Monday, October 5, 2020

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)

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