Personal Information

Department of English

Mail Id- rinaraj16@gmail.com

Educational Qualifications:

• Masters from Rabindra Bharati University in 2009
• M.Phil from Pondicherry University in 2011-12, [Area of Work: Multiculturalism and Gender Issues in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies]
• Ph.D (Underway) from Pondicherry University (From 2012 onwards), [Area of Work: Rewriting of Mythology in Indian Fiction in English]

Area of Interest:

Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies, Marginal Literature, Indian Literature

Papers Presented in National/International Seminars

• “Multiculturalism and Gender Equality in Chitra Banerjee’s Arranged Marriage” at the International Conference on Voices from the Margin: Society, Culture and Exclusion organised by School of Languages, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi on 22th-22^nd February 2013.
• “Tagore, the Muse in China” at the National Conference on Tagore in Indian Languages and Literatures organized by the department of English, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry on 22-23^rd, 2012.

Publications

• “Rewriting Mythology: an Analysis of C.S. Lakshmi’s Forest” in International Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities, Vol. II, Issue. III, Dec.2004,ISSN 2321-7065.
• “Ageing, Memory and Self-delusion: an Analysis of Julian Barne’s The Sense of an Ending” in Middle Flight,Vol.3, Number.1, Sept. 2014, ISSN 2319-7684.