Imsuchila Kichu

Imsuchila Kichu

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. : University of Madras

Research Interests:

Drama, Theatre, Asian American literature, Australian and Canadian literatures
Date of Joining : Dec 15, 2015

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Email: imsuchila.kichu@cottonuniversity.ac.in

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About

Imsuchila Kichu holds a PhD from the University of Madras. She has a passion for drama and during her student days at the University of Madras , she was actively involved in The Curtain Call, the Drama Club of the Department of English. She has performed in several theatre productions both in and outside of Chennai and has also directed many theatrical productions with students. Before joining Cotton University, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Shift II Women's Christian College, Chennai. 

Teaching

Undergraduate courses (LOCF)

The Restoration till 1780

The Victorian Age (1832-1901)

American Literature

Literary and Interpretative Devices

Undergraduate courses (FYUGP)

Forms and Elements of Literature II

The Literature of the Renaissance

Postgraduate courses (LOCF)

Drama I - Marlowe to Wilde

Drama II - Shakespeare

Drama III - Modern to the Present

Dissertation 

Experience

Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Shift II, Women's Christian College, Chennai from 2009-2015

Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Cotton University, Guwahati from 2015 till date

Research paper publications

2023

1. Imsuchila Kichu, Shattering Silence through Performance: A Reading of Jane Harrison’s Stolen , Dristi: the Sight, vol. 11, 149-153, II, 2023

Research paper publications till 2021

  • The Politics of Performance in The International Journal of English Language and Literature, 2013, ISSN: 2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print) p- 342-352
  • "Drinking Culture in Ao-Naga Society: From Rice Beer to Alcohol in International Journal of English Language Literatures and Translation Studies (IJELR), Vol. 6, Issue 2, ISSN: 2395-2628(P), ISSN: 2349-9451 (E), Impact factor: 5.9745 (ICI), 2019. p- 174-181

Conference Proceedings till 2021

1. History Through The Eyes of Asian American Women Playwrights in Critical Responses to Literary Conflabulation, Published by the Dept. of English, Udaya College of Arts and Science, Kanyakumari. 2013, ISBN 978-93-81658-055, p-58-60

 

Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)

1. Reviving the Forgotten Narratives in Unearthing the Unexplored: A Critical Companion to Fourth World Literature, edited by B. Poovilangothai and P. Karkuzhali, Authors Press, 2016, ISBN: 978-93-5207-255-2, p-50-57

2 "The Stone People from Lungterok" - Temsula Ao" in Innerscape: Exploring Literatures from Indias North East (edited by Arunabha Bhuyan), Papyrus, Guwahati, 2019, ISSBN: 978-81-938964-2-6 5, p-48-52

Awards

Best Actress award for the role of Anne Wabung in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Someday at the Festival of Drama Down the Ages competition organised by the Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur in 2010

Other Information

Courses attended 

National online certificate course on Shakespeare Studies organised by Shakespeare Society of Central India in collaboration with Hislop College, Rajkumar Kewalramai Kanya Mahavidyalaya, R.S. Mundle Dharampeth Arts &Commerce College, Nagpur & J.M. Patel Arts , Commerce & Science College, Bhandara  from 15/04/2024 to 23/04/2024

Online Short Term Program on Building Competencies of Teachers in Blended Learning and Teaching organised by HRDC, University of Hyderabad from 17/05/2021 to 22/05/2021

Online Refresher course on Curriculum and Pedagogy organised by Teaching Learning Centre, Tezpur University from 07/06/2021 to 21/06/2021

Refresher course in Soft Skills for Professional Excellence organised by UGC-HRDC Osmania University, Hyderabad from 17/10/2019 to 30/10/2019

UGC sponsored Orientation course organised by HRDC Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from 08/10/2028 to 02/11/2018

Certificate course in Theatre – in – Education (TIE) at the Centre for Education Beyond Curriculum, Christ University, Bangalore 2012

Theatre performance profile: 

Drew Hayden Taylor’s Someday produced at Women’s Christian College, Chennai in 2011

 Drew Hayden Taylor’s Someday produced during the Festival of Drama Down the Ages at the Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur in 2011

Beatrice Culleton Mossionier’s In Search of April Raintree, produced at Women’s Christain College, Chennai in 2010

Beatrice Culleton Mossionier’s In Search of April Raintree, produced at The Cosmopolitan Club, Coimbatore in 2009

Beatrice Culleton Mossionier’s In Search of April Raintree, produced at Bharathiar University Coimbatore in 2009

Elizabeth Wong’s Letters to a Student Revolutionary, produced at the University of Madras at the International Conference on Region and Nation in Literary and Cultural Studies in 2009

 Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls, produced at the University of Madras and sponsored by the US Public Affairs Department to celebrate the International Women’s Day and the African American Literature Month in 2008

Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart produced at the University of Madras and sponsored by the US Public Affairs Department to celebrate the International Women’s Day and the African American Literature Month in 2008

Beatrice Culleton Mossionier’s In Search of April Raintree, produced at All Saints’College, Thiruvanathapuram at the National Seminar on Theatre, Film and Literature sponsored by the UGC in 2008

 Beatrice Culleton Mossionier’s In Search of April Raintree, produced at Kannur University, Kerala in 2007

 Indra Parthasarathy’s Ramanujar, produced at Tag Auditorium, Chennai sponsored by the Oxford University Press in 2007

Chandrasekhar Kambar’s Jokumaraswami, produced at Mysore during the All India Universities Theatre Festival sponsored by the Government of Karnataka in 2007

Chandrasekhar Kambar’s Jokumaraswami, produced at Bangalore during the All India Universities Theatre Festival sponsored by the Government of Karnataka in 2007

Morton Wishengrad’s The Rope Dancer, produced at the Museum Theatre, Chennai, for FASA (Feminist Association for Social Action) in 2007

 Morton Wishengrad’s The Rope Dancer, produced at Auxillium College, Vellore in 2006

Plays directed:

Wakako Yamauchi's Music Lessons

Neil Simon's The Sneeze

Drew Hayden Taylor's Someday

Research papers presented:

Winged Words: Change and Continuity in the Poetry of Temsula Ao at the International Conference on Literature: An Interplay of Art and Culture organised by the Department of English, Anna Adarsh College for Women, Chennai on 27th February 2019

Rape of Native Culture, Religion and Tradition: A Study of Tomson Highway's Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapukasing at the two-day National Seminar on Decoding the 'New' in New English Literature: Theory and Praxis organised by the Department of English, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh in association with ICSSR(NERC), Shillong on 14th & 15th September 2017

Jane Harrison's Stolen: Telling and Performing Truth at the two-day International Conference on (His)tory, Her-story, and 'Other' Narratives: Revisions and Reinterpretations in Story-Telling organised by the School of Arts & Humanities, REVA University, Bengaluru on 3rd and 4th February 2017

An Acknowledged Obituary of Rice Beer in Ao-Naga Society at the International Conference on The Culture of Food: Literature and Society organised by the Departments of English and Travel and Tourism, M.E.S. College of Arts & Commerce, Goa from 25th to 27th February 2016

Expereinces from the Ravaged Hills: A Reading of Temsula Ao’s Writings at the International Conference on Transitions: Literature, Language and Culture – Post 1980 organised by the Department of Languages, Garden City College, Bangalore on 6th and 7th February 2015

History Through the Eyes of Asian American Women Playwrights at the National Seminar on Literary Confabulation – Language, Literature & Linguistics organised by the Department of English, Udaya College of Arts and Science., Kanyakumari on 11th October 2013

Asian Experience in America: A Comparative Study of Chinese American and Japanese American Lives at the National Seminar on Recent Trends in Comparative Literature organised by The Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Central University of Tamil Nadu on 21st and 22nd March 2013

Reviving and Redefining the Oral Literature of the Ao-Nagas at the National Seminar on Comparative Aesthetics in Bhasha Literatures organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad on 9th and 10th November 2012

The Cumulative Impact of Text and Performance at the Inter-national Conference on Literary Studies: Current Trends and Concurrent Challenges organised by Thassim Beevi Abdul Kader College for Women In collaboration with ELTAI on 22&23 September 2012

Literature and Human Experience at the Inter-national Conference on Enriching the Connection between Literature and Life organised by the Department of English, Periyar University on 3rd and 4thsept 2012

Scrutiny of Ecological Concept in Naga Folklores and Traditional Practices at the National Conference on Towards Indian Ecocriticism organised by the Department of English, Central University of Tamil Nadu on 2nd and 3rd December 2011

Students Guided (MA Dissertation)

2022-2024 Batch

1

Nishita Dowerah

ENG2261003

Queer Narrative in Contemporary Fiction: Exploring the LGBTQ+ Representation in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

2

Jyotishmita Adhikari

ENG2261018

The Silent Scream Heard in an Evening of Truths: The Intersection of Mental Health, Existential Neurosis and Family Relationships in ‘Night Mother by Marsha Norman

3

Divvyanaa Hazarika

ENG2261038

Exploring the Power of Healing and Therapy: Nature Poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats and the Japanese Practice of Sinrin-Yoku

4

Pallabi Das

ENG2261056

Examining Historical Narratives Through Literary Analysis: A Study of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan

2020-2022 Batch

 

5

 

Uddipta Mazumdar

ENG2061008

Tess as the New Women: An Analysis of Hardy’s Inversion of the Idealised Woman

6

Anusha Kalita

ENG2061020

The Role of Children’s Literature and its Function in  Honing the Child and Preparing Him for the Bigger World with Reference to Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book

7

Diptimoni Das

ENG2061035

From Silence to Voice: The Search for a Voice in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

8

Hannan Ali

ENG2061049

The Influence of Charles Darwin’s Theory ‘Survival of the Fittest’  on the Animal Poetry of Ted Hughes

2019-2021 Batch

9

Jyotirupa Saharia

ENG1961014

Breaking Barriers: A Study of Women in Restoration Theatre with Special Reference to The Way of the World

10

Mirbon Teronpi

ENG1961051

 Cultural Clash and Identity Crisis in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club

11

Bandana Brahma

ENG1961054

Black Women and the American Dream: A Study of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

12

Henna Daimari

ENG1961056

A Study of Inter-culturalism in  Tea

2018-2020 Batch

 

13

Sanghamitra Nath

ENG1861017

Feminism in Anita Desai’s Fasting Feasting

14

Pinangki Barman

ENG1861036

Mythological Fiction as a Way to Present the voice of the Periphery: with Special Attention to Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions

15

Sanjida Shah

ENG1861050

Questioning the Idea of Feminism Through Thatcherism in Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

16

Karabi Boro

ENG1861054

Imbalance of Power: An Analysis of Marriage in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

 Institutional Contribution 

Member of Robe, Certificate & Medal Committee, Convocation 2024

Faculty Convenor of Elysian 2024, National students' seminar of the Department of English since 2023

 Joint Coordinator of Curtain Raiser, the Drama Club of the Department of English since 2021

Joint Coordinator for the online lecture on Reading Shakespeare: Relevance and Significance in the Contemporary Times delivered by Dr, Anand Prakash, Rtd. Professor of English, University of Delhi on 2nd March 2024