Dr. Rashmi Das

Dr. Rashmi Das

About

Specialization:
English

Qualification

Qualification

Board/ University

Year

PhD in English

Tezpur University

2024

M. A in English

Tezpur University

 2016

B. A English Hons.

Gauhati University

2014

H. S

Assam. Higher Secondary Educational Board

2011

HSLC

Central Board of Secondary Education

2009

Personal Interest

6. Reading, Cooking, Birdwatching and Bird Rescuing and Rehabbing

Working Experience

Position/Responsibilities

Duration

Organization

Assistant Professor

08-09-23- Present

Assam down town University

Assistant Professor

07-02-2017- 31-10-2017

Nagaon G.N.D.G. Commerce College

Part time Lecturer

01-08-2016-13-04-2017

Nowgong College, Nagaon

Research

  1. Published a research paper entitled, “Exploring Cannibalism in Assamese Folklore: A Study of “Tula and Teja” and “Champawati” in Volume XII, Issue II, November 2023 – April 2024, of Drishti: The Sight, ISSN 2319-8281, a National refereed Bi-annual Research Journal, enlisted in the UGC-CARE list.
  2. Published a research paper entitled, “Fragmented Identities to Gastronomic Hybridisation: A Study of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss” in the book India and its Diaspora: A Comparative Perspective, with ISBN: 978-93-93092-22-9. The book is edited by Dr Abul Foyes Md Malik and published in April 2022.
  3. Published a poem entitled “Paradise on Earth” in the anthology, Paradise on Earth: An International Anthology, Volume Two, by Stefan Bohdan / Third Eye Butterfly Press, 2022.
  4. Published a research paper entitled, “Consumption and the Indian Diaspora: A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake” on 28/03/2021, in General Issue (January-March 2021), Volume 13, Number 1, of Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, E-ISSN 0975-2935, indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, ERIHPLUS, EBSCO, and UGC.
  5. Published a research paper entitled, “Revisiting the Gandhian Myth through the Device of Food: A Study of Raja Rao’s Kanthapura” in Volume X, Issue I, May 2021 – October 2021, of Drishti: The Sight, ISSN 2319-8281, a National refereed Bi-annual Research Journal, enlisted in the UGC-CARE list. 
  6. Presented a research paper entitled, “Lesbians in India: Difficulties of Embracing the Differences in Human Nature and Same Sex Relationships” at an UGC sponsored National Seminar on the theme “Emerging Trends in Women’s Writing in India”, held on 27/10/2017 at Rangapara College, Assam. This paper was published by the same college, into a book with ISBN number 978-81-923478-5-1.
  7. Presented and published a research paper entitled, “The Colonial Gift of Hunger: A Study of the Underprivileged in Selected Indian English Fiction”, in the International Conference held on the theme “English Language, World Literatures and Gender Studies” [ICEWG], held at Mother Teresa Women’s University, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu. This paper has been published in the peer-reviewed and refereed (UGC approved), International Journal of Research in Social Sciences, Vol. 9 Issue 5 (Special issue), May 2019. Its ISSN number is 2249-2496 and Impact Factor is 7.081.
  8. Presented and published a research paper entitled, “Women and the Kitchen: A Study of Family Maintenance in Selected Indian English Fiction” in the National Seminar held on the theme “Women in Indian Literature and Society”, held at Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam, on 28/09/2019. This paper has been published in the proceeding volume with ISBN number: 978-93-5406-249-0.
  9. Presented a research paper entitled, “Fragmented Identities to Gastronomic Hybridisation: A Study of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss” at a National Webinar held on the theme Literature and Marginality, conducted by Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva Viswavidyalaya, Nagaon, on 8th and 9th July, 2020.
  10. Published a research paper on The Literary Herald, UGC-Approved and International Refereed English e-Journal, entitled ‘’Food: A Study of the Effects of its Abundance and Scarcity and related concerns through Selected Works of Indian English Authors’’ (Sl No-85, Vol. 3, Issue I, June 2017) Its ISSN number is 2454-3365 and Impact Factor is 4.727 (SJIF).

Awards & Achievements

UGC- NET-JRF, 2017