Faculty

Dr. Rashmi Lee George

Assistant Professor and Head

Education Qualification: M.A., Ph.D.

Teaching Experience: 12 years (joined 2010)

Research Interests: Indigenous literatures (Native American Literature), Postcolonial Theory and Literature, Ecocriticism, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Film and Literature, Media Studies

Publications

    1. George, Rashmi Lee. “Rolling Eyes, Rejected Subalternization, Reimagining Justice: A Reading of Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s ‘The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey” Syncretic Legacies in India: Critical Perspectives, Vol.2, Issue 1&2, January-March, April-June 2021, pp.198-214, Sambhasan.

    2. George, Rashmi Lee. Lord of the Flies: An Ecocritical Study, The Twentieth Century Signposts and Watersheds: An Anthology of Essays, ed. Purnima Bali & Neeraj Pizar, Kindle edition, Jaidka, 2020. Digital.

    3. George, Rashmi Lee. "Pulverizing the Plague through Art and Literature" Covid-19 and responses, Vol.1, Issue 3, July 2020, pp.68-81, Sambhasan, https://mu.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ISSUE3, VOL1, JULY.pdf. Web.

    4. George, Rashmi Lee. ‘Environmental Praxis through Literature’ Ecocriticism and Environmental Praxis ed. Shivani Jha, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2017. Print.

    5. George, Rashmi Lee. “A Study of the Symbolic Native American Presence in Toni Morrison’s ‘A Mercy’” Xplore: The Xavier’s Research Journal 8.3 (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition) 2017: 8-14. Print.


Oral Presentations

International

  1. Lord of the Flies and Ecology: An Ecocritical Study in an International online Seminar on “A Century in Retrospect: Literary Signposts and Watersheds of the Last Hundred Years” organized by the Department of English, Shoolini University, Solan, H.P. (India), from May 15, 2020 to May 23, 2020.

  2. Transitions in Jhumpa Lahiri at an invited lecture at the American Studies Department at the University of Stuttgart on May 29, 2019.

  3. Examining the world(s) of Sherman Alexie and Hansda Sowendra Shekhar: A Comparative Study of Two Indigenous Worlds at Creighton University, Omaha, on October 30, 2019.

  4. ‘Discordant harmonies in conflicting spaces: a critical evaluation of ‘A Mercy’ and Reservation Blues’ at the International conference on 'Fourth World Literature and Culture' on September 12 - 13, 2014 at Pune, Maharashtra, India.

  5. ‘The issue of identity and place in the novels of Linda Hogan and Sherman Alexie: An ecocritical approach’ in the Department of English at the University of Stuttgart, Germany on May 7, 2014.

Local and National

  1. Literary Criticism: A Rite of Passage at a Lecture Series organized by the Department of English at Wilson College, Mumbai on 24th August, 2020.

  2. “The impact of Pestilences through the lens of Literature: A comparative study” at a webinar titled COVID-19 PAN(ACA)DEMIC- A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Impact of Coronavirus from April 30, May 1 and 2, 2020 at St. Xavier’s College Autonomous as part of the Honors Program.

  3. 'An ecofeminist reading of Linda Hogan's fiction representing Women and Ecology, at the Two Day National Conference Reweaving Terra Mater: Women, Ecology & Livelihood organised by the Faculty of Arts, Mithibai College and sponsored by Western Regional Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in Collaboration with the University of Mumbai held on January 11 and 12, 2019.

  4. ‘Sherman Alexie and his stories of healing’ at a two-day International conference called ‘De-territorializing Diversities: Cultures, Literatures & Languages of the Indigenous’ on February 6 - 7, 2013 at Maharaja Agrasen College affiliated to the University of Delhi.

  5. ‘Postcolonial Feminist Theory’ at the Contemporary Feminist Theories Workshop organized by Population First and Research Centre for Women’s Studies, SNDT University on January 20, 2012.

  6. ‘Environmental Movements of India’ at Dr. Bhanuben Mahendra Nanavati (BMN) College of Home Science, Matunga on March 16, 2011.

  7. ‘Environmental Praxis through Literature’ at the ‘Criticism and Environmental Praxis: An Academic Approach Towards Ecological Humanism Seminar’ at Bharati College (Delhi University) on February 24 - 25, 2011.

Dr. Prasita Mukherjee

Assistant Professor

Education Qualification: M.A., Ph.D.

Teaching Experience: 6 years (joined 2014)

Research Interests: Gender studies; present research focus is the representation of utopias and dystopias in visual narratives

Publications

A book chapter in a translated anthology of Bengali fiction published by Sahitya Akademi.

Ms. Amrita Shenoy

Assistant Professor (Ad hoc)

Education Qualification: MSt World Literatures in English (University of Oxford), MA English (University of Mumbai), SET

Teaching Experience: 1.5 years

Research Interests: World and Postcolonial Literatures, African Drama, Indian Writing in English and in Translation, Indigenous fiction, Gender, Ecocriticism, Caste Studies, Intermediality, Media, Imperial history

Publications

Academic

  1. Feature entry titled “Romesh Gunesekera” in Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds, University of Oxford, 2021, https://writersmakeworlds.com/romesh-gunesekera. Accessed 30 January 2022.

Literary

  1. Short story, “Burgundy” in The University of Edinburgh Journal, Vol. 49, Issue 2, Winter 2019, Print. · Dec 1, 2019