Dr. Ritushmita Sharma

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Profile

EDUCATION:

  1. H.S.L.C: Oil India Higher Secondary School, Duliajan (2008)
  2. H.S: Oil India Higher Secondary School, Duliajan (2010)
  3. Bachelor’s Degree: Jagannath Barooah College (Autonomous), Jorhat (2013)
  4. Master’s Degree: Dibrugarh University (2015)
  5. M.Phil: Dibrugarh University (2016) 
  6. Ph.D: Dibrugarh University (2021)

AREAS OF INTEREST: African Literature, South Asian Literature, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory

Publications

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. "Shifting Paradigms: A Critical Probing into the Dialectics of Representation and Resistance in Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns" publihsed in NEOMA, edited by Chandramallika Hondikoi, published by Department of English, Naharkatiya College, ISBN: 978-93-92610-89-9
  2. "Of Rambuai and the Unsettling Lifeworlds: An Appraisal of Malsawmi Jacob's Zorami" published in DRISHTI: THE SIGHT (VOL XII, ISSUE I), 2023, (Enlisted in UGC CARE), ISSN: 2319-8281
  3. "Nature is My Temple": Revisiting the contours of Ecofeminism in Alice Walker's The Temple of my Familiar" published in SROTASWINI, VOLUME-VI, 2022-2023, (Enlisted in UGC CARE), ISSN: 2277-5277
  4. "Spectres from the Past: Reading the Repressed fragments of "the Personal and Historical" in Toni Morrison's Beloved" published in the book Literary Resonance, published by English Study and Literary Forum, Kakojan college (2021), ISBN: 978-93-93881-54-0 
  5. “The Representation of Bangladeshi Migrants in Transit and the Question of Cultural Difference: A Critical Perusal of Ronny Noor’s Snake Dance in Berlin” published in RUPKATHA JOURNAL OF INTERDISACIPLINARY STUDIES IN HUMANITIES (INDEXED BY WEB OF SCIENCE, SCOPUS, ERIHPLUS, EBSCO, UGC CARE LIST A) ISSN:0975-2935
  6. “The Significance of Photograph/Photographic Documentation in Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being” is published in DRISHTI:THE SIGHT, VOL.VIII, ISSUE: I and II (UGC CARE LISTED), ISSN: 2319-8281
  7. “Sarah Woodruff and the Question of her Social Freedom in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman” published in PRAGATI’S ENGLISH JOURNAL , VOL.19, NO.2, (UGC CARE LISTED) ISSN: 0975-4091
  8. “The Celebration of Lesbian Female Psyche in Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: A Critical Study” published in Psychology and Education, VOL.58. No.1, ISSN: 0033-3077 (Co-author: Porishmita Buragohain)
  9. “Heterotopian Dynamics in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner in Relation to Postmodern Geography of Identity” published in the book PERSPECTIVES ON LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY, ISBN: 978-93-86722-90-4
  10. “Articulating a Storm of “Dislocation” and a Diasporic Vision in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace” published in SIDDHANTA: THE CONCLUSIONS Volume–I, ISBN NO- 978-93-83308-62-0
  11. The “Power of Gender” as a Meta-lens and the Politics of Feminist Resistances in Nuruddin Farah’s From a Crooked Rib published in SIDDHANTA: THE CONCLUSIONS Volume-II, ISBN NO-978-81-942060-8-8
  12. “The Polity of Names and Naming in Toni Morrison’s Beloved” published in LITERARY HERALD (UGC APPROVED JOURNAL, AN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED ENGLISH E-JOURNAL, IMPACT FACTOR: 2.24) Volume 3 Issue 1, June -2017, ISSN-2454-3365
  13. “A man’s accusing finger always finds a woman”: Towards a Critique of Third-World Women Representation in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns”, published in IJELLH Volume 7 Issue 6, June-2019, ISSN-2321-7065
  14. “The Identity Constructed/Deconstructed: Interpreting Narrative Deconstruction of Gender in Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic” published in International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL), Volume 9 Issue 4, Edition: August 2019, ISSN (ONLINE): 2249-8028
  15. “Language, Culture and Migrant Identity: A Study of Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-EnglishDictionary for Lovers”, published in INTUIT (A Peer Reviewed Multidisciplinary International Research Journal) Volume-VI: 2017, ISSN: 2319-2097
  16. “A Reading on the Discourse of Sexism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”, published in BODHIDROOM (A referred journal dedicated to literature, culture and humanities), Volume III, September, 2016, ISSN: 2321-4791
  17. “Women’s Migration and Diaspora: A Study of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah” published in SROTASWINI (Peer Reviewed Biennial Bilingual Research Journal), Volume IV, 2019, ISSN: 2277-5277.

LIST OF SEMINARS (NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL):

  1. “Writing between ‘Self’ and ‘Nation’: A Reading of Nelofer Pazira’s A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan” (International Seminar on Identity, History, and Narrative in Contemporary Afghan Literature, organised by Department of English, Gauhati University, on 6-8 February 2019)
  2. “The Restructuring of National Somali Identity and quest for Indigenous Aesthetics in Nuruddin Farah’s Maps” (International Seminar on Indigenous Languages and Culture: Its Preservation and Dissemination, organised by Centre for Languages and Cultural Studies, Gauhati University, on 21-22 September, 2018)
  3. “Unveiling the Muted Voice of the Sexual Subaltern: A Reading of Janice Pariat’s Boats on Land” (ICSSR sponsored National Seminar on Women’s Voices in North-East India: Issues and Challenges organised by Department of English and Department of Philosophy, Jorhat Kendriya Mahavidyalaya, on 12-13 October, 2018
  4. “Nationalism, the Nation and Migration: Post-national Paradoxes in the Select Fiction of Nuruddin Farah” (National Seminar on Identity and Critical Praxis: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives in the select Fiction of Nuruddin Farah, organised by Department of Philosophy and department of English, MSSV, Nagaon on 21st and 22nd February, 2019)
  5. “Theorising Badal Sarkar as an Existential Playwright and his play Evam Indrajit: A Critical Perspective” (UGC sponsored National Seminar on Modern Indian Drama: Theory, Practice and Criticism, organised by The Department of Bengali, Digboi Mahila Mahavidyalaya, on 10-11 September, 2016)
  6. “The Self-Fashioned New Woman in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors” (UGC sponsored National Seminar on Changing Role of Indian Women in the Contemporary Society: Issues and Perspectives, organised by J.B.College Women Cell, on 15-16 September, 2016)
  7. “Redefining ‘Patriarchy’ and Rereading Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse as a Contemporary Text: A Feminist Outlook” (UGC sponsored National Seminar on Contemporary Literature in the Changing Socio-Cultural Scenario, organised by Department of English, Margherita College, on 18-19 September 2015)
  8. “The Transgression of Human Rights Abuse within the Context of ‘Coolies’: A Comparative Reading of Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie and Two Leaves and a Bud” ( National Seminar on Human Rights and Gender Justice, organised by Department of Bengali, Digboi Mahila Mahavidyalaya on 31st August and 1st September, 2019)
  9. “A Country in exile”: Representing the Migrants’ Eye view of the World in the select novels of Nuruddin Farah ( National Seminar on Recent Issues on Literature and Language Studies, organised by department of Assamese, Dibrugarh University on 30th March, 2019)

Courses Taken

  1. Late Medieval to Elizabethan Age
  2.  Jacobean to Pre-Restoration
  3. Cultural Studies
  4. Women and Literature 
Profile

Profile

EDUCATION:

  1. H.S.L.C: Oil India Higher Secondary School, Duliajan (2008)
  2. H.S: Oil India Higher Secondary School, Duliajan (2010)
  3. Bachelor’s Degree: Jagannath Barooah College (Autonomous), Jorhat (2013)
  4. Master’s Degree: Dibrugarh University (2015)
  5. M.Phil: Dibrugarh University (2016) 
  6. Ph.D: Dibrugarh University (2021)

AREAS OF INTEREST: African Literature, South Asian Literature, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory

Publications

Publications

 

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. "Shifting Paradigms: A Critical Probing into the Dialectics of Representation and Resistance in Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns" publihsed in NEOMA, edited by Chandramallika Hondikoi, published by Department of English, Naharkatiya College, ISBN: 978-93-92610-89-9
  2. "Of Rambuai and the Unsettling Lifeworlds: An Appraisal of Malsawmi Jacob's Zorami" published in DRISHTI: THE SIGHT (VOL XII, ISSUE I), 2023, (Enlisted in UGC CARE), ISSN: 2319-8281
  3. "Nature is My Temple": Revisiting the contours of Ecofeminism in Alice Walker's The Temple of my Familiar" published in SROTASWINI, VOLUME-VI, 2022-2023, (Enlisted in UGC CARE), ISSN: 2277-5277
  4. "Spectres from the Past: Reading the Repressed fragments of "the Personal and Historical" in Toni Morrison's Beloved" published in the book Literary Resonance, published by English Study and Literary Forum, Kakojan college (2021), ISBN: 978-93-93881-54-0 
  5. “The Representation of Bangladeshi Migrants in Transit and the Question of Cultural Difference: A Critical Perusal of Ronny Noor’s Snake Dance in Berlin” published in RUPKATHA JOURNAL OF INTERDISACIPLINARY STUDIES IN HUMANITIES (INDEXED BY WEB OF SCIENCE, SCOPUS, ERIHPLUS, EBSCO, UGC CARE LIST A) ISSN:0975-2935
  6. “The Significance of Photograph/Photographic Documentation in Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being” is published in DRISHTI:THE SIGHT, VOL.VIII, ISSUE: I and II (UGC CARE LISTED), ISSN: 2319-8281
  7. “Sarah Woodruff and the Question of her Social Freedom in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman” published in PRAGATI’S ENGLISH JOURNAL , VOL.19, NO.2, (UGC CARE LISTED) ISSN: 0975-4091
  8. “The Celebration of Lesbian Female Psyche in Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: A Critical Study” published in Psychology and Education, VOL.58. No.1, ISSN: 0033-3077 (Co-author: Porishmita Buragohain)
  9. “Heterotopian Dynamics in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner in Relation to Postmodern Geography of Identity” published in the book PERSPECTIVES ON LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY, ISBN: 978-93-86722-90-4
  10. “Articulating a Storm of “Dislocation” and a Diasporic Vision in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace” published in SIDDHANTA: THE CONCLUSIONS Volume–I, ISBN NO- 978-93-83308-62-0
  11. The “Power of Gender” as a Meta-lens and the Politics of Feminist Resistances in Nuruddin Farah’s From a Crooked Rib published in SIDDHANTA: THE CONCLUSIONS Volume-II, ISBN NO-978-81-942060-8-8
  12. “The Polity of Names and Naming in Toni Morrison’s Beloved” published in LITERARY HERALD (UGC APPROVED JOURNAL, AN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED ENGLISH E-JOURNAL, IMPACT FACTOR: 2.24) Volume 3 Issue 1, June -2017, ISSN-2454-3365
  13. “A man’s accusing finger always finds a woman”: Towards a Critique of Third-World Women Representation in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns”, published in IJELLH Volume 7 Issue 6, June-2019, ISSN-2321-7065
  14. “The Identity Constructed/Deconstructed: Interpreting Narrative Deconstruction of Gender in Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic” published in International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL), Volume 9 Issue 4, Edition: August 2019, ISSN (ONLINE): 2249-8028
  15. “Language, Culture and Migrant Identity: A Study of Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-EnglishDictionary for Lovers”, published in INTUIT (A Peer Reviewed Multidisciplinary International Research Journal) Volume-VI: 2017, ISSN: 2319-2097
  16. “A Reading on the Discourse of Sexism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”, published in BODHIDROOM (A referred journal dedicated to literature, culture and humanities), Volume III, September, 2016, ISSN: 2321-4791
  17. “Women’s Migration and Diaspora: A Study of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah” published in SROTASWINI (Peer Reviewed Biennial Bilingual Research Journal), Volume IV, 2019, ISSN: 2277-5277.

LIST OF SEMINARS (NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL):

  1. “Writing between ‘Self’ and ‘Nation’: A Reading of Nelofer Pazira’s A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan” (International Seminar on Identity, History, and Narrative in Contemporary Afghan Literature, organised by Department of English, Gauhati University, on 6-8 February 2019)
  2. “The Restructuring of National Somali Identity and quest for Indigenous Aesthetics in Nuruddin Farah’s Maps” (International Seminar on Indigenous Languages and Culture: Its Preservation and Dissemination, organised by Centre for Languages and Cultural Studies, Gauhati University, on 21-22 September, 2018)
  3. “Unveiling the Muted Voice of the Sexual Subaltern: A Reading of Janice Pariat’s Boats on Land” (ICSSR sponsored National Seminar on Women’s Voices in North-East India: Issues and Challenges organised by Department of English and Department of Philosophy, Jorhat Kendriya Mahavidyalaya, on 12-13 October, 2018
  4. “Nationalism, the Nation and Migration: Post-national Paradoxes in the Select Fiction of Nuruddin Farah” (National Seminar on Identity and Critical Praxis: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives in the select Fiction of Nuruddin Farah, organised by Department of Philosophy and department of English, MSSV, Nagaon on 21st and 22nd February, 2019)
  5. “Theorising Badal Sarkar as an Existential Playwright and his play Evam Indrajit: A Critical Perspective” (UGC sponsored National Seminar on Modern Indian Drama: Theory, Practice and Criticism, organised by The Department of Bengali, Digboi Mahila Mahavidyalaya, on 10-11 September, 2016)
  6. “The Self-Fashioned New Woman in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors” (UGC sponsored National Seminar on Changing Role of Indian Women in the Contemporary Society: Issues and Perspectives, organised by J.B.College Women Cell, on 15-16 September, 2016)
  7. “Redefining ‘Patriarchy’ and Rereading Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse as a Contemporary Text: A Feminist Outlook” (UGC sponsored National Seminar on Contemporary Literature in the Changing Socio-Cultural Scenario, organised by Department of English, Margherita College, on 18-19 September 2015)
  8. “The Transgression of Human Rights Abuse within the Context of ‘Coolies’: A Comparative Reading of Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie and Two Leaves and a Bud” ( National Seminar on Human Rights and Gender Justice, organised by Department of Bengali, Digboi Mahila Mahavidyalaya on 31st August and 1st September, 2019)
  9. “A Country in exile”: Representing the Migrants’ Eye view of the World in the select novels of Nuruddin Farah ( National Seminar on Recent Issues on Literature and Language Studies, organised by department of Assamese, Dibrugarh University on 30th March, 2019)
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