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Professional Membership
Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) (2016)
Awards
Commendation for Outstanding Teaching, FLAME University, September 2022
FLAME University Internal Research Grant, 2022 -- 23
FLAME University Internal Research Grant, 2021 -- 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow, Leeds Humanities Research Centre, University of Leeds, September 2016 -- June 2017
Monograph
Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures: Rabindranath Tagore and W.B. Yeats, Clemson University Press (2021)
Articles:
"Henry Moore’s Narayana and Bhataryan: theatre of sacrifice," in Sculpture Journal, vol 30, is 3, 2021.
Trustee, Jayee Mohite Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, Maharashtra, India (Rural Educational institution—primary and secondary school, Industrial Training Institute)
Teaching
FLAME University
- Academic Writing (Undergraduate, 2 Credits)
- Survey of English Literature (Undergraduate, 3 Credits)
- Modernism (Undergraduate, 3 Credits)
- Introduction to Literature (Undergraduate, 2 Credits)
- Poetry: From Sonnets to Slam Poetry (Undergraduate, 2 Credits)
University of Leeds
- Students into Schools, level 2 employability option, 2016-17 (Convener)
- Literature of the 1890s, level 3 option, 2016-17 (Convener, Lecturer, Seminar Tutor)
- Modern Literature, level 3 core, 2016-17 (Lecturer)
- Drama: Reading and Interpretation, level 1 core, 2016-17 (Seminar Tutor)
- Literature of the Romantic Period, level 2 core, 2012-15 (Seminar Tutor)
- Writing Critically, level 1 core, 2013-14 (Seminar Tutor)
- Poetry: Reading and Interpretation, level 1 core, 2015-16 (Seminar Tutor and Workshop Leader)
Invited Talks
Webinar speaker on ‘Yeats and Tagore: Revisiting a Transnational Collaboration’, at Global Irish Studies at Georgetown University, 7th April 2022
Research Talk on ‘Affective Renditions on the Text and Stage: Tagore’s The Post Office from 1914 onwards’ at KIMEP University, Kazakhstan, April 2021
Panelist at a conference on ‘Yeats and India’ at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, co-organized with the University of Limerick, on 21st and 22nd of February 2019
Panelist at a Reading Group on Henry Moore’s play Narayana and Bhataryan at the Becoming Henry Moore exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds UK, 24th January 2018
Speaker at a public symposium on ‘The Relevance of Tagore in Modern Times’ at the 50th Anniversary Celebrations of The Tagoreans, at the Nehru Centre, London, 31st March 2016
Additional Certifications
HUM12x: Masterpieces of World Literature (Online Course) HarvardX, awarded June 2022
Inclusive Education: Essential Knowledge for Success (Online Course), Queensland University of Technology, awarded April 2020