FINAL PROGRAM: MINI MELOW - 400 YEARS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

 

PROGRAMME IN DETAIL

 

DAY ZERO: 8 OCTOBER 2020

SESSION ONE

4.00 to 4.40 PM: CURTAIN RAISER – CHAIR: ANIL RAINA (Dept of English, Panjab University)

 

DAY ONE: 9 OCTOBER 2020

SESSION TWO

9.30  TO 11.00 AM: MOVEMENTS I

CHAIR: MANUEL BRONCANO (Texas A&M University)

1.	Amin S. Sama Assistant Professor Department of English Bahauddin Government Arts College Junagadh – Gujarat aminsama1111@gmail.com	Beat Generation: An Avant-garde Movement in American Literature
2.	F. Laltlankimi Assistant  Professor  Department  of  English, Government  Zawlnuam  College Mizoram effienfanai.ef@gmail.com	The  Beat  Movement  and  the  American  Model  of  Freedom  and  Resistance
3.	Shikha Thakur Assistant Professor Department of English DAV University shikhamittu1@gmail.com	Invisible in Visible: A Review of Transcendentalism as a Timeless Therapeutic Philosophy Addressing COVID-led-Insanity
4.	Shruti Gaur M.Phil. Research Scholar USHSS Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University	From the Room to the Road: Reading Spaces and Movements of the Beats through Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957)
5.	Vishant Ramteke  Independent Researcher v1shantramteke90@gmail.com	Beat Generation and the Non-Conformity
6.	Pragati Panwar Department of English and Cultural Studies Panjab University - Chandigarh pragati.panwar@gmail.com	Hegemonic Discourses, Debilitating American Identities and Rhetorical Perspective in Fiction of Jack Kerouac: A Polyrhythmic Study

 

 

11.30 AM to 1.00 PM: MOVEMENTS II

SESSION THREE

 

CHAIR: GABRIELA VARGAS CETINA (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico)

1.	Gopika Sankar U Assistant Professor Dept. of English University of Hyderabad ullatgopika@gmail.com	Carving a Niche in the Real and Imagined Realms: Space and Place in Asian American Literature
2.	Ila Rathor Assistant Professor Dev Samaj College for Women Panjab University - Chandigarh ila13may@gmail.com	Search for Identity in the Works of Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni with Special Reference to Palace of Illusions and The Forest of Enchantments
3.	Kavita Dhillon Ph.D. Research Scholar Department of English Central University of Punjab Bathinda kvta.d9@gmail.com	Reading John Oliver Killens’ Sippias a Site of Witness to the Human Rights Violations of African Americans
4.	Pratiksha N. Chavada Assistant Professor (Ad hoc) Department of English & CLS Saurashtra University Rajkot – Gujarat pratikshachavada@gmail.com	Re-appraisal of Harlem Renaissance: A Century Later
5.	Ruby Jindal Akal Degree College Mastuana Sangrur - Punjab ruby.241280@gmail.com	Reconstructing Identities: Black American Poets of Harlem Renaissance
6.	Shamenaz Bano Assistant Professor Department of English RTMM College Allahabad – India dr.shamenaz.alld@gmail.com	The Rise of Diasporic American Muslim Writers

 

 

 

2.00 to 3.15 PM: NON-FICTION

SESSION FOUR

 

CHAIR: GIORGIO MARIANI (University of Roma, Italy)

1.	Disha Pokhriyal PhD Scholar Department of English Jamia Millia Islamia - Delhi dishapokhriyal.11@gmail.com	“To bathe my head in atmospheres unknown”: Time, Nature and the Human Self in Henry David Thoreau’s Walking
2.	Manjinder Wratch Visiting Faculty, UIPS Panjab University manjinderwratch1@gmail.com	Cosmography and the Expression of Transcendentalist Vision in Thoreau’s Walden (1854)
3.	Praveen Kumar Former Principal Govt. College, Sarahan Distt. Sirmaur - H.P. praveen.pkmalik@gmail.com	Enduring Relevance of Thoreau’s Environmental Consciousness
4.	Tanja Cvetković Faculty of Philosophy University of Niš Serbia tcvet99@yahoo.com	From Henry David Thoreau to Annie Proulx: Environmental Literature or ‘Literature of Hope’
5.	Debarati Bandyopadhyay Professor of English Visva-Bharati (a Central University) Santiniketan - West Bengal abdebarati@gmail.com	Revisiting Thoreau

 

DAY TWO: 10 OCTOBER 2020

 

9.30 to 11.15 AM: FICTION I

SESSION FIVE

CHAIR: AMRITJIT SINGH (Ohio University, OH, USA)

1.	Anju Chhetri Department of English T.H.B.College, Sonitpur Assam anjoochhetri69@gmail.com	Memory and Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
2.	Ankita Sharma PhD Research Scholar, English Department GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi ankitashar4@gmail.com	The White Gaze and the Black Memory: Looking Back and Seeing Ahead with Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
3.	Bhawna Shrey Research Scholar, English Literature Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi bhawnashrey91@gmail.com	Beloved: The Great American Horror Story, from Tony Morrison to Jonathan Demme
4.	Neerja Sachdev Associate Professor, Department of English S.S.K. Girls’ P.G. College, Prayagraj dr.neerjasachdev@gmail.com	Toni Morrison: Establishing One’s ‘Self’ and ‘Space’
5.	Shivani Duggal Assistant Professor Jagannath Institute of Management Sciences College, Delhi shivani200995@gmail.com	Traumatic Reverberations and Awakening: A Reading of Toni Morrison’s Sula
6.	Sunita Sinha Professor and Head, Department of English Women’s College Samastipur, L. N. Mithila University, Darbhanga drsunitasinha@gmail.com	Bondages and Agency in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
7.	Khagendra Acharya Kathmandu University Kathmandu, Nepal	Trauma and Social Identity in Toni Morrison’s Novels

 

11.30 to 12.30 PM: FICTION II

SESSION SIX

CHAIR:  PAWEL JĘDRZEJKO (University of Silesia, Katowice Poland)

1.	Gönül Bakay Professor Bahçeşehir University, İstanbul Turkey gonulbakay@gmail.com	Racism and Gender Identity in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Beloved
2.	Sriparna Chakraborty PhD Research Scholar Department of English, Kazi Nazrul University 88sriparna88@gmail.com	Understanding Triple Consciousness in Sweetness, an Independent Excerpt from Toni Morrison’s Novel, God Help the Child (2015)
3.	Arun DM Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Humanities CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru arundmclt@gmail.com	The Sinned Descendants of Hester Prynne: An Archetypal Study on Select Dystopian Works of 20th Century
4.	Mridul Bordoloi Associate Professor, Department of English Dibrugarh University mridul.du@gmail.com	Anticipating the Anthropocene in Moby-Dick
5.	Paweł Jędrzejko Associate Professor, Institute of Literary Studies, Faculty of Humanities University of Silesia, Katowice Poland pawel.jedrzejko@us.edu.pl	“I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee” (Notes on the Margins of Moby Dick)

 

1.00 to 2.15 PM: FICTION III

SESSION SEVEN

CHAIR: MUKESH WILLIAMS (Soka University, Tokyo)

1.	Amishal Modi Freelance writer amishal.modi@gmail.com	Imagining America: A Study of the Critical Interpretations of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2.	Chander Shekhar Research Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee shekharjakhad@gmail.com and Smita Jha Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee smitaiitr@gmail.com	Proposing Protopia as a Vision for Better Future in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
3.	Nilak Datta Assistant Professor, Department of English BITS Pilani University (K K Birla Goa Campus) ndatta@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in	Tourist Versus Traveler: The Legacy of Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad
4.	Sakshi Sundaram Assistant Professor, Shoolini University sakshisundaram@shooliniuniversity.com	Adam’s and Eve’s Diaries: A Comparative Critique of Mark Twain’s Companion Texts
5.	Mukesh Williams Professor, Faculty of Letters Soka University mukeshwilliams@yahoo.com	Hemingway’s Stories of a Lost Generation

 

DAY THREE: 11 OCTOBER 2020

 

9.30 to 10.45 AM: POETRY I

SESSION EIGHT

CHAIR: ROSHAN LAL SHARMA (Central University of Himachal Pradesh)

1.	Anindita Kar Bapujee College Sarukshetri Sarthebari Barpeta, Pin-781307 karanindita176@gmail.com	The Garden as an E(co)motional Territory: Reading Emily Dickinson’s Garden Poems
2.	Parth Joshi Assistant Professor Dept of English, Christ College, Rajkot Research Scholar Dept of English & CLS Saurashtra University, Rajkot (Gujarat) parthdhjoshi@rediffmail.com	Interiorization and Transcendence of Reality in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
3.	Pedro Panhoca da Silva Ph.D. Scholar Graduate Program in Languages Mackenzie Presbyterian University UPM Brazil ppanhoca@yahoo.com.br	The Five Colors of Poetry: Emily Dickinson In Magic: The Gathering
4.	Sanjay Mukherjee Professor Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies Saurashtra University Rajkot sanjaymukherjee18@gmail.com	“With Will to Choose, or to Reject”: Contextualizing Emily Dickinson’s Vision
5.	Somjeeta Pandey Assistant Professor Department of English Gobardanga Hindu College West Bengal, India somjeeta072@gmail.com and Anindita Shome Ph.D. Research Scholar Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora University of Hyderabad anindita1089@gmail.com	The New World and Poetry: A Reading of the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

 

 

11.00 to 12.30 PM: POETRY II

SESSION NINE

CHAIR: MANPREET KAUR KANG (GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi)

1.	Sudipta Saha Lecturer Department of English Surendranath College Kolkata	The Construction of the Self: Negotiating the Confessional Movement and its Poetry
2.	Harpreet Kaur Vohra Assistant Professor of English PU Regional Centre Ludhiana harvohra@rediffmail.com	The Confessional Poetry of Sylvia Plath: Death and Desperation as Leitmotif
3.	Neeti Singh Associate Professor of English Department of English The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Vadodara sufiandtheswan@gmail.com	In the Beehive of Living: The Bell Jar of Sylvia Plath & Other Stories
4.	Anita Sharma RKMV College, Shimla anitakc8@gmail.com	William Carlos William:  Images of Winter
5.	Purnima Bali Department of English Shoolini University Solan, Himachal Pradesh purnimabali@shooliniuniversity.com	Celebration of Humanity from Self to Selves: Reading Whitman’s Song of Myself in Corona Times
6.	Rajat Suvra Mandal Ph.D. Research Scholar Department of English Raiganj University West Bengal India rajatsmandal85@gmail.com	Man and Whitman: Body, Nation, and Camaraderie

 

1.15 to 2.15 PM: DRAMA I

SESSION TEN

CHAIR: NASSER DASHT PAYMA (Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran)

1.	JapPreet Kaur Bhangu Professor, Department of Management & Humanities Institute of Engineering & Technology, Longowal jkbhangu@gmail.com	Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun: A Timely Classic
2.	Smita Verghese Assistant Professor, Department of English St. Francis College for Women, Hyderabad verghese.smita@gmail.com	“All I Want to Say is that They Don’t Really Care about Us…”: A Revisit to the Younger Household in 2020
3.	Monika Dhillon Assistant Professor, Department of English MDSD Girls College, Ambala monikadhillon29@gmail.com	The Self and the Society in Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass
4.	Nasser Dasht Payma Department of English Language and Literature, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran. n.dashtpeyma@iaut.ac.ir	Family in Post-World War I American Drama
2.30 to 3.45 PM: DRAMA II   SESSION ELEVEN   CHAIR: AHMED AHSANUZZAMAN (Independent University, Bangladesh)
1.	Namrata Nistandra Associate Professor, Department of English Doaba College, Jalandhar namratanistandra09@gmail.com	Mapping the Mindscapes: Expressionism in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
2.	Neeraj Pizar Assistant Professor Shoolini University neerajpizar@shooliniuniversity.com	Illusion and Reality in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
3.	Rishika Sharma Teacher, Department of School Education Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir rishika.sharma10@gmail.com	The Interplay of Emotion and Tragedy in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons
4.	Monali Chatterjee Assistant Professor Nirma University, Ahmedabad monalichatterjee3@rediffmail.com	Arthur Miller's All My Sons as a Pivotal Text Modern American Drama
5.	Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman Professor, Department of English and Modern Languages Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) ahmed.ahsanuzzaman67@gmail.com; ahsanuzzaman@iub.edu.bd	Miller’s Indictment of the Majority through Ibsen in His Adaptation of An Enemy of the People

 

CONCLUDING SESSION

3.45 to 4.15 PM: Valedictory and Vote of Thanks    (MANPREET KANG)