This is an academic organization, one of the foremost of its kind in India. The members are college and university teachers, scholars and critics interested in literature, particularly in American Literature and World Literatures. The Organization meets almost every year over an international conference. It seeks to maintain academic standards, encourages younger scholars and provides a forum for senior scholars in literature.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Last minute details
Queries are still coming in, so here are some clarifications:
Some of our delegates from abroad are staying at Swagath Hotel where
they have made bookings.
Delegates from India will stay at the OUCIP Guest House. OUCIP was
formerly the ASRC and it is also the conference venue.
From the airport you take a cab to the venue. There is also public
transport available.
If you come by train you are advised to get off at Secunderabad stn.
From the Rly Stn you need to take an auto for Osmania campus.
Hyderabad is warm and sultry these days. No need for woollens.
A suggestion: If there are creative writers in our midst why dont you
bring your poem / short story along. If we can find some time and
space in the evening it would be nice to have a reading session.
Another point: anyone bringing some music along on CD or pen drive?
Think you could shake a leg one evening?
There have been a LOT of changes since I circulated the program
outline last. The final schedule will be circulated only at the
conference now.
See you in Hyderabad. Wish you all safe journeys!
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Titles of Papers to be presented
1. Aarttee Kaul Dhar
Assoc. Prof. NDIIT,
Ramayana Retellings: Laying Janaki to Rest
2. Akanksha Bansal
Research Scholar – M.Phil Linguistics
JNU, New Delhi-67. akanksha.bansal15@gmail.com
The Cyberspace Trilogy: Cyborg through the lens of Linguistics
3. Akiko Ogihara
Representations of Terrorism in the American Media
4. Amin Malak, Ph.D.
Seer or Cynic? Demasking Naipaul’s Discourse on
5. Amit. P.Shesh
Department of English,
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University,
Lonere-402103
Use of Tricksters in Gerald Vizenor’s Novels
6. Andy Chih-ming Wang
Institute of European and American Studies
Academia Sinica
7. Anil Raina
Professor of English
The Politics of the ‘Storied Dead’: Wirza Waheed’s The Collaborator
8. Anne Angeline Abraham
Associate Professor, Dept. of English,
9. Aparna Mahajan
Research scholar
Affirmation of Self in Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters
10. Arnab Kumar Sinha
Lecturer in English, The
Multiple Responses at the ‘Contact Zone’: A Transcultural Study of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
11. Ashis Sengupta ashmit_2003@yahoo.com
Professor, Department of English,
Staging Diaspora: South Asian American Theatre Today
12. Ashu Vashisht
c/o KULBushan.razdan@rediffmail.com
Selection Grade Lecturer
Universal Harmony and Psychic Wholeness: Fantasy as Reality and Reality as Fantasy in A B Guthrie’s The Last Valley (`975) and Fredrick Manfred’s Green Earth (1977).
13. Azad Hamad Sharif
Instructor, Department of English
College of Languages ,
Salahaddin University
Erbil–Kurdistan Region drazadsharif@yahoo.co.uk
The Destiny of Man and Environment in Jean Sasson's Love in a Torn Land
13. Bhumika Sharma
Dept. of English, International College For Girls, IIS University, Gurukul Marg, Mansarovar, Jaipur, bhumika_19_73@yahoo.com
14. Charu C Mishra
KG
Raigarh (CG)
Veiled & Unveiled: Draupadi in Pratibha Ray’s ‘Yajnaseni’ & Irawati Karve’s ‘Yuganta’
15. Daigaku Murata
daigaku1121@yahoo.co.jp
Global Solutions for
16. Dean Brink
Assistant Professor, English Department,
Assembling Intertexts and Intratexts for a Post-Jim Crow World: Richard Wright's Haiku
17. Debalina Banerjee
Assistant Professor,
The Inscrutable Americans: Redefining Nations, Cultures and Identities
18. Debobani Biswas
Institute of Engineering & Industrial Technology
Durgapur-713212
An exploration of Isaac Asimov’s Robot series: The Caves of Steel,The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn
19. Dipankar Purkayastha
Professor of English,
The Transnational Space: Representations of
.
20. Garima Williams
Asstt. Prof. , P.S.Institute of
Technology, NH2
Expatriate Sensibility in the short fiction of Rohinton Mistry
21. G.A. Ghanshyam
Professor of English,
Behind The Bars: Ugly Reality In Beautiful Thing
22. Hariprasad Athanickal
Department of Film Studies,
English and Foreign
hariape@gmail.com, hariprasad@efluniversity.ac.in
The Malayalee Halloween: Diaspora and Inverted Forms of Globalization
23. Himadri Lahiri
Reader, Department of English, University of
Burdwan,Golapbag, Burdwan-713 104, Burdwan,
The Local and the ‘Translocal’ in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth
24. Igina Tattoni
"Romeo and Juliet, 'Rappacini’s Daughter', Rometta and Giulieo: in search of solutions for the Victimization of Love."
25. Ismael M.Saeed
Asst. Prof.
The Synthetic Nature of Superhero Comic Books and Graphic Novels
26. Jagmit Kaur
27. Research Scholar, PU,
Fairy Tales and the Postmodern Scenario: A Bizarre Paradox
28. Jap Preet Kaur Bhangu & Shagufta Kaur Bhangu
Associate Professor, Dept. of
Student M.A.Sociology,
In Between The Magic: The Ordained World Of Harry Potter
29. Jaya Singh
Research Scholar,
Dept. of English and
Jointing Disjointed Peripheral Voices with Contemporaneity
30. Jayanta Kar Sharma
Reader, Govt. Women's College Sambalpur, Odisha,
Jayantakarsharma@Gmail.Com
Fictionalisation of Fact: William Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal
31. Jyoti Mishra
Assistant Professor, Dept. of English,
Habib Tanvir’s Experiments with Truth in Charandas Chor
32. Kalikinkar Pattanayak
Reader, P.G. Deptt. Of English
Khallikote(A) College, Berhampur.
Feminist Issues in Women’s Poetry: Meena Alexander and Sujata Bhatt
33. Kaoru Kinoshita
Whitman’s American Solutions—Spiritual Democracy
34. Kaustav Bakshi
Assistant Professor
Department of English
P. O: Debhog, Midnapore (East),
kaustav_259@yahoo.com, kaustav.bakshi@gmail.com
Fissures in Harper Lee’s Sympathetic Vision: Re-reading the representation of Calpurnia in To Kill a Mocking Bird
35. Kirandeep Bhat
Asst. Prof. ,
Bapror. Rajpura.
Making of an ‘Other’: The Myth of the Manufactured Identities
36. Mahesh M. Nivargi
Associate Professor, Dept. Of English, Mahatma Gandhi Mahavidyalaya, Ahmedpur-413515
1) mmnivargi@gmail.com 2) nivargi101@rediffmail.com
Un-Dead Evermore: The Lure and Lore of Dracula in the 21st Century
37. Manju Jaidka
Professor of English
Interconnections: American Literature / World Literature
37. Margarete Rubik
University Professor; English Department,
A postmodern view of Jane Eyre: The fantastic manipulation of cognitive schemas in Jasper Fforde´s The Eyre Affair
38. Mary Mohanty
Lect(ss) in English;
Govt. Women's College,
Transculturalism and Transnationalism in the Novels of Kuntala Kumari Sabat
39. Meenu Gupta
Dept of English,
PU,
The Contemporary Indian Novel in English: Hooking the Booker
40. Melissa Helen
Assoc. Prof,
Hyd.Campus-A. P.
Post modernism and ‘Acrobatic Language’: A Study of Suzan Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
41. Miryam Sivan
Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature,
"Dynamic or Stillborn: The Ploy of a Universal Language in
Cynthia Ozick’s, 'What Happened to the Baby'”
42. Mohanmeet Khosla
Associate Professor,
Life at the end of the Terminal: Analyzing Internet Addiction
43. Mohini Chakranarayan
M.A,M.Ed,Ph.D,P
Retired Professor of English(Govt.
Faculty RDVV,Jabalpur.E mail id:-mohinicn@yahoo.com
44. Mukesh Williams
In Search of Solutions—
45. N. D. R. Chandra
Dept of English
Mapping Cyborg and the Posthuman: From Hybridity to Eternity
46. Nagar Taghizadeh
PhD Scholar of English Literature
Department of English
Aesthetics of Carnival and Transcultural Ethnic in Angela Carter’s novels
47. Namrata Pathak and Bashabi Gogoi
Namrata Pathak, PhD scholar,
EFLU, Shillong, namratapthk@gmail.com
Bashabi Gogoi: Academic Consultant (English), Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, Guwahati, myselfluna24@gmail.com, myselfluna_24@yahoo.co.in
Ecology” in D.J. Borah’s The Green Serpent: Expressions of Terror in the North East
48. Nandini Bhadra
Head, Department of English,
Beyond The Possible: Representations of the marvelous and the Fantastic in Chitra Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices and Amy Tan’s A Hundred Secret Senses
49. Narendra Kumar
Assistant Professor
P.G. Dept. of English
Sungli, Bhaderwah – 182222
Cosmopolitanism, Inter-narrativity and Cultural Empathy: Caryl Phillips’The Nature of Blood and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
50. Navreet Sahi
Assistant Professor
Research Scholar, (Ph.D)
Dept. of English,
From the Classes to the Masses: Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk
51. Neela Sarkar
Assistant Professor (Dept. of English)
New
Multiple Displacements and Fractured Identities in The Kite Runner and The Inheritance of Loss
52. Nilakshi Roy
Associate Professor in English, K.E.T’s
The Way the World Looks to Them: Asperger’s Syndrome in Fiction
53. Niraj Kumar Singh
Principal, DAV Public
School, Meerachak , Industrial Area, Barari,
In Search for Heterodox Religious Practices in William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives
54. Nishat Haider
Reader,
The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Post-9/11 Fiction: A Study of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
55. Nishi Pulugurtha
Assistant Professor (Reader),
Department of English, Brahmananda
111/2, B.T.Road, Kolkata 700108,
Memory, Diasporic Identity and the Gendered Space Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
56. Pamela M. Barber
pabarber@justice.gc.ca
The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (
201 St. Patrick's Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive,
Processes of Cultural Interpretation and Eighteenth-century Travel Accounts
57. Pankaj Sharma
Lecturer Ryat Bahara Institute of Engineering & Nano Technology
Hoshiarpur
The Old and the New: Reinterpreting Indian Mythology: an Eco-Critical Aspect
58. Payel Dutta Chowdhury
Assistant Professor & HOD (English)
payeldutta.c@gmail.com
Residential Add: No. 123/1, "SriNilaya", 1st Floor, 2nd Cross, 2nd Main, Muniappa Garden, KR Puram, Bangalore 560036
Representation of the African American Community: a Changed Perspective
59. Prabhavati.Y
Associate Professor, Dept. of English,
Human Predicament and Human Possibilities - An Indian Approach to World Harmony
60. Pragna Paramita Mondal
Lecturer,
“La tiniebla blanca”: Paraguayan Liminality and the Crises of Alterity in Augusto Roa Bastos’s Madama Sui
61. Pranav Joshipura
Associate Professor in English
“PRASADAM”,
1353/2,Sector– 7 D,
Gandhinagar: 382 007.
Hijra of
62. Prasita Mukherjee
Project Fellow, Department of English
Lecturer,
Here And There: Glocalizing Feminist Utopias
63. Pratibha Nagpal
Professor of English
Of Unrest and Quiet: Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions
64. Purnendu Chatterjee
Asstt-Master,
Research Scholar,
purnendoo_chattrejee@rediffmail.com
Marginalization And A Ritualistic Murder: A Subaltern
65. Rajendra Kulkarni
Shangli
The Black
66. Rajender Singh
Assistant Professor (English),
e-mail: redhurajender@gmail.com
Text as a Cultural Document: The Bizarre and the Beautiful in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
67. Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri & Urjani Chakravarty
Assistant Professor of English,
Ethnic Consciousness through Language: A Study of Divakaruni’s Queen of Dreams
68. Ranjita Barik
P.G. Deptt. Of English,
S.C.S.(A) College,Puri.
Expatriate Identity in Verse: Taslima Nasrin and Bashabi Fraser
69. T. Ravichandran
Associate Professor of English
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian
E-mail: travichandran4@yahoo.com
Cybercriticism: Theory@Virtual_Reality.Com
70. K B Razdan
Former Professor and Head, Dept. of English,
18-B, Sweet Home Apartments, Near J P
Channi Himmat,
kulbushan.razdan@rediffmail.com
Mythology of Freedom through Fantasy: Autobiographical Experience and Popular Culture in William Burroughs’s Cities of the Red Night (1981)
71. Renuka Thapliyal
Assistant Professor
Kalka, Haryana
Solution to Global Warming: Deciphering “An Inconvenient Truth”
72. Rima Chakraborty
Parnasree, Behala, Kolkata- rchakraborty15@yahoo.com
No Longer Watno Dur: Technologizing the Diasporic Mirage
73. Roshan Sharma
PG
Privileging the Human/ Renegotiating the Mystical in Spiritual Poetry
74. Roya Yaghoubi
Research Scholar, Dept of English,
PU,
Names and Naming in Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy
76. Saikat Sarkar
Assistant Professor in English
Address: PG Dept of English,
Bankura - 722101 (
Interacting Cultures and ReclaimingVoices: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
77. S D Baral
Associate Professor, Deptt of English; MZU;
Momaday and the Environmental Aesthetics
78. Seema Bhupendra
Head, Department of English,
Banswara-327001 (Raj.)
The Changing Face af Bollywood Women: Renegotiating the Notion of the Self
79. Sherzad Shafee Babo Barzani
English Department
Erbil_
The Impact of Rumi On American Poetry
80. Smita Jha,
Asstt. Prof.
Department of Humanities & Social
Sciences,
smitaiitr@gmail.com, runalfhs@iitr.ernet.in
The Supernatural, the Fantastic, the Surreal, and Daphne du Maurier
81. Smita Verghese (Ph.D.)
1-2-288/14
Domalguda
Hyderabad-500029.
verghese.smita@gmail.com, smitav11@rediffmail.com
Revisiting the Classics: A Study of Moby Dick
82. Stuti Prasad
Reader, Dept. of English
prasad_stuti@yahoo.co.in / stuti.pwc@gmail.com
Presenting Apocalypse: Lessing's The Memoirs Of A Survivor
83. Sukla Basu (Sen)
Professor of English, DEOMEL,
Visva-Bharati, Santinketan,
ID – sukla1951@yahoo.com
Fictionalization of History on Page and Screen: Schindler’s List and A Mighty Heart.
85. Swati Guleria
Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology
U.P. 208016
gswati@iitk.ac.in, guleria.swati@gmail.com
Anne Tyler's Politics of Transnationalism in Digging to
86. Tajinder Singh & Nosheen Kapoor
English,
sekhondataj@gmail.com, nosheen_sabbath@yahoo.co.in
Enigma of the Supernatural – Is the Truth Out There or In Here?
87. Tanuka Das
Reader, Department of English & OMEL
Visva-Bharati. 731235
Linguistic Patterns from the Periphery: a Study of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Stories
88. Nishi Pandey
Panel-American Studies in
89. Vijayshree C.
OUCIP, Director
Welcome Address
90. Sushila Singh
Presidential Address: “Redefining Literary Approaches”
91. Mohan G. Ramanan
Central U of
Isaac Sequeira Memorial Lecture: “The Figure the Poet Makes”
93. VC, Osmania
Opening Remarks
94. David Mees
US Embassy
The Future of American Studies