Lalitha Sarma R - Research

Research Experience

Currently pursuing research in collaboration with Prof. K. Ramasubramanian at CISTS, IIT Bombay on various Indic thematic concerns in areas including but not limited to ethnomathematics, research methodology, pedagogy and education philosophy and public policy.
Doctoral thesis entitled “The ‘I’ of Woman Through the Eye of Shakespearean Drama” studying the identity of woman using Shakespearean heroines as an alibi using a triangulation of the notion of subjection as subjectification, agency and androgyny as methodology. Supervisor: Prof. Rajeshwari C. Patel
MPhil project entitled “The Feminine Mystique: A Study of the Feminine Consciousness in the Select Novels of Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing and Anita Desai” on the women protagonists of Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Orlando, Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and The Grass is Singing and Desai’s Cry, the Peacock and Where Shall We Go This Summer? Supervisor: Prof. Rajeshwari C. Patel
MA dissertation entitled “Woman in Fiction: A Critical Study of Three Female Protagonists” on the woman protagonists of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles and George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Supervisor: Prof. Rajeshwari C. Patel

Publications

Undercurrents of Androgyny in Woolf’s Orlando and Mrs Dalloway. Virtuoso, Volume 4, Issue 2, February 2015; p. no. 61-68. (ISSN no: 2249-6076).

[Coauthor: Prof. Rajeshwari C. Patel]

Intimations of the Postmodern in Woolf’s Orlando. Research Chronicler. Volume III, Issue IX, December 2015; p. no. 181-6. (ISSN no. 2347-5021).

[Coauthor: Prof. Rajeshwari C. Patel]

Ambiguity and Ambivalence as Structural Principles. Journal of Dharma (Special Edition on Gender and Literature). Volume 41; January – March 2016; p. no. 49-64. (ISSN: 0253-7222).

[Coauthor: Prof. Rajeshwari C. Patel]

[SCOPUS indexed: https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85011115150&origin=resultslist]

Book Chapter

The Choice to Choose: Female Agency in Troilus and Cressida. Shakespeare Jahrbuch Band 159/2023; p. no. 51-67 (ISSN: 1430-2527; ISBN: 978-3-520-95004-8).

[Shakespeare Jahrbuch is listed in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH Plus).]

Reshaping Education: The Path to a Culture of Excellence. Excellence in Education Quality. Central Sanskrit University. 2024; p. no. 1-10. (ISBN: 978-93-85791-72-7).

[Coauthor: Prof. K. Ramasubramanian]

Book Review

Reviewing Sohini Sen’s “A Drop of Golden Sun: Re-presenting Tagore’s Gitanjali”. Litinfinite Journal Volume V, Issue II on ‘Literature and Cultural Studies.’ 2023. p. no. 59-62. (ISSN: 2582-0400, online CODEN: LITIBR).

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Presentations at Conferences and Seminars

Presented a paper entitled “After Amnesia: The Problematics of Resurgence in Revisionist Retellings of Mythology” in the Lit-treat Edition–III, on the theme “Mythological Narratives in Indian English Literature” organized by the Dept of Languages and Literature - English, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Anantapur Campus, India on 20 th April 2023.
Attended a 3-day workshop entitled “The Uses of Indian Aesthetics: Conversations and Contestations with Western Theory” curated by the Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, IIT Madras from 17 th to 19 th December 2022.
Presented a paper entitled “Tagore: Translation vis-à-vis Transcreation in the two-day International Virtual Conference on “Commonwealth Literature – Comprehensive and Critical Perspectives” organized by the Dept of English, Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India in association with Cape Comorin Trust, India on 18th and 19th March 2022.
Presented a paper entitled “The Triguna Theory and Man Management” in the two-day National Seminar on “Relevance of Triguna Theory in Contemporary World” organized by Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla, India on 3rd and 4th October 2018.
Presented a paper entitled “Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Lessing’s The Golden Notebook” in the International Conference, “Protean Frames: International Conference on Contemporary Discourses on Gender” organised by the Dept. of English, Christ University, Bengaluru, India on 12th and 13th January 2016.
Presented a paper entitled “Intimations of the Postmodern in Woolf’s Orlando” in the International Conference on “Postmodern Trends in Language and Literature” organised by Prof. Rambhau Badode Felicitation Committee, Mumbai at the University of Mumbai, India on 26th December 2015.
Presented a paper entitled “Hardy’s Tess: A Poesy of Cultural Subjectivism” in a two-day National Seminar on “Role of Literature: Changing Attitudes towards Gender” organised by Acharya Institute of Management Studies, Peenya, Bangalore, India on 23rd and 24th August 2013.
Presented a paper entitled “Narrating Female Bildung” in a two-day National Seminar on “The Resilient Indian Women: Pre and Post Empowerment” organised be the Centre for Women’s Studies, Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India on 15th and 16th September 2013.
Presented a paper entitled “The Empowered Woman in Literature” in a two-day seminar “Women Empowerment – Retrospect and Prospect” organised by the Centre for Women’s Studies, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, India on 27th and 28th September 2012.
Presented a paper entitled “Vedānta: A Holistic Perspective” in the National Workshop “Indian Philosophy and its Social Concerns” organised by the Department of Philosophy, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, India in December 2008 under the auspices of Indian Council of Philosophical Research and the host university.