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Title Dr. First Vinita Last Chaturved Photograph

Name Gupta Name i
Designation Associate Professor
Department English
Address E12/35, DLF City, Phase 1, Gurgaon12202,
Haryana
(Residence)
Phone No O124-4377221
(Residence)optional
Mobile 9810420641
Fax
Email vinitagc@yahoo.co.in
Web-Page
Education
Subject Institution Year Details
English Literature Lucknow University 2006 Ph.D
English Literature Delhi University 1991 M.Phil
English Literature Delhi University, Miranda 1988 M.A.
House
Career Profile
Organisation / Institution Designation Duration Role
Delhi College of Arts & Associate 17 .7. 1995 Teaching Undergraduate
Commerce,DU Professor to the Students & Mentoring
Present students under DU
Delhi College of Arts & Innovations Project
Commerce,DU Lecturer( Ad Hoc 9.8.1990-
& Temporary ) 12.2.1995 Teaching
(with breaks)
Jesus & Mary College,DU
Temporary 6.10.1988-
Lecturer 28.4.1989 (1 Teaching
Day’s Break)
Jesus & Mary College,DU
15.1.1990- Teaching
Miranda House August 1988- Ad Hoc 30.4.1990
October 1988 19.8.1988- Teaching
Ad Hoc 2.10.1988

Research Interests / Specialization

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 19th Century British Novelists with specialization in the Novels of George Eliot/ Modern
European Drama/Culture Studies

Teaching Experience ( Subjects/Courses Taught)

o B.A. Hons English 3rd Year – Early 20th Cen. British Literature
o B.A. Hons English 3rd Year- Modern European Drama
o AECC, English under CBCS
o B.A. Hons English 2nd Year- Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, John Donne’s Poems
o B.A. Prog - Creative Writing
o B.A. Prog- Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality & Literary Traditions.

Honors & Awards

 Qualified for NET and Junior Research Fellowship

(JRF)conducted by UGC in 1991.
 Received Urvashi Chowdhary Memorial Scholarship from
Miranda House in the Years 1987 and 1988

Publications

 Book Chapter titled “ Daughter of the East and the Perils of (Self) Idealization” in Writing
Gender Writing Self: Memory,Memoir And Autobiography .Ed. Aparna Lanjewar Bose.
Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9780367534493

 Paper Presentation titled ‘Language of Silence in Indian Fiction & Cinema’ was published in the
Proceedings of the Seminar 17341 held at the 21 st Congress of the ICLA Vienna 2016, Ed. Mythili Rao .
Jain Deemed to be University Press: Bangalore, December 2018.
ISBN 978-93-85327-60-5

 Contributed an article , “A Polyphony of Voices, a Panoply of Themes: Poems by

Contemporary Odia Women Poets” in Literary Miscellany (An International Journal of
Literary Studies) Vol. 7, No.2, July-Dec 2018.Special Issue on Poetry. New Delhi: Bahri
Publications,2018. ISSN 2230-7451

 Contributed a Review of an anthology of poems , In Other Words: Poems by Odia Women

Poets, Ed. & Translated by J. P. Das in The Journal of the Poetry Society
( India) Vol. 28, 2017.

 Contributed an article titled “The Changing Image of the Nation in Popular Hindi

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 Cinema:From Nehruvian Socialism to the Present” in Intellectual Resonance, DCAC
Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, Vol-3,Issue-4,September2016.ISSN:2321-2594.

 Book Chapter titled “Woman’s Body: the Gender Question in Fiction & Cinema”
published in Gender and Diversity: India, Canada and Beyond. Ed. Malashri Lal, Chan
dra Mohan, Enakshi K. Sharma et al, Rawat Publications: Jaipur, 2015. ISBN 978-81-316-0714-5

 Resource Person : For 1 Day Workshop for Faculty Development Programme on Creative
Writing , Media and Book Reviews held in Moti Lal Nehru College, University of Delhi on 8th
April 2017.

 Conference Presentations

 Delivered an online Lecture on the topic Modernism: An Introduction on 18th August 2020 at a
National Webinar Series on Perspectives on History of English Literature organised by the Department
of English, North Orissa University, Second Campus, Keonjhar.

 Presented a Paper titled “Silence As Passive Resistance: A Reading of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry
Tide” at the UGC Sponsored Two Days National Seminar (23rd-24 th October 2019) on Speaking
Silence: History, Politics & Psychology orgainsed by Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi on 23rd
October 2019.

 Presented a Paper titled Romancing the Auto/biographies of Two Women from Pakistan &
Myanmar: A Comparative Study at the XXII Congress of the International Comparative
Literature Association (ICLA) on 31st July 2019, held in the University of Macau from
29.7.2019 – 2.8.2019.

 Delivered a Talk on Modernism: Early 20th Century British Literature at Avadh Girls’
Degree College, University of Lucknow on 22nd September 2018.

 Presented a Paper titled “Popular Hindi Cinema and the Construction of Indian National
Identity” on 20th January 2017 at the International Conference on Decentring English
Studies: Studying Literature in the Global South, organized by the Department of English,
Utkal University, in Bhubaneshwar from 19-21 January 2017.

 Presented a Paper titled “The Language of Silence in Literature and Cinema” on 22nd
July2016 at the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) International
Conference on The Many Languages of Comparative Literature, organized by the University
of Vienna in Vienna from July21-27, 2016.

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  Presented a Paper “Woman’s Body: the Gender Question in Fiction & Cinema” titled at the
UGC sponsored National Seminar, in collaboration with the Department of English, University
of Delhi , on Intersections: History & Literature on March 11-12,2014 held in Delhi College of
Arts & Commerce,DU.

 Presented a Paper titled “Humanising Science and Commerce” on 15 th March 2008 at the
UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Globalisation &Multiculturalism: Contemporary
Trends in Language, Literature & Media held in Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, DU
from March 15-17, 2008.

Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity/College Committee members

 Teacher in Charge , 2018-2020 , 2014-2016, 2007-2009.

 Convenor, Workload Committee -2019- Continuing
 Convenor, Prospectus Committee of College, 2015-2017, 2009-2011.
 Convenor, Time Table Committee of College 2016 – continuing
 Convenor, Internal Complaint Committee 2018-continuing
 Convenor & Paper Setter for English Hons. 3rd Year DCE Paper on Autobiography 2018.
Convenor & Paper Setter for English Hons 2nd Year SEC Paper on Creative Writing 2018, 2020.
Convenor & Paper Setter for BA Prog. 3rd Year Creative Writing , Application Course 2018.
 Paper Setter of Creative Writing, English for BA Prog. 3rd Year & Convenor of the same in 2016
&2017.
 External Examiner for BA Prog 3rd Year Application Course in Creative Writing to conduct
Practical Examinations in various colleges of Delhi University in the Years 2008 (Gargi) , 2009
(SGTB Khalsa ), 2010 (Deshbandhu) , 2011 (PGDAV), 2012 (Deshbandhu & PGDAV) 2014 (Sri
Venkateshwara) ,2015 (Deshbandhu) & 2016 (Deshbandhu).
 Part of the CBCS Syllabus Revision Sub-Committee constituted by Department of English in
January 2016.
 Office Bearer, DCAC Staff Association,1997-1999

Professional Societies Memberships

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 Life Member, Comparative Literature Association of India

Projects (Major Grants / Collaborations)

Received, along with 2 other Faculty Members, the Delhi University Innovations Project Grant (Rs.
10 Lakhs) to research the topic Symphonies of Life: Nature & Environment in the Folksongs of Punjab,
Jammu & Kashmir under Project Code DCAC-102 in the year 2012-13,and mentored 10 students under
the Project.

Other Details
 Organised the following Webinars:

 With Dr. Animesh Mohapatra, Deptt. of English, DCAC, titled” Old and Middle English
Literature: An Overview” on 27.04.2020
 With Dr. Sayantan Dasgupta, Associate Professor & Head, Deptt of Comparative
Literature, Jadavpur University, titled “Comparative Literature:Concepts & Trajectories”
on 14.05.2020
 With Dr. Uma Jayaraman, Associate Faculty, Deptt. of English Language
Communication, National University of Singapore, titled “ The illusion of
„empowerment‟ : politics of assimilation and involution in contemporary diasporic
writings” on 23.05.2020

 Chaired a Session titled Silence and the Subaltern Consiousness at the UGC Sponsored
Two Days National Seminar (23rd-24 th October 2019) on Speaking Silence: History, Politics
& Psychology orgainsed by Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi on 23rd October 2019.

 Moderated a Panel Discussion on “Media, Gender And Human Rights” on 17th October
2019 organized by the Internal Complaints Committee in collaboration with the Gender
Sensitization Committee of Delhi College of Arts & Commerce.. Panellists were Saurabh
Mishra (Advocate on record, Supreme Court ) & Bhavna Rao ( Astt.Prof. Deptt of Law,Galgotias
University, Greater Noida)

 Coordinator of a One Day Faculty Development Programme, conducted in

collaboration with the Department of English, University of Delhi, on Autobiography , a
Paper for BA Hons. English course under CBCS on 10th November 2017 in college.
 Prepared Teaching Module for MHRD EPG UGC Project on Matthew Arnold As A Culture
Critic for the Unit on Literary Criticism in 2016. http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/

 Peer Reviewed a Unit on Matthew Arnold For Literary Criticism for EPG pathshala,
an MHRD Project in 2016.http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/

 Chaired a session titled Literature and Language in Vienna on 22nd July 2016 at the
International Conference on The Many Languages of Comparative Literature, organized by the

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 University of Vienna from July21-27, 2016.

 Convenor of UGC sponsored National Seminar, in collaboration with the Department of

English, University of Delhi , on Intersections: History & Literature on March 11-12, 2014
held in Delhi College of Arts & Commerce,DU.

 Chaired a Session titled Alternative Histories on March 12, 2014 at the UGC sponsored
National Seminar, in collaboration with the Department of English, University of Delhi , on
Intersections: History & Literature on March 11-12,2014 held in Delhi College of Arts &
Commerce,DU.

 Organised a 1 day Seminar on Symphonies of Life: Nature & Environment in the Folksongs
of Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir on May 1, 2013 at IIC, New Delhi, as a requirement under Delhi
University Innovations Project, Code DCAC-102. Made presentation on the folksongs of Jammu
and chaired the student‟s session on the same.
 At Antardhwani 2013, organised by the University of Delhi, put up a desk in the Innovations
Plaza to make multimedia presentation on the Innovations Project Symphonies of Life: Nature &
Environment in the Folksongs of Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir Code-DCAC-102 for 3 days.
 At Antardhwani 2014, organised by the University of Delhi, this Project was selected to be
showcased again and presentations were made for 3 days.

 On the Organising Committee of UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Globalisation

&Multiculturalism: Contemporary Trends in Language, Literature & Media held in DCAC
from March 15-17, 2008.

 Orientation Course from Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi. From 8th June to 5th July 1999.

 Refresher Course from CPDHE, Delhi, in English (Eng-6). From 12th February to 3rd March,2001
on Classical Literature.

 Refresher Course from CPDHE, Delhi, in English (Eng-7). From 15th January to 4th February 2002
on Popular Literature & Culture.

 Participated in a 3 day Workshop on Foundation Course on LLC-II English from June 17-June
19, 2013.

 Participated in 2 Days International Conference organised by the Centre for Canadian Studies,
University of Delhi, South Campus on Gender, Diversity & Cultural Pluralism: Canada & India
held on 17-18 January 2012 at Iic, New Delhi

 Participated in a 1 day Workshop on Film Studies on January 19,2010 conducted by ILLL,

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 University of Delhi, South Campus.

 Attended an ICT Workshop for Capacity Building of Delhi University Staff organised by ILLL
from 12-23 December, 2009 at DCAC.

 Participated in a 2 day Workshop on Creative Writing in English , 10-11 November, 2006 at the
University of Delhi, South Campus.

 Participated and made presentation in a 3- day Workshop, The New B.A. Pass English Texts
: The Classroom Experience 11-13, November 1992, conducted by The English Association at
CPDHE, DU.

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