Basic Details

Full Name Dr. Garima Rai
Department English
Email garimarai@spm.du.ac.in
Phone Number 011 2522 4499
Address Ashok Vihar, Phase 2, New Delhi - 110052
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Educational Details

Undergraduate Degree: BA English Hons

Undergraduate University: University of North Bengal

Undergraduate Year: 2007

Postgraduate Degree: MA English

Postgraduate University: University of Delhi

Postgraduate Year: 2009

PhD Degree: English

PhD University: University of Delhi

PhD Year: 2020

Other Qualifications: MPhil in English, University of Delhi, 2011. Diploma in Communicative English, University of North Bengal, 2006

Teaching Experience

Designation: Assistant Professor

Institution Name: Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women

Years of Experience: 5

Subjects Taught: English

Assigned Courses: Discipline Specific Core, Discipline Specific Elective, AECC, MIL, Generic Elective, Skill Enhancement Course, Value Added Course, Liberal English Option to B El Ed

Research Interests

  1. Indian Literature. Studying Indian Nepali writings vis-a-vis the emergence of Nepali/Gorkhali consciousness in the early-twentieth - century - Darjeeling Hills. Orality and print, study of travelling forms like sawai and lahari, martial music of the Gorkhas, Nepali print culture, the beginnings of Gorkhali theatre in Darjeeling. Tea garden literature.
  2. Narratology, the short story, Rhetoric & Prosody, Translation Studies, literatures of diaspora.
  3. Women Studies, New Media, Speculative Fiction and posthuman studies.

Publications

Journal Publications:
  1. Research article titled: “Darjeeling -ey Idiom: The Literary Foundations of an Identity”, in Muse India(ISSN:975-1815) Issue 79 (May-June 2018)
  2. "Lifestyle of Tea Garden Reflected in Fiction" in Tea Garden Literature(ISBN: 978-93-8677148-3). Compiled by Terence Mukhia. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2017. 29-39
  3. 'Encountering Spirituality at Death’s Door: The Poetry of Tennyson.' Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 1 no.1 (May 2010). ISSN: 0976-1861 Sonada: Salesian College Publication, p. 65-71. Paper presented in UGC sponsored seminar on Spirituality in Victorian Poetry (2009), Salesian College, Darjeeling. 65-72
  4. Two articles, a poem and a book analysis in English and Nepali in Contextures (2007), college magazine, Loreto College, Darjeeling
  5. 'The Snows of Kanchenjunga'. Himalayan Times: The Voice of the Darjeeling Hills.Vol. 3 issue 4. (Feb. 2007), Kalimpong.14
  6. Book review of Indian Nepalis (eds. T.B. Subba et al) in Studies in Nepali History and Society, 19.2 ISSN 1025-519 in December 2014)
  7. Translated Earth Songs, a collection of stories from English to Nepali as Dharti ka Geetharu, (ISBN: 978-93-90866-77-9) Sahitya Akademi, 2021.
  8. Translation of Shiv Kumar Rai’s short story "Georgette ko Sari" from Nepali into "The Georgette Sari" in English. Sagar: A South Asia Research Journal vol. 22 (2014),peer - reviewed journal by The South Asia Institute, University of Texas, Austin
  9. Translated Wuthering Heights into Nepali (ISBN:978-81-260-2340-0), Sahitya Akademi, 2008