FACULTY PROFILE

1 Name MONBINDER KAUR 2 Present Designation ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 3 Department ENGLISH 4 Date of Birth 27-12-1981 5 Date of entry into service in Tumkur 10-05-2010 University 6 Date of entry into the Present Designation 10-05-2010 7 Residential Address Maruthi Krupa, 6th Cross, Opposite Ganapathi Park, Vidyanagara, Tumkur- 572103. 8 Mobile Number +919900359280 9 Email ID [email protected] 10 PAN No. BAVPK4399A 11 Aadhar Card Id No. 8761 3933 3936 12 Passport No. -

13 Academic Qualification Degree University Year of Award a Post Graduate Degree Gauhati University 2005 (Assam). b M.Phil. - - c Ph.D. Pursuing Ph.D. Topic: Indian Women novels Guided By: Dr. Devika Rani N, Associate Professor, Department of Studies in English, University of Mysore, Mysore

14 NET – Year of Passing 2006

15 SLET/KSET – Year of Passing -

16 Area of Research Specialization Indian English Literature

17 Teaching Experience Designation From To Place Lecturer 2006 2008 Dept. of English - A.D.P. College, Nagaon, Assam Lecturer 2006 2007 Dept. of English - Renaissance Jr. College, Nagaon, Assam Assistant Professor 2010 Till Date Tumkur University, Tumkur

18 Administrative Experience Designation From To Place Adm. Officer in a regional NGO 2006 2007 Nagaon, Assam (Nagaon District Blood Donation Scheme and Social Service Organization) 19 Research Guidance A Ph.D. Name of Student Thesis Year

B M.Phil. Name of Student Thesis Year

20 Papers Presented/ Lecturers Delivered/ Sessions Chaired in Conference and Symposia (International) (Tick below) Details Paper Lecture Session Presented Delivered Chaired Multimedia in Classroom . 8th International and 44th Annual ELTAI Yes Conference Organized by SRM University, Kancheepuram District, Tamil Naidu, 18-20 July 2013. Myth, Folklore and Subjectivity: A Study of Naga Mandala and Yes Hayavadana of Girish Karnad. 12th International MELOW Conference organized by Melus-India MELOW, Chandigarh, 8-10 February 2013. Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women Writings. International Yes Conference on Postcoloniality in Transition: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism and Globalization organized by The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 16-17 January 2013. Using Literature in Second Language Teaching: Pros and Cons in 7th Yes International and 43rd Annual ELTAI Conference Organized by Velammal College of Engineering, Chennai, 19-21 July, 2012 Rabindranath Tagore’s ideas on Universalism in 3rd International Yes Conference on ‘Universalistic Humanism & Multicultural Society : Tagore’s contribution’ (A tribute to Rabindranath Tagore on the completion of his 150th birthday) organized by International Society for Sudies in Society & Religion (IFSSR) during 6 – 8 July, 2012, in collaboration with Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, Kolkata and Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. ‘Globalization and Higher Education - A Myth’ in the International Yes Conference on ‘Globalization, Higher Education and Disability’ at . 3-5 February 2011. 21 Papers Presented/ Lecturers Delivered/ Sessions Chaired in Conference and Symposia (National) (Tick below) Details Paper Lecture Session Presented Delivered Chaired Restructuring of Identities in Bharati Mukherjee’s ‘Jasmine’. Two Day Yes National Conference on Post- Modernism and Progressive India Literary Articulations and Non - Literary Interventions organized by Garden City College, Bangalore, 22-23 March 2013.

Victorian Gender Construction and Charles Dickens’ Novels. National Yes Conference on Charles Dickens and Victorian England: What the Dickens? Organized by St. Aloysius College, Mangalore, , 14-15 December 2012. Oblivious of Borders: Demystifying National Allegory in selected Yes Assamese Tribal Novelists. National Conference on “ Interrogating National Allegories: Non- Western Literary Histories in a Post- National World”, Tumkur university, 21st November 2011 Challenges in Teaching English Language in India. One Day Yes National Conference on “Teaching English Language in the Contemporary Context”, Tumkur University. 21st October 2011. Re-Reading Gender in Mary Shelley's “The Last Man”. National Yes Seminar on Gender justice and Emerging Trends Assessment and Challenges Ahead. Centre for Women Development Studies (CWDS) et.al. Tumkur University. 14-15 October 2011. Right Person for the Right Work- The New Mantra of HRM in Yes National Conference ‘Knowledge Utsav’ at , Bangalore. 28 August 2010 22 Books Chapters Details

23 Research Publications in Refereed Journals Details Monbinder Kaur (2011). “Historical Film’s Role towards Historical Literacy”. Journal of South Indian History, Vol.3.Issue 1, November 2011, Calicut University.

24 Research Projects A On going Title of Project Funding Agency Duration Amount Sanctioned Heritage and Cultural Tourism in UGC, New Delhi Two Years Rs. 4,85,000.00 Tumkur: Problems at Implication May 2013-April Level and Suggested Solutions 2014 (Co-Investigator)

B Completed Title of Project Funding Agency Duration Amount Sanctioned

25 Membership of Professional Organizations Life Member, Forum of Contemporary Theory

10 year Member of Melus-India ( The society for the Study of the Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States– Indian Chapter)

Member of ELTAI (English Language Teacher’s Association of India) Chennai.

26 Official Foreign Visits -