Faculty Profile: Dr. Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi Faculty Profile for Booklet & Website Name: Dr. Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi Designation: Assistant Professor & HoD Department: Languages & Literature Email ID: [email protected]; [email protected] Contact Number and Extension: 9419215764; 2017 Qualification: PhD; MA & B Ed (English); MA (Linguistics); UGC-NET 2016 & 2017 Experience: 9.4 Years Teaching: Research: Administration: Total: 9.4 Years Post-PhD: 5.4 years 9.4 Years 9.4 Years Areas of Interest / Specialization: 1. Field Linguistics 2. General Linguistics Brief Bio-data: Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India. His research interests include language documentation, writing descriptive grammars, and the preservation of rare and endangered languages in South Asia. He has contributed papers to many Science Citation Index/SCOPUS journals, and research articles to Knowledge Resources chiefly EBSCO and to encyclopedias, chiefly with Sage, Rowman & Littlefield, Springer and ABC-CLIO Publications. His most recent books are A Grammar of Hadoti (Lincom Europa: Munich, 2012), A Grammar of Bhadarwahi (Lincom Europa: Munich, 2013), and a poetry collection titled Chinaar-kaa- Sukhaa-Pattaa (2015) in Hindi. As a poet, he has published more than 100 poems in different anthologies, journals and magazines worldwide. Until recently, his poem “Mother” has been published as a prologue to Motherhood and War: International Perspectives (Eds.), Palgrave Macmillan Press. 2014. His poetry collection titled Something Lurks It Seems has been recently published in January 2017. 1 Faculty Profile: Dr. Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi Research Profile Research/Knowledge Resources Projects Undertaken: S. Current Status No. Funding (Closed/ Role Title Agency/Assigning Agency Running) 1. Language Conservation and Documentation: A PI Linguistic Survey of Sarazi ICSSR In-process 2. Encyclopedia of World Completed; Contributor Poverty CA: Sage Publications Inc. 2016 3. Historic Sites and Landmarks that Shaped America: From Acoma Santa Barbara, Pueblo to Ground Zero CA:ABCCLIO/Greenwood- Completed; Contributor Praeger 2016 4. The Encyclopaedia of Japanese Horror Completed; Contributor Films Rowman & Littlefield 2016 5. The Sage Encyclopedia of Completed; Contributor Online Education Sage Publications Inc. CA 2016 6. The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Completed; Contributor Science Perspectives Sage Publications Inc. CA 2016 7. War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith ABC-CLIO/Greenwood- Completed; Contributor and Conflict Praeger 2017 8. he Sea In World History: Exploration, Travel, and CA:ABCCLIO/Greenwood Completed; Contributor Trade, Santa Barbara Praeger 2017 9. The Sage International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism Sage Publications Inc. Completed; Contributor CA 2017 10. Encyclopedia of Psychology and Springer-Verlag GmbH Completed; Contributor Religion Germany 2017 2 Faculty Profile: Dr. Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi 11. EBSCO Research Academic Topics Completed; Contributor Starters Overview, EBSCO 2017 12. Academic Topics Contributor EBSCO Literature Overview, EBSCO In Progress 13. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Hinduism and Tribal Springer-Verlag GmbH Contributor Religions Germany In Progress 14. Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia Santa Barbara, ABC- Completed; Contributor CLIO/Greenwood-Praeger 2017 15. The Sage Sage Publications Inc. Contributor Encyclopaedia of Theory CA In Progress 16. The Sage InternationalEncyclopedia of Mass Media and Society, Sage Publications Inc. Contributor CA In Progress 17. Encyclopedia of Religion and Contemporary Politics ABC-CLIO/Greenwood- Contributor Praeger In Progress Research Publications: S. No. Year Publication 1. 2015 Title: Gods in Indian Popular Jokes; Book: God and Popular Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry’s Most Influential Figure; Editors: Stephen Butler Murray and Aimee Upjohn Light; Publisher: CA: ABCCLIO/Greenwood-Praeger; Place: Santa Barbara; ISBN: 978-1-4408-0179-2; PP: Volume 2, 203-214 2. 2015 Title: From Arranged to Online: A Study of Courtship Culture in India; Book: Online Courtship: International Interactions Across Borders; Editors: I. AlevDegim, James Johnson, and Tao Fu; Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures; Place: Amsterdam; ISBN: 978-90-822345-7-2; PP: 133-147 3. 2011 Title: Where Do We Put A Post-Independence Translation: An Inquiry to Translated Indian Literature; Book: Reflections on Post-Independence Indian English Fiction; Editors: Dr Arvind Nawale; Publisher: Anmol Publication Pvt. Ltd.; Place: N. Delhi; 3 Faculty Profile: Dr. Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi ISBN: 978-81-261-4647-5; PP: 213-221 4. 2013 Title: J M Synge in the Classroom: An Approach to Study an Author; Book: English Language and Literature Teaching: Trends, Techniques, Methods and Approaches; Editors: Dr Arvind Nawale; Prashant Mohte; Publisher: Author Press; Place: N. Delhi; ISBN: 978-81-7373-740-5; PP: 339-347 5. 2013 Title: Together We Sing: Feminist Consciousness in Haroti Folklore; Book: Portrayal of Women in Media and Literature; Editors: Dr Arvind Nawale; Dr.Shivani Vashisth; Publisher: Author Press; Place: N. Delhi; ISBN: 978-93-82647-01-0; PP: 34-38 6. 2014 Title: Sounding the Cape: a history of Cape Town’s Creole music [Book Review]; Portal: urbanafrica.net, online; Publisher: University of Cape Town; Http: http://www.urbanafrica.net/review/sounding-cape-history-cape- townscreole-music/ 7. 2014 Title: Aspects of Split Ergativity [Book Review]; Journal: Indian Linguistics, National; Type: Peer Reviewed; Volume: 75, Number 3-4; PP: 231-238; ISBN: 0378-0759; Publisher: Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore (Data base in: Linguistic Society of India) 8. 2014 Title: The History of Languages [Book Review]; Journal: Language in India, National; Type: Peer Reviewed; Volume: 14, Number 9; PP: 24-36; ISBN: 1930-2940; Publisher: Online (www.languageinindia.com) Http:http://www.languageinindia.com/sep2014/amitabhreviewofh istoryoflanguagesfinal.pdf (Data base in: EBSCO; MLA International Bibliography, ProQuest, Gale Research, and Directory of Periodicals, Cabell’s Directory) 9. 2014 Title: Public relations: Theory and practice [Book Review]; Journal: Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy; Type: Peer Reviewed, International; Volume: No. 152; PP: 196-197; ISBN: 1329-878X; Publisher: Online (http://search.informit.com.au/search); Http: http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary; dn=573663102732069;res =IELLCC (A-ranked, triple peer-reviewed international journal) SCOPUS 10. 2014 Title: Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity [Book Review]; Journal: The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities; Type: Peer Reviewed, National Volume: 6, Number 2; PP: 110-112; ISBN: 0975-2935 Publisher: Online (http://rupkatha.com/about.php) Http: 4 Faculty Profile: Dr. Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi http://rupkatha.com/book-review-censorium-cinema-open-edge- mass publicity-william-mazzarella/ (Data base in: EBSCO, Elsevier, MLA International Directory, DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources, Google Scholar, J-Gate, Index Copernicus, SCOPUS) 11. 2014 Title: Playing with Sound [Book Review]; Journal: The Nigerian Journal of Philosophy; Type: Peer Reviewed, International Volume: 25, Number 1; PP: 151-155; ISBN: 0189-885X; Publisher: University of Lagos (Data Base in: Hathi Trust Digital Library) 12. 2015 Title: Ethnography in Today’s World [Book Review]; Journal: Inclusive: A Journal of Kolkata Centre for Contemporary Studies (KCCS); Type: Peer Reviewed, National; Month: January; ISBN: 2278-9758; Publisher: Kolkata Centre for Contemporary Studies http://theinclusive.org/ethnography-in-todays-world 13. 2015 Title: Routledge Handbook of Environment and Society in Asia [Book Review]; Portal: East Asian Integration Studies; Type: Peer Reviewed, National Volume: 8, Number 4; Publisher: Hanns Seidel Foundation (Data Base in: Hanns Seidel Foundation) 14. 2015 Title: Performing Englishness: Identity and Politics in a Contemporary Folk Resurgence [Book Review]; Journal: Nations and Nationalism, Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism; Type: Peer Reviewed, International; Volume: 21, Part 2; PP: 380-381; DOI: 10.1111/nana.12127_8 Publisher: Wiley Blackwell (Data Base in: EBSCO, GEOBASE, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, ProQuest, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index) 15. 2016 Title: Life as a Dalit: Views from the Bottom on Caste in India [Book Review]; Journal: Capital & Class; Type: Peer Reviewed, International Volume: 14, Issue 2; PP: 40: 221-224; ISSN: 2041- 0980; doi:10.1177/0309816816630709p; Publisher: Sage Journals Http: http://cnc.sagepub.com/content/40/1/221.full.pdf+html 16. 2015 Title: Discourse 2.0: Language and new media [Book Review] Journal: Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy; Type: Peer Reviewed, International; Number: 154; PP: 160-161; ISSN: 1329-878X; Publisher: Online (http://search.informit.com.au/); Http: http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=9971905389 65293;res=IELLCC (A-ranked, triple peer-reviewed international journal) SCOPUS 17. 2015 Title: The Bukusu of Kenya: Folktales, Culture and Social Identities [Book Review]; Journal: The Journal of Pan African Studies; Type: Peer Reviewed, International Volume:8, Number: 5 Faculty Profile: Dr. Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi 1; PP: 193-195; ISSN: 0888-6601 Publisher: Online (http://www.jpanafrican.com/index.htm) Http: http://www.jpanafrican.com/vol8no1.htm