Dr. Rimika Singhvi

Designation:

Professor & Head

Address:

Department of English, The IIS University, Jaipur

Office Phone Number:

0141-2400160/1

Residence Phone Number:

0141-2621110

Mobile Phone:

9783307195

Email:

rimika.singhvi@iisuniv.ac.in

Web-Page:

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Educational Qualifications:

Degree Institution Year Ph.D. Dept. of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 2011 M.Phil. / M.Tech. --------- ------- PG Dept. of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 1998 UG Maharani’s College, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 1996 Any other qualification

Career Profile:

• Joined as Asst. Prof. in 2003

• Services confirmed in 2006

• Appointed Head of Department in 2007

• Promoted to Sr. Asst. Prof. in 2009, uptil the present

Administrative Assignments:

Head of Department
Co-ordinator, Business English Certificates (BEC) Exams, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Co-ordinator, Faculty/Staff Development Programmes
Co-ordinator, Compering
Co-ordinator, Oraganizing Special Activities on Campus, eg. SPICMACY events, etc.
Co-ordinator, Literary Guild and Debating Club

Areas of Interest / Specialization:

• Indian Women’s Poetry

• Women’s Writing (Prose and Fiction)

Subjects Taught:

• Critical Theory

• 20th Century Literature

• Indian Writing in English

• World Literature

• Pre-Romantic and Romantic Poetry, Prose and Fiction

Research Guidance:

List against each head (If applicable)

1. Supervision of awarded Doctoral Theses - N.A.

2. Supervision of Doctoral Theses, under progress - 01

Year of Registration	Name of Student	Title of Ph.D. Thesis
2013	Niharika Joshi	Cultural Context and Familial Relations in Selected Novels of Shashi Deshpande and Alice Walker

3. Supervision of awarded M.Phil Dissertations - N.A.

4. Supervision of M.Phil Dissertations, under progress - N.A.

5. Supervision of PG Theses: 19

Session	Name of Student	Title of PG Thesis (Dissertation)
2014-15	Karan Arya	Re-examining the Concept of Social Realism in Premchand’s Fictional Writings, with reference to Godan, ‘Kafan’ and ‘Namak ka Daroga’
2014-15	Palak Bindal	Reading T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland in the Twenty–first Century
2014-15	Sagarika Prabhakar	The Oneness of Being: Understanding the Concept of Self in Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Selected Poems from Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali
2014-15	Seema Dhayal	Revisiting Women Characters in Ancient Indian Literature and Classical Greek Literature: A Comparative Study of The Ramayana, Oedipux Rex and Antigone
2014-15	Sunanda Jadoun	Re-examining the Myth of Ravana in The Ramayana
2013-14	Dimple Tanwar	Social Alienation and the Angry Young Man in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie
2013-14	Kavita Boolchandani	Listening to Voices from the Margins : A Study of Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Coolie
2013-14	Khushboo Sharma	Representation of Gender in the Fictional Works of U. R. Ananthamurthy
2013-14	Marilyn Massey	Migration and Gender Politics in the Fictional Works of Saadat Hasan Manto
2012-13	Parul Jhorar	Indianness in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel and A.K. Ramanujan : A Comparative Study
2012-13	Ruchi Sharma	The Female Body as a Site for the Expression of Femininity : A Feminist Reading of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues
2012-13	Sakshi Sahni	The Moral Chaos in U. R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara and Mulkraj Anand’s Untouchable : A Comparison
2011-12	Shikha Shekhawat	Breaking the Mould: Selected Poetic Works of Sarojini Naidu
2011-12	Simrat Brar	Listening for ‘Silent’ Voices in Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session
2010-11	Alpana Yadav	Reading for her Life in Kamala Das' Poetry: An Exploration
2010-11	Ambika Jain	The Modernist Idiom in post-Independence Indian Poetry in English, with reference to Nissim Ezekiel and A.K. Ramanujan
2009-10	Anshita Sharma	Samskara and Indian Prudery
2009-10	Anurika Singh	Themes and Images in the Poetic Works of Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das and Toru Dutt
2008-09	Varika Raj	The Characteristic Features of the Poetry of the 1950’s and the 1960’s, with special reference to Philip Larkin

Publications Profile:

S. No.	First Author	Co-author	Title of Publication	Name of the Journal	Status					Impact Factor
S. No.	First Author	Co-author	Title of Publication	Name of the Journal	International/ National/ State	Vol. (No.)	Page No.	Year	ISSN	Impact Factor
	Shubhangi Bhatnagar	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	Commentary and/or Catharsis: Literary Responses to unprecedented Challenges	IISU Journal of Arts	National	10(1)	82-90	2021	2319-5339
2.	Dr. Gunja Patni	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	Deconstructing Mythology and Re-writing the Body: Reading Meena Kandaswamy's Ms. Militancy	Drishti- The Sight	National	X(I)	46-50	2021	2319-8281
3.	Anuradha Dasani	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	Going Beyond the Gender Binary: A Reading through Mahesh Dattani's Dance Like a Man	IISU Journal of Arts	National	9(2)	100-09	2020	2319-5339
4.	Gunja Patni	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	Decoding Gender and Negotiating Culture: Re-configuration and Representation in C.S. Lakshmi’s Selected Short Fiction	IISU Journal of Arts	National	9 (1)	18-24	2020	2319-5339
5.	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	----	Games People Play: Life and Living in Troubled Times	Literary Endeavour	International	X (3)	416-21	2019	0976-299X
6.	Mili Jain	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	Defining Dystopian Agency and Identity: Reading Veronica Roth’s Divergent Series	Literary Insight	International	10 (11)	106-11	2019	0975-6248
7.	Akila Muralidhar	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	The Problematic Parsi Identity: The Anxiety of Belonging in Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters	Literary Insight	International	9 (2)	1-8	2018	0975-6248	-------
8.	Mili Jain	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	Going Beyond the Playtext: Social Consciousness in Selected Plays by Mahesh Dattani	Literary Insight	International	9 (1)	158-69	2018	0975-6248	-------
9.	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	---	Imaging the Diasporic Self : A Critical Estimate of Jhumpa Lahiri's Short Fiction, with Specific Reference to Unaccustomed Earth	Euphonie	International	1	44-51	2017	2320-3196 Online	-------
10.	Ruchi Sharma	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	Writing the Body, in Search of the Femme : Reading Eve Enseler's The Vagina Monologues	GNOSIS	International	4 (1)	275-88	2017	2394-0131	4.147
11.	Astha Kaushik	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	Of Being and Belonging : Identity and Location in Monika Ali's Brick Lane and Alentejo Blue	Virtuoso	International	7 (1)	58-62	2017	2249-6076	4.730
12.	Megha Sharma	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	The Emergence of Selfhood in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre	Contemporary Discourse	International	8 (2)	198-203	2017	0976-3686	-------
13.	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	-----	Gender and the Cityscape: Re-negotiating Space in Patricia Mc Cormick's Sold and Madhur Bhandarkar's Chandni Bar	Pragati's English Journal	National	17 (1)	28-36	2017	0975-4091	-------
14.	Adhishwari Singh	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	Family Life and the Immigrant Experience in Juhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth	Contemporary Discourse	International	7 (2)	186-91	2016	0976-3686	-------
15.	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	-----	Re-imagining the Role of Theory in the Humanities	Motifs	International	2 (1)	57-62	2016	2454-1753	-------
16.	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	-----	Poetry in the Time of Global Diversity	SKIT Research Journal	International	5 (1)	82-84	2015	2278-2508	-------
17.	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	-----	Locating the Self in a Diasporic Space: A Study of Imtiaz Dharker’s Poetry	Pragati’s English Journal	National	14 (2)	1-7	2014	0975-4091	-------
18.	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	-----	Redefining the Self: Love and Longing in the Poetry of Tara Patel	LITTCRIT: An Indian Response to Literature	National	39 (2)	42-49	2013	0970-8049	-------
19.	Dr. Rimika Singhvi	-----	Re-scripting the Self: Cultural Inheritance and Existential Alienation in the Poetry of Eunice de Souza	IISU Journal of Arts	National	2 (1)	31-43	2013	2319-5339	-------
20.	Rimika Singhvi	-----	A Manifesto of Desire: Experiencing the Self through the Body in the Poetry of Kamala Das	Contemporary Discourse	International	4 (2)	175-81	2013	0976-3686	-------
21.	Rimika Singhvi	-----	Shakespeare Retold: Adaptation and Translation	The Criterion	International	4 (3)	e-journal	2013	0976-8165	-------
22.	Rimika Singhvi	-----	Geoscapes of the Mind: Travel, Belonging and Transformation of the Self in Transit, in the Poetical Works of Imtiaz Dharker	Literary Insight	International	4	209-15	2013	0975-6248	-------

Chapters in edited Books

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First Author

Co-author

Title of the Chapter

Name of the Book

Details

Status

Name of the Publisher

Page No.

Year

ISSN/ISBN

International/ National/ State

Dr. Rimika Singhvi

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Decoding Dattani: Social Construction of Gender Identity in Dance Like a Man

The Theatre of Mahesh Dattani

National

Aadi Publications, Jaipur

114-20

2015

978-93-82630-63-0

Dr. Rimika Singhvi

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From Behind the Veil and Beyond: The Self in Transit in the Poetical Works of Imtiaz Dharker

Culture, Transformation and Identity: Travel, Fiction, Autobiography

National

Rawat Publications, Jaipur

129-39

2015

978-81-316-0674-2

Dr. Rimika Singhvi

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Student-Centred Approaches to Teaching Literature

Teaching English Communicatively: Principles, Practices, Perspectives

National

Jaipur: Yking Books

205-10

2012

978-93-80930-63-6

Dr. Rimika Singhvi

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Feminist Expression in Rajasthani Folklore: Sexuality, Fertility and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women’s Songs

Folklore: A Feminist Expression

National

Jodhpur: Books Treasure

95-97

2010

81-900422-0-3

Papers published in Conference/ Seminar Proceedings

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First Author

Co-Author

Title of Paper in the Proceedings

Name of the Conf./Seminar

Name of the Organising Institution

Status

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ISSN

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Dr. Rimika Singhvi

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Dialogue at the Margins: A Study of Bama’s Sangati: Events

UGC-sponsored Seminar on Sensitisation towards Values through Literature

Sophia Girls’ College, Ajmer

National

4-5 Oct. ‘13

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Dr. Rimika Singhvi

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Decoding Dattani: Social Construction of Gender Identity in Dance Like a Man

The Theatre of Mahesh Dattani

St. Mira's College for Girls, Pune

National

9 Feb. ‘13

978-81-926011-0-6

Dr. Rimika Singhvi

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A Literary Approach to Language Teaching: The Relevance of Literary Analysis to Teaching Language through Literature in the Classroom

Empowering the English Language Classroom

Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur

International

18-19 Jan. ‘13

978-93-81583-84-5

Dr. Rimika Singhvi

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Feminism and Gender: Gendering Literature and Criticism

UGC-sponsored Seminar on New Directions in Literary Studies

ICG, Jaipur

National

29-30 Jan ‘10

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Dr. Rimika Singhvi

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Quality Management: Policies, Principles and Processes

Quality Management in Institutions of Higher Education

ICG, Jaipur

National

16-17 March ‘09

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Conference Organization:

List against head (If applicable): ------ Organization of Conferences and Seminars - as Organizing Secretary of the following:

Theory and Its Pedagogical Implications
New Directions in Literary Studies
International Conference on ‘Icons and Illusionists: Lawyer-Statesmen and Constitutional Democracy’ organized by The International Lincoln Center, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA, Forum on Contemporary Theory, Vadodara and The IIS University, Jaipur on 22 Dec. ‘11
International Conference on ‘Transcending Disciplinary Decadence: Exploring Challenges of Teaching, Scholarship and Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences’ organized by Forum on Contemporary Theory, Vadodara and The IIS University, Jaipur from 18-21 Dec. ‘11
National Seminar on ‘Shakespeare and Film’, organized by Shakespeare Society of India and The IIS University, Jaipur from 13-15 Oct. ‘11
UGC-sponsored National Seminar on ‘New Directions in Literary Studies’, organized by ICG, Jaipur from 29-30 Jan. ‘10
NAAC-Sponsored National Conference on ‘Quality Management in Institutions of Higher Education’ organized by ICG. Jaipur from 16-17 Mar. ‘09
National Workshop on ‘New Paradigms and Applications in Educational Evaluation in Arts and Social Sciences’ organized by ICG. Jaipur from 20-21 Feb. ‘09

Consultancy Experience:

----- As an Oral Examiner, Trainer, Seminar Presenter and Inspector, Exams for a suite of international Tests of English offered by the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, U.K.

Research Projects:

S. No.	Principal Investigator	Title of Project	Date of Sanction	Month	Year	Amount Sanctioned
1.	Akila Murlidhar	The Diapora Discourse: Identity, Location and Consciousness and Imagination in Rohinton Mistry's Such A Long Journey	23	Sept.	2017	Rs. 5000/-
2.	Kritika Rathore	History through Art: A Study of Art Spiegelman's Maus	23	Sept.	2017	Rs. 5000/-
3.	Megha Sharma	Emergence of Selfhood in the Female Protagonists in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and George Ellot's The Mill on the Floss	22	Sept.	2016	Rs. 5000/-
4.	Adhishwari Singh	Family Life and the Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Selected Fictional Writings	25	Aug.	2015	Rs. 4,000/-
5.	Iha Magazine	From Hamlet to Haider: From the Personal to the Political	25	Aug.	2015	Rs. 4,000/-
6.	Marilyn Roohi Massey	Migration and Gender Politics in the Selected Fictional Works of Saadat Hasan Manto	9	Oct.	2013	Rs. 3500/-
7.	Ruchi Sharma	The Female Body as a Site for the Expression of Femininity: A Feminist Reading of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues	29	Sept.	2012	Rs. 4,000/-
8.	Chitra Singh	An Exploration of Logic, Romance and Time Travel with reference to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaben and Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveller’s Wife	27	Sept.	2011	Rs. 5,000/-
9.	Garima Poonia	Fantasy Fiction vis-à-vis Logic and Reason in the Harry Potter Series	27	Sept.	2011	Rs. 5,000/-
10.	Ruchi Sharma	The Literary Representations of Death in Shakespeare’s Selected Dramatic Works	27	Sept.	2011	Rs. 5,000/-

Association With Professional Bodies:

1. Editing ------

2. Reviewing ------

3. Advisory -------

4. Committees and Boards ------

5. Memberships:

• Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (IRIS), Jaipur

• English Language Teachers’ Association of India (ELTAI): Rajasthan Chapter, Jaipur

• Shakespeare Society of India (SSI)

• Forum on Contemporary Theory (FCT), Vadodara

• International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL)

• Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI)

• Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS)

• The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World (MELOW)

• The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS-India)

• English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme (ELTeCS)

Consultancy Areas:

Business English
Communicative and Soft Skills
Documentation (Report-writing, editing, etc.)
Voice and Accent Training

Information Updated on:

Friday, May 22, 2015

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