Assistant professor : English
shabnam.004@gmail.com
| Educational Qualifications: Ph.D., M.Phil, M.A . (English) | |
| Job Details/ Experience: 7 years |
| Papers Presented: | ‘The State in Schizophrenia in the Documentary narratives of Megnath and Biju Toppo’, at NEHU, Shillong in an International Seminar on Narratives of Violence and Terror in South Asia held from 16th to 18th November 2017. |
| ‘Performance as the Political: A Reading of the ‘Saved By Dance’ (‘Nachi Se Bachi’) Movement of Ram Dayal Munda During the Latter Phases of the Jharkhand Movement’ in an ’ International conference on "Performance and the Prospects of Folkloric Tribal Culture of Eastern India", Sponsored by UGC SAP, DRS Phase II Organized by the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Medinipur, West Bengal, India; held from 20th to 21st March 2018 | |
| ‘Ecofeminism in the Khortha Folktales of Jharkhand’, held at HCU (University of Hyderabad), Hyderabad in the RAW.CON Annual Conferences, held from 10th-12th September, 2014. | |
| ‘Postcolonial and/in the Indian Languages: Showing the tradition of opposition in the Khortha short stories of Jharkhand’, held at the University of Lucknow in the IACLALS Annual Conference held between 7-9th February,2013. | |
| ‘The Lovely Witches of Shakespeare’s Tower: Scrutinising Post- feminism in the colonial Era’, in the international seminar on Women in Shakespeare : A Post-Feminist Scrutiny held between 4-6th October, 2012 at Vardhaman Mahavir Open University, Kota in collaboration with the Shakespeare Association (India). | |
| Publications: | ‘The City as the Transvestite: A reading of Delhi in Khushwant Singh’s Delhi- A Novel’ in Nalini Shyam Kamil(ed.), Narratives of Dissent : Modern Indian English Novel, Srijan Samiti Publication, Varanasi, 2016, pp. 139-50. [ISBN: 978-93-83583-92-8] |
| An article titled “The Documentary as a Tool of Protest : Studying the documentary Jahan Chinti Ladi Hathi Se (1998) as a case of protest against Bauxite Mining in Mahuadand, Jharkhand” has been accepted for publication in the journal Indraprastha- An Internnational Journal of Culture and Communication Studies of the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. | |
| Newspaper Articles: | Got an article published in Hindi titled “Lok Sahitya, Sahitya Sanskriti ki Takat’’ in a Hindi daily called Prabhat Khabar, published from the eastern zone (Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal) dated 27th June, 2017 |
| Got an article published in English titled “The Matrimony Market and Caste” in an English Daily called The Pioneer (Ranchi editions) , dated 24th August 201 | |
| Seminars/ Workshop: | Took part in 3 Day Digital Story Telling Workshop titled The Women's Water Stories digital storytelling workshop which took place in JNU from 16th to 18th of March, 2018, which was organized by a Full-bright Nehru Researcher Jordan P. Woodward. It included writing stories, sharing and getting feedback, recording voice-overs, adding audio and video clips and pictures through software provided by the instructor, editing them and finally compiling to make a digital story. I attended on all the three days and made a short digital story of 4 minutes titled “River-Mother-Memoir”, which was of a personal connection that I have with my mother and the river Khudiya of my village, and how a river in Delhi reminds me of my mother and the river in my village, and the memory of both give me the courage to be like both, and keep fighting and flowing, no matter what. Here’s the clip if one is interested in watching it. |
| Achievements and Activities : | Was shortlisted among the best three poets in the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2019. |
| Got a short story titled “Coal Dust” published in the Himal Southasian magazine dated January 30th, 2020 (https://www.himalmag.com/author/shabnam-parveen) | |
| Winner in Essay writing Competition in Hindi, held on 26th September, 2005 (CSIR Foundation Day) at Central Mining Research Institute, Dhanbad | |
| Winner in Essay writing Competition in Hindi, held on 26th September, 2004 (CSIR Foundation Day) at Central Mining Research Institute, Dhanbad | |
| Second position in Essay Writing Competition in Hindi, held on 26th September, 2003 (CSIR Foundation Day) at Central Mining Research Institute, Dhanbad | |
| Passed the NCC A-Certificate examination with Grade B held in 2002 | |
| Participated in a Combined Annual Training Camp of the NCC, held in Jamshedpur from 19th-28th March, 2002 | |
| Was a part of Tree Plantation activity organized by Taru Mitra in school |