Personal Profile (For Website Update)

Personal Profile (for website update)

1. Name of the Teacher: DR MRIDUSMITA MAHANTA 2. Department: ENGLISH 3. Designation: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 4. Email ID: [email protected] 5. Date of joining: 03/11/1995 6. Area of specialization: Linguistics and Folklore 7. Number of Ph. D/ M. Phil guided ( If any):  Number of scholars pursuing Ph. D/ M.Phil: NIL

 Number of scholars awarded Ph. D/ M.Phil: NIL

 Number of Scholars registered for Ph. D/ M.Phil: NIL

8. Name of the Universities Recognized as Ph.D. Guide: i)

9. List of Publication:

Category Book Title Authors Publishers with ISBN/ISSN Books i The Valley of Brahmaputra Dr Mridusmita Mahanta ISBN 81-8324-891-8 Authored Books i Culture and Social Values: Quest Ed. Dr Mridusmita ISBN 978-81-931548-0-9 Edited for Sustainability in a Market Mahanta Driven Society ii Indigenous Communities of N.E. Ed Dr Mridusmita ISBN 978-93-87035-15-7 India: Issues and Challanges Mahanta Dipjyoti Deka iii Urbanisation and Folklore Dr Mrinal Medhi ISBN 978-93-87035-32-4 Dr Pallabi Borah

Dr Mridusmita Mahanta Book Title TITLE OF THE ARTICLE Role of Women in Socio-Economic The Lady Who Draws 978-81-921278-2-8 Aspect of Assam Them Upward Tulanamulak Sahityat Alokpat Discourse on the 978-93-87263-18-5 Brahmaputra In Literature T. S. Eliot aru Nabakanta Tulonamulok Sahitya: Baruar Kabita: Eti Potabhumikaat Asom tulonatmak Bisar 978-81-7213-312-2 Identity Formation Revisited: The Urge of Identity : Critical Perspectives Inclusion into the Mainstream: A Study into ‘How Rivers are Made’ ISBN 978-81-931548-2-3 Vijoy Tendulkaror Natyalochana Ghasiram Kotowal: Ek Bihangam Dristi ISBN 978-81-931548-4-7 Proceeding volume of Writings of Encrypting Songs into ISBN: 978-93-81859-33- Regional History of North East History: A study into the 9 India songs of Dr Bhupen Hazarika SAARASVATA Identity Constructed on ISBN: 978-93-82931-80- the Risk of Habitation: A 5 Study into the Literature

of Char Areas of the Brahmaputra English Language Teaching in Development of the 978-81-931547-1-7 India: Problems and Prospect Listening Skill in English:

Telling of Folktales: A Pragmatic Approach Courtyard: An Assembly of Ideas The Myth of the birth of 978-93-85123-17-7 by the Dept of English, Tezpur the Brahmaputra: A College Structural Approach Journal of Folkloristics, Folklore Book Review on Cultural ISSN 2347-8934 Research Dept, Gauhati University Contours of North East by B N Datta Sona Sophia, A Yearly Research Narrativising the Urge of 2349-8668 Journal, Sonapur College Teachers’ Inclusion. Association Interpreting Heritage: A Discourse Preserving Rituals: ISBN 978-81-7213-231-6 on Heritage at Risk Celebration of Ashokastami in Assam Bhupendra Jyoti The Creation of Cultural ISBN 978-93-82149-63-7 Published by Dr Bhupen Hazarika Landscape in the Songs of Cultural Trust Dr Bhupen Hazarika Journal of Folkloristics, Folklore River Spirit and the ISSN 2347-8934 Research Dept, Gauhati University Maintenance of the River Health Sona Sophia, A Yearly Research Borgeet: Its Eminence and ISBN 978-81-920862-5-5 Journal, Sonapur College Teachers’ Universality and T.S. Association Eliot’s Idea of Tradition University of IAR, The Puri Foundation Importance of Listening

for Education in India Skills in Learning English as a Second Language

Philosophica A Study into the River ISSN 2249-5053 A Yearly Bilingual Philosophical Spirit: Ecology,

Journal of Bongaigaon College Philosophy of Change and Human Responsibility An Analytical Estimate of Dr Brahmaputra and Bohag ISBN 978-93-244-0042-0 Bhupen Hazarika’s Songs in the Songs of Bhupen Hazarika Pre Conference Proceeding Volume Myth as Discourse for the ISBN 978—81-924140-5- ISEIL organised by The Sibsagar Construction of 8 College Communal Identity- A Study into the Myths of the Brahmaputra River Philosophica Recognition of Dialogic ISSN 2249-5053 A Yearly Bilingual Philosophical Self in the Songs of Journal of Bongaigaon College Bhupen Hazarika Sona Sophia- A Collection of Identity Formation- An ISBN 978-81-920862-5- Research Papers published by Environmental 5 SCTA, Sonapur College, Sonapur Perspective Bhupendra Jyoti Published by Dr The Creation of Cultural ISBN 978-93-82149-63-7 Bhupen Hazarika Cultural Trust Landscape in the Songs of Dr Bhupen Hazarika Journal of Folkloristics, Folklore River Spirit and the ISSN 2347-8934 Research Dept, Gauhati University Maintenance of the River Health Sona Sophia, A Yearly Research Borgeet: Its Eminence and ISBN 978-81-920862-5-5 Journal, Sonapur College Teachers’ Universality and T.S. Association Eliot’s Idea of Tradition Philosophica A Study into the River ISSN 2249-5053 A Yearly Bilingual Philosophical Spirit: Ecology,

Science Research / North Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong , Meghalaya Role of Globalisation on Globalisation, Mobility ISBN 978-81-202-8852-2 Traditional Assamese Culture and Cultural Identity- A Study into the Fairs held in NEDFi Haat, Guwahati, Assam

‘Women and Human Rights: The Subjective Well Being ISBN 978-81-910812-0- North East Indian Context’ and Social Change: A 6

published by Principal, Borbhag Study on the Role of A College on behalf of IQAC. Lady from the Karbi Community of Assam Globalisation, Higher & Youth Generating confidence in ISBN: 978-93-80261-04- published by EBH Publishers Youth 1 (India), Guwahati

10. List of presentation in Seminar/ Workshop/ Conference etc. International Seminar/conference:

Sl. No Title of the Research Paper Author/s & Date of Name of Conf./Seminar Seminar/Conf./ Workshop/ FDP Borgeet: Its Eminence and Universality Mridusmita Mahanta Bhakti Movement & and T.S.Eliot’s Idea of Tradition 9th, 10th & 11th Mar, 2007 Shrimanta Shankardeva Seminar Myth as telling Communal Identity International Society for Folk Telling Identities: Narrative and Research & Dept Individuals and of Culture & Creative Studies, Communities in Folk North Eastern Hill University, Narrative Shillong Narrativising the Process of Assimilation Mridusmita Mahanta Narrativising the and Absorption 4-6 Jan, 2012 Dept of English, Margins: North East Assam University, Diphu India and Beyond Discourse of Ecology: The River Spirits 4-5 Feb 2013 Genres of belief From A Internationalconference on Folkloristic Perspective School of Media Sciences & Cultural Studies, USTM, Meghalaya in collaboration with Dept of Estonian & Comparitive Folklore, Univ of Tartu, Estonia Myth as Discourse for the Construction Mridusmita Mahanta Ethnicity, Identity and of Communal Identity- A Study into the 11, 12, 13 & 14 Oct’ 2012 Literature Myths of the Brahmaputra River Sibsagar College, Jaysagar, Assam Ascribing Values of Landscape to 7-8 Nov, 2013The English and Cultures of Memory: Memory: A Study of the ‘Luit’ by Foreign Language University, Mnemoculture Nabakanta Barua Shillong Campus in Praxis in South, collaboration with Indian Southeast and other Council of Social Science Asian Countries Research- NERC The Celebration of Ashokastami: A 12-21 January, 2014Dept of Tradition, Creativity and Medley of Tradition, Creativity and Estonian and Comparative Indigenous Knowledge Indigenous Knowledge Folklore, University of Tartu and Tribal Folklore, Language and Literature, Central University of Jharkhand Socio- Semiotic Approach to Trickster 26-27 May, 2016 Oralit: The Quest for Tales Bodoland Univeersity, Meaning Kokrajhar Folk Tradition And Revirine 15-16 Dec, 2016 Folkloristics Culture: Representation Of The IACLSC 2016 Assamese Identity In Selected Folk Institute of Advanced Songs And Myth On The Brahmaputra Research, The Puri Foundation, River Gandhinagar, Gujrat

Teacher as Researcher- An 29-30 Nov, 2003 Problems and Prospects of Higher Education Insight into the need based National Seminar in B P in Rural India skill in Higher Education Chaliha College Nagarbera Teacher, the Concept of IM 23-24 Sept, 2004 Teaching Technique in Higher Education and the Classroom All India Association of (UGC sponsored) Teaching Education Research Receiving Ends- Attitudes 18th & 19th Sept, 2007 English Language Teaching in the Age of and aptitudes Dept of English, Dhing Information and Communication Technology: College, Dhing Issues and Chalenges (UGC sponsored) Generating Confidence in 30th and 31st Jan, 2008 Development of Youth and Role of Higher Youth Dispur College, Guwahati Education with Special Reference to Assam

A Move towards 29th & 30th Sept, 2008 Status of Women in Colonial Assam (UGC- Emancipation: A Study on Dept of History, Pandu ICHR sponsored National Seminar) ‘Lovita’ by Jyotiprasad College Agarwala Determination of Human 20th & 21st Oct, 2009 Population, Environment & Development in Identity and the Arya Vidyapeeth College North East India Environment in Association with Assam Science Society Search for Identity – A 29th & 30th Jan, 2010 ’ Identity Crisis, Self and the Family in Reading of Mitra Phukan’s Barnagar College, Sorbhog Women Writers in Indian English ‘The Collector’s Wife in collaboration with G.L.C. College, Barpeta Road Timeless Significance of 3rd & 4th Sept, 2010 The Study of Indian Folklore: An Myth Interdisciplinary Study of North-Eastern Folk Chilarai College, Tradition Golakganj in collaboration with Academic Council, Chilarai College Subjective well Being and 12th & 13h Nov, 2010 Human Right and Socio-Economic and Social Change PoliticalStatus of Women in Northeast Borbhag College, Kalag, India(UGC sponsored) Nalbari in collaboration with Gramya Bikash Mancha, Dakshingaon, Nalbari Identity Formation : An 27-31 Dec, 2010 XXXIV Indian Social Science Congress on Environmental Perspective Indian Academy of Social India Post 1990 Sciences and Gauhati University, Guwahati The Structural Oral 8th & 9th Jan, 2011 Higher Education under 11th Plan: Strategies Situational Approach in IQAC, Pragjyotish College, for Crisis Management(UGC sponsored) Teaching English Guwahati in collaboration with Assam College Principal’s Council A Sense of Belonging with 2nd & 3rd Feb, 2011 Folk Elements in Assamese Literature (UGC Detachment (A Study into Nalbari Commerce sponsored) the Children Literature of College, Nalbari in Nabakanta Barua) collaboration with Nalbari Sahitya Samaj, Nalbari Globalisation, Modernity 3rd & 4th June, 2011 Role of Globalisation on Traditional Assamese and Cultural Identity Dept of Assamese, Dhing Culture College, Nagaon Narrativising the Urge of 3rd & 4th Feb, 2012 Indian Writing in English and Marginalisation Inclusion- A Study into a Dept of English, Goalpara Folkstory of Bodo-Kachari College, Goalpara Origin Entitled How Rivers are Made

Myth as Discourse for the 11, 12, 13&14 Oct, 2012 Ethnicity, Identity and Literature Construction Of Communal Sibasagar College, Identity: A Study into the Joysagar, Assam Myth of the Brahmaputra River

A Structural Approach to 2-4 Jan, 2015 47th session of All India Oriental Conference the Myth on the Dept of Sanskrit, GU on Literature, Culture and Ethnicity of NE Brahmaputra India

Encrypting Songs into 26-27 June, 2015 Writings of Regional History of NE India with History: A Study into the Dept of History and special reference to Polity, Society and Songa of Dr Bhupan Economics, Mayong Economy Hazarika Anchalik College, Marigaon Teaching Shakespearean 26-27 Sept, 2016 Reading, Teaching and Performing Sonnents in an Indian Shakespeare in Contemporary Times Classroom: An ELT@I, Assam Chapter & Understanding into DDU KAUSHAL Culturally Inscribed KENDRA, Sonapur Metaphor College

Timelessness and Cultural 7th & 8th Dec’ 2017 Socio-Economic Impact on 20th Century Cohesion: A Study into Sankardev College, American Poetry Ansel Elkin’s Poem Shillong ‘Autobiography of Eve’

Fabricating Cultural 23rd & 24th March, 2018 Urbanisation and Folklore: Emerging Issues Orientation: A Study into Dept of Folklore Research, and Perspectives the Celebration of Folk Gauhati Univ Festivals in the Schools in Urban Areas

Narratives on River Spirit: 29th & 30th March, 2019 Interpreting Folklore and Culture of North East an Ecological Spirit Dept of Folklore Research, GU Water Security and Revival 29th & 30th March, 2019 Transformation of Rural India: Challenges of River Spirit ICSSR Sponsored National Towards Sustainability Seminar, dept of Gepgraphy and State Institute of Panchayat and Rural Development.

11. External Member/ Office Bearer of any Academic Body/ Society/Forum/Association etc:

(a) Life member of Indian Council for Historical Research (b) Life Member English Language Teachers’ Association (c) Life Member of Sou Asom Lekhika Samaroh

Mridusmita Mahanta