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Arpana Nath

Arpana Nath

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. : Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Research Interests:

Postcolonial Studies, Literary Theory, Indian Writing In English, Women’s Writing, Literature from the Northeast
Joined the University in May 15, 2010

Phone: 9435117667
Email: arpana.nath@gmail.com

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About Teaching Research Paper Publications Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented) Other Informations

About

Arpana Nath joined the Department of English, Cotton University (erstwhile Cotton College) in 2010. She holds a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology and has attended many courses and workshops on Women and Literature, Postcolonial studies and Comparative Literature. She has been honoured with the University’s Best Faculty award for research contribution in terms of quality journal publications for the year 2018. Her research interests include South Asian Literature, Gender and Literature and Postcolonial Studies with special emphasis on Writings from the North East.

Teaching

Literary Criticism and Theory, North East Literature, Gender Studies and Indian Writing in English.

Research paper publications till 2021

?    Nath, Arpana. “Memories of Partition.” Muse India. Issue 92 (July-August 2020) 
?    Nath, Arpana. “Writing as Resistance.” The Book Review. Vol XLIV Number 6, June 2020
?    Nath, Arpana. Book Review.  Nandita  Haksar’s “The Politics of Food Cultures of India. ” Coldnoon: International Journal of Travel Writing and Travelling Cultures. December 2018. ISSN 2278-9650 
?    Nath, Arpana.  “Baby Halder’s A Life Less Ordinary: Domestic Work, Motherhood and the Dalit Woman.” Antyajaa: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change. Vol 3, issue (2), December 2018. pp.  230–239. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jws/current
?    Nath, Arpana. Book Review. Avinuo Kire’s The Power to Forgive. (Zubaan Books, 2016). MZU Journal of Literature and Culture Studies. Vol.V, Issue 1, June 2018, pp. 282-286. ISSN 2348-1188 
?    Nath, Arpana. Book Review. Temsula Ao’s Aosenla’s Story. (Zubaan Books, 2017). Muse India. Issue No, 79. (May-June 2018)  ISSN 0975-1815
?    Nath, Arpana. “Gender and the Writing of History: The Emergence of Counter- modernity in Nineteenth Century Women’s Writing in India.” Negotiations: Journal of the Department of English, Cotton College. Vol.3, 2015. 111- 117.  ISSN: 2250-0707
?    Nath, Arpana and Rohini Mokashi Punekar. “The Mother-Daughter Relationship: Motherhood and Sexuality in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters”. The IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Vol. iv No.1, 2012. 22-30. 
?    Nath, Arpana and Rohini Mokashi-Punekar. “Going Beyond Stereotypes: The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Shashi Deshpande’s Novels.” DUJES (Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies) Dibrugarh University, Vol. 19, 2010. 38-53. ISSN 0975-5659


 

Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)

Nath, Arpana. “The Crisis of Identity: Reframing the Self in Kavery Nambisan’s Mango-Coloured Fish.” In Indian Narrative Tradition: Text, Performance and Interpretations. Ed. Arzuman Ara & Surajit Sen. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2021, pp. 156-164. ISBN 10 9382178317 Nath, Arpana. Hiren Gohain: “Two Roads to Decolonization: Gandhi and Tagore.” Literatures from North-East India (In English and Translation. (Self Learning Materials) Block3, Unit: 11. KKHSOU, Guwahati, 2019. pp. 207- 220. ISBN: 978-93-87940-93-2 Nath, Arpana. “Toril Moi: “Female, Feminine, Feminist.” Literary and Critical Theory II, (Self Learning Materials) Block 3, UNIT: 11. KKHSOU, Guwahati, 2019. pp. 219-231. ISBN: 978-93-8940-90-1 Nath, Arpana. “Ethnicity and Identity: A Reading of Select Poems by Jogamaya Chakma.” Innerscape: Exploring Literatures from India’s North East. Edited by Arunabha Bhuyan. Guwahati: Papyrus, 2019. pp. 79-87. ISBN: 978-81-938964-2-6 Nath, Arpana. “Reading Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable as a Critique of Colonial Modernity”. In Rethinking Colonialism and Globalisation: The Historical Saga of India from the 19th century onwards”. Edited by Madhuri Saikia. Guwahati & Delhi: DVS Publishers, 2018. pp. 147-157. ISBN: 978-93-85839-22-1 Nath, Arpana.“Memories of Place and Places of Memories: Reading Identity in Women’s Writing from Northeast India.” Reading India’s Northeast: Literature, Land and People. Ed. Garima Kalita. Guwahati: MRB Publishers, 2016. 34 - 48. ISBN: 978-93-83403-03-5 Nath, Arpana and Rohini Mokashi-Punekar. “Fasting, Feasting: Food, Consumption and the Politics of Power.” The Writers Feast: Food and the Cultures of Representation. Ed. Supriya Choudhury and Rimi B. Chatterjee. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2011. 92-103. ISBN 10: 8125041958; ISBN 13: 9788125041955

Other Informations

FDP/Workshop/Conference

  • Attended a one week online FDP on New Vistas in English Studies organized by the Department of Languages, Presidency University, Bengaluru, Sept 20-26, 2021  
  • Attended a one week online STP on Online Tools for Teaching-Learning organized by UGC-HRDC University of Hyderabad, June 21-26, 2021   Attended a one week online STP on Building Competencies of Teachers in Blended Learning and Teaching organized by UGC-HRDC, University of Hyderabad,  May 17-22, 2021 
  • Attended an eight week NPTEL approved  FDP course on Film Appreciation, Sep-Nov 2020 Attended the GIAN workshop organized by Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneshwar on Postcolonial World Literature from February 15 – 25, 2016.   
  • Attended the UGC sponsored Refresher Course in English Language and Modern Literature conducted  by the UGC-HRDC, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Trivandrum, from July 1-21, 2015.   
  • Participated in the International Symposium on Crisis of Integrity and Literary Movement organized by AALAP and Natun Sahitya Parishad at Cotton College, Guwahati, on 12.01.2016. 
  • Attended the Institute for World Literature organized by the Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, held in Bilgi University, Istanbul Turkey, June 25-July 20, 2012. 
  • Conducted two sessions on “Using Communication Strategies in Social Situations” in the UGC sponsored workshop on Spoken English and Communicative Skills organized by THB College Jamugurihat, Sonitpur, Assam, from 26 March-30 March 2012. 
  • Nath, Arpana. “Narrativizing the North East: Subjectivity, Community, and Storytelling in Literature from the North East.” Paper Presented at International Conference on Minority Discourses across Cultures organized by Central University of Rajasthan in collaboration with the Comparative Literature Association of India, February 26-28, 2012. 
  • Nath, Arpana. “Literary Regionalism: Narratives of Identity and Culture in the Fiction of Mamang Dai.” Paper presented at International Conference on Narrativizing the Margins: Northeast India and Beyond organized by the Department of English, Assam University, Diphu Campus, January 4-6, 2012.