Merry Baruah Bora
Associate Professor
Ph.D. : Indian Institute of Technology GuwahatiResearch Interests:
Indian Writings in English, Writings from the North East, Woman and Gender Studies, Climate FictionDate of Joining : Aug 30, 2003
Phone: 9435383181/7896872280
Email: merry.baruah@cottonuniversity.ac.in
About
Merry Baruah Bora has a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and specializes in Indian Writings in English, Literature of the North East, Women's Writing and Literary and Cultural Theory. A former Visiting Faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Guwahati campus), and North East Chritian University, Dimapur, she is also associated with WWF and has translated resource material for WWF under the ESD and EK PRITHVI project (WWF in collaboration with SCERT, Government of Assam). A member of the Editorial Board of Space and Cultural Journal, Dr Bora is particularly interested in Creative Writing and Translation and has published widely in academic volumes and journals. She is also actively involved with Ashadeep, an organization for differently-abled children.
Teaching
Undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD supervision.
Courses taught:
Writings from the North East, Assamese Writings in Translation, Poetry, Literary Theory, Modern Period, The Renaissance, Indian Literature, The Victorian Period, Creative Writing.
Experience
Date of Joining 30/08/2003.
Research Projects
1. UGC Minor Research project titled "Situating the Female Self in Shashi Deshpande's Selected Short Fiction: A Study". Submitted
2. In-house project titled Technology Enabled Learning and Post Pandemic Academic Scene in India Some Reflections. Submitted
3. Ongoing- In-house project titled Articulating an Idiom of Resistance: A Select Reading of Assamese Short Fiction in Translation.
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 |
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| 1 | Articulating an Idiom of Resistance: A Select Reading of Assamese Short Fiction in Translation Status: Ongoing |
Dr. Merry Baruah Bora | NA | Cotton University | In House | 2023 | 1,00,000 | 18 months |
| 2 | Technology Enabled Learning and Post Pandemic Academic Scenes in India: Some Reflections Status: Completed |
Dr. Merry Baruah Bora | Cotton University | In House | 2020 | 1,00,000 | 18 months | |
| 3 | Situating the Female Self in Selected Short Fiction of Shashi Deshpande Status: Completed |
Dr. Merry Baruah Bora | UGC | Government | 2014 | 1,80,000 | 3yrs |
Research paper publications
2025
1. Nipan Nath and Merry Baruah, Borgesian Vision and Contemporary Commercials: A Select Critical Exploration of Post Truth Reality, IIS University Journal of Arts, vol. 14, 23-36, 1, ISSN: 2319-5339(P), 2583-7591 (O), 2025
2024
1. Nipan Nath and Merry Baruah, Labyrinth as Precursor to Network: Traversing the Meta-themes of Borges' Ficciones through Latourian Template, Margins, vol. XIII, 204-221, ISSN: 2250-0731, 2024
2. Jintu Hazarika and Merry Baruah, Reading Rivers as Capital: A Critique of Capitalism and Multinationalism in The Inheritance of Loss and Chenabor Sont, Drishti: the Sight, vol. XIII, 103-106, II, ISSN: 2319-8281, 2024
2023
1. nasrin shahnaz & merry baruah, Quest For Identity in The Self-Narrative of Dalit Transgender Living Smile Vidya’s I Am Vidya: A Transgender’s Journey, Assonance: A Journal of Russian & Comparative Literary Studies, vol. 23, 391-398, 2023
2. nasrin shahnaz & merry baruah, Self-Narration through the Digital: A Study of Myself Mona Ahmed , Redefining Theories of Communication: 21st Century Perspectives in Language and Literature, , 2023
3. Abhilash Kaushik and Merry Baruah, Conflicting Genders and Gender Conflicts: Elucidating “Performativity” in Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills , Literary Voice, vol. 20:1, 19-24, 2023
4. Risha Baruah &Merry Baruah, Speciesism and Ecology: Interplay and Interpretations of Venita Coelho's AIA Trilogy, , Literary Voice, 143-150, 2023
5. Abhilash Kaushik and Merry Baruah, Mapping the Marginalised: The Labyrinth of (In-)effable Identity in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Margins: a journal of literature and culture, vol. XII, 82-94, 2023
6. Abhilash Kaushik and Merry Baruah, The 'Double Natured' Media Landscape in the Classroom: Postulating the Technicalities of Representation in the Film The Remains of the Day, FORTELL, 90-98, 46, ISSN: Print 2229-6557, 2023
2022
1. Merry Baruah, Anthropocentrism and Ecology: Intersections and Interactions in Shubhangi Swarup's Latitudes of Longing, IIS University Journal of Arts, vol. 11(2), 114-130, 2319-5339, 2022
2. Merry Baruah, Silence as Narrative and the Silent Narrative: Introspecting the Impairing Imperialism in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant, Drishti: the Sight, vol. XI, II, 2319-8281, 2022
3. Merry Baruah, Transgender Rhetoric in A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi: Reading into the Narrative of Defiance, Drishti: the Sight2022, vol. XI, 139-143, II, 2319-8281, 2022
4. Abhilash Kaushik and Merry Baruah, Encapsulating Modernism and Beyond: Negotiations Adorning Counter-negotiations.”, The Text, vol. 4, 106-115, 2, ISSN 2581-9526, 2022
2016
1. Merry Baruah, Voices from the Margin: A Reading of Otherness in Dawn, Research Journal of Contemporary Concerns, vol. 10&11(A), 0972-7922, 2016
2014
1. Merry Baruah, Empowerment of Women: Indian Patriarchy and the Cultural Construction of the Family, Research Journal of Contemporary Concerns, vol. 9(A), 3-6, 0972-7922, 2014
2012
1. Merry Baruah, 2. The Body in the Family Politic: Reading Shashi Deshpande’s Moving On and In the Country of Deceit, The Atlantic Literary Review (Quarterly), vol. 13, 96-111, 1, 0972-3269, 2012
2. Merry Baruah, Quest for Identity: A Reading of Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies, Negotiations, vol. 2, 24-29, 2250=0707, 2012
2009
1. Merry Baruah/Dibrugarh University, Dept of English, Myths in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors and A Matter of Time, DUJES, vol. 18, ISSN 0975-5659, 2009
Research paper publications till 2021
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1. “Constructing Womanhood: Discourse of Femininity in Select Indian Advertisements” in Dimorian Review, Vol 5.2, March-April, 2018. 2. “Myths in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors and A Matter of Time” in DUJES, No.18, Department of English, Dibrugarh University, 2009. 3. “Quest for Identity: A Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s Small Remedies" in Negotiations, Department of English, Cotton College. Vol 2, 2012. 4. “The Body in the Family Politic: Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s Moving On and In the Country of Deceit” in The Atlantic Literary Review, Vol 13.1, Jan-March, 2012. |
Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)
1. "Transcending the Margin: A Postcolonial Reading of The Dark Holds No Terrors"
2. " Along the High Road: A Multilayered Spectacle of Life"
3. "Articulating the Daughter’s Voice: Politics of Gender Construction in Daughter’s Daughter"
4. "Myths and Cultural Legitimation: A Reading of A Matter of Time" in Engaging with Literature: Contemporary Readings.
5. Towards a Poetics of Resistance: A Select Reading of A Shuttle in the Crypt in Exploring Insights: Essays on Literature
Book publication other than subject concerned
1. Book chapters for KKHSOU text book (UG & PG)
- The Romantic Age
- The Victorian Age
- The Diary of Virginia Woolf
- V.S. Naipaul: An Area of Darkness in Non-Fictional Prose
2. English translation of Assamese short story -http://indianreview.in/fiction/another-master-born-najma-mukherjee/
3. English translation of Assamese short story – “A House of Desire” http://www.dimorianreview.com/2017/05/dimorian-review-vol-4-issue-3-may-june.html#axzz4hi1LRWeR
4. Book Review: Akou Pop Asomiya – Asomiya Satirical Fantasy in Dimorian Review, Vol-5.2, 2018
5. LORET Handbook for WWF
6. WWF MANUAL
7. WWF EK PRITHVI Series (for Class 1 to 12) adopted by the SCERT, Government of Assam (Elementary Education) for Environment Education in schools of the state
Awards
Recipient of Gold Medal in Masters in English under Gauhati University in 1999.
Other Information
- Invited Resource person in “Katha Regional Children Writers Festival” for the East zone in Guwahati, Royal Global School, 2017
- Invited Resource person in Katha Writers Workshop (Katha Utsav, 2018 – East Zone) at Royal Global School, 2018
- Resource person, Administrative Staff College (for Pre-Examination Training, Civil Services Examination)
- Resource Person, Academic Writing, Communication Skill for Career Advancement at B. Barooah College, 2019
- Invited Resource Person at CUGS, TISS (Guwahati Campus) for Special Lecture on "Sociology of Literature: Emerging Trends"
- Resource Person in a Workshop on Poetry Writing organised on occasion of World Poetry Day, 21st March, 2023 at Tangla College by the Literary Cell, IQAC, Tangla College.
- WWF (India) Consultancy Project - Mission Prakriti Videos, Subtitling and Editing.
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WWF (India) Consultancy Project for Ek Prithvi E-STEM Kits.
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WWF (India) Consultancy Project for One Earth One Home Worksheets. Completed
A Requiem for Theory! Eschatological Ruminations
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1. presented paper
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chair
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1. International Memory Studies Conference: Memory, Sustainability and Ecology. Chaired Online Session, Panel 13
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Conference
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1. Presented Paper
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2. Invited Speaker at CSIR Sponsored International Conference
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Equality through Women Empowerment
Invited Talk
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1. Delivered talk at a Panel Discussion on Climate Change Fictions: Representations of Global Warming in Literature and Imagining Climate Change Futures organised by Centre for Envirionment and Climate Action Foundation in collaboration with ICRC, Cotton University
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NATIONAL SEMINAR ON MODERNITY AND INDIAN THEATRE
Paper presenter
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1. National Seminar on Modernity and Indian Theatre
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2. National Seminar on Eqaulity through Women Empowerment
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3. Presented a co-authored paper titled "Man into Woman" - Nirvana in Traditional Hijra Practice: The Quintessence of Recreating the Female Body at 'Bridging the Gap: Bringing the Human Sciences together with the Humanities.
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4. Presented paper titled Historicising History: Reinforcing Cultural Reierations in Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World
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5. Presented paper titled “Theorising Solastalgia: Encoding Fluid Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled in the Three- day Virtual International Memory Studies Conference entitled “Memory in a Digital Age” organised by the Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras.
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6. Presented paper titled "Remapping Memory as Ecology in the Selected Poems of Nilamani Phukan, Temsula Ao and Kynpham Sing Nonkynrih at the International Memory Studies Conference on Memory, Ecology and Sustainability
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Resource Person
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1. Acted as Resource Person at Katha Regional Writers' Workshop, held at Royal Global School, Guwahati
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2. Resource person for NET/SLET special classes at Cotton University
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3. acted as Resource person in 7 day Online Faculty Development Programme on Research Methodology in Humanities and Social Sciences organised by Centre of Advanced Study, Dept of Assamese, Dibrugarh University
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4. acted as Resource Person in Creative Writing in 7- day Online Faculty Development Programme organised by Centre for Advanced Study, Dept of Assamese, Dibrugarh University
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5. acted as Resource Person at the Online Refresher Course on Literatures of North East India organised by TLC, TU in collaboration with the Dept of Assamese, TU
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6. Acted as Resource Person in One Day National Webinar on "Dimensions of Literature from Northeast India". Delivered a lecture on "Of Spaces and Silences: Writers from the North East"
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7. Refresher Course on Modern Indian Languages
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Womens' Autobiographies in India
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1. Presented paper titled Articulating the Daughter's Voice
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