Dr Gargi Bendre

• Successfully submitted Ph.D thesis titled ‘The Fictional Ontology of Vampires and Zombies in a Disenchanted World: A study of select texts by Stephanie Meyer, Charlaine Harris and Max Brooks’ at English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

• Successfully submitted M.Phil Thesis titled ‘The Paradox of the Criminal Detective: Sociology of Sensation in Jeff Lindsay’s novels’ at English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

• Presented paper titled “Us vs Them : Counter religions and Multiculturalism in America at National Seminar on Multiculturalism” at International seminar organised by Osmania University Centre for International Programmes (OUCIP) from 6th-7th September 2013

• Presented paper titled “A World of their Own: Study of Multiculturalism and Counter Religions in America” at International Conference on Exploration of Multiculturalism in Literature and Fine Arts at Dhanaji Nana Mahavidyalaya, Faizpur from 10th-11th September 2015.

• Presented paper titled ‘An Unlikely Bond: The Writer and the Reader in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series at International Seminar on New Trends in World Literature on 25th March 2017

• Presented paper titled Dead Men Walking : Re:Enchantment and Creation of Possible Worlds through Vampires and Zombies at GFF 2017 : Realities and World Building held at University of Vienna from 20th-23rd September 2017.

• Presented paper titled Exorcising the monster within: A Study of Social Horror in Indian Cinema at Fear 2000 Horror Unbound, an online conference organised by Sheffield Hallam University held on 10-12 September 2021.

• Presented paper titled entitled “A Monster of One’s Own: Feminist Perspective of the Possessed Woman” at the at the Interim Conference of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA), held online on 27th-28th January 2022.
  
  
  

Ms. Gandhali Sawant

• Presented a paper in-absentia titled ‘There’s no secret ingredient. It’s just you”: A Study of Carl Jung’s Individuation Process in Selected Disney Animated Movies’ at a two-day national conference at Parvatibai Chowgule College, Goa on 2nd and 3rd April 2018.

• Presented a paper titled ‘Under House Arrest: Revisiting Women’s Confinement during the Pandemic’ on 20th June 2020 in the three-day interdisciplinary national web conference organised by G.K.S. College and Harshwardhan Foundation

• Presented a paper titled ‘Moving On: A Study of Existential Trauma in Cecelia Ahern’s P.S. I Love You’ at an international conference organised by Shri Vishwakarma Skill University and the Shakespeare Association from 28th-30th June 2020

• Presented a paper titled ‘Masking the Veil: Rereading the language of a pandemic in India’ in a virtual international conference on ‘English Literature and Language: Fruitions through Pandemics’ organised by the Division of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology from 09th-10th July 2020. This paper received the best paper award.

• Presented a paper titled ‘#Awareness: Examining the Language of Media in Creating Consciousness’ at an international conference organized by UNICEF India and Amity University, Patna from 24th-25th July 2020

• Presented a paper titled ‘Performing Stereotypes: Cross-dressing in Popular Indian Television’ at the virtual international conference English Literature Summit 2020 held on Dec 12-13 2020.

• Presented a paper titled ‘Nay, I’ll never believe a madman till I see his brains: Locating madness in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night from a Foucauldian perspective’ at an international Seminar on Shakespeare and the Subconscious organized by the Shakespeare Society of India and Delhi University on 21st-23rd April 2022.

• Publication of poems in various international and national level anthologies, magazines and journals.

Ms. Ruchika Mohite

• Successfully submitted her dissertation titled ‘Grounds of Bhakti Poetry in Maharashtrian Soil: Reading Selected Singers of Devotion to God from Marathi’ as part of MA Honours with Research Programme, University of Mumbai on 11th October 2021 .

Publications

Ms. Gayatri Gadgil

• Co-authored a textbook on ‘Communication Skills in English’ for the students of FYBA, University of Mumbai published by Orient Longman

• Co-authored a book titled ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Education: Lessons for Maharashtra from Israel’s Education System’ published by Observer Research Foundation

• Translated a book ‘Sai Seva’ from Marathi into English.

• Edited two books titled ‘Sai Ways’ and ‘BARC Days’.

• Wrote a series of four articles in Marathi for the leading Marathi newspaper Lokasatta on ‘How to Improve Fluency in English’.