Areas of Interest / Specilaization:   

Indian English Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Ideas of Nation and Nationalism, Literatures of Kashmir Conflict.

Experience:

12 years. Joined as Assistant Professor on the 29th of April, 2013

Administrative Responsibilities Undertaken: 

Member of M.A. and PhD Admission Committee, Library Committee of the Department, Purchase Committee of the Department, Student Counselor, Been a member of various College Inspection Teams, Member of the Election Commission for Student Elections 2019.

Academic Affiliations:

Membership of Academic Bodies

• IACLALS - Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.
• FCT - Forum on Contemporary Theory.
• CLAI - Comparative Literature Association of India.

Publications

1. Mridha, Somjyoti. “Memories of Home and Persecution: A Study of Recent Kashmiri Pandit Narratives”. The NEHU Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 1, January-June 2015.
2. Mridha, Somjyoti. “Stories of/from Kashmir”. Yendai, The Autumn Issue, November, 2018.
3. Mridha, Somjyoti. “Interrogating the Idea of India: A Study of Cinematic Representation of Kashmir Conflict from Bollywood and Beyond”. DUJES (Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies), Vol. 27, 2018-19 Issue.
4. Mridha, Somjyoti. “Post-Truth and Kashmir Conflict: A Study of Recent Literary Output about Kashmir”. The IACLALS Journal, Vol 5, 2019.
5. Mridha, Somjyoti. “A Bengali Night-in-gale: Bulbbul and the Politics of Orientalizing Bengal”. Cerebration Literary Journal, Oct, 2020 Issue.
6. Mridha, Somjyoti. “The Poetics and the Politics of Kashmiriyat: A Study of Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator and The Book of Gold Leaves”. Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature. Ed. Sk. Sagir Ali, Goutam Karmakar and Nasima Islam. New Delhi: Routledge, 2021.
7. Mridha, Somjyoti. “Writing Kashmir, Writing the End of Empire: A Study of Two Post-war British Novels”. DUJES (Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies), Vol 29, June 2021 Issue.
8. Mridha, Somjyoti. “Representing Kashmiri Pandits: Interrogating the Idea of a Marginal/Minority community in Recent Kashmiri Pandit Narratives”. Understanding Marginalities: Cultural and Literary Perspectives. Ed. Supriya Agarwal, Neha Arora and Ved Prakash. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2021.
9.  Feature titled “Forgotten Poetry” for the Special Supplement issued on the occasion of 75^th year of Indian Independence published by The Meghalayan on the 16^th of August, 2022. 
10.  Review of Moushumi Kandali’s Short Story collection The Black Magic Woman, published by Scroll on the 8^th of October, 2022.
11. Mridha, Somjyoti. “Situating Anglophone Kashmiri Literature within Indian Writing in English: Interrogating Nation, Narration and Dissent”. Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, Vol 16, Feb 2023 Issue.
12. Mridha, Somjyoti. “Life in the Brackish Delta” (Translation of a Short Story by Aparesh Mandal), Janajati Darpan, Vol 10. Ed. Indranil Acharya. Baruipur, South 24 Parganas: 2023.
13. Mridha, Somjyoti. “Romanticism, Colonialism, and Proto-National Sentiment: A Study of Derozio’s “To India: My Native Land” and “Freedom to the Slave”. Unveiling Identities: Exploring Indian Writing in English. Ed. Arunima Ray and Anurima Chanda. New Delhi: Worldview Publications, 2024.
14. Mridha, Somjyoti. ‘ “…and the Twentieth Century Took Over from the Sixteenth”: Literary Modernism and the Colonial World in E, M. Forster’s A Passage to India”.  Caietele Echinox, Integrated Modernisms. Vol 47, 2024. DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2024.47.06 [Indexed in Web of Science]
15. Review of Charanik: The Walker by Mohanlal Gangopadhyay published by Parcham Online journal on the 3^rd of April, 2025.
16. Mridha, Somjyoti, “Nitasha Kaul”. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Diasporic Indian English Writing. Edited by Manju Jaidka et al. Singapore: Springer Nature. 2025.
17. Mridha, Somjyoti, “Residue”. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Diasporic Indian English Writing. Edited by Manju Jaidka et al. Singapore: Springer Nature. 2025.
18. An article titled “Bengaliness and its Evolution across India and Bangladesh” published by East India Story in May, 2025. 

Conferences/Seminars/Workshops

1. Participated in a Creative Writing Workshop with the esteemed novelist Ms. Kavery Nambisan, organized by UGC Special Assistance Programme (SAP) DRS-II. Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on the 17^th of March, 2011.
2. Presented a paper entitled, “Nation and National Identity at the interface of Colonialism and Nationalism: A Study of two Early Indian English Novels” at the National Level Young Researchers Workshop: New Research in English Studies,, Organized by Department of English Literature, EFLU-Hyderabad, from 25^th to 28^th  August, 2011.
3. Presented a Paper entitled, “Nation and its Margins: A Study of Shyam Selvadurai’s Ouevre” at the Fifth International ASAA Conference on “Vanishing Borders in the Age of Globalism: Austral-Asian Perspectives”, Organized by Osmania University Centre for International Programmes(OUCIP) in collaboration with Association for the Study of Australasia in Asia (ASAA), OUCIP, Hyderabad, from 12^th to 14^th December, 2011.
4. Presented a Paper entitled, “Nationalism or its Travesty? A Study of Politics and Society in Recent ‘Kashmiri’ English Texts” at the National Young Researcher’s Seminar. Organized by Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, from 11^th to 13^th January, 2012.
5. Presented a Paper entitled, “Literature as Resistance: Kim and its Con Texts” at the First International Conference on Changing Worlds: Reviewing and Reinventing Literature and Culture. Organized by Post Graduate Department of English, Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, on 23^rd and 24^th January, 2012.
6. Presented a Paper entitled, “Colonial Versions and Post-colonial Revisions: A Study of Prince of Destiny and Hindupore.” at the International Conference on “Text, Culture and Performance: Postcolonial Issues” Organized by Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature And Language Studies (IACLALS) in collaboration with Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ), Ranchi, from 2^nd to 4^th of February, 2012
7. Presented a paper entitled, “The Poetics and the Politics of Violence: A Study of Kashmir Conflict in Contemporary Indian English Texts.” at the National Young Researcher’s Conference on “Discursifying ‘English’: Contemporary Cultures, Contemporary Concerns”  Organized by the Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on the 24^th and 25^th of January, 2013.
8. Presented a paper entitled, “Representation of Anglicized Education in Nineteenth Century Novels: Politics, Ideologies and Hierarchies.” at the IACLALS Annual Conference, organized by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) in collaboration with the University of Lucknow, Lucknow, from 7^th to 9^th February, 2013.
9. Presented a Paper entitled “Ethno-nationalism in recent ‘Kashmiri’ English Writings: Politics of Identity and (Un) belonging.” at the National Seminar on the Indian World(S) of Indian English Literature, organized by  the Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on the 14^th and 15^th of March, 2013.
10. Presented a Paper entitled “Memories of Persecution, Trauma and its aftermath: A Study of Kashmiri Pandit Narratives” at the International seminar on Cultures of Memory: Mnemocultural Praxis in Southeast and other Asian Countries organized by EFLU, Shillong Campus, Shillong from 7^th to 9^th November, 2013.
11. Presented a Paper entitled “Of AFSPA and its aftermath: The Kashmiri Context” at the 18^th Culture Studies Workshop, 2014 on Law Culture Social Justice organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC),  at Shantiniketan, West Bengal, from 9^th to 14^th March, 2014.
12. Presented a Paper entitled, “Exile and its Aftermath: A Study of Kashmiri Pandit Narratives” at the Researches at Work Conference (Raw.con 2014) on Literature and Culture; Expanding Horizons: New Paradigms of Knowledge Production organized by the Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad from the 10^th to 12^th September, 2014.
13. Presented a Paper entitled, “Interrogating the Idea of India: A Study of the Cinematic Representations of Kashmir Conflict from Bollywood and Beyond” at the National Seminar on The Idea of India in the 21^st Century: Cinematic Perspectives, organized by the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla from 26^th to 28^th May, 2015.
14. Co-Coordinator of a National Seminar, Re-interpretations of the Past: The Discourse of Cultural Identity in South Asia, Organized by the Dept. of English, NEHU, Shillong, held on the 17^th and 18^th of March, 2016.
15. Participated in the GIAN Course, Religion, Ideologies and Nationalism in South Asia, organized by National Institute of Technology (NIT), Silchar, Assam from 23^rd to the 28^th of October, 2017.
16. Presented a Paper entitled “State Terror in the Kashmiri Context: A Study of Narratives from Kashmir” at the International Seminar on Narratives of Violence and Terror in South Asia (NOVATISA), organized by the Department of English, NEHU, Shillong, from the 16^th to the 18^th of November, 2017.
17. Presented a paper entitled “Representing Kashmiri Pandits: Interrogating the idea of a Marginal/Minority community in recent Kashmiri Pandit Narratives” at the International Conference, Moving Beyond the Margin: The Politics of Exclusion and Assimilation, organized by the Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan on the 15^th and 16^th of November, 2018.
18. Delivered a lecture titled, “What is Indian Literature?” at the Avvaiyar Government College for Women, Government of Puducherry, Karaikal, Puducherry, on the 4^th February, 2019.
19. Presented a Paper titled, “Post-Truth and Kashmir Conflict: A Study of recent Literary Output about Kashmir” at the International Conference organized by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) and the Department of English, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, from the 6^th to the 8^th of February, 2019.
20.  Presented a Paper titled, “Knowledge-Power Nexus and the Colonial World: A Study of Alfred Assollant’s Once Upon a Time in India” at the National Seminar, Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures: The interfaces, with Special Reference to the North-East, Organized by the Departments of Foreign Languages, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Shillong on the 19^th and 20^th of September, 2019.
21. Delivered an invited lecture titled, “Literary Culture and Nationalism” at the Department of English, Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University (VSKU), Postgraduate Centre, Koppal, Karnataka, on the 16^th of January, 2020.
22. Conducted a One Day Workshop on Academic Writing and Research at the Department of English, Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University (VSKU), Postgraduate Centre, Koppal, Karnataka, on the 17^th of January, 2020.
23. Presented a paper titled, “Writing the End of the Empire, Writing Kashmir: A Study of three Post-War British Novels” in the UGC sponsored National Seminar on Contemporary British Fiction: Texts and Contexts, organized by the Department of English, Dibrugarh University on the 3^rd and 4^th of March, 2020.
24. Delivered an invited lecture titled, “Nationalism and its Discontents: A Literary Perspective” at the Department of English, Manohari Devi Kanoi Girl’s College, Dibrugarh, Assam on the 5^th of March, 2020.
25. Delivered the 39^th Online Lecture titled, “Writing Nation, Writing Resistance: Anglophone Kashmiri Literature Post 1990s” Organized by Calcutta Comparatists 1919 on the 6^th of December, 2020.
26. Delivered an invited online Lecture “T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland” to the Post-gradute Students of Midnapore College (Autonomous), Midnapore on the 18^th of April, 2021.
27. Delivered an invited online Lecture “Narrating India through Translation: A Literary Perspective” organized by Bricolage, the English Literary Society of Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi on the 12^th of November, 2021.
28. Organized an online lecture hosted by the Department of English, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, titled “India in English Literature Classroom” by Prof. G.J.V. Prasad on the 25^th of November, 2021.
29. Delivered an online Lecture “Translation in India, India in Translation: A Literary Perspective” organized by the Department of English, Vidyasagar Metropolitan College, University of Calcutta on the 2^nd of December, 2022.
30. Delivered two lectures for the online Refresher Course titled, Literature and Literary Works in the Post-Modern Era conducted by the UGC HRDC and Department of English of North Bengal University, Siliguri on the 16^th of February, 2023. The lectures were titled “Translation in India, India in Translation:  A Literary Perspective” and “Writing Nation, Writing Resistance: An Overview of Anglophone Kashmiri Literature Post 1990’s”.
31. Delivered an online Lecture “What is Marginal in Literature?” organized by the Department of English, Yogada Satsanga Palpara Mahavidyalaya, Palpara, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal on the 30^th of June, 2023.
32. Coordinated a Refresher Course in English (Hybrid Mode) organized by the Department of English, NEHU, Shillong and the UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, NEHU, Shillong from the 1^st to the 15^th of September, 2025.
33. Delivered a lecture titled, “Writing Nation, Writing Resistance: A Study of Recent Anglophone Literature from Kashmir” for the Refresher Course organized by the Department of English, NEHU, Shillong and UGC-HRDC NEHU, Shillong on the 11^th of September, 2023.
34. Chaired a Session as a Resource Person in the Two-Day International Seminar & Workshop on Indian Drama: Society-Culture, Tradition and Heritage on 29-30 March 2025 organized by Ateshwartala Sankritik Manch, Radhakantapur, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. Any other: