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Narendra Kumar

narendra@lnmiit.ac.in

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Humanities and Social Sciences

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Postcolonial Studies; Decoloniality; Ethnic Conflict; Literature of the Indian Subcontinent (South Asia); Literature of the Caribbean/African Diaspora; Adaptation Studies/Film Studies

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Dr. Narendra Kumar

Associate Professor

Humanities and Social Sciences

Education

	Degree/Diploma	Institute/ Organization	Year	Branch/Specialization
1	Ph. D. Doctor of Philosophy	University of Rajasthan, Jaipur	2011	English (Title: Race, Ethnicity and History: Postcolonial Interrogations in the Fiction of Caryl Phillips)
2	M.A. Master of Arts	University of Rajasthan, Jaipur	2002	English
3	B.A. Bachelor of Arts	University of Rajasthan, Jaipur	1999	English, Sanskrit, Philosophy

Projects

	Name of Project	Total Cost of Project	Funding Agency	Duration From	Duration To
1	Tracing the Faultlines of Ethnic Conflict in Postcolonial Indian Subcontinent: Narrative as a Socio-Political Discourse	800000	Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)	2014	2016

Publications

1	Kumar, Narendra, Race and the Politics of Representation: Epistemological Challenges Posed by the Revisionary Studies of Canonical Literatures, Transcending Disciplinary Decadence (Forthcoming). Ed. Lewis Gordon. Routeledge, India. 2019 ,
2	Kumar, Narendra, Cartographies of Identities in Postcolonial Pakistan: Kamila Shamshie’s Kartography, The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies, Louisiana State University, USA, and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata on “Global South Cultural Production and Dialogue.” DEC 2019 ,
3	Kumar, Narendra, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Reading a Decolonial Discourse in Tagore’s The Home and the World., The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies, Louisiana State University, USA,
4	Kumar, Narendra., Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Indian Subcontinent: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Shalimar the Clown and Shame, XX international conference of Forum on Contemporary Theory,
5	Kumar Narendra, n Conversation with Walter Mignolo, Journal of Contemporary Thought,
6	, Postcolonial Critique of Nationalism and Fundamentalism., XVII international conference of Forum on Contemporary Theory,
7	, Janissaries and the Global South: Caryl Phillips' The Nature of Blood and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, XVI international conference of Forum on Contemporary Theory,,
8	, Orality, Theatricality and Intertextuality in the Folk Epic of Pabuji., Bakhtin in India: Exploring the Dialogic Potential in Self, Culture and History,
9	, Ethics of Survival and Identity: A Study of Life of Pi., Literature to Cinema: Appropriation, Adaptation, Adulteration’ held at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur. ,
10	, Cultural Cosmopolitanism, Media and the Politics of Utopia, XV international conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory,
11	, Terror, Trauma and Representation: Narrative Strategies in Mirza Wahid’s The Collaborator ?and Siddharth Gigoo’s The Garden of Solitude., Minority Discourses across Cultures’ to be held at Central University of Rajasthan, Kishangarh,
12	, Cosmopolitanism, Internarrativity and Cultural Empathy: Caryl Phillips' The Nature of Blood and Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Rupkatha Journal.,
13	, Negotiating Erasure: Identity in Kim Scott’s Benang." Identity, Ethos and Ethnicity: Australia and India, Ajmer: Arawlii Publication,
14	, Fluid Identities and Home: Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound., The International Journal of Culture, Literature and Criticism.,
15	, Post(Neo)colonial Subject Formation and the Nature of Gaze., Theory at Work: Text, History and Culture,’ held at the Department of English,,
16	, Reconstructing Transformation: Identity and Cultural Crossings in Mike Phillips’ London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain, Telling Lives: Formations and Reflections in Diverse Narrative Traditions held at the Department of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur,
17	, Re-visioning Shakespeare: Postcolonial Internarratives of Margins in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood.", Margins and Nation Spaces: The Aesthetics of Cultural Expression, held at the Department of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur,

Expert lectures

	Month	Year	Information
1	August	2020	Delivered lecture on "Democratising Learning & Re-forming Conventional Paedagogy: MOOCs and OER" in a week-long FDP (“Workshop on MOOCs, e-content Development and Open Education Resources”) organised by UGC-HRDC, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, on 17-22 August 2020. AUG 2020
2	August	2020	Delivered lecture on "E-Content Development and Blogging" in a week-long FDP (“Workshop on MOOCs, e-content Development and Open Education Resources”) organised by UGC-HRDC, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, on 17-22 August 2020. AUG 2020
3	August	2020	Delivered lecture on "Humanities and Social Sciences for Technology Students: Why and How" in a five day TEQIP-III sponsored FDP on "Student-Centred Teaching Methods & Strategies in Higher Education" organised by RTU, Kota and SKIT, Jaipur on 10-14 August 2020. AUG 2020
4	January	2020	Delivered plenary talk on "The text and the context, the part and the whole: Hermeneutics and Revisionary Constructions" in an international conference on "Hermeneutics Today: Negotiating Traditional Approaches across Cultures, Literatures and Languages" organised by Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology, Jaipur, on 24-25 January 2020. JAN 2020
5	October	2019	Delivered lecture on "Democratising Learning & Re-forming Conventional Paedagogy: MOOCs and OER" in a week-long FDP (“Workshop on MOOCs, e-content Development and Open Education Resources”) organised by UGC-HRDC, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, on 7-12 October 2019. OCT 2019
6	October	2019	Delivered lecture on "E-Content Development: Simple Tips" in a week-long FDP (“Workshop on MOOCs, e-content Development and Open Education Resources”) organised by UGC-HRDC, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, on 7-12 October 2019. OCT 2019

Workshop attended

	Type	Month	Year	Information
1	Short Term Course	July	2015	Four-week-long Theory/Praxis Course on EFL, Shillong Campus (Organised by Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda) Course Faculty: Prof. Walter Mignolo (Duke University) & Prof. Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
2	Training	May	2011	Four-week-long UGC-Orientation Programme organised by ASC – North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. I earned "A" grade in the programme.
3	Short Term Course	February	2011	Winter School on "Imaginative Reading, Creative Writing: Language, Literature and the Teacher" organised by IIT, Kharagpur
4	Short Term Course	February	2009	Soft Skills Workshop held at Infosys Technologies Ltd., Chandigarh-Campus
5	Short Term Course	September	2007	Soft Skills Training Program held at Infosys Technologies Ltd, Chandigarh-Campus
6	Short Term Course	February	2007	"Creative Reading & Writing Workshop" conducted by Prof. Valarie Miner, Stanford University, USA and organised jointly by Department of English, University of Rajasthan and the American Center, New Delhi
7	Short Term Course	September	2007	National seminar on "Rethinking Ability/ Disability: Reflections and Representations in Indian Cinema" organised by Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (IRIS), Jaipur