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Faculty Members

Dr Baran Farooqi

Associate Professor

Office Address:
Department of English,
Jamia Millia Islamia,
New Delhi - 110025

9810492090 (Mobile)

baranfarooqi@hotmail.com; bfarooqi@jmi.ac.in (Primary)

Other Academic/ Administrative Responsibilities

S.No.	Position Held	From	To	Name of Institutes
1.	In-Charge, Nehru House (University Guest House)	January 2006	August 2010	Jamia Millia Islamia

Academic Qualifications:

S.No.	Degree	Year	Grade	Institution
1	B. Sc.	1985	I Division	University of Allahabad, Allahabad
2	M.A.	1987	I Division	University of Allahabad, Allahabad
3	NET (UGC)	1994	Qualified	University Grants Commission
4	Ph. D	2002	Title of the Thesis: "Early Nineteenth Century Shakespeare Criticism and Its Influence on Later Approaches.	Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Employment Profile

S.No.	Position Held	From	To	Name of Institutes
1	Lecturer	Jan. 1996	Aug. 2002	Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
2	Sr. Lecturer	Aug. 2002	May 2005	Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
3	Associate Professor	May 2005	Till Date	Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

(a) Curriculum Development: Edited the poetry section of a textbook entitled The Joy of Reading for the Compulsory General English syllabus for undergraduate students, JMI, when the syllabus was revised, with effect from 2005-06. The book was so well received that the publisher, Orient Longman, published an edition for students of Pune University in 2008.

(b) Course Taught at Postgraduate and Undergraduate Level

S.No.	Level	Course
1	B.A. (Pass)	General English, Paper I and Paper II
2	B.A./ B.Sc. (Hons)	General English, Paper I and Paper II
3	B.A. English (Hons)	Paper IV: Elizabethan Drama; Paper VII: Modern English and European Drama
4	M.A.	Paper III: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Paper IV: Literary Criticism; Paper IX: Modern European Drama
5	M.Phil.	Course MP 1: Introduction to Literary Theory Course MP 9: Shakespeare

Number of Ph.D. Guided

S.No.	Ph.D. Title	Date of Registration	Year awarded	Name of Scholar
1	A Study of Nadine Gordimer’s Post-Apartheid Writings	2009	Ongoing, JMI	Kusha Sharma
2	Challenges to Masculinity: A Study of Vulnerable Men and Powerful Women in Shakespeare’s Works	2010	Ongoing, JMI	Megha Kalra

M.Phil. Supervision

"Representation of Black Women in Nadine Gordimer’s Selected short Stories" by Kusha Sharma, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2006.
"Translating a Hindi Novel, Samar Shesh Hai by Abdul Bismillah" by Zeba Mehdi, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2007.
"Arden, Belmont and Egypt: Gendered Spaces in Shakespeare" by Megha Kalra, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2008.

Publications

Book: English translation of Waiting for the Morning Breeze, a collection of Urdu short stories by Syed Mohd. Ashraf. Commissioned by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. In Press.

Publications in Journals

Translations of seven poems by Nida Fazli	Chandrabh?g?	Vol. 1	2000
Translation of "Waiting for the Morning Breeze", a short story by Syed Mohd. Ashraf	Chandrabhaga	Vol.6	2002
Translation: Two Urdu articles on critical theory by Mohd. Hasan Askari titled ‘Qaht-e Af’al’ (The Famine of Verbs) and ‘Iste’are ka Khauf’ (The Fear of Metaphor)	Annual of Urdu Studies	Vol. 19	2004
Translation: Seven Poems by Nida Fazli	Chandrabhaga	Vol.7	2003
Translation of four ancient Tamil poems into Urdu	Shabkhoon	293 – 299	2005
Translation of "A Fine Madness" by Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi	Annual of Urdu Studies	Vol. 20	2005

Research Papers published in Books

Title of the Article	Title of the Book	Publisher	Year
Translation of Sher-ul Ajam by Shibli Nu’mani, Vol. IV	Critical Theory – Perspectives From Asia	Creative Books, New Delhi	2004
"Mir and Urdu’s Classical Poetics: She’r-e Shor Angez" by Dr. Sharib Rudaulvi	Saraswati Samman 1991 – 2000	K.K.Birla Foundation, New Delhi	2004
Translation: "The Funeral", a short story by Mahmood Ayubi	New Urdu Fictions	Katha, New Delhi	2004
Translation "Cargo Complex", a short story by Anwar Qamar	New Urdu Fictions	Katha, New Delhi	2004
Translation "Leaves" a short story by Khaleda Hussain	Neither Night nor Day ed Rakhshanda Jalil	HarperCollins, New Delhi	2007
Translated "Selected Literary Anecdotes"	The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature ed. Mehr Afshan Farooqi	OUP, New Delhi	2007

Book Reviews

Book review of The Law of the Threshold by Malashri Lal, Ariel (University of Calgary), April 1998.
Book review of Mapping Memories ed. Sukrita Paul Kumar and Mohd. Ali Siddiqui in Book Review, New Delhi, September 1998.
Book review of Laulak by Chandrabhan Khayal, published in Shabkhoon (vol. 263) in 2002.
Book Review of Stories by Intizar Husain (Trans.Moazzam Sheikh), The Book Review Vol.XXIX No.7, 2005.
Review of The Parwan Wind: Dust Motes by B.K./Zahrab Nasir, OUP Karachi, 2007, The Book Review, Vol.XXXI, No.10, 2007.
"A Teacher, His Pupil and Morality" (Book Review of The Penitence of Nasooh by Nazir Ahmad Dehlavi and The Story of Maulvi Nazir Ahmad in His Words and Mine by Mirza Farhatullah Baig) The Book Review Vol.XXXII No.10, 2008.

Workshops Organized

Coordinator, Refresher Course in English, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2005.

Participation in Workshops/Conferences/Seminars/Summer/Winter Schools etc.

Theme of the Conference	Place & Date of the Conference	Title of the Paper
National Conference on Translation and Socio-Literary Space	New Delhi, 12 – 14 Feb. 2004	Acted as Rapporteur in Plenary Session
National seminar on Author as Translator	UGC SAP, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
International Seminar on Diasporic Writing: "The Dynamics of Be/longing"	IGNOU, New Delhi, Feb.21-22, 2008
International Seminar-cum-Workshop on Translating Time: Fictions of The Future	Dept. of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Oct. 18-20, 2008	Participant, also in-charge Hospitality
Refresher Course in English	Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, 26 November, 2008	Panel Discussion on Writing in a Woman’s Life
Refresher Course in English	Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, 28 November, 2008	"The Power Politics of Culture: Urdu versus English"
Jaipur Literature Festival, January 21-25, 2009	23 January, 2009	Introduced the novel Kai Chand The Sar-e Aasman and its author, S.R.Faruqi, and read excerpts from the novel.
" Experiencing Translation: A Colloquium"	March 28, 2009	Participant, also In-charge, Hospitality
"Women of South Asia: Partners in Development"	30-31 March, 2009	Made a presentation in the Panel on "Women and Education" on 31 March, 2009
Refresher Course in English, organised by the Dept. of English, Jamia Millia Islamia	Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, 11 November, 2009.	"Questing for Metaphors, Foraying into History: The Case of Ka’i Chand the Sar-e-Aasman (Urdu Novel)"
Refresher Course in English	Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, 13 November, 2009.	Moderated Panel Discussion on "Biography as Metahistory".
Refresher Course on Gender, organised by Sarojini NaiduCentre for Women’s Studies English	Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, 13 October, 2009	"Women’s Poetry in Urdu: Some Feminist Concerns"
"Spring Festival" organized by Penguin Books India and Yatra	India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 17 Feb.2010	Introduced and moderated readings from Ka’i Chand the Sar-e-Aasman(Urdu novel by by S.R.Faruqi)
Seminar-cum-workshop "Translating Premchand III"	Jamia Millia Islamia, February 19, 2010.	Translated a story
Seminar-cum-workshop "Translating Premchand III	Jamia Millia Islamia, February 20, 2010.	Worked as a Mentor (resource person)
Ismat & Manto: Life, Times and Legacy	India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 28 August 2010	Panel Discussion on "Lady Changez Khan and Pom Pom Darling"