Associate Professor of English, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Area: Culture Studies, Applied Linguistics and Comparative Mysticism
Email:sarani@nitgoa.ac.in
Name: Dr. Sarani Ghosal Mondal
Gender: Female
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Designation: Associate Professor of English
Department: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Date of Joining: 29/05/2013
Research/Teaching Experience: 16 Years of Teaching and Research Experiences
Address: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Goa, Kottamoll Plateau, Cuncolim Municipal Area, Salcete Taluka, South Goa District, Goa - 403703
Email Address: sarani@nitgoa.ac.in
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Culture Studies
Applied Linguistics
Comparative Mysticism
HU100
VE200
HU 401 / 501
HU650
HU701
HU702
HU750
| Sr. No. | Degree/Diploma | Institute / University | year | subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M.A. | Visva Bharati Central University | 2001 | English Literature |
| 2 | Ph.D. | Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India | 2011 | Indo-American Poetry |
| 3 | Visiting Scholar | IUC - Associate | 2012 | Paulo Coelho |
| 4 | Visiting Scholar | IUC-Associate | 2015 | Tagore's Plays |
| 5 | Visiting Scholar | IUC-Associate | 2018 | Comparative Mysticism |
Publication Type: Journal
Publication Category: National
"The Metaphor of Love, Cosmic Consciousness and Evolution in Select Poems of Rumi and Sri Aurobindo in the Light of Integral Philosophy", Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, IIAS, Shimla, ISSN:0972-1401 DEC 2018
Publication Category: National
Re-reading: A Amir Aboron, published in Muse India-Online Journal http://museindia.com/ DEC 2017
Publication Category: International
Gauri and Bela: Two Facets of Feminism in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland, Literaria, ISSN: 2229-4600 DEC 2016
Publication Category: National
The Image of 'King' in Rabindranath Tagore's Red Oleanders and The King of the Dark Chamber: An Aurobindonian Approach, Visva Bharati Quarterly, ISSN: 0972-043X JAN 2016
Publication Category: National
"Ruskin Bond's A Flight of Pigeons: Images of Hate and Love in Colonial India", Pursuits, Vol.XII pub by Research Centre for Comparative Studies, Post-Graduate Department of English, Mercy College, Kerala, ISSN:0974-7400 OCT 2014
Publication Category: International
"The Individual and the Collective in Team Dynamics", International Journal of Communication, Vol.24, No.1, ISSN: 0975-640X. JUN 2014
Publication Category: International
"ELT and Soft Skills Development in a Multilingual Classroom", International Journal of English and Literature, ISSN: 2249-6912 JUN 2014
Publication Category: National
"Vivekananda and His Unitive Role", Swami Vivekananda and National Integration, Ed. Projit Kr Palit, ISBN-978-81-926244-2-6 (Book Chapter) NOV 2013
Publication Category: National
“Aurobindonian Echoes in Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes and By the River Piedra I sat down and Wept”, The Discourse, Vol.2, Issue: 3&4, Jul-Sept & Oct-Dec, 2013, ISSN:2278-0920,pp 36-46 SEPT 2013
Publication Category: National
“The Art of a Public Speaker: Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, February, 2013,ISSN: 09712755 FEB 2013
Publication Category: National
"Ruskin Bond's The Room on the Roof: A Post colonial Reading", Panorama of World Literature, Ed. Prof. Arvind M. Nawale, ISBN-978-81-7273-658-8 (Book Chapter) SEPT 2012
Publication Category: National
" Sri Aurobindo and Walt Whitman", Religion and Literature: Indian Perspectives, Ed. Projit Kr. Palit, ISBN: 978-81-749-119-1, (Book Chapter) JAN 2012
Publication Category: National
The Sad and the Sublime: Sri Aurobindo's Early Lyric Poetry", Journal of the Dept of English of Rabindra Bharati University, Vol.XI, 2009-2010 DEC 2010
Publication Category: International
“Cordelia’s Language in the First Scene: Noise in Communication”, Theatre International: East-West Perspectives on Theatre, Vol.V, ISSN:2278-2036 OCT 2010
Publication Category: National
“Cosmic Consciousness in Poetry: Walt Whitman, Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo”, Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Aug 2010, Vol. LXI, ISSN: 09712755 AUG 2010
Publication Category: National
“Ruskin Bond’s Commitment to the Subalterns”, The SPIEL Journal of English Studies, Jan-Jul, 2008, Vol. 4, No. 1 & 2. JULY 2008
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Category: International http://asiatefl2017.uny.ac.id/?q=download Paper on 21st Century Teaching Pedagogy published in AsiaTEFL Proceedings JULY 2018
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Publication Category: National "Celie in The Color Purple: Acquiring "Voice" through a Womanist Quest", Marginalized Voices in Americal Literature: Margins and Fringes, Ed by Prof. Sumita Sinha, Atlantic, New Delhi, ISBS:978-81-269-3171-2 FEB 2021
Publication Category: International "Cosmic Consciousness: the Metaphor of Human Unity in Sri Aurobindo's Writings", The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo : indian Philosophy and Yoga in the Contemporary World, Ed By Prof. Debidatta Mahapatra, Bloomsbury, UK, ISBN: 978-1-350-12486-8 FEB 2020
Publication Category: International Application of Neural Network for Routing in Mobile Wireless Sensor Network: A Case Study, McGraw-Hill India. 2016
Publication Category: National "Ecological Conscience in Ruskin Bond", Ecocritical Representation of Literature: An Indian Perspective, Ed by Samrat Biasi, Akhand Publishing House, New Delhi, ISBN: 979-81-939342-6-5 2019
Publication Type: Books Authored
Publication Category: National
New Ways in English Literature by James Cousins, Edited with an Introduction by Sarani Ghosal & Goutam Ghosal, Authors Press, New Delhi, ISBN:9789389615289 SEPT 2019
Publication Category: National
Indian Responses to Shakespeare, Eds. by Goutam Ghosal and Sarani Ghosal Mondal, New Delhi, Authors Press, ISBN:978-93-5207-527-0 DEC 2017
Publication Category: National Poetry and Poetics of Walt Whitman and Sri Aurobindo, New Delhi: Delta Book World. ISBN: 978-81-92644-1-9 APRIL 2013
Publication Category: National Two Course Books on The Adventure of Huck Finn and Crime and Punishment for the PG students of Department of Distance Education, University of Burdwan, WB, India NOV 2012
Research Guidance :
1. Two Candidates are working. One of is working under MoE's Fellowship and the other one is a part-time scholar. Topic of FT Scholar: Multiple Planes of Identity Crises in Ruskin Bond, Topic of PT Scholar: Ecological Humanism in Select Non-Fiction of Rabindranath Tagore: A Study
2.One Candidate is awarded in 2021. Topic: Portrayal of Female Identity in Select Poems of Lord Byron and Felicia Hemans
Co-PI-UGC funded Project under e-Pathshala on Comparative Mysticism) Completed. the Video Lectures may be found at https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
Working under MHRD's seed grant on Sufism and Vedantic Mysticism. Part of it has already been published by IIAS in SHSS
ELTAI
Indian Society for Buddhist Studies
Asia TEFL
IACLALS
Working as PRO of NIT Goa since 13/10/2015
FSLE-Goa Chapter
HoD, Dept of APS and HSS since Feb, 2021
Worked as Dean-IRAA of NIT Goa from 2017-May to 2021-Jan
Worked as Girls' Hostel warden of NIT Goa from 2014 to 2017-April
| Sr.No. | Month | Year | Training attended Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FEB | 2018 | Paper Presented at CamTESOL on Applied Linguistics at University of Technology, Cambodia, 11-12 Feb, 2018 |
| 2 | JULY | 2017 | Paper presented at Asia TEFL, helad at Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia, 13-15 July, 2017 |
| 3 | MAY | 2017 | Paper presented at an International Conference on Relevance of Sri Aurobindoand the Grand Vision of Indian Wisdom, held at Hindu University, Orlando, US, 4-5 May, 2017 |
| 4 | DEC | 2016 | Presented a paper on Soft Skills Development at 11th International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level, held at Polytechnic University, Hong Kong on 9-10 Dec, 2016 |
| 5 | FEB | 2016 | Presented a paper on Humanistic Ecology at MELUS-MELOW International Conference held in New Delhi from 19/02/2016 to 21/02/2016 |
| 6 | FEB | 2016 | Paper presented on Social Justice at International Academic Forum-Japan on 27/02/2016 held at Dubai. (Virtual) |
| 7 | OCT | 2015 | Chaired a Session in tiNai Ecofilm Festival, Theme: Celebrating Landscape and Waterscape at BITS Goa |
| 8 | DEC | 2011 | International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Security (ADCONS-2011), Karnataka. |
| 9 | FEB | 2011 | International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology(EAIT-2011), Kolkata. |
| 10 | JAN | 2011 | International conf. on Computer Science and Information Technology (COSIT-2011), Bangalore. |
| Sr.No | Month | Year | Training Conducted Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JUN | 2020 | Webinar on "Skill Development using Virtual Labs" (5 June 2020) under MHRD Virtual Labs project |
| 2 | JAN | 2020 | National Workshop on “Virtual Labs” (23 January, 2020) under MHRD Virtual Labs project |
| 3 | OCT | 2017 | First International Conference on "Latest Advances in Machine learning and DAta Science" [LAMDA - 2017] 25 - 27 October, 2017 |
| 4 | JULY | 2017 | Short-term Course on "The field theory of Quantum and Classical free electron theory" 3-13 July 2017 |
| 5 | MAR | 2017 | Distinguished Lecture on "Contours of India's foreign policy" March 17, 2017 |
| 6 | DEC | 2016 | Workshop on "Practical Applications of Data Mining and IBM Bluemix and Watson" 5-9 December 2016. |
| 7 | DEC | 2016 | Short-term Course on "Cloud Security & Privacy" 12-18 December, 2016. |
| 8 | APRIL | 2016 | Faculty Development Programme on "Software Engineering" (Sponsored by E&ICT Academy) 1-6 April, 2016. |
| 9 | MAR | 2016 | Two-day National Workshop on "Patents and Intellectual Property Rights" 4 - 5 March 2016 |
| 10 | JULY | 2015 | Short Term Training Programme on "Data Mining: Research Challenges & Innovations" 6-10 July, 2015. |
| 11 | JULY | 2015 | National Workshop on "How To Write Research Projects" 8th July, 2015 |
| 12 | JAN | 2015 | Workshop on Cyber Security 19 Jan. 2015 |
| 13 | JULY | 2014 | Short-Term Certificate Course on "Pattern Analysis and Information Security" 30 June - 4 July, 2014 |
| 14 | MAY | 2014 | Workshop on MATLAB and Simulink 5 May 2014 |