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Arpana Nath

Arpana Nath

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. : Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Research Interests:

• Indian Writing in English and in Translation • Literary Theory • Gender and Literature • Postcolonial Literature that focus on Writings from the Northeast
Date of Joining : May 15, 2010

Phone: 9435117667
Email: arpana.nath@cottonuniversity.ac.in

Arpana Nath CV    Vidwan Profile
About Teaching Experience 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 Writing from the North East.

 

 

Teaching

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

Experience

Institute Position Teaching Responsibilities Date of Joining Date of Leaving
Cotton University, Guwahati Assistant Professor UG/PG level/PhD level June 1, 2017 Ongoing
Cotton College, Guwahati Assistant Professor UG/PG level May 15, 2010 Present post
Guwahati College, Guwahati Lecturer/Substitute Teacher UG (English Major)/HS (10+2) January 4, 2005 January 2006
Post Graduate Correspondence School (PGCS), Gauhati University Counselor Tutorial classes January 2005 December 2005
Pandu College, Guwahati University Lecturer (Ad Hoc) UG (English Major)/HS (10+2) August 2, 2004 August 22, 2004

Research paper publications

2024

1. Deka, Trishna and Arpana Nath, "Cricket as Politics: Mapping Spaces of Appropriation and Hegemony in Shashi Tharoor’s An Era of Darkness", Literary Voice, vol. 1, 124-136, 22, ISSN-2277-4521, 2024

2023

1. Deka, Trishna and Arpana Nath, "Rereading the Folk: Gender and Environmental Ethics in Cyborg Proverbs", margins: a journal of literature and culture, vol. XII, 167-179, ISSN 2250-0731, 2023

2. Choudhury, Madhusmita and Arpana Nath, "Postcolonial Politics and Fractured Identities in the Short Stories of Ismat Chughtai", Assonance: A Journal of Russian and Comparative Literary Studies, 335-345, 23, ISSN 2394-7853, 2023

Research paper publications till 2021

  • Nath, Arpana. “Writing as Resistance.” The Book Review. Vol XLIV Number 6, June 2020, pp. 33
  • Nath, Arpana. “Memories of Partition.” Muse India. Issue 92 (July-August 2020) ISSN: 0975-1815
  • Nath, Arpana. “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. ISSN: 2455-6327; Online ISSN: 2456-3722
  • Nath, Arpana. Review article. 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, January 2012. 22-30. ISSN 0974-8822
  • 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.
  • Nath, Arpana and Rohini Mokashi-Punekar. “Social Spaces and Voices in Jane Austen’s Persuasion”. Journal of the Department of English Gauhati University. Vol.6, 2007. Pp. 37-44

Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)

 

  • Nath, Arpana. “Gender, Misogyny and the Patriarchal Trap in Arun Sarma’s One-Act Play Paraxuram. In Performing Arun Sarma: Theatricality, Transgression, Transformation. Ed. Namrata pathak and Dhurjjati Sarma. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024. Pp. 84-92. 978-1-0364-0214-3
  • 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
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Other Information

FDP/Workshop/Conference

  • Presented a paper “Reading Alterity in E. M. Forster’s Short Fiction” at the conference organized by The International E.M. Forster Society, University of Warmia and Mazury in Osztyn, and University of Warsaw, June 24-26, 2024.
  • Particiated in the NEP 2020 Orientation & Sensitization  Programme under Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme (MM-TTP) of University Grants Commision (UGC) Organized by UGC-MMTTC, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram from December 1-14, 2023
  • Presented a paper Folklore as an Inhibitive Force in the Short Fiction of Temsula Ao and Janice Pariat: A Comparative Perspective in the XVI Biennial CLAI International Conference on Interplay of Community, Textuality and Orality: Comparative Perspective on History, Culture and Society organized by the Department of English, Sikkim University in association with Comparative Literature Association of India and in Collaboration with National Translation Mission, CIII, Mysore, Institute of Language Studies and Research, Kolkata &Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, November 20-22, 2023.
  • Participated in the NPTEL Online workshop 21st Century Teaching and Learning Skills, July, 2023.
  • Participated in UGC Sponsored Webinar “Academic Bank of Credit” on September 15, 2023 conducted by UGC-MMTTC (Formerly UGC-HRDC), Gauhati University.
  • Participated in UGC Sponsored Webinar “Multiple Entry and Exit in Academic Programmes” on September 8, 2023 conducted by UGC-MMTTC (Formerly UGC-HRDC), Gauhati University.
  • Attended a one week online FDP on New Vistas in English Studies organized by the Department of Languages, Presidency University, Bengaluru, September 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.
  • Presented a paper titled “Cricket As Discourse: A Critical Exploration of Shashi Tharoor’s An Era of Darkness in an International Conference (online) on Contemporary Issues in South Asian Literatures and Culture Studies organized by Department of Languages, Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan, March 30-31, 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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. 
  • Attended a month long Refresher Course in English, conducted by UGC-Academic Staff College, Gauhati University from December 5-25, 2011.
  • Attended a month long Orientation Course, conducted by UGC-Academic Staff College, University of Hyderabad from Sept 23 to October 20, 2010.