Payal Jain
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. : Gauhati UniversityResearch Interests:
Gender Studies, Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory, Pedagogy and Curriculum StudiesJoined the University in Apr 21, 2016
Phone: 9864104808
Email: payal.jain@cottonuniversity.ac.in
About
Payal Jain started her teaching career in 2007 when she joined the Department of English, Dibrugarh University, Assam. After serving the institution for nine years she shifted to Cotton University (erstwhile CCSU) in 2016. Since then, along with teaching, she has been actively involved in various academic and administrative activities of the University.
Research paper publications till 2021
- “The Paradoxes of Foregrounding Women’s Body: A Reading of The God of Small Things” in Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies, Vol 19, 2010.
- “Ambivalent Subversions: Resistance and Capitulation in Namita Gokhale’s Paro” in English Forum: Journal of the Department of English. Gauhati University, Vol 1, 2012.
- “Fashioning the Self & Home Abroad: Things and Material Practices in The Namesake” in Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies, Vol 26, 2017.
Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)
- “Negations and Negotiations: Forging Self and Forging the Self in Ladies Coupe” in Contemporary Indian Women writers in English: Critical Perspectives edited by Dr. Nizara Hazarika, et al., Pencraft International, 2015.
- “Questions of Space, Autonomy and Identity: A Study of the Communities of Jain Women in Dibrugarh” in Communities of Women in Assam: Being, Doing and Thinking Together, Ed. Nandana Dutta, Routledge, 2016.