Detailed List of Publications

Books: 03

• Arthur Miller: A Study of the Doomed Heroes in his Plays. Sanjay Book Centre, Varanasi , 1993.
• Indian English Novel in the Nineties and After: a Study of the Text and its Context . Adhyayan Publishers. New Delhi . 2004.  
• And the Story Begins: My Ten Short Stories , Varanasi : MPASVO, 2007.

International Journal/National Refereed Journals and Anthologies  

• Women's Survival and Struggle for Change in Veena Paintal's An Autumn Leaf and Spring Returns . Published in Feminism and Recent fiction in English, ed., Sushila Singh, Prestige Books, New Delhi , 1991.
• Inscription of the Repressed: Khushwant Singh's Delhi . Published in Khushwant Singh: the Man and his World , ed., R.K. Dhawan, Creative Books, New Delhi , 2000.
• A Voice after the Long Silence: Shashi Despande's Roots and Shadows and That Long Silence . Published in Post Independence Indian English Fiction . ed., Rajeshwar Mittapalli and Alessandro Monti. Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi , 2001.
• Margin at the Centre: A Reading of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things . Published in The Fictional World of Arundhati Roy. Ed., R.S.Pathak. Creative Books, New Delhi , 2001.
• History, Narrative and Partition: a Reading of Mukul Kesavan's Looking Through Glass. Published in Indian English Literature Since 1950 .Volume 2. ed., Charu Sheel Singh. Anmol Publications, New Delhi , 2002.
• Situating Indian English Fiction especially of the Nineties in the Ecology of Print Culture. Published in Indian English Novel in the Nineties , ed., Sheobhusan Sukla and Anu Shukla. Sarup and Sons, New Delhi , 2002.
• Genealogy of Gender Bias: a Collage of Three Contemporary Indian Plays. Published in Indian English Literaure , Vol.VI, ed., Basavaraj Naikar. Atlantic Publishers, 2003.
• Novel as Imagined History: David Davidar's The House of Blue Mangoes . Published in Studies in Literature , Vol. IX, ed., Mohit Kumar Ray. Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi , 2004.
• Edward Said: On the Literature of the Exile. Published in The Atlantic Critical Review Quarterly , July – September, 2004, vol. 3, no.3.
• Look Back in Gender: Lorrainne Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun . Published in Studies in Women Writers in English , Vol. II, eds., Mohit Kumar Ray and Rama Kundu. Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi , 2005.
• The Valorized World of Vishnu: Manil Suri's The Death of Vishnu . Published in The Journal of English Studies , Vol. XLII, 2004-5.
• Intersecting Tradition: Munshi Premchand's One Act Play Despair . Published in Chhattisgarh Vivek Quarterly Research Journal, vol. 12, Oct – Dec, 2005.
• Indian English Novel in the Nineties and After. Published in The Atlantic Literary Review Quarterly, New Delhi , October – December. Vol. 6, no. 4. 2005
• Reinventing Mythical Women: Sunny Singh's Nani's Book of Suicide . Published in Chhattisgarh Vivek, Quarterly Research Journal . April – June, Vol. 14, 2006.
• The Jataka: An Exploration of its Tradition and Tales. Published in Prajna, BHu , journal , vol.49-51 (Part 1-2) , 2003-2006.
• The Use of Postmodernist Strategies in Contemporary Indian English Fiction. Published in Chhattisgarh Vivek Quarterly Research Journal . Jan – March, Vol. 13, 2006. 
• Mahasweta Devi: The Writer as Activist. Chhattisgarh Vivek Quarterly Research Journal. July – Sept. Vol. 15, 2006.
• Nissim Ezekiel: An Orientation to his Theatre. Published in The Atlantic Literary Review , July – Sept. Vol. 7 no. 3. 2006.
• Cultural Identity and Diaspora: Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake . Published in Atlantic Literary Review . April – June , Vol. 7 , no. 2.,2006
• Problematising the Role of Women in India 's Freedom Struggle: A Reading of Some Contemporary Indian English Novels. Published in the Atlantic Literary Review .January – March, vol.7, no. 1, 2006.
• Trauma as Testimony: Shyam Selvadurai's The Funny Boy. Published in Chhatisgarh Vivek Quarterly Research Journal. October- December. Vol. 15, 2006.
• Gayatri C.Spivak as a Third World feminist theorist. Published in Dialogue: a J ournal Devoted to Literary Appreciation . Vol. iii, November 11, Dec. 2007.
• ‘Edward Said : On the role of the Intellectual' published in Points of View ,ed. K.K.Sharma , Vol.XIV , no. 2 , Winter, 2007
• ‘Emerging Trends in Indian Theatre' .Published in Chhatisgarh Vivek Quarterly Research Journal. vol. 19, july – sept., 2007
•  ‘Voice and Violence: A Fanonian Reading of Bankim Chandra's Rajmohan's Wife' , Published in The Atlantic Literary Review Quarterly , January – March , 2008, Vol. 9, number 1.
• ‘Narrating India in English', published in The Atlantic Literary Review Quarterly, April – June 2008, vol. 9, number 2.Editor: Rama Kundu.
• ‘Producing/Reproducing Third World Women: Contemporary Debates in Feminist Theory'. Published in Replica: A Modern Progressive English Poetry Quarterly. Vol. XI, Issue no 1, January -2008. Editor: Premananda Panda
• ‘Stairway to the Sky: Women Writers in Contemporary Indian English Fiction' published in Parnassus: An Innovative Journal of Literary Criticism Vol.1, 2009. Chief Editor: Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal.
• ‘Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism' published in New Urges in Postcolonial Literature , ed. by Sunita Sinha. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers.2009
   

Book Review

• Sudharkar T. Sali's Anita Desai's Female Protagonists. Adhyayan Publishers, New Delhi , 2006. Review published in Dialogue: A Journal Devoted to Literary Appreciation , Vol. II, Number II, December 2006.
   

Translations

• Foucault and the Imagination of Power', from Edward Said's Reflection in Exile , translation published in Sakhi 13 – 14, July – December, 2006. 
   

Radio Talks / Creative Writings

• Emerging Trends in Indian Theatre. Radio talk, All India Radio , Varanasi , Date of Broadcast: 22.8.2001.
• Nissim Ezekiel: The Poet of the City. Radio talk, All India Radio , Varanasi . Date of Broadcast: 15.01.2003.
• About Short Story. Radio Talk, All India Radio , Varanasi . Date of broadcast: 20.08. 2003.
• And the Story Begins: a short Story, All India Radio , Varansai , Date of Broadcast :31. 12. 2003.
• The River Sutra: a short story, All India Radio , Varanasi . Date of Broadcast: 21.04.2004.
• Surviving the Storm: a Short Story, All India Radio , Varanasi . Date of Broadcast: 02. 03. 2005.
• Double Dealing: A Short Story, All India Radio , Varanasi . Date of Broadcast: 07.09.2005.
• Ganga: A Short Story, All India Radio , Varanasi . Date of Broadcast: 15.03.2006.
• And God Disposes: a Short Story, All India Radio , Varanasi . Date of broadcast: 15.03.2006.
• For her Sake: A short Story, All India Radio , Varanasi . Date of Broadcast: 20.09.2006.
• Jhanvi: a Short Story, All India Radio , Varanasi . Date of Broadcast: 16.05.2007.
• Short Story ‘The Tree of Life' Broadcasted from All India Radio, Varanasi on 28.8.08

Short Story Published

• Short story ‘The Wait' published in online journal Muse India , May 2008.

Award

• Short story ‘The Wait' published in online journal Muse India , May 2008. It also won the ‘ Special Commendation Award' in ‘Muse India Fiction Contest' for the year 2008.

Papers Presented in Conferences, Workshops attended 

International Conferences

• International Conference on English Literature of the SAARC Countries. From 23 – 25 Feb. 1998 held in BHU. Presented paper titled: Decentered Discourse: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.
• International Conference on Buddhism and Literature from 19 - 22 Feb., 2001 , held in BHU. Presented paper titled: Jataka: An Exploration of its Tradition and Tales.
• South Asian Linguistic Analysis (SALA)-25 Conference , held on September 16 th – 18 th , 2005, at the University of Illinois , Urbana Champaign .My paper was presented (in Absentia) titled: Indian Fiction in English Language : Politics of Decentring.
• International Seminar on Nissim Ezekiel and Indian Literature in English. Held on 18 th – 19 th January 2005. Presented paper titled: Nissim Ezekiel: An Orientation to his Theatre.
• International Conference on W.H.Auden and his Contemporary Relevance.14 th – 15 th September, 2006 . Paper Presented: W.H.Auden's Dramaturgical Concepts: A Study of Ascent F6 and Dog Beneath the Skin .
• International Conference held in the Department of English, BHU in collaboration with Indian Association for Commonwealth literature and Language Studies. On January 11 – 13, 2007 . Paper presented: Violence and Voice: a Fanonian Reading of Rajmohan's Wife.

1. Attended international Seminar on ‘Translation and Multilingualism' held in the Department of English, BHU on 5 th - 6 th March 2009 .
2. Participated and presented paper in the ‘Eleventh International Conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory', held in Varanasi 18 – 21 December 2008 on Democracy in our Times: The Past and Future of Enlightenment. Paper presented: Democratising Drama/Dramatising Democracy: A Cross Sectional Analysis.

National Conferences and Workshops attended and paper presented:

• National Seminar on Recent Literary theories and Teaching of literature, from 14 th – 16 th December, 1996. Paper presented titled: Semiotic Analysis of Patrick White's The Ham Funeral .
• All India English Teachers Conference from 20 th – 22 nd December, 1999, held in Varanasi . Paper presented titiled: Look back in Gender: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun .
• Seventh Annual Commonwealth Studies Conference from March 27 th – 29 th , 1995 , held in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Paper presented: Inscription of the Repressed: Khushwant Singh's Delhi .
• National Seminar on Form and Method in Post 1950 Indian literature, from March 27 th -28 th , 2000. Held in the Department of English, Kashi Vidyapeeth. Paper presented: History, Narrative and Partition” a Reading of Mukul Kesavan's Looking Through Glass .
• National seminar on New Directions in Indian writing in English from September 8 th – 10 th , 1994 . Paper presented titled: A Voice after the Long Silence: A Study of Shashi Despande's That Long Silence and Roots and Shadows.
• National Seminar on Feminism and Recent Fiction in English held on 9 th – 11 th November 1989 in Women's College, BHU. Paper presented titled: Women's Survival and Struggle for Change in Veena Paintal's An Autumn Leaf and Spring Returns.
• National Seminar on Recent Indian Literature: Mapping Indianness. Held from 3 rd -5 th January 2002 in DAV College , Ajmer , Rajasthan. Paper presented: Genealogy of Gender Bias: A Collage of Three Contemporary Indian Plays.
• National Seminar on Mahatma Gandhi: Literary and Socio-Political Perspectives. Held on March 14 th – 16 th , 2002 , in Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth. Paper presented titled: Intersecting Tradition: A Reading of Munshi Premchand's One Act Play Despair.
• VI Conference of the Indian Congress of Asian and Pacific Studies. Held on October 24 th – 26 th, 2002 in BHU. Paper presented: Border Matters: Dismantling Binarism in Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man .
• All India Conference of the Indian Association for Studies in Contemporary Literature. Held on 29 th – 30 th September, 2002 in BHU. Paper presented: Situating Indian English Fiction in the Ecology of Print Culture.
• National Seminar on Feminine Psyche in Literature. Held on 22 nd -23 rd August, 2003 in BHU. Paper presented; Reinventing Mythical women: Sunny Singh's Nani's Book of Suicide .
• National Seminar on Subaltern Consciousness, Humanism and the Politics of Interpretations. Held on 21 st – 22 nd Febuary, 2003 in Women's College, BHU. Paper presented: The Valorised World of Vishnu: Manil Suri's The Death of Vishnu.
• UGC Golden Jubilee Seminar on Human Rights and Duties Education. Held on 27 th – 28 th September in Vasanta College for women, Rajghat. Paper Presented: Githa Hariharan's In Times of Seige : A Symbolic Declaration of Human Rights.
• Attended Workshop on Environment Law Management Capacity Building Project, a Training Programme on Environmental Studies for teachers of cognate disciplines. Held on June 23 rd – 29 th , 2003 , in the Law School , BHU
• National Seminar on the Role of Women in India 's Freedom Struggle. Held on 20 th – 21 st February, 2004, in Women's College, BHU. Paper presented: Problematising the Role of Women in Freedom Struggle: A Reading of Some Contemporary Indian English Novels.
• National Seminar on Indian Fiction in English Translation. Held on 2 nd – 3 rd February, 2004 in APS University , Rewa, M.P. Paper presented: Mahasweta Devi: The Writer as Activist. 
• Educational Workshop on People's Education for the Promotion of Equanimity Towards all Religions. Held on 25 th September, 2005 . In Maitri bhavan, Varanasi .
• National Seminar on Challenges to Knowledge and Culture in the Countries of the Third World . Held on 10 th – 11 th   Febuary, 2005. Paper presented: Cultural Identity and Diaspora: Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake.
• All India English Teachers Conference, held at the University of Lucknow , 13 th – 16 th January, 2006. Paper presented: Indian Fiction in English Language: Politics of Decentring.
• 28 th all India Conference of Linguists, 2 nd -4 th November, 2006 .Paper presented: Narrating India in English Language : a Reading of Postcolonial Indian English Fiction
• National Seminar on Edward Said: Criticism and Resistance. Held on 23 rd – 24 th February, 2007. Paper presented: Producing /Representing Third World Women: Contemporary Debates in Feminist Theory. 
• Seminar on Edward Said organized by the Department of Hindi and Premchand Sahitya Sansthan. Held on 5 th February, at Bharat Kala Bhavan, BHU. Paper presented: Edward Said: On the Role of the Intellectual.
• Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: An Anti – Play.  Paper presented during Orientation Course, ASC, BHU, held from May 13 th – 8 th June 1991.
• A World of Hurt: Shyam Selvadurai's A Funny Boy . Paper presented during the Refresher Course held in ASC, BHU.from January 5 th – 25 th , 1999 .
• Theatre of the Absurd: Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs and Amedee or How to Get Rid of it. Paper presented during the Refresher Course, ASC, BHU, held from June 20 th – July 10 th , 2000 .
• Attended Workshop organised by NCERT, New Delhi on 19 th November – 20 th November 2008 on ‘ Samaj Ka Madhyam'
• Participated in the National Seminar on ‘Post – 1950 Indian English Poetry'. Held on March 28 -29, 2009, in the Department of English & modern European Languages, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi . Paper presented: ‘Aesthetics of Subversion: A Reading o Three Poems of Das, De Souza and Despande'.
• Delivered lecture as ‘special speaker' in a symposium held on 17.12.08 on ‘Globalisation and Literature' in the Department of English, APS University , Rewa, MP.
• Chaired discussion session on ‘Privatisation of higher Education' in the Faculty of Law, BHU organised by the Forum ‘Academique' on 9.9.08.

Lectures in Refresher/orientation courses

• Delivered lecture – ‘American Drama: an Overview' as a resource person in UGC Academic Staff College , BHU, on 4.8.2007. 
• Delivered lecture - ‘From Suffrage to Post Feminism' in the 10 th Orientation Course in Women's Studies, BHU on 25 th Nov.2008.
• Delivered lecture –‘Aesthetics of Indian Feminist Theatre' in Refresher course in Women's Studies and Development, BHU on 7th Sept.2008.
• Delivered lecture – ‘Towards a Postcolonial/Post modern Pedagogy in Refresher course on ‘Recent Trends in Literature and Language Teaching', BHU on 20 th Oct.2008.

Framing Syllabus

• As Resource Person in ‘Syllabus Framing workshop' organised by CWSD, BHU on 24 th Jan 2009 for designing syllabus for the paper on ‘Women ,Literature and Culture'.

Designing material

• Designing self instructional material for M.A. English programme (2009) for English and Foreign Language University , Hyderabad .

Academic Councillor IGNOU

• For the session 2008 – 2009 (Taught paper on Drama (M.A 1st year) and Literary Criticism (M.A. 2 nd year).

Organized Seminar  

• UGC Golden Jubilee Seminar on Human Rights and Duty Education and Women in a globalised Era. Held from 27 th – 28 th September 200 in Vasanta College for Women, Rajghat. 
• Organised Seminar on ‘Many Faces of Feminism in India ', held on the 27 th -28 th March 2009 , BHU.