Speakers

Somdatta Mandal is Retired Professor of English and ex-Chairperson, Department of English, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India. Graduating from the University of Calcutta she received her M.Phil and Ph.D degrees from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. A recipient of several prestigious fellowships like the Fulbright Research and Teaching Fellowships, British Council Charles Wallace Trust Fellowship, Rockefeller Residency at Bellagio, Italy, Salzburg Seminar and Shastri Indo-Canadian Faculty Enrichment Fellowship, she has been published widely both nationally and internationally.

S P Dhanavel currently works at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Dhanavel is primarily interested in Girish Karnad (Indian Drama), A R Ammons (American Poetry), English Language Teaching in India, Communication and Soft Skills.

Interested in developing innovative techniques for teaching English language and literature

Dr. Kesava Rao D S, is a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Humanities & Social Science

National Institute of Technology, Warangal

His major Interests are English Language Teaching; modern British fiction;feminism; Indian mythology and cultural texts; American literature.

Specialization includes Modern British fiction; commonwealth literature; ELT; feminism.

Works with a Philosophy of commitment and a smile , aim for job satisfaction.

Always Keep up with latest trends in teaching methodologies and materials.

Prof. Rao, received formal training in science (M.Sc.), and Linguistics (Ph.D.). A practising Linguist specialised in Historical Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, and Language Planning.

M.A. Applied Linguistics (SUNY, New York), Ph.D. (Osmania)

Specialization: Computational Linguistics & Machine Translation, Historical Linguistics and Remote Genetic Relations in Mongolian, Turkic and Dravidian families, Derivational Morphology, Nonlinear Phonology.

Dr. Dinesh Kumar has a Doctoral degree in African American Literature, from the University of Mumbai. His areas of Specialization are Literary Theory and African American Literature. His research interests and research supervision include Critical Race Theory, Mexican Fiction, Mash-up Fiction, Chinese-American Fiction, Trauma Studies, Masculinity Studies, Culinary Cultural Politics, Cultural Citizenship, Indo-Caribbean Writers, Migration Studies, Memory Studies, Media Memory, Pakistani Women Writers, Eco-criticism, Ecofeminism, Spatial Criticism, Geo-poetics, Textual Democracy, Chaos Theory, Neo Diasporas, Cyber Criticism and Cultural Diplomacy. He has been teaching at the Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels for 28 years and has guided 23 students for their M.Phil. Degrees. 6 scholars are working with him for their Doctoral Degrees and 5 have been awarded Ph.D.

Experienced Corporate Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the automotive and IT industries. Skilled in Executive Development, Management, Employee Training, Management Information Systems (MIS), and Leadership. Strong administrative professional graduated from Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages.