Rajashree Bargohain
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. : IIT GuwahatiResearch Interests:
Eastern Himalayan literature and culture studies, Animality Studies, Urban Ecologies, Disability Studies, Literature of the AnthropoceneJoined the University in Mar 1, 2021
Phone: 8723817501
Email: rajashree.bargohain@cottonuniversity.ac.in
About
Rajashree Bargohain's current area of research interest is Eastern Himalayan Literature and Cultural Studies. She is also interested in Disability Studies, Animality Studies, Urban Ecology and Literature of the Anthropocene. Prior to joining Cotton University, she worked as a lecturer in the MA Program in English at Yonphula Centenary College of the Royal University of Bhutan, located at Trashigang, Bhutan. She is currently engaged in compiling an edited volume of scholarly essays, tentatively titled Eastern Himalayas and Border Thinking in a Post-COVID 19 World, to be published by Routledge, India as a part of the proposed Routledge book series – ‘Academia, Politics and Society in a Post-Covid World’.
Please find the link to her professional webpage below:
Teaching
UG Sem II
Course Code - ENG 201C
Course Title - The Restoration till 1780
Unit 3: Poetry
- Milton: Paradise Lost (Book 9, line 48-98)
- Aphra Behn: “Love Arm’d”
Unit 5: Fiction
- Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Part I, Voyage to Lilliput)
UG Sem IV
Course Code - ENG 402C
Course Title - Language and Linguistics
Unit 2: Linguistics: Debates, Branches and Approaches
- What is Linguistics? Is Linguistics a Science?
- Levels of Analysis: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Semiology
-Approaches to the Study of Language: Synchronic/Diachronic, Geographical/social/stylistics (Situational), Prescriptive/Descriptive, Traditional/Modern
- Key Concepts of Linguistics: Langue/ Parole, competence, performance, syntagmatic/ paradigmatic, Levels of Analysis
UG Sem V
Course Code - ENG 503 DSE 1b
Course Title - Introduction to World Literature
Unit 1: Introducing basic Concepts
- Goethe’s idea of World Literature
- Neocolonialism
- Globalization, Multiculturalism and Digital World
Unit 2: Poetry from the Western Zone
- Pablo Neruda: “Poetry”
UNIT 5: Drama
- Derek Walcott: Dream on Monkey Mountain
Course Code - ENG 502C
Course Title - American Literature
Unit 5: Fiction
- Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
UG Sem VI
Course Code - ENG 605 DSE
Course Title - Introduction to Modern European Literature
Unit 3: Poetry
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Elegy 1 from The Duino Elegies
- Czeslaw Milosz: “Incantation”
- Fernando Pessoa: “Almost”, Poem XXXVI
Unit 5: Fiction
- Maxim Gorky: “Twenty-six Men and a Girl”
- Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
PG Sem I
Course Code: ENG701C
Course Title: Poetry I - Chaucer to Blake
Unit 2: Texts
- Edmund Spenser: Sonnets 34 and 67 from Amoretti
- William Shakespeare: Sonnets 18 and 144
- John Milton: Paradise Lost, Invocation and Book 1
PG Sem II
Course Code: ENG802C
Course Title: Drama II – Shakespeare
Unit II: Shakespeare through the Ages
- Shakespeare and Literary Criticism
- Shakespearean Adaptations and Translations
PG Sem III
Course Code: ENG901C
Course Title: Poetry III - World War I to the Present
Unit 1: Poetry till the Second World War
- Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier”, “The Dead”
- W. B. Yeats: “Byzantium”, “Sailing to Byzantium”
- W. H. Auden: “September 1, 1939”
Unit 2: New Voices in Poetry
- Edward Lucie-Smith: “The Lesson”
- Charles Tomlinson: “A Rose for Janet”
- Adrian Henri: “Tonight at Noon”
Course Code: ENG902C
Course Title: Drama III - Modern to the Present
Unit 2: Texts
- Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party
- Tom Stoppard: The Real Inspector Hound
PG Sem IV
Course Code: ENG1004 OPE 3
Course Title: Assamese Writings in Translation
Unit II: Poetry
- Ajit Barua: “Jengrai”
Unit III: Drama 8 Lectures
- Jyoti Prasad Agarwala: The Silent Princess
Unit IV: Fiction
- Saurabh Kumar Chaliha: “A Game of Chess”
Experience
- Assistant Professor, Department of English, Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam. (March 2021 to present)
- Lecturer, MA Programme in English at Yonphula Centenary College, Yonphula, Trashigang, Bhutan (August 2019 to February 2021)
- Assistant Professor in English at Sonapur College, Sonapur, Assam (Substitute Teacher Under FDP of UGC) (16-02-2018 – 08-05-2019)
- Guest lecturer at Dept of English, B Borooah College, Guwahati (August 2012- Dec 2012)
- Guest lecturer at Dept of English, B Borooah College, Guwahati (July 2011- Dec 2011)
Research paper publications
2022
1. Rajashree Bargohain and Tshering Thinley, Bhutan, Western Arunachal Pradesh and Modern State-Making: Literary-[Trans]cultural Mappings in Moi Akou Janam Lom and The Circle of Karma, Waseem Anwar and Nosheen Yusaf eds. Transcultural Humanities in South Essay: Critical Essays on Literature and Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. , 9781003039549, 2022 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003039549
2020
1. Rajashree Bargohain and Rohini Mokashi Punekar, Poetry, Identity and the Geography of Culture: Representations of Landscape in Poetry in English from Northeast India, Asian Ethnicity, vol. 23, 47-65, 1, Print ISSN: 1463-1369 Online ISSN: 1469-2953, 2020 10.1080/14631369.2020.1727311
2019
1. Rajashree Bargohain, Blind’ Fate and the Disabled Genius: Postcoloniality and ‘Translation’ in Saurabh Kumar Chaliha’s “Beethoven”, Someshwar Sati and GJV Prasad eds. Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience. London: Routledge, 2019. , 119-132, 9780367442958, 2019 https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429319570
2. Rajashree Bargohain, Envisioning a Modern Assamese Society: A Study of Jyotiprasad Agarwalla’s Khanikar, MuseIndia, vol. 83, ISSN: 0975 1815 6, 2019
2018
1. Rajashree Bargohain and Rohini Mokashi Punekar, Locating Polyphony: A Study of the Ramayana in Assam, Margins: A Journal of Literature & Culture, vol. VII-VIII, ISSN: 22500731, 2018
2. Rajashree Bargohain and Rohini Mokashi Punekar, “Her Thighs Still Smell of Milk”: Partition and Poetry in Northeast India, Cafe Dissensus, vol. 44, 2018
2016
1. Rajashree Bargohain and Rohini Mokashi Punekar, Modern Quests, Ancient Lore: Reading Poetry in English from Northeast India, Margaret L. Pachuau and T. Dhanajit Singh Eds. Emergent Identities in Literature. New Delhi: Headword, 2016., 75-88, 978-9-38-565645-3, 2016
Book publication relating subject/research concerned
Eastern Himalayas and Border Thinking in a Post-COVID 19 World - Proposed anthology of scholarly articles edited by Rajashree Bargohain, to be published by Routledge, India as a part of the proposed Routledge book series - 'Academia, Politics and Society in a Post-Covid World'.
Book publication other than subject concerned
1. “Beethoven” (translated short story from Assamese into English) in Someswar Sati, G.J.V. Prasad and Ritwick Bhattacharjee eds. Reclaiming the Disabled Subject: Representing Disability in Short Fiction. Bloomsbury, 2022.
2. “নগা সমাজত কিংবদন্তী ডালিমীৰ ভূমিকা” (Role of the legend of Dalimi in Naga Society) published in Amar Asom (আমাৰ অসম)), July 31, 2019.
3. ““All the Rest is Myth and Mystery”: A Conversation with Mamang Dai” in The IACLALS Journal 3 (2017). ISSN: 2395-1206.
4. ““Poetry on the lips of the earth”: A Conversation with Desmond Kharmawphlang”. in the Journal of the School of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University 20. (Spring Autumn 2016): 106-112. ISSN: 0972-9682.
Awards
UGC NET-JRF - June 2011
Other Informations
Academic engagements outside parent institution
1. Panel member at MA Research Proposal Presentation and Defence, Yonphula Centenary College, Royal University of Bhutan 12-14 November, 2021.
2. Blind manuscript Reviewer, Routledge, India, December 2022.
3. Doctoral Committee (External) member, VIT-AP university, Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh, August 2023.
Conference Presentations
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1. Presented a paper on 'Disability in Assamese Folktales: Cultural Ethic and Narrative Logic' at the ICSSR -NERC sponsored National Seminar on "Disability in North-East India" organized by the Disability Action Committee, Arya Vidyapeeth College (Autonomous) in association with Bodoland University, Kokrajhar and Literary Cell, Arya Vidyapeeth College (Autonomous)
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2. Presented a paper entitled “The Hills Write Back: Postcolonial Cultural Contestations in Black Hill and Into the Hidden Valley” at the triennial conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) 2019.
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3. Presented a paper entitled “Partition and Poetry in Northeast India” at the 1st Annual Asian Studies Conference organized by the Center for Advanced Studies in South Asia at Kathmandu, Nepal on October 25 to October 27, 2018.
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4. Presented a paper entitled “Poetry amidst Violence in Northeast India” at the symposium on “India @70: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on 70 years of Indian Independence” organised by The Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies and the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies of the University of Nottingham at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom on September 21, 2017.
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5. Presented a poster entitled “Blurring the Lines Between the ‘Personal’ and the ‘Political’: Women’s Writings in English in Northeast India” at the Research Conclave 2017.
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6. Presented a paper entitled “Poetry, Identity and the Geography of Culture: Representations of Landscape in Poetry from Northeast India” at the IACLALS Annual Conference on “Location, Identity, Solidarity – Hegemonic Formations and Contestations (With a Special Focus on the Northeast)” organised by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.
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7. Presented a paper entitled “Modern Quests, Ancient Lore: Reading Poetry in English From Northeast India” at the National Seminar on “Emergent Identities: Its Literary Representations” organised by the Department of English, Mizoram University.
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8. Presented a paper entitled “Envisioning a Modern Assamese Society: A Study of Jyotiprasad Agarwalla’s Khanikar” at the National Seminar on “Modernity and Indian Theatre” organised by the Department of English, Gauhati University.
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9. Presented a paper entitled “Locating Polyphony: A Study of the Ramayana in Assam” at the conference on “Bakhtin in India: Exploring the Dialogic Potential in Self, Culture and History” jointly organised by the Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar; Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences, Baroda & The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda.
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10. Presented a paper on “The Politics of the Spectacle and Midnight’s Children” in the International Conference on “Literature to Cinema: Adaptation, Appropriation, Adulteration” organised by NIT Durgapur (Best Presentation Awarded).
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11. Presented a paper titled 'Affective Cinematic configurations: Exploring Gender, Disability and Caregiving
in the Assamese films Debi and Beautiful Lives' at the 4th International Conference IDSC conference on EPISTEMOLOGIES OF DISABILITY
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Invited lectures
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1. Delivered a talk on 'Understanding Disability: A Sociological Perspective' as Resource Person in the CertificateCourse on Disability Studies organised by the Department of Disability Studies, Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati
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2. Delivered a lecture on “Eastern Himalayas and Border thinking in a Post-Covid World” during the one day webinar on “Reframing the Pandemic: Positive Impact on Culture and Society” jointly organized by Social Sciences and Humanities Association, Royal University of Bhutan and Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur, India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTn2Nbw_xy8
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3. Delivered a talk on ‘Refugees of the Anthropocone: Reading Moria Hula as cli-fi’ at the seminar on ‘Exploring Diverse Perspectives of Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene: Culture, Literature and Environmental Consciousness’
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Workshop participation
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1. Presented a paper on 'The Wolf-men of Undivided Assam: Vocalizing Tribal Rights through SF' at 'The Mythos of Postcolonial Futures: Re-presenting India in Science Fiction' an Online Workshop organised by SGTB Khalsa College, DU & GADTLC, in Association with Bloomsbury.
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2. Presented a paper entitled “‘Blind’ Fate and the Disabled Genius: A Study of Saurabh Kumar Chaliha’s “Beethoven”” at the IATIS South-Asian Regional Workshop on “Translating Disability Across Cultures: The Translation and Representation of Disability in the Modern Indian Short Story”.
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3. Participated in the workshop on “Contemporary Marginalities: History, Knowledge, Theory” organised by and at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.
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4. Participated in the workshop on “Theory after Theory: Uses, Crises and New Directions” organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras in collaboration with the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda.
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