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CURRICULUM VITAE

Seemita Mohanty

Associate Professor (English)Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela – 769008, OdishaEmail: seemita.m@gmail.com, seemita@nitrkl.ac.in

Contact no. 0661 2462692 (O)

Education MPhil, PhD

Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Employment History

July 2008 – continuing Associate Prof. Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT, Rourkela July 2006 – June 2008 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Feb 2004 – June 2006 Lecturer (Senior Scale), Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT, Rourkela July 1997 – Jan 2004 Lecturer, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, REC (presently NIT), Rourkela.

Achievements:

a) Homi Bhabha Fellowship (2011-2013) from Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council,

Mumbai, for project on Tribal Folk Culture and Literature.

b) Consultant, Teacher Education through School-based Support (TESS, India), a

collaborative Project led by UK Open Univ. (sponsored by UK Aid from DFID)

c) Number of PhD Thesis supervised: Awarded: 02, Ongoing: 06

d) 1. Number of Sponsored Research Projects : 03

ICSSR, New Delhi, sponsored Research Project entitled “Impact of

English and Major Indian Languages on the Tribal Languages of Western

Odisha.” (2009 -2011) Completed.

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ICSSR, New Delhi, sponsored Research Project entitled “Impact of

Popular Culture on Language use among Indian youth: a Case-study of

Odisha.” (2012-2014) Ongoing.

British Council sponsored Research project entitled “An Assessment of

English language Needs of Tribal Youth of Urban Odisha and Identifying

the Barriers Faced by them in their English language learning.” (2013-

2014) Ongoing

2. Number of Self-Financing Short-Term Courses conducted at NIT, Rourkela: 04

3. Number of Consultancy Projects completed at NIT, Rourkela:02

Publications:-

(Recent list, organized under 3 heads)

a) Books Published:

1. A Critical Assessment of Vikram Seth’s Poetry and Fiction (2007). New

Delhi: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.

2. Different Women, Different Worlds: A Collection of Ten Short Stories by

Odia Women Writers (2013). Kolkata: Writer’s Workshop.

3. Impact of English and Major Indian Languages on the Tribal Languages

of Western Odisha (2014). New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House.

(Publication funded by ICSSR)

b) Refereed Professional Journals:

Nayak, R. and Mohanty, S. (2014). “English Language Proficiency Level of High School

Students: A Comparative Analysis.” The Journal of English Language Teaching. Vol.

LVI, No.3, pp. 20-25.

Acharya, S., Mohanty, S. (2014) “Facebook as a Platform for Using English Language

Skills among the Indian Youth.” Journal of NELTA, Available at:

<http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/NELTA/article/view/10326>.

Mohanty, S. (2013). “Incorporating Multimedia into Classrooms: Making Language

Learning Technologically Appealing for Undergraduate Engineering Students”. The

Journal of English Language Teaching. Vol. XLII, No.2, pp. 12-16.

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Mohanty, S. (2013). “An analysis of the three-language formula in school education in

urban schools of India: Problems and prospects.” Professional and Academic English.

Winter 12 – Spring 13, Issue 41.

Mohanty, S. (2013). “Tribal Oral Traditions of Western Odisha: Need for Documentation

and Preservation.” University News. Vol.51, No. 05, pp. 146 – 150.

Mohanty, S. (2012). “Language Maintenance in the Context of Industrialization and

Development: The Rourkela Case-Study.” Adivasi. Vol. 52, No.1&2, pp. 78 – 85.

Shahida and Mohanty, S. (2011). “Voices of Contemporary Indian Women Leaders

Managing and Balancing Emotions Intelligently in Organizations.” In Shamira S Malekar

(ed) Emotional Intelligence and Leadership. New Delhi: Excel Books.

Mohanty, S. (2011). “Technology in Language Classrooms”, CALL Review, Spring Issue.

Mohanty, S. (2010). “Language Contact and Change: Influence of English on Oriya”,

International Journal of Humanities, Volume 8, Issue 6.

Mohanty, S. (2010). Technology in Language Classrooms: Filmmaking as a tool for

improving Life skills. Selected Papers, 3rd International Symposium, CELC, NUS,

Singapore.

Mohanty, S. (2009). “Digital Language Labs with CALL facilities in India: Problems and

Possibilities,” Reflections on English Language Teaching (pp. 65-72), Vol 8, No. 1.

Mohanty, S. (2009). “Business Plan Assignments for Undergraduate Students” IATEFL,

Voices, March – April, Issue 213.

Mohanty, S. (2009). Oriya short story in English Translation, South Asian Review,

Volume 29, No. 3.

Priya, S. and Mohanty. S. (2009). “Role-play as a teambuilding activity”, The Journal of

English Language Teaching (India), Vol. XLVII, No. 3.

b) National & International Conferences :

Incorporating Multimedia into Language Classrooms: Making Language Learning

Technologically Appealing, 10th International AsiaCALL Conference 2011, Language

Center, International College for Sustainability Studies, Srinakharinwirot University,

Bangkok, February 9th – 11th 2012.

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Shahida and Mohanty, S. Voices of Contemporary Indian Women Leaders: Balancing

and Managing Emotions Intelligently in Organizations, in Proceedings of 3rd Global

Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Conference, organized by Tata Institute of Social

Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, September, 2010.

Language Contact and Change: Influence of English on Oriya. International Conference

on New Direction in Humanities, UCLA, Los Angeles, June 29th – July 2nd 2010.

Business related group presentation assignment as a strategy for developing

communication skills of undergraduate engineering students. First International ESL

EFL Conference 2009, Udaipur, Rajasthan.

Creating Computer-based Language Learning Environments for Engineering Classrooms

in India. Proceedings of Second National and 6th Vidarbha Regional ELTAI Conference.

10th – 11th Feb 2009, Nagpur.

Shahida and Mohanty, S. “Teaching Business Communication to Engineering Students with

Techniques of Information and Communication Technology” presented at International

Conference on Strategic Communication: Learning from Mistakes, University of Petroleum and

Energy Studies, Dehradun. 4th -5th Nov, 2011.

Acharya, S. and Mohanty, S. “What comes first: Communication or Language?" presented at

International Conference on ‘Consultations and Experience Sharing on Role of Humanities and

Social Sciences in Holistic Development of Future Technocrats: Looking Ahead,’ Organized by

the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jaypee University of Information

Technology, Himachal Pradesh, 23rd – 24th Sept. 2011

Indian Engineering Classrooms and the English Language Curricula. 42nd Annual

Conference of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign

Language (IATEFL), held at University of Exeter (UK), from April 7th – 11th 2008.

Integrating CALL Resources into the English Language Curricula of Indian Engineering

Institutes. – 6th Asia CALL International Conference. 16th – 18th November 2007, Indian

Institute of Management, Indore.

Paper presented at Inaugural International Conference on Teaching and Learning of

English: Towards an Asian Perspective. 14-16 Nov. 2005, Universiti Utara Malaysia,

Penang, Malaysia.

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Awards and Prizes:

Conference Grant Awardee, 3rd International Symposium, Centre for English Language

Communication (CELC), NUS, Singapore, May 2010.

Ray Tongue Scholarship 2008 from the International Association of Teachers of English as a

Foreign Language (IATEFL) to present paper in their Annual Conference and Exhibition, at UK.

Translation Prize from the Central Sahitya Academy, New Delhi, for the Indian Literature Golden

Jubilee Literary Translation Competition, November, 2007.

Membership of Professional Bodies:

Donor Member, English Language Teachers Association of India (ELT@I).

Member, International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), UK.

Life Member, Linguistic Society of India (LSI).

Life Member, Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies (IACLALS).