National and International Conferences Attended :
- February 2024: Presented paper “Humour as Resistance: Faturananda’s Literary Critique of Society and Politics” at the IACLALS Annual Conference Wit, Humour, and the Carnivalesque in Literature and Performance,15-16-17 February 2024 at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus
- June 2022: Presented paper “Battling Illness: A Select Reading of Odia Autobiographies” at the conference SSHM 50th Anniversary Conference ‘Resilience’, Swansea University, UK (29 June- 2 July, 2022)
- July 2019: Presented a paper “Literature as a Weapon” at the P.G Medical Humanities Conference, Exeter University, UK (Received Travel Grant)
- February 2018: Presented paper “An Imperialist’s Nostalgia” at Osmania University Centre for International Programmes and Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies (8th-10th February, 2018)
- January 2018: Presented paper “Language politics and Re-seeing Indian society, a Hijra perspective: Close study of Arundhati Roy’s “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” at the International Conference on “Politics and Letters: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, Utkal University, India
- June 2017: Presented a paper on Odia Travel Narratives, Wolfson College, Oxford University
- March, 2017: Presented the paper “Japan through Asian Lens” in the Intra-Asian Travel Project Conference at Delhi University, New Delhi
Affiliations :
- Member of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, India
Publications :
- “Battling Illness with Literature.” Muse India, vol. 92, July-Aug. 2020. ISSN 0975-1815.
https://museindia.com/Home/ViewContentData?arttype=feature&issid=92&menuid=8951 - “Illness and Human Dignity.” SEARCH Journal, DDCE, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 2017.
- “Japan through Asian Lens.” Performing the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature, edited by Pakshighar Publication, Bhubaneswar, 2019.
- “Book Review: Mark Shand’s Travels on My Elephant: An Indian Journey.” Café Dissensus E-Journal, vol. XI, no. 2, 15 June 2018, pp. 99.
https://cafedissensus.com/2018/06/15/book-review-mark-shands-travels-on-my-elephant-an-indian-journey/
Training :
- June 2024:1st Faculty Induction Programme at Madan Mohan Malviya Teacher Training Programme, Shri Ram College of Commerce from June 18- July15, 2024
- February 2024: Attended a two-week Faculty Development Programme on Translation Studies from Global South jointly organized by the Association of Indian Universities Academic and Administrative Development Centre at Sri Sri University (AIU-SSU-AADC) and the Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies (SSCTIS), Sri Sri University, India (Feb 19- Mar 2, 2024)
- February 2023: Completed a Two-week Refreshers Course on “Managing Online Classes & Co-creating MOOCS 23.0” from 07 – 21 February 2023 at Teaching Learning Centre, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
- January 2020: Participated in the Induction Training Program, sponsored by the Higher Education Department, Govt. of Odisha at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
- December 2016: Attended GIAN short-term workshop Travel Writing: Texts, Theories, and Frameworks for Analysis, IIT Bhubaneswar, trained under Dr Carl Thompson, Sr. Professor at
St. Mary’s University, U.K