Publications

1. Completed Research Projects

B. Publications

Articles Published  in Peer-Reviewed Journals

1. “Othering the Hills: The Eastern Himalayas in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Imagination.”Himalayan Journal of Contemporary Research. 6. 2 (July- December 2017): 1803-1809.  (ISSN 2319-3174)- UGC Approved
2. “Writing Space, Writing Anxiety: Colonial Writings and the Landscape of Disquiet in the Nineteenth Century Eastern Frontier of Bengal.” Mizoram University Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences.3.2 (December 2017):73-85. (ISSN 2395-7352)- UGC Approved
3. “Figurative Ecologies in Northeast India: Reading Easterine Kire’s Novel When the River Sleeps.” Rile/Jile. IX.1. (March-April 2022): 210-224. (ISSN 9788-5232)- International Peer Reviewed

No. of Articles Published in CARE Listed/ Web of Science Journals

       11 (Details to be uploaded soon)

    Book Chapters

1. “Writing Margin, Writing Exotic: Alexander Frater’s Chasing the Monsoon”. Courtyard: an Assembly of Ideas. Eds. Dharmendra Kr Baruah and Rita Saikia Dutta. Tezpur College (2015). 21-35. (ISBN- 978-93-85123-17-7)
2. “(Un)-performing Gender: Gender Fluidity in Temsula Ao’s ‘The Jungle Major’”. Gender Fluidity in Indian Writings in English. Ed. Parul Mishra. Sentics Publications (2021). 85-92. (ISBN-978-81-949251-2-5)
3. “Singing Folk, Thinking Home: Mizo Hills (Mizoram) as Homeland in Select Mizo Folk Songs”. Indian Folk Tradition: Studies in Language, Literature and Theory.Eds. Keshav Nath and Rabindra K. Verma. Upanayan Publications (2022). 155-161. (ISBN-978-93-91467-05-0)
4. “Reconnoitering Conflict and Conciliation: Reading Uddipana Goswami’s No Ghosts in this City as Collective Memory.”Reconnoitering Postcolonial Literature. Eds. Shalini Yadav and G.A. Ghanshyam. Yking Books (2022). 25-36. (ISBN-978-93-92240-22-5)

Book Chapters (Forthcoming)

1. “Between Retreats and Returns: the Elusive Homeland in Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home.”  Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral: Representation of City and Village in Literature. Eds. Shubhanku Kochar and Neepa Sarkar. Columbia University Press (to be published in June 2024). (ISBN-9783838219042)

 Books Edited

1. The Cherry-Picked Projects of Tezpur College Students (vol. III) with Dr. Prakash Jyoti Saikia, published by Tezpur College (2021). (ISBN-978-93-85123-29-0)
2. Courtyard: an Assembly of Ideas with Rita Saikia Dutta, published by the Golden Jubilee Celebration Committee, Tezpur College (2015). (ISBN- 978-93-85123-17-7)
3. Purodha: the Trailblazer with Dr. B.C. Baruah, published by The IQAC, Tezpur College (2013). (ISBN- 978-81-923580-6-2)

Papers in Academic Conferences

1. Presented a paper entitled “Confronting Conflict Narratives in Arupa Patangia Kalita’s Short Story Kunu’s Mother” in the National seminar on ‘Climate Change, Conflict, and Pandemic: Literary Responses from India’s Northeast’ organized by the Department of English, Bodoland University during 30-31 March 2023.
2. Presented a paper entitled “ Of Ruptures and Resilience: Postcolonial Peripherality and Resilient Diasporicity in Visier Meyasetsu Sanyuu’s A Naga Odyssey: My Long Way Home” at the International Conference on ‘The Global Indian Diasporas: Literary Cultural and Socio-Economic Perspectives in the 21^st Century’ organized by the Centre for Diaspora Studies, Central University of  Gujarat during 23th-25^th Feb 2023.
3. Presented a paper entitled “Towards Greener Ecologies: Reading Easterine Kire’s When the River Sleeps” in the ICSSR-sponsored National seminar on ‘Literature and Nation Building: Perspectives from Northeast India’ organized by the Department of English, Tezpur College during12-13 August 2022.
4. Presented a paper entitled “Ecology in the Fiction of Easterine Kire: A Critical Reading” in the ICSSR-sponsored International seminar on ‘Environment across Disciplines: Perspectives on the 21^st Century’ organized by the Department of English, Bodoland University on 9th February 2022.
5. Presented a paper entitled “Memory, Identity, and Ethnobotany in Arupa Patangia Kalita’s ‘The Cursed Fields of Golden Rice’” in the national seminar on ‘Ethnobotany and Resource Management of the Bodos’ organized by the Centre for Bodo Studies, Bodoland University on 10^th December 2021.
6. Presented a paper entitled “Resisting Amnesia, Re-thinking Past: Reading Temsula Ao’s Stories as Collective Memory” at the 1^st Bhatter College International Conference on ‘Recent Advances in English Studies’ organized by the Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan on 4^th July 2021        
7. Presented a paper entitled “The Past Recovered: Conflict, Conciliation, and Memory in Uddipana Goswami’s No Ghosts in this City” in the International seminar on ‘Of Centres and Margins: Origin, Conflicts and Issues’ organized by the Department of English and IQAC, Puras Kanpur Haridas Nandi Mahavidyalaya on 27^th  June,2021.
8. Presented a paper entitled “(Re)-visiting Memories, (Re)-writing Identities: the Politics of Memory in Temsula Ao” in the International seminar on ‘Processes of Memory: Toward a New Understanding’ organized by the Department of English, Bodoland University on 9^th June 2021.
9. Presented a paper entitled “Writing Mizoram, Re-Writing History: Reading Malsawmi Jacob’s Zorami as History” in the ICHR-sponsored national seminar on ‘Dynamics of Women’s Movement in India: Historical Legacy and Contemporary Challenges’  organized by the Dept. of History, MKLM’s M R Nathwani College, Mumbai on 25th April,2021.
10. Presented a paper entitled “The Satras of Majuli: An Agent of Integration” in the National Seminar on ‘Sankardeva’s Ideology in Social Integration of Assam’ organized by the IQAC and Department of Bodo, Rangapara College on the 3^rd April 2021.
11. Presented a paper entitled “Translated Works as a Tool to Second Language Learning” in the UGC-sponsored National Seminar on ‘Knowledge and Skill Development in Teaching English to Rural Undergraduate Students ‘organized by LOKD College, Dhekiajuli on 4^th and 5^th November 2011.
12. Presented a paper entitled “Gold-Washing in Medieval Assam” in the UGC-sponsored National Seminar on ‘Management and Utilization of Resources for Sustainable Development and Prospects of Eco-friendly Industrialization in N.E organized by the  Department of Geography, Tezpur College on 21^st and 22^nd January 2011.

Academic Programs/ Conferences Organised

1. Convened ICSSR-sponsored National seminar on ‘Literature and Nation Building: Perspectives from Northeast India’ organized by the Department of English, Tezpur College on 12-13 August 2022.

        2. Convening (Ongoing) ICSSR-sponsored National seminar on ‘ Environmental Imaginings in North East India: Literature, Culture, and Beyond' organized by the Department of               English, Tezpur College on 29th June 2024.

No. of PhD Guided

       1.  One scholar at Dept. of English, Gauhati University (Ongoing).