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Dr. Rimika Singhvi
Department of English, The IIS University, Jaipur
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
• 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
- 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
• Indian Women’s Poetry
• Women’s Writing (Prose and Fiction)
• Critical Theory
• 20th Century Literature
• Indian Writing in English
• World Literature
• Pre-Romantic and Romantic Poetry, Prose and Fiction
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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 |
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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Gunja Patni |
Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
Decoding Gender and Negotiating Culture: Re-configuration and Representation in C.S. Lakshmi’s Selected Short Fiction
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IISU Journal of Arts
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National |
9 (1) |
18-24
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2020 |
2319-5339 |
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Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
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Games People Play: Life and Living in Troubled Times
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Literary Endeavour
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International |
X (3) |
416-21 |
2019 |
0976-299X |
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Mili Jain |
Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
Defining Dystopian Agency and Identity: Reading Veronica Roth’s Divergent Series
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Literary Insight |
International |
10 (11) |
106-11 |
2019 |
0975-6248 |
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Akila Muralidhar |
Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
The Problematic Parsi Identity: The Anxiety of Belonging in Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters
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Literary Insight |
International |
9 (2) |
1-8 |
2018 |
0975-6248 |
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8. |
Mili Jain |
Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
Going Beyond the Playtext: Social Consciousness in
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Literary Insight |
International |
9 (1) |
158-69 |
2018 |
0975-6248 |
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Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
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Imaging the Diasporic Self : A Critical Estimate of Jhumpa Lahiri's Short Fiction, with Specific Reference to Unaccustomed Earth
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Euphonie |
International |
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44-51 |
2017 |
2320-3196 Online |
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10. |
Ruchi Sharma |
Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
Writing the Body, in Search of the Femme : Reading Eve Enseler's The Vagina Monologues
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GNOSIS |
International |
4 (1) |
275-88 |
2017 |
2394-0131 |
4.147 |
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11. |
Astha Kaushik |
Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
Of Being and Belonging : Identity and Location in Monika Ali's Brick Lane and Alentejo Blue
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Virtuoso |
International |
7 (1) |
58-62 |
2017 |
2249-6076 |
4.730 |
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12. |
Megha Sharma |
Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
The Emergence of Selfhood in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
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Contemporary Discourse |
International |
8 (2) |
198-203 |
2017 |
0976-3686 |
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Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
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Gender and the Cityscape: Re-negotiating Space in Patricia Mc Cormick's Sold and Madhur Bhandarkar's Chandni Bar
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Pragati's English Journal |
National |
17 (1) |
28-36 |
2017 |
0975-4091 |
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Adhishwari Singh |
Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
Family Life and the Immigrant Experience in Juhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth
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Contemporary Discourse |
International |
7 (2) |
186-91 |
2016 |
0976-3686 |
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Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
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Re-imagining the Role of Theory in the Humanities
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Motifs |
International |
2 (1) |
57-62 |
2016 |
2454-1753 |
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Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
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Poetry in the Time of Global Diversity |
SKIT Research Journal |
International |
5 (1) |
82-84 |
2015 |
2278-2508 |
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Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
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Locating the Self in a Diasporic Space: A Study of Imtiaz Dharker’s Poetry
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Pragati’s English Journal |
National |
14 (2) |
1-7 |
2014 |
0975-4091 |
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Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
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Redefining the Self: Love and Longing in the Poetry of Tara Patel
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LITTCRIT: An Indian Response to Literature |
National |
39 (2) |
42-49 |
2013 |
0970-8049 |
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Dr. Rimika Singhvi |
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Re-scripting the Self: Cultural Inheritance and Existential Alienation in the Poetry of Eunice de Souza
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IISU Journal of Arts |
National |
2 (1) |
31-43 |
2013 |
2319-5339 |
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Rimika Singhvi |
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A Manifesto of Desire: Experiencing the Self through the Body in the Poetry of Kamala Das
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Contemporary Discourse |
International |
4 (2) |
175-81 |
2013 |
0976-3686 |
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21. |
Rimika Singhvi |
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Shakespeare Retold: Adaptation and Translation
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The Criterion |
International |
4 (3) |
e-journal |
2013 |
0976-8165 |
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Rimika Singhvi |
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Geoscapes of the Mind: Travel, Belonging and Transformation of the Self in Transit, in the Poetical Works of Imtiaz Dharker
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Literary Insight |
International |
4 |
209-15 |
2013 |
0975-6248 |
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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 |
National |
Aadi Publications, Jaipur |
114-20 |
2015 |
978-93-82630-63-0 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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
----- 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.
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Akila Murlidhar |
The Diapora Discourse: Identity, Location and Consciousness and Imagination in Rohinton Mistry's Such A Long Journey |
23 |
Sept. |
2017 |
Rs. 5000/- |
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Kritika Rathore |
History through Art: A Study of Art Spiegelman's Maus |
23 |
Sept. |
2017 |
Rs. 5000/- |
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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/- |
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Adhishwari Singh |
Family Life and the Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Selected Fictional Writings |
25 |
Aug. |
2015 |
Rs. 4,000/- |
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Iha Magazine |
From Hamlet to Haider: From the Personal to the Political |
25 |
Aug. |
2015 |
Rs. 4,000/- |
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Marilyn Roohi Massey |
Migration and Gender Politics in the Selected Fictional Works of Saadat Hasan Manto |
9 |
Oct. |
2013 |
Rs. 3500/- |
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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/- |
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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/- |
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Garima Poonia |
Fantasy Fiction vis-à-vis Logic and Reason in the Harry Potter Series |
27 |
Sept. |
2011 |
Rs. 5,000/- |
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Ruchi Sharma |
The Literary Representations of Death in Shakespeare’s Selected Dramatic Works |
27 |
Sept. |
2011 |
Rs. 5,000/- |
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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)
- Business English
- Communicative and Soft Skills
- Documentation (Report-writing, editing, etc.)
- Voice and Accent Training