Postmodern Fiction: Reading J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Mark Z. Danielewski.” Submitted November 2019; defended February 2020.
Undergraduate Teaching
“Introduction to Western Art: From Cave Art to the Renaissance.” (1 credit and 3 credit versions)
“AI in Literature and Popular Culture” for the AI Minor offered by LA (1 credit)
“Literature and Science: From the 18th Century to the Present.” (1 credit and 3 credit versions)
“Modernism” (1 credit)
Preparatory Course, English Segment. 2015-present. Co-taught with Drs Srirupa Chatterjee, Prakash Mondal and Shuhita Bhattacharjee.
“Communication Skills.” Course for first-year students. Co-taught with Drs Srirupa Chatterjee, Prakash Mondal and Shuhita Bhattacharjee. 2 credits.
Graduate Teaching
“Modernism.” Poets include Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Mina Loy; novelists include Joyce, Woolf, Barnes. 3 credits.
“Continental Aesthetics.” Kant to contemporary philosophers. 3 credits.
“Lyric Theory.” Both modern and classical concepts of lyric poetry in the West, with readings from the English lyric from the 16th century to the present. 3 credits.
“The English Colloquium.” Weekly research seminar in English literature and related areas. 3 credits.
“Design Research Methods.” Course for Graduate Students in the Department of Design. 3 credits.
“Communication Skills: Advanced.” Course for first-year students in Master’s programmes. Co-taught with Drs Srirupa Chatterjee, Prakash Mondal and Shuhita Bhattacharjee. 1 credit.
Teaching: 2002-2011
Lecturer at Ithaca College, Fall 2011. “Introduction to American Literature.” Survey of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature.
Instructor for the First-Year Writing Seminar “Englishmen Abroad” at Cornell. Fall and Spring 2010.
Teaching Assistant for “The Modern Tradition” offered by Professor Daniel R Schwarz at Cornell University. Winter 2010 and Spring 2008
Instructor for the First-Year Writing Seminar “Memoir and Memory” at Cornell. Fall 2009.
Designed and ran a section of the First-Year Writing Seminar “Portraits of the Self” at Cornell in Fall 2008, Spring 2007, and Fall 2006.
Writing Intern for “The Personal Essay” at Cornell in Summer 2006. Ran writing workshops and graded papers; delivered one lecture on the visual representation of the mother and child from antiquity to the present.
Coached undergraduates for the GRE Verbal Test. January-April 2005.
Taught Academic and Communicative English for the English proficiency courses run by the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (now EFL University), India. Fall 2002 and Spring 2003.
Teaching Assistant for the Masters course “Modernist Poetry” at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages. Fall 2002.