Research and Readings

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES IN INDIA AND ABROAD

• Myth as Revelation: A Study in the Poetry of W.B.Yeats
• Big Things & Small Things in Arundhati Roy’s The God Of Small Things
• Feminism: Opposing the Binary Opposition
• Rasa, Dhvani & Auchitya in the Indian & Western Poetics
• Love Poems: The Historical Alternative---Poems of Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das
• Rethinking Modernity, Rereading T.S.Eliot
• The Academics of Teaching-Literary Theory and Practice
• The Wild Urge of a Man on Earth to Touch the Heaven---The Extra-Literary Vision of Mulk Raj Anand
• The Nostalgic Note in their Flute: A Reading of Arundhati Roy and Jhumpa Lahiri
• Shakespearean Heroines: The Source of Energy and Vitality
• The Chemistry Behind Creativity: A Reading of Sylvia Plath and Ted Huges
• Poetry for Life’s Sake: Voice of Judith Wright
• The Emerging Innovations in Technology and Pedagogy
• The Concept of Love in Shakespearean Sonnets: A Study
• Religious Harmony and Political Cosmos: the Voice of T. S. Eliot
• Folk and Tribal Culture of Orissa: Religiosity, Historicity and Oral Traditions
• The Position of Women in Oriya Literature
• Two Dispossessed Habitats: A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake
• Translation as Power
• Words and Silences in the Poetry of Niranjan Mohanty
• The Cultural Designation of Feminism: Theory and Praxis
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Poet and the Priest: A Study of The Windhover
• Double Colonization for the Marginalized Children A Literary Delineation, Surviving Against Odds: the marginalized in a globalizing world
• Nationalism through Patriotic Books
• Kaleidoscope of the Indian Society-The Voice of Indo-Anglican Women Poets
• Role of Literature in Abolishing International Terrorism
• Capacity Building through Communicative Skills in Open Distance Learning
• Print Media and the Role of Academia in ODL
• Globalization and Cross-cultural Communication: the Role of Liberal Education
• The Art and Science of Writing Children’s Literature
• Indian Poetry in English: Recent Trends
• Winds of Change: The Voice of Judith Wright and Kamala Das
• Documentation and Preservation of Culture
• Gopinath Mohanty’s ‘Paraja’: A Study of the Folk Culture of Orissa
• Translation-- to Bring Home the Culture

ORGANIZED SEMINARS

• Conducted a two-day national level workshop on English Language Teaching (ELT) at IACR under Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Orissa, on 26-27 February 2005.
• Organised National Seminar on the topic: Traditions of Folk in Literature in SOH ,IGNOU, New Delhi, on 30-31 August 2010.