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Payal Jain

Payal Jain

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. : Gauhati University

Research Interests:

Women and Literature; gender studies, Indian English Literature; Indian literatures; Postcolonial literatures; Modernist literatures; literary pedagogies, curriculum studies, Fiction studies, narrative theory
Date of Joining : Apr 21, 2016

Phone: 9864104808
Email: payal.jain@cottonuniversity.ac.in

Payal Jain CV    Vidwan Profile
About Teaching Research Paper Publications Book publication relating subject/research concerned Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented) Awards

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 joined 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. 

Teaching

  • Assistant Professor, Department of English, Cotton University, since April, 2016.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of English, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh (March 2007 till April 2016)

Research Projects

Sl. No Name of the Project Name of the Principal Investigator(PI) Name of the Co-PI Name of the Funding Agency Type (Government/Non-Government) Year Funds Sanctioned (INR in lakhs) Duration of the Project
1 Practices of Reading: An Investigation into the Reading Culture of Cotton University Students
Status: Ongoing		 Dr. Payal Jain NA Cotton University In House 2023 100000 18 months

Research paper publications till 2021

 

  1. Mousana Nightingale Chowdhury and Payal Jain. “Negotiating Dementia Through the Everyday: Reading Disruption as Opportunity in S P Bhattacharjya’s In the Line of Alzheiemer’s (2009).” Drishti: the sight. Vol XIII No 1, May 2024. ISSN 2319-8282.  pp 117-121.
  2. Payal Jain. “Crisis and Paralysis of Masculinity in James Joyce’s “The Dead”: A Reading.” Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies Vol 30, 2022.  ISSN 0975-5659. pp 200-213.
  3. Payal Jain. “Fashioning the Self & Home Abroad: Things and Material Practices in The Namesake.” Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies Vol 26, 2017.  ISSN 0975-5659. pp. 49-62. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2539896
  4. Payal Jain.  ““Fatal” Transgressions: The Fate of Desiring Woman in Namita Gokhale’s Shakuntala.” Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies Vol 21, 2012.  ISSN 0975-5659. pp. 114-125.
  5. Payal Jain. “Ambivalent Subversions: Resistance and Capitulation in Namita Gokhale’s Paro.” English Forum: Journal of the Department of English, G. U. Vol 1, 2012.  ISSN 2279-0446. pp. 87-98.
  6. Payal Jain. “Impossible Desires: Cultural Confines and Bodily Transgressions in Bodies in Motion.” Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies Vol 20, 2011. ISSN 0975-5659. pp. 43-52.
  7. Papal Jain. “The Paradoxes of Foregrounding Women’s Body: A Reading of The God of Small Things.”  Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies. Vol 19, 2010. ISSN 0975-5659. pp. 109-126.
  8. Payal Jain. “Interrogating the Ethics of Non-Interference in Lights Out.” Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies. Vol 18, 2009. ISSN 0975-5659. pp. 103-110
  9. Payal Jain. “Travelling Women, Telling Lives: Search for Identity in Ladies Coupe.” Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies. Vol 17, 2008. pp. 117-128.

 

Book publication relating subject/research concerned

  1. A unit on T. S. Eliot’s “Preludes” and Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” for UG program of Institute of Distance and Open Learning, Gauhati University
  2. A Module on: Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children and Arundahti Roy: The God of Small Things for MA in English Program offered by Centre for distance and Online Education, Tezpur University
  3. Translated a poem titled “Kavita” by Laximinath Bezbaroa from Assamese to English in Bezbaroa: The Man and his Works edited by Anand Bormudoi. Publication Division Dibrugarh University, 2014
  4. “Introduction” to H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. A WINK Signature Special, DC Books and EC Media, Bengaluru, 2012. ISBN 978-81-264-3453-4
  5. Two units of Self-Instructional Material on “Toril Moi’s Introduction of Sexual textual politics” and Elaine Showalter’s “Towards a feminist poetics” For DDE, Dibrugarh University
  6. Two units of Self Learning Material (SLM) on “Chaucer’s The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales” and “Shakespeare’s Sonnets” for IDOL, Gauhati University

Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)

  1. Payal Jain. “Traversing Distances and Differences: Teaching Kanthapura.” English Teachers’ Accounts: Essays on The Teacher, The Text and The Indian Classroom edited by Nandana Dutta. Routledge: London & New York. 2021. ISBN 978-1-032-25014-4. Pp 118- 133. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003146209-8
  2. Payal Jain. “Questions of Space, Autonomy and Identity: A Study of the Communities of Jain Women in Dibrugarh.” Communities of Women in Assam: Being, Doing and Thinking Together edited by Nandana Dutta. Routledge:  London & New York. 2015. ISBN 978-1-138-66759-4. pp. 91-117. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315657653
  3. Payal Jain. “Negations and Negotiations: Forging Self and Forging the Self in Ladies Coupe.” Contemporary Indian Women writers in English: Critical Perspectives edited by Dr. Nizara Hazarika. Pencraft International, New Delhi. ISBN 978-93-82178-12-5. pp. 112-125.
  4. Payal Jain. “Communities of Women in the Virtual World.” Prabha edited by Dr. Kakoli Dutta. Women’s Study and Development Cell, ACTA, Nalbari College Teachers Unit. 2015. ISBN 978-93-84096-94-6. pp. 24-34.

Awards

  • Awarded ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship for the period of 9-12-2006 to 8-12-2007 (Discontinued after joining Dibrugarh University as a permanent faculty)
  • Received One Month Residential Library Fellowship from the Forum on Contemporary Theory (FCT), Baroda from December 19, 2005 to January 18, 2006