Department Of English
Ongoing Research
| S.No. | Research Scholar | Supervisor | Topic | Year of Joining |
| 1 | Asmi Kartikeya | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | Subjective Consciousness Formation, Urban Spatial Configuration, the Individual and the Body, Heterogenous Memory Scapeo in New Hindi Modernism and the Indian New World (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 2 | Shan Haider | Dr. Sanobar Hussaini | Scars of Becoming: Rethinking Female Subjectivity in Acid Attack Testimonies (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 3 | Taizeem Bilal | Dr. Anuradha Ghosh | A Biosemiotic Approach to Ethics and Ethology in Philosophy, Literature, and the Allied Arts (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 4 | Ilma Khan | Dr. Shimi Moni Doley | Expressing Electronically: A Thematic Study of E-literature through the Lens of Rasa (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 5 | Nida Siddiqui | Dr. Roomy F. Naqvy | Cinematic Negotiations of Gender and Power: A Comparative Study of Male and Female Auteurs in Post-Revolution Iranian Cinema (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 6 | Sandra S. | Dr. Sanobar Hussaini | Conflicted Habitus and Contested Fields: Bourdieusian Study of Social Reproduction in Vizhanjam Seaport Development (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 7 | Mehwish Mustafa | Prof. Mukesh Ranjan | Decolonial Environmental Narratives and Intersectional Justice in Contemporary Indian Climate Fiction (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 8 | Baadesaba Usmani | Dr. Shuby Abidi | Queer World-Making in the K-Pop Fandom: Real Person Slash as a Digital Counterpublic (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 9 | Neha Singh | Prof. Simi Malhotra | Reading Between Panels: Responses to Biopolitics in Women's Graphic Narratives in India (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 10 | Afsha | Prof. Saroj Kumar Mahananda | Constructing National Identities through Biopics: A Critical Study of Political Leaders' Life Stories (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 11 | Hiba Khan | Dr. Asmat Jahan | From Obscenity to Algorithm: Sexual Transgression, Caste and Algorithmic Morality in the Select Works of Ismat Chugtai and Meena Kandasamy (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 12 | Jessica Keishing | Dr. A.C. Kharingpam | Trauma, Memory, and Recovery: A Study of Tangkhul Women's Resilience through Literary Non-fiction and Textiles as Tactile Visual Texts (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 13 | Ishan Mittal | Prof. Mukesh Ranjan | Nation, Identity, and Cosmopolitanism in the Works of Elif Shafak and Kiran Desai (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 14 | Dolly Tiwari | Dr. Shimi Moni Doley | Mediating Memories and Perceptions of India's Partition in Gen Z: An Analytical Study with Special Reference to Graphic Narratives and Popular Culture (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 15 | Sarika Chhetri | Dr. Ivy Imogen Hansdak | Ritual and Folk Aesthetics in Manipuri Theatre: A Study of Ratan Thiyam, Heisnam Kanhailal, and Arambam Lokendra (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 16 | Shiza Parwez | Dr. Debaditya Bhattacharya | Spaces of In-Between: Home, Migration, Third Place and the Everyday Urban Lives of North Indian Muslim Women (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 17 | Chanmayo Shangh | Dr. Ivy Imogen Hansdak | Beyond Boundaries: Indigenous Epistemology of Metamorphosis and Relationality in Tangkhul Folk Narratives (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 18 | Raja Ghosh | Prof. Anuradha Ghosh | Mapping Links: A Study of Colonial Law and Criminality in 19th Century Bengal (Tentative) | 2026 |
| 19 | Shah Sanadeed | Dr. Roomy F. Naqvi | Intergenerational Trauma and Healing: A Study of Select 20th and 21st Century Novels by Indian Women Authors | 2025 |
| 20 | Arya Raja | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | Somewhere Over the Rainbow": Speculative Fiction as a Wormhole between Global Capitalism and Alternative Futurisms | 2025 |
| 21 | Syeda Parsa Nawrin Emani | Dr. Mohammed Afzal | The Peripheral Novelists of the Oxford Movement: A Sociological Study of the Works of Paget, Gresley, Armitage, and Sewell | 2025 |
| 22 | Farhana Fayaz | Dr. Mohammed Afzal | A Critical History of the Urdu Novel written by Women: A Literary Journey of Early 20th Century | 2025 |
| 23 | Halima Sadia Ashraf | Dr. Debaditya Bhattacharya | Narratives of Care in Pandemic Literature: A Study of Select Texts | 2025 |
| 24 | Sadia Nausheen Naz | Dr. Sanobar Hussaini | Crip Futurity in Speculative Fiction | 2025 |
| 25 | Reda Aamna | Prof. Mukesh Ranjan | Digital Rebels: An Analysis of Humanized Artificial Intelligence in Young Adult Dystopian Resistance Narratives | 2025 |
| 26 | Vatsal Sharma | Dr. Asmat Jahan | Dastani-Rang: The rise of NewDastangoi | 2025 |
| 27 | Tooba Ayesha Rizvi | Dr. Sanobar Hussaini | "Undoctoring" Medicine: Epistemic Disparities and Power Dynamics in Select Works of Indian Literature and Cinema | 2025 |
| 28 | Aditi Joshi | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | Colonial Hauntings: Analysing Gothic Writings From Colonial India | 2025 |
| 29 | Sagolsem Supreme Chandra | Prof. Saroj Kumar Mahananda | Analysing Form , Style and Medium through Postdramatic Lens in Contemporary Manipuri Theatre | 2025 |
| 30 | Soumya Jayanti | Prof. Simi Malhotra | Language Ideology, Form and Modernity in Progressive Literary Movements in 20th Century India (Tentative) | 2025 |
| 31 | Aman Abbas | Dr. Sanobar Hussaini | Generative AI in Literature and Translation: A study of Algorithmic creativity, Authorship and Digital Dissemination | 2025 |
| 32 | Nandini Lohia | Dr. Debaditya Bhattacharya | Digital Diaspora and the Politics of Sikh Identity: Reclaiming Memory and Countering Dominant Narratives through Virtual Networks | 2025 |
| 33 | Kanika Sharma | Prof. Simi Malhotra | Tracing Collective Memory in India: Archiving Commemorative Practices, and Contestations in Digital Space | 2025 |
| 34 | Ibra Zahoor | Dr. Roomy F. Naqvi | Ghazalnama: The Evolution and Adaptation of the Ghazal in Anglophone Poetry | 2025 |
| 35 | Titiksha Devrani | Prof. Saroj Kumar Mahananda | Supernatural Figures as Metaphors of Trauma: Reimagining Folkloric Legends in South Korean Drama Narratives | 2025 |
| 36 | Ayushi Kainthola | Dr. Roomy F. Naqvi | Uttarakhand in the Literary Imagination: Critical Perspectives on Select 20th and 21st Century Texts | 2025 |
| 37 | Ubaid Bin Yousuf | Prof. Mukesh Ranjan | Exploring the Silences - A Study on the Neglect of Sexuality of Differently Abled Individuals | 2025 |
| 38 | Suhana Simran | Prof. Simi Malhotra | Reading Girlhood in India: Gendered Childhood and the Contemporary Women's Autobiography | 2025 |
| 39 | Sahashrabdi Dash | Prof. Saroj Kumar Mahananda | Tracing Trauma, Memory and Resilience in Selected Cyclone Narratives of Odisha | 2025 |
| 40 | Anamika Mohanta | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | Readers, Reading Practices and the Formation of Public Sphere: The Life of Local Anglo-Vernacular and English Print in Colonial Bombay (1850 - 1900) | 2025 |
| 41 | Md. Shafey Danish | Prof. Simi Malhotra | Realpolitiks, Unreal Worlds: Examining Power and Politics in Contemporary Fantasy Literature | |
| 42 | Neha Singh | Prof. Saroj Kumar Mahananda | Dalit Narratives on Stage: A Textual Exploration of English Dalit Plays in India. (Tentative) | 2025 |
| 43 | Indranuj Ray | Dr. Debaditya Bhattacharya | Circulating the Colony: Picture Postcards and the Infrastructure of Imperial Vision in British India (c. 1890 - 1920) | 2025 |
| 44 | Antara Bhattacharya | Prof. Anuradha Ghosh | Climate Change, Ecological Crisis and Planetarity: A Critique of Select Contemporary 'Reflections' on Theatrical Praxis | 2024 |
| 45 | Humaira Ali | Dr. Mohammed Afzal | A Critical Study of Space and Memory in Select Works of Post- Millennial Indian English Dystopian Literature | 2024 |
| 46 | Ishita Mandal | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | Unveiling History, Migration, Community of Gujarati Ismaili Diaspora in East Africa: A New Thalassological Approach | 2024 |
| 47 | Km Hina | Dr. Shimi Moni Doley | Narrative Techniques and Translation Strategies: A Critical Analyisis of Contemporary Hindi and Urdu Novels and their Translations in English | 2024 |
| 48 | Moniba Fazal | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | Reconstructing the Carceral Self: Space, Embodiment, and Epistemic Resistance in Women’s Prison Autobiographical Writing | 2024 |
| 50 | Nida | Withdrawn | Withdrawn | 2024 |
| 51 | Sania Muzamil | Prof. Anuradha Ghosh | A Critical Inquiry into the Methods of Food Studies in the Indian Subcontinent | 2024 |
| 52 | Sant Kumar | Dr. Ivy Imogene Hansdak | Revisiting Resistance: The Poetics and Politics of Meena Kandasamy's Political Writings | 2024 |
| 53 | Vidhi Joon | Dr. Mohammed Afzal | Autobiographical writings of select career bureaucrats in post independence: A study of trends in the making of the bureaucratic self | 2024 |
| 54 | Sadia Khan | Dr Asmat Jahan | Contextualising 1971 vis-à-vis Memory, Trauma and Identity Politics: A Study of Select South Asian Writers | 2023 |
| 55 | Swagata Chakraborty | Prof. Nishat Zaidi | Distressed Natures: A Study of the Ecocritical Significance of Select Grief Memoirs by Women | 2023 |
| 56 | Apoorva Dimri | Dr. Shuby Abidi | Caste in the City: Reading the Urban Experience of Modern Delhi Literature | |
| 57 | Fakrul Molla | Dr. Shuby Abidi | Necropower over Women, Their Resistance and Resurrection: A Study of Select Fiction | 2023 |
| 58 | Ritika | Dr. Shuby Abidi | Trauma in the Contemporary Non-Fiction Rape Narratives in the Indian Subcontinent | 2023 |
| 59 | Poulomi Chandra | Prof. Nishat Haider | Exploring Female Subjectivities, Trauma and the Uncanny in Select Works of Elena Ferrante and Sangeeta Bandopadhyay | 2023 |
| 60 | Ananya Bora | Dr A.C. Kharingpam | Toxic Care: Acts and Practices of Caregiving in Contemporary Fiction | 2023 |
| 61 | Kritika Mathpal | Prof Mukesh Ranjan | Children and Transgenerational Trauma: A Critical Analysis | 2023 |
| 62 | Sameyah Roomi | Dr. Ivy Imogene Hansdak | Uncovering the Layers: Models of Trauma and the Art of Unreliable Narration, Analysis of Selected Fiction in English through the lens of trauma models | 2023 |
| 63 | Bariya Siraj | Dr. Shuby Abidi | Illness Narratives: Examining the Stories of Women Living with Chronic illness | 2023 |
| 64 | Vaishali Bidhuri | Prof Saroj Kumar Mahananda | Digitalisation of Raginis and Saangs and their relationship with their contributors | 2023 |
| 65 | Bariya Hamid | Dr. Asmat Jahan | Silence, Erasure and Resilience in the Literary Imagination of Kashmiri Muslim Women | 2023 |
| 66 | Pakhi Jain | Prof Simi Malhotra | Tentative title- Study of the Literary History of Various Indian Childhoods in the British Empire for the Period of 1900-1947. | 2021 |
| 67 | Mamta Sharma | Dr A.C. Kharingpam | Retelling of "Rajula Malushahi": A Study of the Literary Adaptations of Kumaoni Folk Ballad | 2021 |
| 68 | Savita Kiran | Dr Ivy Imogene Hansdak | Sanjay as a narrator in Mahabharata: Time, Space and Significance | 2021 |
| 69 | Tarika NA | Dr Asmat Jahan | Cultural Capital and Its Contestations in Select Indian English Poetry Anthologies Between 1990-2020 | 2021 |
| 70 | Zainab Abrar | Prof Nishat Zaidi | The making of Muslim Identity in select contemporary detective fiction: Explorations in politics of the popular | 2021 |
| 71 | Reshma Gupta | Prof Anuradha Ghosh | A Study of the Travels of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave in the Cinematic Practices of India and Iran | 2021 |
| 72 | Somya Charan Pahadi | Prof Nishat Haider | Negotiating the Disruptive: Childhood Traumas in the fictional fluidity of representation - A study of select works | 2021 |
| 73 | Farhana Tasnim | Prof Nishat Haider | Understanding Huzun- A Memory and Trauma Study of Pamuk's Communal Melancholia | 2021 |
| 74 | Arisha Habib | Prof Mukesh Ranjan | Can the (Un)Progressive Hybrids Speak? Studying the Counter-Narratives in Select Diasporic Women Writer’s Young Adult Novels about Indian-American Muslim Identity | 2021 |
| 75 | Sudipta Agarwal | Dr Saba Mahmood Bashir | Rekhti: Unveiling the Lives of Women in 18th-19th century North India | 2021 |
| 76 | Sheikh Sana Assad | Prof Nishat Haider | Transgenerational Trauma Inherited through Post and Prosthetic Memory with Special Reference to Literature and Art Produced from Kashmir after 1989 | 2021 |
| 77 | Asmita Pandey | Dr Shuby Abidi | Analysing the Fandom: Popularity and Obsession in Digital Media | 2021 |
| 78 | Monib Ahmad | Prof Anuradha Ghosh | Popular Military Histories of World War Two, New Journalism and the Art of Narrating War | 2021 |
| 79 | Arghya Dey | Prof Anuradha Ghosh, Co-Supervisor: Prof M. Asadduddin | An Investigation of Surveillance Technologies Through the Lens of Cinema | 2021 |
| 80 | Pooja Prasain | Prof Mukesh Ranjan | Migratory Grief And Alienation in the Selected Works of Lil Bahadur Chettri and Indra Bahadur Rai: A Literary Analysis | 2021 |
| 81 | Saima Malik | Dr A.C. Kharingpam | Representation of Gender in the Folklore of Kashmir: A Study of Select Texts | 2021 |
| 82 | Mohd Aqib | Dr Saba Mahmood Bashir, Co-Supervisor: Prof M. Assaduddin | Self-translation as a Metaphor of Flow: A Posthuman Study of Modern Urdu Classics and their Self-translations in English | 2021 |
| 83 | Hishma Binti Nazir | Prof Nishat Haider, Co-Mentor: Prof M. Assaduddin | Women Across Literature of Resistance; A Study of Select Texts from Kashmir and Palestine | 2021 |
| 84 | Sk. Raqeeb Raza | Dr Asmat Jahan | Queer Identity and its Parenting: Modes of Representation in Hindi Cinema | 2021 |
| 85 | Noorussabah | Prof Nishat Haider | Of the Nonhuman: The New Weird | 2021 |
| 86 | Alka Lakhera | Prof Nishat Zaidi | Brave New World: Re -imagining Dystopias in South Asia | 2021 |
| 87 | Tasadduq Tanveer | Prof Nishat Haider | Critiquing Representation of Male Impotence in Select Postcolonial Indian English Fictions | 2021 |
| 88 | Sadaf Rouf | Prof Nishat Zaidi | The Animality of Fiction and the Fictionality of Animal: A Study of Select Novels. | 2021 |
| 89 | Aparna Pathak | Prof Simi Malhotra | Body, Identity and the Virtual Space: A Study of Posthuman Subjectivity in Interactive Media | 2021 |
| 90 | Md Fazal Mahmud Shah | Dr Shimi Moni Doley | Re-thinking Kazi Nazrul Islam: A Cosmopolitan Interpretation/Reading of his Poetic Works | 2021 |
| 91 | Aasif Ameen | Dr Saba Mahmood Bashir | Exploring Children Narratives within Conflict Literature: A Study of Select Text, Graphic and Visual Narratives | 2021 |
| 92 | Sheikh Mohammed Shafiulla | Prof Nishat Haider | A Legion of Literature: Contesting Odia Identity in the Works of Fakir Mohan Senapati (1865-1915) | 2021 |
| 93 | Kanupriya | Prof Anuradha Ghosh | Representation of Body, Desire and Sexuality of Disabled Women in Indian Cinema | 2021 |
| 94 | Shaghayegh Moghari | Prof Nishat Haider | Race, Gender and Desire in Select Works of Zadie Smith | 2021 |
| 95 | Elyas Matanyous Ebrahim | Dr Shimi Moni Doley | Existential Themes in the Selected Novels of Toni Morrison | 2021 |
| 96 | Moumita Roy | Prof Anuradha Ghosh | A Study of Thematic Trends in Post-Partition Bengali and Assamese Literary Writings in English. | 2019 |
| 97 | Aditi Das Khan | Dr Asmat Jahan | Exploring Multispecies Relationships in Select Indian Texts | 2019 |
| 98 | Numana Ibrahim Bhat | Prof Anuradha Ghosh | Eco-localism, Planetarism and the Green Imagination: A Study of Select New Nature Writings in Britain Post 2000 | 2019 |
| 99 | Kanu Priya | Dr. Ivy Imogene Hansdak | Children’s Literature in English and Nation-Building in Post-Colonial India | 2019 |
| 100 | Usama Zakir | Prof Mukesh Ranjan |
Metamodernism after Postmodernism: Tracing a New Logic of Cultural Production in the Middle East |
2019 |
| 101 | Meenakshi Yadav | Dr Saroj K Mahananda | Hindi Print Media: A Study of Caste Specific Journals in 1880-1920 | 2019 |
| 102 | Sehnaz Hazarika | Dr Shimi Moni Doley | Deconstructing War Narratives and Conflicts in North-East India: A Study of the Repercussions of Wars in the Selected Novels | 2019 |
| 103 | Nabanita Deka | Dr Shimi Moni Doley | Location and Positionality of Indian Women: A Study through Select Dystopian Texts | 2019 |
| 104 | Khairun Tamanna | Prof Anuradha Ghosh | Translating Life/Translating Time: Engaging with Sufia Kamal’s Ekattarer Diary | 2018 |