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Dr. Asha Choubey
Reader in English
Head, Dept. of Humanities
IET. MJP Rohilkhand University
Bareilly, India
asha.choubey@yahoo.com
reader1234@rediffmail.com
Awards & Honours:
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Founding Member, International Women’s Review Board, Oxford, U.K.
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Member, Professional Women's Advisory Board, American Biographical Institute.
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Recipient of Ivory Eagle Conferred by Home of Letters, India.
Founder General Secretary:
Jijiwisha, Association of Women Managers in Higher Education from U.P., Bihar, and Uttarakhand.
Contributor:
- Routledge Online Annotated Bibliography. Postcolonial Section.
- Sage Multi-media Encyclopedia
- Companion to Shakespeare, eds. Kenneth Womack & William Baker. New York: Facts on File. 2010.
- The Dictionary of World Literary Characters, ed. Michael Sollars. New York: Facts on File. 2009.
- Landmarks in Feminist Writings. ed. Tiffany Wayne. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2009.
Reviewer:
· Post Colonial Text, A peer-reviewed Journal
· Novitas-Royal, A peer-reviewed Journal
UGC Projects:
Completed
· A Major project on Capacity Bulding Workshop for Women Managers in Higher Education.
Running
· A Major project on Language Anxiety- “ A Critical Study of Anxiety as a Major Impediment in English learning in ESL Students of Uttar Pradesh: Factors, Impact & Solutions”
Publications:
Book:
Women on Women: Perspectives on Indian Women Writers. Jaipur: Book Enclave. 2010. In press.
The Fictional Milieu of Nayantara Sahgal: A Feminist Approach. New Delhi : Classical Book Company. 2002.
B. Published papers and articles:
More than 20 research papers in refereed National/International journals published world wide.
1. “Braving the Dark: First Impressions of The White Tiger.” in The Atlantic Literary
Review. Jan-Mar. 2010. New Delhi.
2. Smelly Encounters: An Olfactory Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Banerjee and Radhika Jha,” in Smelly Women: Olfaction, Gender and Literature.
3. “From Silence to Speech: An Assessment of Indian English Fiction by Women.” Academic Exchange Extra. Apr.-Aug. 2009. USA.
4. “Honouring the Dead: Reading Antigone as a Feminist Treatise” Yavanika,. No.12. Bareilly:MJP Rohilkhand University.
5. A House without a Space: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things” The Atlantic
Literary Review. New Delhi. Jan.-Mar. 2009.
6. “Voices from the Yore: Therigatha Writings of the Bhikkunis” World Literarute in English.
7. “Frailty Thy Name is Woman.: A Feminist Perspective of Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting.” Indian English Literature. ed. Basavaraj Nagarkar. New Delhi: Atlantic.
8. “A Feminist Perspective of Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting.”Critical Responses to Anita Desai. Ed. Shubha Tiwari. . New Delhi: Atlantic.
9. “Food as Metaphor in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies”. Postcolonial Web.
10. “Thorn in the Flesh: Male Chauvinism and Female Apathy in Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting.” Indian English Literature. By Basavaraj S Naikar Atlantic:New Delhi. 2007.
11. “A Feminist Critique of Anita Deasai’s Fasting, Feasting.” Critical Responses to Anita Desai. By Ed. Shubha Tiwari. Atlantic. 2004.
12. “A Critique of Naipaul’s Half a Life: Searching for Identity in Limbo.”V.S. Naipaul By Mohit K. Ray Atlantic 2004.
13. “The Day in Shadow: A Study in Inertia and Submission.” Posty-Independence Indian English Fiction. eds. Rajeshwar Mittapalli & Alessandro Monti. New Delhi: Atlantic. 2001.
14. “The Magic Wand of Arundhati Roy: The Strategy of Words in The God of small Things,” Indian English Literature. ed. Basavaraj Naikar. New Delhi: Atlantic.
15. "Be your own hero (ine) : A Case Study of Sahgal's Sonali Ranade." Indian English Literature. ed. Basavaraj Naikar. New Delhi: Atlantic. 2002.
16. "A Critique of Naipaul's Half a Life: Searching for Identity in Limbo." V.S. Naipaul: Critical Essays. ed. Mohit K. Ray. New Delhi: Atlantic.
17. "Naipaul's Half a Life: Coming to Terms with King Cophetua." V.S. Naipaul: Critical Essays. ed. Mohit K. Ray. New Delhi: Atlantic.
18. "Mothers and Daughters: A Comparative Study of Fasting, Feasting and Difficult Daughters.” ed. Rama Kundu. Indian Writing in English. New Delhi: Atlantic. 2003.
19. "Sophocles and Indian Poetics: A Study of Oedipus in the Light of Rasa Theory:" Yavanika rpt. in Mohit K. Ray ed. Studies in Comparative Literature. New Delhi: Atlantic. & The Green Lotus, Bhuwaneshwar, Orissa.
20. "The Power and The Glory: The Sun Behind the Cloud' Indian Book Chronicle. vol. XXIX no.3-4.
21. "The Lady of Carignano: A Mythopoeic Study of Fire on the Mountain. " Indian Women Novelists in English. ed. Ravinandan Sinha & Sujit Bose. Jaipur: Book Enclave.
22. “East and West: Some Parallels in Indian and Western Poetics.” The Green Lotus. vol. III no.2. Rpt. in Studies in Comparative Literature. Ed. Mohit K. Ray. New Delhi: Atlantic. 2002.
23. “Their Separate Worlds: A Critique of Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting,” Indian Book Chronicle. vol.xxiv. no. 10.
24. “New Social Ethics in the Novels of Nayantara Sahgal.” Indian Book Chronicle. vol.xxx no.9.
25. "Rise Don't Fall in Love: A Feminist Study of the Role of Love in Difficult Daughters." The Quest. vol. XX. no.2. December
26. "Issues Today and Tomorrow: Relevance of George Orwell in 2003." The Atlantic Critical Review. vol. 12 no.4.
Poems:
“Saviours and other poems.” Literary Paritantra (Systems) Vol 1 No 1 & 2 Basant (Spring) 2009, 114 – 115
“Nostalgia.” Apple Valley Review. Volume 4, No. 1
(Spring 2009) USA.
Essay:
Web Publications:
07 articles published by the post-colonial web, maintained by Prof. George P. Landow, Brown University, Singapore. On
Story:
"The Catharsis." Indolink.com.
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Papers Presented in Seminars/Conferences:
11 UGC Sponsored National Seminars.
02 ELTAI International Conferences
09 International Seminars/ Conferences.
My Paper Reading at the Women Writing and Reading Conference @ University of Alberta, Edmonton, was aired by Words on Radio, a radio channel in Edmonton on 5 May 2007.
Professional experience:
· Reader in English, Department of Humanities. MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly. 2002-Till Date
· Lecturer in English, K.M.V. P.G. College, Bareilly. 1996-2002.
Additional Professional Activities:
Workshops:
Capacity Building Workshop for Women Managers in Higher Education
Organized: 01
· Residential Sensitization Workshop @ Department of Humanities, MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly.
Facilitated as Resource Person:
· Sensitization Workshop @ Department of Humanities, MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly.
· Sensitization Workshop @ Academic Staff College, Allahabad Uiniversity, Allahabad.
· Sensitization Workshop @ G.B. Pant University, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand.
· Sensitization Workshop @ the Center for Women’s Studies, Jammu University, Jammu.
Attended: 02
Organized:
Pre-RDC Workshop for Research in English @ MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly on 14-15 November 2007.
Professional Experiences:
Membership of Professional Bodies:
Life-Member:
· Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and
Language Studies.
Member: English Language Teachers' Association of India.
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