Imsuchila Kichu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. : University of MadrasResearch Interests:
Drama, Theatre, Asian American literature, Australian and Canadian literaturesDate of Joining : Dec 15, 2015
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Email: imsuchila.kichu@cottonuniversity.ac.in
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)
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2022-2024 Batch |
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Nishita Dowerah |
ENG2261003 |
Queer Narrative in Contemporary Fiction: Exploring the LGBTQ+ Representation in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple |
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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 |
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3 |
Divvyanaa Hazarika |
ENG2261038 |
Exploring the Power of Healing and Therapy: Nature Poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats and the Japanese Practice of Sinrin-Yoku |
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Pallabi Das |
ENG2261056 |
Examining Historical Narratives Through Literary Analysis: A Study of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan |
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2020-2022 Batch |
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Uddipta Mazumdar |
ENG2061008 |
Tess as the New Women: An Analysis of Hardy’s Inversion of the Idealised Woman |
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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 |
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7 |
Diptimoni Das |
ENG2061035 |
From Silence to Voice: The Search for a Voice in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple |
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8 |
Hannan Ali |
ENG2061049 |
The Influence of Charles Darwin’s Theory ‘Survival of the Fittest’ on the Animal Poetry of Ted Hughes |
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2019-2021 Batch |
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9 |
Jyotirupa Saharia |
ENG1961014 |
Breaking Barriers: A Study of Women in Restoration Theatre with Special Reference to The Way of the World |
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10 |
Mirbon Teronpi |
ENG1961051 |
Cultural Clash and Identity Crisis in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club |
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11 |
Bandana Brahma |
ENG1961054 |
Black Women and the American Dream: A Study of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple |
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12 |
Henna Daimari |
ENG1961056 |
A Study of Inter-culturalism in Tea |
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2018-2020 Batch
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13 |
Sanghamitra Nath |
ENG1861017 |
Feminism in Anita Desai’s Fasting Feasting |
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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 |
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15 |
Sanjida Shah |
ENG1861050 |
Questioning the Idea of Feminism Through Thatcherism in Top Girls by Caryl Churchill |
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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
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