1. M.A. (English)

2. Certificate Course in Communicative English

1. Ph.D. (Since September 2011)

1. M. Phil (Approved vide notification No. F.Acd/II/39/10/7827

1. Ph.D. – 04

2. M.A. (II Semester) – 25

3. M.A. (IV Semester) – 24

1. Pradeep Kumar (2009 batch)

2. Balbir Singh, Bharat Singh and Varsha Devi

10+2.

3. The Department of English started Ph. D. Course in Sept. 2011, with four students

enrolled with the Department.

4. The Department of English launched a Certificate Course in Communicative English in

Oct. 2011.

5. The Department of English organized a National Conference on

Narrativizing the Margins,

Certificate Course in Communicative English

Ph.D. (Since September 2011)

M. Phil (Approved vide notification No. F.Acd/II/39/10/7827-40 dated: 14.12.2010)

(2009 batch) – qualified SET in 2011.

Balbir Singh, Bharat Singh and Varsha Devi (all from 2006 batch) - got appointed in

The Department of English started Ph. D. Course in Sept. 2011, with four students

enrolled with the Department.

The Department of English launched a Certificate Course in Communicative English in

The Department of English organized a National Conference on Role of Literature in

Margins, on 26-27 March 2012.

40 dated: 14.12.2010)

got appointed in

The Department of English started Ph. D. Course in Sept. 2011, with four students

The Department of English launched a Certificate Course in Communicative English in

Role of Literature in

DR. SUBHASH CHANDER Asstt. Professor (Incharge)

1. M.A., Ph.D.

2. Supervising Doctoral Research since September, 2011.

TEACHEING EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, P.G. Department of English, University of Jammu (Bhaderwah

Campus) (March 2010 – current).

• Lecturer at G.G.M. Science College (2004

• Lecturer at G.D.C. R.S. Pura (2007

• Lecturer at G.G.M. Science College (2008

• Guest Lectures at Govt. Degree College, Bhaderwah in a workshop organized on

Communication Skills in

• Lectures on Communication Skills in MCA Dept., Bhaderwah Campus for the session

2010-11.

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Head, Department of English, Bhaderwah Campus (Since October 2010)

2. Member, PG Admission Committee at Dept. of English, University

3. Course Coordinator, Certificate Course in Communicative English

4. Appointed as special invitee to the DRC of Dept. of English, University of Jammu by the

Hon’ble Vice Chancellor for the Ph.D. cases of Bhaderwah.

ORIENTATION PROGRAMME

Orientation Programme (Grade ‘A’)

Feb. – 16 March, 2011

DOCTORAL RESEARCH SUPERVISION

1. Race Relations and Crisis of the Immigrant Self in the novels of Hanif Kureishi.

(Candidate: Nafisa Zargar).

Asstt. Professor (Incharge)

Supervising Doctoral Research since September, 2011.

XPERIENCE (08 years)

Assistant Professor, P.G. Department of English, University of Jammu (Bhaderwah

current).

at G.G.M. Science College (2004 – 2007)

at G.D.C. R.S. Pura (2007 – 2008)

at G.G.M. Science College (2008 – 2010)

Guest Lectures at Govt. Degree College, Bhaderwah in a workshop organized on

Communication Skills in October 2011.

Lectures on Communication Skills in MCA Dept., Bhaderwah Campus for the session

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Head, Department of English, Bhaderwah Campus (Since October 2010)

Member, PG Admission Committee at Dept. of English, University of Jammu

Course Coordinator, Certificate Course in Communicative English

Appointed as special invitee to the DRC of Dept. of English, University of Jammu by the

Hon’ble Vice Chancellor for the Ph.D. cases of Bhaderwah.

NTATION PROGRAMME

(Grade ‘A’) at Academic Staff College, University of Jammu from 19

SUPERVISIONS:

Race Relations and Crisis of the Immigrant Self in the novels of Hanif Kureishi.

Nafisa Zargar).

Assistant Professor, P.G. Department of English, University of Jammu (Bhaderwah

Guest Lectures at Govt. Degree College, Bhaderwah in a workshop organized on

Lectures on Communication Skills in MCA Dept., Bhaderwah Campus for the session

Head, Department of English, Bhaderwah Campus (Since October 2010)

of Jammu

Appointed as special invitee to the DRC of Dept. of English, University of Jammu by the

at Academic Staff College, University of Jammu from 19

Race Relations and Crisis of the Immigrant Self in the novels of Hanif Kureishi.

2. Cyberpunk and Counterculture Discourse: A Study of the selected novels of William

Gibbson and Philip K. Dick. (Candidate: Aruna Bhat)

3. Canadian Nationalism and Ethno-racial Aspirations: A Study of the Selected plays of

Drew Hyden Taylor, Tomson Highway and George Ryga. (Candidate: Sonia Sharma).

4. Constructing the Nation: Yeats and Decolonization of Irish Drama. (Candidate: Pankaj

Sharma).

March 26-27, 2012: Organized a National Conference on Role of Literature in Narrativizing

the Margins.

Oct. 2011: Designed and started a Three Month’s Certificate Course in Communicative –

English.

July, 2011: Published internationally a book entitled Canadian Nationalism and George

Ryga: A Postcolonial Perspective.

June 2009 – July 2010: Member Editorial Board for the Multidisciplinary Journal of the

University of Jammu.

14-16 Dec. 2009: Participated and presented a paper titled – George Ryga and

Cosmopolitanism: A Re-evaluation (Organized by the Department of English in collaboration

with the Department of Political Science).

2009: Multicultural and Ethnoracial Aspirations: A Study of George Ryga’s Seven Hours to

Sundown (submitted for publication in Researcher – A Multidisciplinary Journal of the

University of Jammu).

2009: Voice of Resistance: A Study of George Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Indian

(Published in Researcher – A Multidisciplinary Journal of the University of Jammu).

15-16 Dec. 2005: Presented a paper entitled – Voice of Resistance: A Critique of Canadian

Nationalism in the plays of George Ryga (International Conference and 12th

Annual

Convention of IASCL on Contemporary Thought and New Literatures in English at

Choudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut).

2005: Feminism in Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich Like Us (The Commonwealth Review, Vol.XV

no. 2 – an international refereed bi-annual journal devoted to the new literatures)

Dr. Narendra Kumar - Assistant Professor

1. M. A., NET (UGC), Ph.D.

2. Certificate Course in French

Teaching Experience (08 years)

• Assistant Professor, P.G. Department of English, University of Jammu (Bhaderwah

Campus) (April 2010 – current).

• Sr. Lecturer & Head, Dept. of English, Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology,

Management & Gramothan, Jaipur (May 2009 – April 2010)

• Lecturer & Head, Dept. of English, Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology,

Management & Gramothan, Jaipur (July 2007 – April 2009)

• Guest Faculty, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Malviya National Institute of

Technology, Jaipur (August 2006 – June 2007)

• Lecturer & Head, Dept. of English, Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology,

Management & Gramothan, Jaipur (August 2004 – June 2006)

Administrative Responsibilities Held

• Incharge, Central Library, Bhaderwah Campus, University of Jammu (September 2010-

current)

• Editor-in-Chief of THE SKIT TIMES, the quarterly news bulletin of Swami Keshvanand

Institute of Technology, Management and Gramothan Jaipur, from August 2004 to June

2006 and from July 2007 to April 2010

Orientation/Faculty Development Programmes

• Orientation Programme (Grade A), North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong,

2-29 May 2011

• AICTE/MHRD sponsored Winter school on Imaginative Reading, Creative Writing:

Language, Literature and the Teacher, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur,

1- 7 February 2010

Facilitation in Infrastructure and Course-ware Development

• Established Digital Multimedia Language Laboratory and developed its course-ware at

Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology, Management and Gramothan, Jaipur

Research Papers

- Published in Journals/Books

• ‘Negotiating Erasure: Identity in Kim Scott’s Benang.’ Identity, Ethos and Ethnicity:

Australia and India, eds. Anurag Sharma and Pradeep Trikha, Ajmer: Arawlii

Publication, 2010, pp. 92-102. ISBN: 978-81-7711-213-9

• ‘Fluid Identities and Home: Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound.’ The International

Journal of Culture, Literature and Criticism. Issue No. 2, Oct. 2010, pp. 56-67. ISSN:

0976-1608

- Conference/Seminar Papers

• ‘Race and the Politics of Representation: Epistemological Challenges Posed by the

Revisionary Studies of Canonical Literatures.’ Presented in the Fourteenth

international conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Vadodara on

‘Transcending Disciplinary Decadence: Exploring Challenges to Teaching, Scholarship,

and Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences,’ held in Jaipur on 18-21

December 2011.

• ‘Cosmopolitanism, Inter-narrativity and Cultural Empathy: Caryl Phillips’ The

Nature of Blood and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth.’ Presented in the Melus-Melow

international conference on ‘In Search of Solutions: the Conventional, the Experimental

and the Bizarre’ held at OUCIP, OU, Hyderabad on 22-24 September 2011.

• ‘Post(Neo)colonial Subject Formation and the Nature of Gaze.’ Presented in the

international seminar on ‘Theory at Work: Text, History and Culture,’ held at the

Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi on 9-11 November 2010.

.

• ‘Reconstructing Transformation: Identity and Cultural Crossings in Mike Phillips’

London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain.’ Presented in the international

conference on Telling Lives: Formations and Reflections in Diverse Narrative

Traditions held at the Department of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur on 24-26

February 2010.

• ‘Re-visioning Shakespeare: Postcolonial Internarratives of Margins in Caryl

Phillips’ The Nature of Blood.’ Presented in the international conference on Margins

and Nation Spaces: The Aesthetics of Cultural Expression, held at the Department of

English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur on on 8-9 February 2008.

• ‘Terror, Trauma and Representation: Narrative Strategies in Mirza Wahid’s The

Collaborator and Siddharth Gigoo’s The Garden of Solitude.’ Presented in the

international conference on ‘Minority Discourses across Cultures’ to be held at Central

University of Rajasthan, Kishangarh on 26-28 February 2012.

Workshops attended on Soft Skills and Creative Writing

• Soft Skills Workshop held at Infosys Technologies Ltd., Chandigarh-Campus organised

on 11-13 February 2009

• Soft Skills Training Program held at Infosys Technologies Ltd, Chandigarh-Campus on

10-14 September 2007

• Creative Reading & Writing Workshop, held on February 5 – 10, 2007 and conducted

by Prof. Valarie Miner, Stanford University, USA and organised jointly by Department

of English, University of Rajasthan and the American Center, New Delhi

Nafisa Zargar - Teaching Assistant (Contractual):

1. M. A.

2. M. Phil

3. Pursuing Ph. D. under the supervision of Dr. Subhash Chander, H.O.D. Department

of English Bhaderwah Campus.

March 26-27, 2012: Presented a paper titled – Victimization of Women during Communal

Carnage: A Study of Saadat Hasan Manto’s two short stories – The Return and Colder than

Ice.

Ambish Malik - Teaching Assistant (Contractual):

M. A.

March 26-27, 2012: Presented a paper titled –Hybridity and Mimicry in V.S. Naipaul’s The

Mimic Men.

Sneha Jamwal - Teaching Assistant (Contractual):

M. A.