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Curriculum Vitae Dr Ashok K Mohapatra

Name: Dr Ashok K Mohapatra,

Designation- Professor of English Institutional Affiliation- Department of English Sambalpur University Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur- 768019, ORISSA Telephone- 0663 432 105 (Office) 07873036525 (Cell Phone) Email: <mohaashok@gmail.com> Academic Records-

M.A.(Sambalpur University, 1983 M.Phil(Sambalpur University,1985 PhD( Sambalpur University, 2000 Academic Distinctions-

1. University Medal for securing the first-class-first position in M.A 2. Student, American Language Program at Columbia University,

1996 3. Fulbright Research Associate, Yale University(1996-97) 4. U.G.C Visiting Fellow at Centre for Advanced Studies, Department

of English, Jadavpur University, 2010. 5. U.G.C Visiting Fellow, Burdwan University, 2019

Academic and Administrative Positions Held –

1. Head of the Department, English, S.U 2015-17 2. Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, S.U.ince 2016 3. Director, College Development Council, S.U-2017-18 4. Member, Steering Committee, NAAC in 2016 & 2019

Teaching Career-

1. Lecturer in English, Sambalpur University- 1.5.1986- 3.5.2000

2. Reader in English, Sambalpur University- 4.5.2000- 9.5.2008

3. Professor of English, Sambalpur University- 9.5.2008 till date

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Research Guidance-

1. Guided over 65 M.Phil students

2. Produced 6 PhD scholars

3. Guiding 1 PhD scholar

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Books/monographs: 1. Ashok K. Mohapatra Stylistic Criticism of Modern Oriya Poetry [ Adhunika Odia Kabitara

Sailtatwika Samalochana]. Bhubaneswar : Orissa Sahitya Akademi, 1995.

2. Ashok K. Mohapatra “Social Exclusion in Postcolonial Fiction: A Reading of Kiran Desai‟s The Inheritance of Loss” Occasional Papers on Literature and Culture. Monograph 1, Department of English, 2011.

3. Ashok K. Mohapatra The American Novel from Hawthorn and Heller: Critical Issues and Perspectives

(Edited volume).Macmillan, 2019.

4. Sabita Tripathy. Tracts for His Time. New Delhi: Authors Press, 2016

5. K. Narayana Chandran. “Why Stories? Occasional Papers on Literature and Culture. Monograph II, Department of English, 2013

6. Ram Shankar Nanda. “Autobiographical Discourses in Indian Writing in English and Indian

Literatures (in English Translation): A Bibliography. Occasional Papers on Literature and Culture. Monograph III, Department of English, 2014

7. Remappings: An Anthology for Degree Classes. Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan,

2012

8. Aloka Patel. Editor, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (A Critical Edition) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan, 2017

Translation: 1. English translation of Rajkishore Ray‟s “ Bouli” in Quiet Flows the Mahanadi. Bhubaneswar: Orissa Sahitya Akademi ,2000.

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2. English translation of Gangadhar Meher's 'Basanta Basare' and 'Chandra Rajani' as 'Spring-Day' and ' Night of the Moon' in Gangadhar Meher: Selected Works. Ed. Madhusudan Pati. Sambalpur University and Aryan Books International, New Delhi, 2001. 1. English Translation of K.K. Mohapatra‟s “Kua”[The Crows] in Muffled Hearts: Stories of the

Dis-empowered Male, Ed. Jayita Sengupta & Niladri Chatterjee. Calcutta: Rupa & Co., 2005. 2. Oriya Translation of S.P. Mohanty‟s Intoduction to Six Acres and a Half, Jhankar, June,

2005.

Research Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals/ Books: (NATIONAL)

1. “Heidegger‟s Philosophy of Language: An Indian Perspective”. Indian Scholar, Vol.13 (2), 1991, pp.11-25.

2. “ The Politics of Childhood and Children‟s Literature: A Critique", Journal of Social

Sciences. Vol. 3(1-2), Jan-Apr-1999. 3. Anthology of American Literature, Macmillan, Palgrave (forthcoming)

4. “Arun Kolatkar‟s Jejuri : The Testament of a Nonconformist Faith” in Modern Indian

Poetry in English: Critical Studies. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2000. 5. “Recovery of the Subordinate Self: Its Postcolonial Problematics and Prospects in

Devil on the Cross, Jagua Nana and Sula”, Atlantic Literary Review. Vol. 2(2), March-June, 2001, pp. 142-48.

6. “Bhasa Dvanda: Oriya-Bangla”, Ababhas( Bengali). Vol.1 (3), October-December, 2001.

7. “Tongue and Territory: The Oriya-Bengali Conflict in the Late 19th and Early 20th

Centuries”, Sambalpur University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 1, 2002.

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8. . “Nature and the Politics of Representation: A Reading of Sarah Orne Jewett‟s The Country of the Pointed Firs”, Dibrugarh Journal of English Studies. Vol.14, 2001-2002.

9. “Allegory of the Nation and Crisis of Finance Capital: Interpreting Mary Poppins” Sambalpur University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol.2, 2003.

10. “Nature and the Politics of Representation: A Reading of Sarah Orne Jewett‟s The

Country o the Pointed Firs”, Studies in Literature in English : Volume VII/ edited by Mohit K. Ray. New Delhi, Atlantic, 2004.

11. “Allegorizing the Body: Resistance in Shauna Singh Baldwin”. Haritham, No 18,

2006.

12. “Theoritis and the Crisis in the Humanities: A Catch-22 Situation”. Haritham. Vol 9. No.2, April-June, 2008.

13. “Theorizing World Literature: problems and Prospects”. Haritham, No 20, 2009.

14. . “Appropriation, Coloniality and Ethics of Translation”, Ravenshaw Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. Vol 1, No.1, 2011.

15. “Noah Webster‟s The American Dictionary: An Autobiographic Act”. Margins.

University of Guwahati, 2011.

16. “Limits of Nationalism and the Culture-Politics Interface: Tagore and Gandhi”.

Tagore and Nationalism. Eds Swati Ganguly and Abhijit Sen. Calcutta: Rupantar, 2011.

17. “Subaltern Memory, Radicalism and Corpo(real) Motherhood: Mahasweta Devi‟s

Mother of 1084”. Dibrugarh Journal of English Studies, No.19, 2010-11.

18. “Writing Skills”, Remappings (Anthology of Prose and Poetry for +3 English),

Orient Blackswan, 2012.

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19. “Amitav Ghosh‟s In an Antique Land: Cartography of Knowledge and Freedom”.

Sambalpur Studies in Literatures and Cultures. Series II, 2012.

20. Puritan Woman in Captivity: Issues of Identity and Discourse in Mary Rowlandson‟s

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1682)in Prose Writings of Seventeenth Century England

and New England. Ed. Suparna Bhattacharya. Kolkata: Levant Books, 2013.

21. “Post-fifties British Literature: Contexts and Landmarks” in Post-fifties British

Literatures: An Anthology of Critical Essays. Burdwan: Department of English, M.U.C.

College, 2014.

22. Remapping the fiction of Indian Diaspora: Zadie Smith‟s White Teeth and the

Conundrums of Multiculturalism. Contemporary Indian Diaspora: Literary and Cultural

Representations. Ed: Angshuman Kar. New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2015.

23. „Textual Transactions: Reading Damon Galgut‟s Arctic Summer through E.M.

Forster‟s A Passage to India. English Forum: Journal of the Department of English,

Gauhati University. Vol.4, 2015.

24. „Identity, Its Dynamics and Ethics: Some Meditations”. The Criterion. Vol 8, No 2,

(October), 2017.

25. „Nostalgic Excursions and Inconvenient Discoveries: A Study of Kazuo Ishiguro‟s A

Pale View of Hills. English Forum. Journal of the Department of English, Gauhati

University. Vol 6, 2017-18.

26. “Mapping Self and the Times: Satchidanand Routray‟s Uttara Kaksha". The Unbilled

Hour Ed. Bijay K Danta.et al. Bhubaneswar:Kitab Bhawan, 2018.

27. Entries into Sahitya Kosa, Bhubaneswar. the Sambad Publications, 2018.

28. “Construction of Mother-tongue: Translation, Culture and Power”. Translation Today,

12 (1), 2018.

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29. Apropos Basanti in English Translation: Writing/interrogating the new woman.

Sambalpur Studies in Literatures and Cultures. Department of English. No 5, 2019.

INTERNATIONAL

1. “ The Ideology of Purity and Linguistic Practices: A Note on the Early Phase of Lexicography and Grammar Writing in Oriya”, Journal of Contemporary Thought (Joint Publication of M.S. University of Baroda and College of Liberal Arts, University of Louisiana at Shreveport, U.S.A.) Vol.3, 1993.

2. “Politicking with Words: On Ideology and Dictionary Meaning”, Verbatim (The

Language Quarterly published from Indianapolis, U.S.A.) Vol. XXII (1), 1995.

3. “Edward Said and William Jones: Negotiating Between Orientalism and

Asiaticism”. Journal X: A Journal in Culture & Criticism (Department of English, University of Mississippi, U.S.A.) Vol. 8, No 2, Spring 2004.

4. “The Paradox of Return: Of Identity and Origins in M.G. Vassanji‟s The Gunny

Sack”, Postcolonial Text (online journal from Canada) Vol. 2, No.4, 2006.

5. “India in a Global Age; or The Neo-Liberal Epiphany”. The Global South. Indiana

University Press, U.S.A.) Vol2. No.1, Spring 2008.

6. The Paradox of Return: Of Identity and Origins in M.G. Vassanji‟s The Gunny Sack”. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 236. Michigan: Gale, U.S.A. 2012.

7. Review article: Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation, and Memory by Dennis Walder. Postcolonial Text, ( CANADA) Vol. 8, No 3 & 4 (2013)

REVIEW ARTICLES

1. Review of Firdous Azim‟s The Colonial Rise of the Novel in Sateertha Bulletin, No.5,1995.

2. Review of Tejaswini Niranjana‟s Siting Translation in Sateertha Bulletin, No. 3, 1995.

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3. Review of Krishna Rayan‟s Text and Subtext and Sahitya: A Theory in Journal of

Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. Vol. XV (1-2),1994. 4. Review of The Survivor by Gopinath Mohanty (trans. B.K.Das) in Indian Review of

Books Vol. 5 (8), May-June 1996.

5. Review of Second Turn by M.T. Vasudevan Nair (trans P.K.Ravindranath) in

Indian Review of Books Vol. 7(1),Sep-Nov 1997.

6. Review of Those Days by Sunil Gangophyay (trans Aruna Chakravarty) in Indian Review of Books Vol. 7(4), Jan-Feb 1998.

7. Review of One Eye Uncle by Laxmikanta Mahapatra( trans K.K. and Leelawati

Mohapatra) in Indian Review of Books Vol.7(9), Jun-Jul 1998.

8. Review of The Ninth of August by Manoranjan Das( trans Arun Mohanty and J.K.Nayak) in Indian Review of Books Vol. 8 (4), Jan-Feb 1999.

9. Review of Postcolonial Whiteness by Alfred Lopez. In-between. Vol. 13:2, 2004.

10. Review of Naked Lonely Hand: Selected Poems by Jibanananda Das. The Book Review. Vol

XXXI. N0 1, 2007.

EDITORSHIP

1. Guest-edited with Alfred Lopez an issue of The Global South. Vol.2, No.1, Spring, 2008, published by Indiana University Press.

2. I have been serving as the Chief Editor of Sambalpur Studies in Literatures and Cultures since 2009 in the Department of English, Sambalpur University

3. Editor, Occasional Papers on Literature and Culture. Monograph II, Department of

English, 2013. Why Stories by K. Narayana Chandran

4. I have been assigned editorship of Sambalpur University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Editorial Board

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1. Dibrugarh Journal of English Studies, Dibrugarh University 2. English Forum, Department of English, Guwahati University

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

1. „Return of the Native? Postcolonial Discontents in Community and Nation in The Assassin’s Song” in Emerging Perspectives on M.G. Vassanji. Ed. Silva and Makokha. London: Palgrave.

2. Translation of the 15th century text Lakshmi Purana by Balaram Dasa into English in collaboration with Satya P. Mohanty of Cornell University, U.S.A.

3. 'Testimony, Aporia and the Holocaust in the poems of Dan Pagis'. Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies.

List of Seminars/Conferences/Workshops and Paper Presentation

Plenary Speaker: III International Conferenceof the Caesura Collective Society on

“Translation, gender, Performatory Ethics of a Translator”13-15 September, 2019.

Plenary Speaker: ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on “Nationalism, Populism and

Discourses: India in the 21st Century”. 28-29 November, 2018. Guru Ghasida

Vishwavidyalay,Bilaspur, Chhatishgarh.

Plenary Speaker: „Humanisms for the Present: Imperatives, Interventions‟ "Politics and

Letters: The Function of Criticism" Department of English, Utkal University, 23-24

January 2018.

Plenary Speaker: Title: “Meaning, Images, Inscriptions: Ekphrastic Poems on Edward

Hopper‟s Paintings”. International Conference on Cultural Translation, Caesurae-Amrita

International Conference, 21-23, August, 2017. Coimbatore.

Plenary Speaker: Title: “Translating into Mother-tongue” at National seminar on Issues

in Translating English texts into Indian languages” at G.M. University, Sambalpur on 5-6

March, 2016.

Lectured at the department of English, Sikkim University, Gangtok, on the Ivory-

Merchant film on Ishiguro‟s The Remains of the Day on 14 November, 2016.

Presented a Paper titled "Mapping Self and the Times: Satchidanand Routay‟s Uttara

Kaksha" in a Seminar by Central Sahitya Akademi in new Delhi on 12-13 January 2016.

Director, National Seminar on “Images and Inscriptions: Transaction between the Visual

and the Written”, 20 February, 2015, Department of English, Sambalpur University.

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Panelist at National Seminar on "Postcolonial Translation: Issues and Practices", 19-20

March, 2014. Dept. of English, Sambalpur University.

Presented Paper at National Seminar on “Transactions: Text, Culture and Subjectivities”

on 2nd & 3rd September, 2014, S.K.B. University, Purulia, West Bengal.

Keynote Speaker: “Post-Fifties British Literature: Texts and Contexts” in collaboration

with Indian Association for the Studies of Australia, Eastern Region, Kolkata, on 10-11

September 2013. M.U.C. Women‟s College, Bardhaman, West Bengal

Keynote Speaker: Young Researchers‟ National Conference on“Cultural Representations:

Race, Class, Gender and Caste”, 3-4, September, 2013.Department of English, University

of Burdwan, West Bengal.

Keynote Speaker: National Seminar: “Assertion of Identities: A Re-reading of texts in

Literatures in English”. 5-6 February, 2013. Kazi Nazrul Islam Mahavidyalaya, Churulia,

West Bengal

Panelist. DRS- National Seminar: “Rethinking the Premises of Postcolonial Studies”.

Department of English, Sambalpur University, 1-2, March, 2013

Panelist: “Writing Bildungsroman in Postcolonial [Con]texts” 15-16, March, 2013.

Department of English, Sambalpur University.

UGC National Seminar on “Memory and Rememory in Postcolonial Fiction”, March 12-

13, 2012, Department of English, Dibrugarh University.

DRS National Seminar on “Translating Shakespeare in India: Issues and Perspectives”,

Feb 9-10, 2012, Department of English, Sambalpur University. National Seminar on “Revisiting Virginia Woolf‟s A Room of One‟s Own, Jan. 28-29, 2011, Department of English, Sambalpur University. DRS Workshop on “Locating Self: Autobiographies from Western Orissa in Translation”, March 12-13, 2011, Department of English, Sambalpur University. Translator‟s Orientation Programme, National Translation Mission( Mysore), November 15-17, 2011, Department of English, Sambalpur University.

UGC National Seminar, “Re-reading 17th Century Prose Writings”,Nov 28-29, 2011, Calcutta Girls‟ College and American Center, Kolkata.

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UGC National Seminar on “Heteropologies: Re-defining Spece and Cultural Imaginaries”, Feb. 17-18, 2011. Department of English, University of Burdwan. DRS National Seminar, Postcolonialism and Identity Politics, March 26-27, 2010, Department of English, Sambalpur University. DRS National Seminar, “Tagore and Swadeshi Samaj”, Department of English and Other European Languages, Feb 12-13, 2010, Shantiniketan, Vishva Bharati. DRS. National Seminar on „Translations in India: Critical Assumptions and Practices”, Jan 22-23, 2010. Department of English, Sambalpur University. UGC National Workshop on “Teaching the Short Stories in English”, Feb 20-21, 2009, Department of English, Sambalpur University. DRS Workshop-cum-Seminar, “Translating Orissa”, March 25-26, 2008, The Phase of Linguistic Nationalism in Orissa”, Department of English, Utkal University. Lectured at Padmanava College of engineering, Rourkela on March 1, 2008 on the topic “Are We at an Ideological Dead-end”? at the Seminar on “Changing Trends of Communication Influencing Pedagogy”. UGC National Seminar on “Gender Issues in Literary Studies in English and Indian Languages”, Feb. 22-23, 2008, Department of English, Sambalpur University.

UGC National Seminar on “English Literary Studies in India and Demands of Theory”, March 24-25. 2007, Department of English, Sambalpur University.

Seminar on Soft Skills on Nov. 7, 2006, at ICFAI National College, Sambalpur. UGC National Seminar on “Translating into English Post-Independence Bhasa Literature”, 24-25 March, 2006, Department of English, Sambalpur University. CLAI International Seminar on Comparative Literature, Jan 31-Feb1, 2006, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.

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UGC National Seminar, Oriya Literature in Translation, Feb 26-27, 2006, Quebeck Fund for Research on Society and Culture, Canada, at Bhubaneswar. UGC National Workshop, March 11-12, 2005, “ Translation-Oriya-English-Oriya”. Department of English, Sambalpur University. UGC National Seminar “Teaching Shakespeare in India”, March 24-25, 2003, Department of English, Sambalpur University. UGC National Seminar on “Orientalism Twenty-five Years After”, December 10, 2003. Department of English, Sambalpur University. National Workshop on Nature, Ecology and the Politics of Representation, March 24-26, 2001, Department of English Behampur University, and Forum for Contemporary Thought, Baroda. DSA Inter-Indian Translation Workshop, May 9-13, 2000, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University.

DSA Postcolonial Indian Literature: Interplay of Dependence and Independence”, Jan.16-17, 1998, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University. USEFI National Seminar on Novel and Culture: Perspectives in Colonial Experience, Sept. 26-27, 1997,”.Department of English, Sambalpur University. DRS Workshop on “Translation Theories”, Feb 2-7, 1995, Department of English, Utkal University. ,”.Department of English, Sambalpur University.

International Workshop on Commonwealth Literature, Dhvanyaloka, May 25- 10 June, 1986

Resource Person/Co-ordinator in UGC Refresher Courses/Short-term Courses in Indian Universities and IITs

Lectured as Resource Person on “Ethical turn in Literary Theory” at a Refresher Course, Guru Ghashidas Central University, Bilaspur, 10 June, 2017. Lectured as Resource Person on “Travel Writings in English in Colonial and Postcolonial India”, 24 November- 14 December, 2014. Department of English and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University.

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Acted as the Coordinator and also lectured as Resource Person on Identities and Literary Representations”. 24 October-13 November, 2013. Department of English and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University. Acted as the Coordinator and also lectured as Resource Person on “Travel Writings in English” Identities and Literary Representations”. 24 October-13 November, 2013. Department of English, and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University. Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, “Childhood in Women‟s Writings” 10 & 19 November, 2012,. Department of English, and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University. Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, “Recognizing the Proximities: Issues in Mediating Culture, Literature and Language”. 15 January, 2013,. Department of English, and Academic Staff College, Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar. Lectured as Resource Person in a Short-term Course on Literary Theory at Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Kharagpur on Emmanuel Levinas and Fredrick Jameson, Sept. 2-6, 2012. Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, “Autobiographical Acts in Literature”, Dec. 5, 10 & 15, 2011. Department of English, and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University. Lectured at Orientation Course on “Communicative English”, Sept. 23-24, 2011, Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in Oriya , “. Jatiyata-bodha and Itihasa”, July 16, 2011. Department of Oriya , and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University. Co-ordinator, Refresher Course in English, “ Literature & Environment”, September 6-26, 2010 and lectured as Resource person as well. Department of English, and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, Nov. 16, 2010, „Marginality, Identity and Literature”, Department of English & Academic Staff College, University of Delhi. Lectured as Resource person on Communication Skills at an Orientation Course, October 6, 2010, Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University. Lectured as Resource person on Social Exclusion at a Refresher Course, July 17 & 22, 2009, Department of Sociology and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University.

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Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, December 1 & 3 March, 2009, “Translations in India: Theory and Pedagogy”, Department of English, Sambalpur University and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University. Lectured as Resource Person, May 15-18, 2009, “A Short Term Course in Postmodernism”, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Kharagpur. Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, March 17,18 and 20, 2009, “World Englishes ”, Department of English, Sambalpur University and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University. Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course on IT Application, Feb 7, 2009, Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course on Social Exclusion, July 17 and July 22, 2009, Department of Sociology and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University. Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, December 1 and 3, 2009, “Translation Studies: Translation Theory and Pedagogy”, Department of English, Sambalpur University and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University. Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, August 14, 2008, , “Literature and Contemporary Discourses”, Department of English & Academic Staff College,Pondicherry University. Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, March 14, 2008. “Dialogism and Novelistic Discourse” , Department of English, Sambalpur University and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University. Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, December 13, 2008, “Theorizing World Literature ”, Department of English, Utkal University and Academic Staff College,Utkal University. Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, March 5, 2008, “Theorizing World Literature ”, Department of English, Utkal University and Academic Staff College,Utkal University. Lectured as Resource Person, 14th Orientation Programe, Jan 25, 2008., “Glimpses of Knowledge Explosion”, Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University.

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Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, December 13, 2006, “Academic Staff College ,Utkal University. Lectured as Resource Person, Refresher Course in English, 16.8.2005-7.9.2005, “British Romanticism and Indian Literature”, Department of English, Sambalpur University and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University. Co-ordinator, 4th Refresher Course in English on Postcolonial Perspectives on Literatures”, Sept 30-October 19, 2004. Department of English, Sambalpur University and Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University.

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