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Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women

University Of Delhi

श्यामा प्रसाद मुखर्जी महिला महाविद्यालय

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PERMANENT FACULTY
Ms. Renu Mehta
Ms. Manpreet Kaur
Ms. Manju Singh
Dr. Anuradha Sarkar (Teacher In-charge)
Dr. Garima Rai
Mr. Cijo Joy
Ms. Nupur Mittal
Mr. Biswajit K. Bora
Mr. Shubham Pandey
Nitika Gulati
Mr. Ramniwas Baira
Ms. Noduli Pulu
Ms. Kanika Attri
Ms. Bineet Kaur Chandok
Dr. Shreya Singh
Dr. Yaoreipam Makang
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Basic Details

Full Name Nitika Gulati
Department English
Email nitika@spm.du.ac.in
Phone Number 9716355213
Address G-74, 3rd floor, Kalkaji, New Delhi - 110019
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Educational Details

Undergraduate Degree: B.A. Hons. (English)

Undergraduate University: University of Delhi

Undergraduate Year: 2015

Postgraduate Degree: M.A. (English)

Postgraduate University: University of Delhi

Postgraduate Year: 2017

PhD Degree: English

PhD University: University of Delhi

Other Qualifications: UGC-NET with JRF (2018)

Teaching Experience

Designation: Assistant Professor

Institution Name: Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women

Years of Experience: 4

Subjects Taught: Literature and Disability, Graphic Narratives, 14th to 17th Century Poetry, Digital Communication, Public Speaking in English Language and Leadership, Literary Criticism, Literature and Human Rights

Assigned Courses: B.A. Hons., B.A. Prog., B.Com. Hons., B.El.Ed., ITEP

Key Achievements: Co-Convenor, Equal Opportunity Cell - 2024 onwards; Editor for Press Release - SRIJAN, 2024; Convenor for Story Ending Competition during Jabberwocky, 2024; Coordinator - English Language Support Centre; Coordinator - Departmental Activities Record Committee

Research Interests

  1. Disability studies, specifically literature on madness/mental illness
  2. Gender studies
  3. English language teaching

Publications

Journal Publications:
  1. ““Can a wild stream and a girl be one and the same?”: An Ecofeminist Reading of Select Short Stories from Nandini Sahu’s Shedding the Metaphors.” Creative Saplings: An International Peer-reviewed Journal, vol. 2, no.2, 2023, pp. 12-23.
  2. “Mapping the Modern Mind: Mental Health Echoes in The Waste Land.” MELOW Journal of World Literature, vol. 7, 2023, pp. 173-181.
  3. “Reading the Disnarrated: Traumatic Memory, Disrupted Communication, and the Crisis of Modernity in Jeet Thayil’s Low.” Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, vol. 8, no.2, 2022, pp. 12-21.
  4. “Teachers’ Perspectives on the English Language Needs for Employability of Engineering Students: An Analysis.” Journal of English Language Teaching, vol 62, no.6, 2020, pp. 3-7. (With Dr. Sanjay Arora and Dr. Preeti Bhatt)
  5. “Google Apps for English Language Teaching and Learning: The Classroom and Beyond.” The Achievers Journal: Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, vol. 6, no. 4, 2020, pp. 29-44. (With Dr. Preeti Bhatt)
Conference Papers:
  1. “My Mother is Mad: Maternal Mental Illness and the Complexity of Care in two Literary Narratives from India” (Poster Presentation) at the PG and ECR Conference on “New Pathways in Comparative and World Literature”, Nov. 2022 organized by British Comparative Literature Association at Queen’s University Belfast - Received a Cash Prize for the Best Poster Award.
  2. “Mapping the Modern Mind: Mental Health Echoes in The Waste Land” at the 22nd Annual International Conference on "One Hundred Years of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land", Sep. 2022 organized by MELOW.
  3. “Rethinking Schizophrenia: Ruptured Narrative in Reshma Valliappan’s Fallen Standing” at the 19th Triennial Conference on “Ruptured Commons”, July 2022 organized by ACLALS.
  4. “Crossing Borders, Negotiating Boundaries, Challenging Binaries: The Complexity of Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge” at 19th English Graduate Students Society Conference on “Invisible Borders: Narrating Centers and Peripheries”, Apr. 2022 organized by University of Montreal.
  5. “Strained Relations and Difficult Conversations: Examining Disnarration in a Memoir of Depression” at Medical Humanities, Health, and Culture Conference on "Resilience", Apr. 2022 organized by Boston College.
  6. “Resilience and Resistance through Arts: Mental Illness and Healing in Memoirs from India” at Intermountain Graduate Conference on “Healing through the Humanities”, Mar. 2022 organized by Idaho State University, U.S.
  7. “Modernity’s Phrenic Consequences: Miscommunication and Missed Communication in Jeet Thayil’s Low” at the International Conference on “Circulations, Mediations, Negotiations: New Perspectives on Translation from South-Asia”, Mar. 2022 organized by IACLALS in Collaboration with Janki Devi Memorial College, DU - Shortlisted for C.D. Narasimhaiah Prize.
  8. “Running from the Coronavirus: A Re-turn to Corporeality”at the 2nd Pan NIT HSS International Conference on “Resilience and Transformation for Global Restructuring” (ICRTGR), Jan. 2022 organized by MNIT Jaipur (With Ishita Sareen).
  9. “Unresolved Experience and Unrealized Imaginings: Reading Re-narration as Disnarration in Gayathri Prabhu’s If I had to Tell it Again” at a Conference on “Illness, Healing and the Literary Imagination”, Nov. 2021 organized by MELUS MELOW, at Shoolini University, Solan.
  10. “Modifying the Jigsaw Technique for Teaching Communication Skills in a Technology-Enabled ESL Classroom” at a Conference on “Best Innovative Teaching Strategies” (ICON-BITS), July 2021 organized by BITS, Pilani - Best Paper Award (1st Position).
  11. “Graphic Narratives and Narrative of Graphics: Invading the Literary Canon” at a Conference on “Connections/ Disconnections: Literary Traditions, Continuities and Disruptions”, Feb. 2020 organized by MELUS MELOW, at Panjab University, Chandigarh. (With Ishita Sareen).
  12. “An Ecocritical Reading of Angela Carter’s Short Stories” at a Conference on “Hermeneutics Today: Negotiating Traditional Approach across Cultures, Literatures and Languages”, Jan. 2020 organized by SKIT, Jaipur (With Dr. Preeti Bhatt).
  13. ““Boundless Pleasure Attracts Cruel Penalties”: Ahalya’s Myth Reworked for These Times” at National Conference on Contemporary Perspectives in English Language, Literature & Cultural Studies (NCCPE) June 2021 organized by Chandigarh University in collaboration with Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Literary Voice. (With Ishita Sareen) - Awarded Second Best Paper in the Panel on Gender.
  14. “English for Employability: An Analysis of Language Needs of Engineering Students” at a National Conference on “Sustainable Development Goals,” (NCSDG) Sep. 2020 organized by MNIT Jaipur, NIT Uttarakhand and TIES, New Delhi. (With Dr. Preeti Bhatt and Dr. Sanjay Arora).
Book Chapters:
  1. “Mental Health and Substance Misuse.” The Routledge Companion to 21st Century Indian Fiction in English from India [WT], edited by E. Dawson Varughese, Routledge, 2024. (Forthcoming)
  2. “Modifying the Jigsaw Technique for Teaching Communication Skills in a Technology-Enabled ESL Classroom.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Best Innovative Teaching Strategies organized by BITS, Pilani in July 2021, edited by Nirankush Dutta and Meetha Shenoy, Macmillan, 2022, pp. 87-90.
  3. “English for Employability: An Analysis of Language Needs of Engineering Students.” Multidisciplinary Approach to Sustainable Development Goals: Some Issues and Reflections, edited by K. Shanmugan and Dipti Sharma, Kindle Direct Publishing, 2021, pp. 64-83 (With Dr. Preeti Bhatt and Dr. Sanjay Arora).
  4. “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Scientific Temper” Essays in Classics, edited by Paramjit S. Jaswal, Naresh Kumar Vats and Navleen Multani, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law Punjab, 2019, pp. 60-77 (With Rajshree Sharma).
  5. “Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World.” Essays in Classics, edited by Paramjit S. Jaswal, Naresh Kumar Vats and Navleen Multani, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law Punjab, 2019, pp. 60-77 (With Rajshree Sharma).