Professional Activities

WORKSHOPS/ GIAN COURSE(S)/ FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES(S) ORGANISED 

• A GIAN course on “Migration and Citizenship: Comparative Perspectives on African American and Asian American Literatures” was hosted in online mode by Dr Prabha Shankar Dwivedi on 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, and 23 March 2022 at the Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati. Prof. Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Emeritus Professor of English and African Studies at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, was the teaching faculty for the course.

• A ‘Five-Day Workshop on Capacity Building Through Academic and Research Writing”, organised as Coordinator funded by ATAL Academy, AICTE, New Delhi, at IIT Tirupati, September 10-14, 2021.

• A ‘Three-Day Academic Writing Workshop” organised as Co-convenor in collaboration with the Indian Council for Social Science Research- Southern Regional Centre (ICSSR-SRC), Hyderabad, at IIT Tirupati, February 07-09, 2020.

• A ‘Three-Day Academic Writing Workshop” organised as Co-convenor in collaboration with the Office of the US Consulate General, Hyderabad, at IIT Tirupati, December 10-12, 2019.

EDITORIAL/REVIEW SERVICES

• • Edited a special volume on Literary Theory via/in Translation, International Journal of Translation, Bahri Publishers, New Delhi, September 2017.

  • Reviewer, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Purdue
    University Press, 2020.

  • Reviewer, Open Cultural Studies, a Journal published by De Gruyter Open Access, 2020.

  • Reviewer, Book Proposal, Routledge, India, 2021.

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

• • Member, Board of Studies, VIT, Vellore

  • Adjudicator for the theses of IIT Roorkee

  • Adjudicator for the theses of the University of Patna

  • Adjudicator for the theses of EFLU, Hyderabad

  • Adjudicator for the theses of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

  • Adjudicator for the theses of JNTU, Ananthapur

  • Member, Doctoral Committees for five PhD scholars, IIT Dharwad

  • Member, Doctoral Committee for a PhD scholar, VIT, Vellore

  • Member, Doctoral Committee for a PhD scholar, SRM University, Chennai

  • Member, Doctoral Committee for a PhD scholar, MIT-World Peace University

  • Expert for the Curriculum Development Workshop for PG and PhD by JPN Centre of Excellence in Humanities, IIT Indore, Madhya Pradesh, 3-4 November 2023

INVITED TALKS

1. “Nature Personified: Sītā in the Rāmāyaṇa and the Uttarrāmacarita ”, in a Refresher Course on Bhasha Literature in English Translation, UGC Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, University of Lucknow (July 18-31, 2025), on July 28, 2025.

2. “Modernist Approach of Classical Postulations: A Comparative Perspective”, in a Refresher Course on Comparative Literature and Translational Studies, UGC Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, University of Hyderabad (December 16-30, 2024), on December 28, 2024.

3. “Reading Sītā as Araṇyani in Rāmāyaṇa and Uttarrāmacarita”, in a Refresher Course on in Comparative Literature and Translational Studies, UGC Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, University of Hyderabad (December 16-30, 2024), on December 30, 2024.

4. “Mahimabhaṭṭa’s Anumāna as a comprehensive theory of Poetry” at a three-day workshop on Aesthetics through an IKS Framework, organised by the Centre for Indian Knowledge System, IIT Madras, November 30, 2024. 

5. “Dhanañjaya’s Daśarūpakam and Furtherance of Indian Theory of Drama” at a three-day workshop on Aesthetics through an IKS Framework, organised by the Centre for Indian Knowledge System, IIT Madras, November 29, 2024. 

6. “Reading Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-Care in Śivamahāpurāṇa” in SPARC sponsored workshop on ‘Precarity and Human Life’, IIT Patna, November 11, 2024.

7. “Comparative Literature: Perspectives, Practices, Positions” Panel discussion at the 10th Annual Conference of Researchers at Work (Raw Con -2024), organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad, March 9, 2024.

8. “Emotional Intelligence and Leadership”, in an ‘FDP on Developing Leadership and Team Management Skills” at IIT Tirupati on December 15, 2022.

9. “Indian Tradition of Theatre and Performance”, in a Refresher Course on Indian Heritage and Culture, HRDC, SV University, Tirupati on December 24, 2021.

10.  “Indian Grammatical Tradition and the Evolution of Science of Language”, in a Refresher Course on Indian Heritage and Culture, HRDC, SV University, Tirupati on December 28, 2021.

11. “Modes and Means of Academic Writing”, in an FDP on Guidance, Counselling, and Mentoring, at Dr. H. S. Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, on September 23, 2021.

12. “Writing Academically: Modes and Means”, in an FDP on Capacity Building Through Academic and Research Writing, at IIT Tirupati on September 10, 2021.

13. “Writing as a Process”, in a National Workshop on ‘Intellectual Property Rights and Research Skills’ at Govt. Maharaja PG College, Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, on March 3, 2021.

14. “Emotional Intelligence”, in an FDP on Capacity Building at JNTUA, Anantapur on February 1, 2021.

15. “Social Skills”, in an FDP on Capacity Building at JNTUA, Anantapur on February 4, 2021.

16. “Understanding the Academic Writing”, in an FDP on ‘Student induction Programme’, JNTUACEA, & DFD & IQAC, JNTU, Anantapur on December 18, 2020.

17. “Evaluation and Testing”, in an FDP on Student induction Programme, JNTUACEA, & DFD & IQAC, JNTU Anantapur on December 17, 2020.

18. “Assessment, Evaluation, and Testing”, in a TEQIP course on 'Advance Digital Pedagogy and ICT Tools: Challenges and Opportunities in Online Teaching' at IIT Roorkee on November 19, 2020.

19. “Interpersonal Skills”, in a National Workshop on Teamwork Skills for Career Development of the Professional students at JNTU, Anantapur and Bikaner Technical University on October 31, 2020.

20. “Evaluation and Testing”, in an FDP on Capacity Building for Teaching Effectiveness at Dr. H. S. Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh on October 9, 2020.

21. “Understanding Academic Writing: Enabling the Enablers”, in an FDP on Capacity Building for Teaching Effectiveness at Dr. H. S. Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh on October 9, 2020.

22. “Understanding Indian Aesthetics from Philosophico-Linguistic Perspective”, in a Refresher Course on Literature, Culture and Media: Innovative Trends in Knowledge Creation, UGC-Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC) at Dr. H. S. Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh on October 1, 2020.

23. “Comparative Poetics: A Study with Special Reference to Indian Tradition of Knowledge”, in a Refresher Course on Literary Theory, Criticism and Research, Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC) at Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University (PRSU), Raipur, Chhattisgarh on September 5, 2020.

24. “Indian Theories of Language”, in an FDP on Indian Literature and Languages: Paradigms and Praxis, SRM University, Sikkim on May 18, 2020.

25. “Role of Phonetics and Phonology in Effective Communication”, in a National Workshop on Innovative Methods of English Language Teaching and Learning at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore on September 13-14, 2019.

26. “Importance of Morphology in English Language Learning and Teaching”, in a National Workshop on Innovative Methods of English Language Teaching and Learning, at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore on September 13-14, 2019.

27. “Effective Communication for Leadership Qualities”, in an Orientation Course, HRDC, SV University, Tirupati on October 12, 2019.

28. “Science of Language: A Brief Survey with Special Reference to Articulatory Phonetics”, in a Refresher Course on Language and Literature, HRDC, SV University, Tirupati on September 29, 2018.

29. “Indian and Western Poetics: Towards a Comparative Understanding”, in a Refresher Course on Language and Literature, HRDC, SV University, Tirupati on September 28, 2018.

30.  “Language, Linguistics and Communication: Towards Understanding the Interrelation, Concomitance, and Simultaneity”, in a Refresher Course in Humanities, HRDC, SV University, Tirupati on January 11, 2018.

31.  “Theory of Rasa: A note on Theory and Practice”, in a Refresher Course in Humanities, HRDC, SV University, Tirupati on January 12, 2018.