CONFERENCES/ SEMINARS/ WORKSHOPS: 

1.     “Beyond Representation: Reading Sudeep Sen: Conversations and Interviews as a Study in Literary Criticism,” Classix, 2020 ‘Poetry, Pedagogy, and Profession: Understanding Rhyme and Reason across Cultures,’ National Law University, Patiala, Punjab, 20th August, 2023.

2.     Attended Orientation Program on National Innovation and Start-up Policy, IQAC, RBVRR

Women’s College, Hyderabad, 20 January, 2021.

3.     Attended Ten- Day Faculty development program on Research Methodology, Department of business Management,ICSSR, RBVRR Women’s College, Hyderabad, 28th December-6th January, 2020-2021.

4.     Presented the paper, “Pandemic Literature” at National Webinar, “Literature and Healing,” RBVRR Women’sCollege, 24 June, 2020.

5.     Presented the paper “Poetry and the Pandemic,” at “Changing Paradigms of Poetry,” National Webinar by St FrancisCollege, 5.06.2020.

6.     Presented the Paper, “To Click or Not to Click: Teaching English through Blogs,” National Seminar on ICT Innovations for Quality Enhancement in Higher Education,” Sponsored by ICSSR-SRC& TSCHE, 6-7 March,2020.

7.     Presented the paper, “Publish or Paris: Indian Lit, World Lit, Academic Lit and Journals”. English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. ‘Indian Literature and World Literature’. 18-20 January, 2018.

8.     Presented the paper, “Where has the text gone: Innovative ways to teach soft skills through Literature” at National Seminar on “Soft Skills Through Literature,” Andhra Mahila Sabha College, Osmania University, 28/10/2017.

9.     Workshop at Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK) on “Design Thinking” and “Methods to Teach Business English.”18/8/17-19/8/17.

10.  Presented poems for display and reading at “Elixir of Voices,” Aillama Art Gallery, Hyderabad 8 March, 2017.

11.  Presented paper, “Desperate Housewives: Reading the Character of April Wheeler in Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road”. 27-28thDecember, 2016.OUCIP, Hyderabad.

     12.  Participated in One week Faculty Development Programme. R.B.V.R.R Women’s College,

Hyderabad, 3- 10 June, 2016.

13.  Organised a Three-day Workshop on Performing Arts. R.B.V.R.R Women’s College, Hyderabad. 13th-16thDecember, 2016.

      14.  Attended Routledge Editor’s Roundtable. Hyderabad. 9th March, 2016.

15.  Participated in the Faculty Development Program on Soft Skills and Stress-Management organized by AuroraBusiness School on 29th of October, 2015.

16.  Presented the paper, “Re-imaging Kashmir: Reading the Diasporic Imagination of Agha Shahid Ali and Subhash Kak” at International Conference on Commonwealth Studies by Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies. OUCIPHyderabad 23-26 December, 2015.

17.  Attended the first TEDxSecunderabad event sponsored by the U.S. Consulate Hyderabad. 3rd October 2015,Hyderabad.

     18.  Participated in International Seminar on “Imagining the East: New Research, New Pathways.”

February 23-25, 2015. University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

19.  Presented the paper, “Turkey on My Table: Knowing Turkey through Indialogue Foundation” at International Conference on “Indo-Turkish Dialogue,” 16-17, October, 2014, Mevlana University, Turkey and University ofHyderabad, Hyderabad.

     20.  Invited for a Talk on my Short Film, “Itihas KeKhoj Mein” by RAW.CON, University of

Hyderabad, 2014.

21.  Presented the paper, “Brands and the Bride: Reading the Emergence of the Bride in Indian Popular Culture.” Women’s World Congress, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 19-22 August,    2014.

22.  Presented the paper, The “Unbollywood Route to Roots: Reading Anjan Dutt’s The Bong Connection.” International Conference on ‘Diasporic Indian Cinemas and Bollywood on the Diaspora: Re-Imaginings and Re-Possessions.’ Organised jointly by OUCIP- Casii, Hyderabad, 22-24 January2014.

23.  Presented the paper, “Tyres, Tarmac and Tinsel Town: The Emergence of Formula One in Popular Indian Culture.”International Conference on “India in world Affairs: The Next Decade.” Osmania University of InternationalProgrammes, Hyderabad. 22-24 January, 2013.

         24.  Presented the paper, “Biriyanising English: Flavours of Mixed Aesthetics in the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali.” International   

         Conference on “Islam and English in India: Cultural, Literary, Pedagogic, Historical, Political and Philosophical Encounters.”  

         Department of English, University of Hyderabad. 6-8 September, 2011.

         25.   Presented the paper, “The Corporate Novel: How Context Informs the Text in Chetan Bhagat’s

          One Night at the Call Center and Anuja Chauhan’s The Zoya Factor.” International Conference on

              “Twenty First Century Novel: Text and Context.” Department of English, University of   Allahabad. 29 November -1 December, 2009.

26.  Participated in the Sixth Theory Praxis Course. Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda and Department ofEnglish, Goa University, 12 June-16 July, 2008.

27.  Participated in the National Seminar on “Literature, Language and Communication.” Pondicherry Central Universityon 26 March, 2008.

28.  Participated in the National Seminar on “Translation and the Nation.” Pondicherry Central University and theCentral Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore on 26- 28 February, 2008.