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CONTRIBUTORS: RESEARCH PAPERS

1. Azharuddin, currently holds an ad-hoc Assistant Professor position in the Department of English, (Evening), DU. He recently received his M.Phil degree from the English Department of University of on the topic: “Imagining the Fall- Role of Images and Mediation in the fictions of 9/11”. His research interests include contemporary postcolonial and cultural studies debates, Conflict studies, Vietnam War literatures, Graphic novels, Media studies, Indian Writings in English, Image theory and Totalitarian literatures of the 20th century. [email protected] 2. Sheenam Batra is Assistant Professor at Mata Sundri College, University of Delhi. She has completed her MPhil in 2015 from the University of Delhi. Her research is on contemporary children’s fiction. She is interested in exploring and discussing the areas like child and childhood’s representation as prosaic, surplus and redundant, paedophobia, disability and pathological discourses, biopolitical anxieties and neoliberal enquiries in the contemporary children’s fiction. She has written extensively on Roald Dahl’s children’s fiction. [email protected] 3. Laboni Bhattacharya is an Assistant Professor of English in Hindu College, . She has recently completed her M.Phil from the University of Delhi, and holds a B.A and M.A in English from Hindu College and St. Stephens College respectively. Her interests lie in cultural studies, specifically in the consumption of pop culture, the media fandom and fan production; her Lapis Lazuli An International Literary Journal ISSN 2249-4529

dissertation “Mapping the Fan-Producer Relationship: A Study of the Sherlock Fandom and the Participative Paradigm of Production” was written in response to these enquiries. She is also deeply interested in the use of social media for activism, protest and as a means of organizing lived experience, notably in the Black Lives Matter movement. [email protected]

4. Meenu Chaudhary completed her M. Phil in English from Delhi University and is currently working as Assistant Professor in Delhi University. Her research interests include refugee studies and diaspora with special focus on South Asian migrations. She has delivered conference papers concerning Sri Lankan diaspora and the concomitant debates on the conflicted histories of Sri Lankan ethnic nationalisms. Her intellectual engagement is aimed at exploring the dynamics of exile through the frames of statelessness, war economies and international security. [email protected]

5. Deeptangshu Das is currently working as a lecturer at Vivekananda College, University of Delhi. He holds a Masters and M.Phil in English literature from the University of Delhi. His research work focuses on the representation of Hindu Goddesses in literary and popular visual cultures. [email protected]

6. Rajorshi Das currently teaches at Indraprastha College for Women. He is particularly invested in Queer Studies and this paper was written as part of his MPhil coursework. [email protected]

7. Preeti Gupta Dewan, Associate Professor in the Department of English, , University of Delhi, has been teaching in DU since 1989. Presently, she is pursuing her Ph.d in the area of dalit studies from Delhi University. Other areas of interest include translation studies, South African literature and 20th literatures. She has published several translations, book reviews and articles in journals such as Indian Literature, Creative Forum, The Book Review, etc. [email protected] VOL.7 / NO.1/ SPRING 2017

8. Debolina Dey has submitted her doctoral thesis titled "Contagion in the Cultural Imagination of Victorian England" and is currently teaching in , Delhi University. She has been a fellow at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and her research interests include Victorian literature and rhetorics. [email protected] 9. Kashish Dua is an Assistant Professor at , Delhi University. She completed her M.Phil. on “Lesbianism in Manju Kapur’s A Married Woman and Abha Dawesar’s Babyji” at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia in 2016. She has published papers in various national journals and has authored five e-lessons for ILLL, D.U. She is also working as a Teaching Assistant for a MOOC, ILLL-NPTEL on ‘The Renaissance and Shakespeare’. [email protected] 10. Shweta Duseja is an Assistant Professor at an undergraduate college in the University of Delhi. She has taught courses in Women’s Writing, Eighteenth Century Literature and Indian Classical Literature. She is majorly interested in Middle-Eastern and South-Asian Women’s Literature. [email protected]

11. Anum Fatima is presently a Research Scholar at the Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University. She is working on “Performing ‘Other’- Delineating Feminist Disquisition in Select Indian Plays”. She has presented various national and international papers on Indian Feminist Theatre. [email protected]

Ariba Zainab is pursuing her research in English Language Teaching at the Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University. She has published and presented papers at the National & International seminars and conferences in India. Currently, she is working on “Adapting Materials in ELT: Teachers’ Attitudes and Practices at AMU”. [email protected]

12. Sharanya Ganguly works as an Assistant Professor of English at , University of Delhi. Her areas of interest include Postcolonial studies,

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South African Apartheid Fiction and Indian writings in English translation. [email protected] 13. Somrita Urni Ganguly is a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. For her PhD thesis she is working on female athletic bodies in sports literature from India and America. She actively translates from Hindi and Bengali to English and is affiliated with the Writers’ Centre Norwich. Her interests range from the occult and supernatural to theatre and gender studies. [email protected]

14. Nilakshi Goswami is currently a PhD Research Scholar (English) in The English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad, India). She pursued both BA and MA with honors in English from Gargi College, University of Delhi. Apart from presenting papers in national and international seminars and conferences of repute, she has also been occasionally assisting her supervisor in teaching MA (English) classes in the university. Her research interests include trauma narratives, South-Asian and Middle-Eastern autobiographies, gender and sexuality, and comics and graphic novels. [email protected] 15. Neha Khurana has completed her M.Phil (2013), MA (2011) and BA (2009) in English from the University of Delhi (Delhi, India) and currently teaches in the Department of English, Gargi College (University of Delhi). Neha Khurana is particularly invested in researching on the various facets of surveillance and censorship imposed upon the citizens of a State and the counter activity of resistance offered by the ‘citizens’ in their own ways. Khurana’s interests range from looking at the use of satire in political cartoons as a tool of resistance to analysing visual representations of virtual and spatial manifestations of surveillance and censorship that characterize 'modernities' in urban spaces. [email protected] 16. Pooja Kukreja teaches English at Indraprastha College, University of Delhi. Her areas of interest include African-American literature, eighteenth century writing and Cultural Studies. She is currently working on how the past is collectively VOL.7 / NO.1/ SPRING 2017

remembered in the contemporary era and the development of the discipline of Cultural Memory Studies. [email protected] 17. Pratibha Kumari teaches in the Department of English, , University of Delhi. Her research areas are Postcolonial Literature, Subaltern Studies, Trauma Studies and Dalit Literature. Her current research is centered on locating and analyzing the marginalized narratives of Partition. [email protected]

18. Shabeena Kuttay is Assistant Professor in English, Govt. Degree College Bemina, Srinagar and is pursuing Ph.D. in English from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. [email protected]

19. Vandana has completed B.A.(H) English, M.A. English, and M.Phil. English from the University of Delhi. Her M.Phil. Dissertation was titled “The Politics of Literary Historiography and a Case for a Historiography of Dalit Literature”. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of English in , University of Delhi. Her research areas include Autobiographies and Life narratives, Dalit Aesthetics, the Progressive Literary Movement, South Asian Literary Historiography, and Indian Literature. [email protected]

20. Sameera Mehta is a Research Scholar at the Department of English, University of Delhi. She has taught English at Shri Ram College of Commerce and Dyal Singh College of Delhi University. She has previously published research articles with The Criterion and the South- Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies. For debates, discussions, and violent ideological disagreement: [email protected] 21. Archit Nanda is an MPhil scholar in the English Department, University of Delhi. He has presented papers in various universities across India. [email protected] 22. Sneha Pathak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Modern European Languages at Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan. She has done her PhD on Intertextuality in Doris Lessing’s Novels. Her areas of interest

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include Contemporary Fiction, Diaspora Literature and Crime Fiction. She has published papers in various journals. [email protected]

23. Kanika Sharma is currently teaching in the English Department of Shyama Prasad Mukherji College, University of Delhi. She completed her Mphil dissertation titled ‘Sites of Cultural Poltics: Studying Memorials as Postmodern Space’ from Jamia Millia Islamia. Her research interests are memory studies, collective memory, film studies, visual arts and works of J.M Coetzee and Virginia Woolf. [email protected]

24. Shraddha Adityavir Singh teaches Literature in English at Zakir Husain Delhi College (M), University of Delhi. In 2008, she visited Canada on the Commonwealth Fellowship as a researcher hosted by Concordia University, Montreal. In 2009, she presented her research findings at the World Seminar on Canada, Ottawa; certified as one of the 16 upcoming scholars in the world working on Canada-related issues. She has worked on several international projects funded by the International Council for Canadian Studies, Ottawa and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi. [email protected]

25. Sapna Dudeja Taluja is an Assistant Professor for English at Dyal Singh Evening College, Delhi University. While her Ph.D and M.Phil are from Jamia Millia Islamia, her M.A and B.A (Hons.) English are from Delhi University. She was awarded the Habib Kidwai Student Fellowship for March 2009-August 2009 by James Beveridge Media Resource Centre, MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, topped M.Phil (English) in the year 2008-2010, Jamia Millia Islamia. Her research areas include literary theory and criticism, popular culture and translation studies. [email protected]