Ongoing Research

S No Research Scholar Supervisor   Title Year of Joining
1 Antara Bhattacharya Yet to be finalised PhD Yet to be finalised 2024
2 Humaira Ali Yet to be finalised PhD Yet to be finalised 2024
3 Ishita Mandal Yet to be finalised PhD Yet to be finalised 2024
4 Km Hina Yet to be finalised PhD Yet to be finalised 2024
5 Moniba Fazal Yet to be finalised PhD Yet to be finalised 2024
6 Nida Yet to be finalised PhD Yet to be finalised 2024
7 Sania Muzamil Yet to be finalised PhD Yet to be finalised 2024
8 Sant Kumar Yet to be finalised PhD Yet to be finalised 2024
9 Vidhi Joon Yet to be finalised PhD Yet to be finalised 2024
10 Sadia Khan Dr Asmat Jahan PhD Contextualising 1971 vis-à-vis Memory, Trauma and Identity Politics: A Study of Select South Asian Writers 2023
11 Swagata Chakraborty Prof. Nishat Zaidi PhD Distressed Natures: A Study of the Ecocritical Significance of Select Grief Memoirs by Women 2023
12 Fakrul Molla Dr. Shuby Abidi PhD Necropower over Women, Their Resistance and Resurrection: A Study of Select Fiction 2023
13 Ritika Dr. Shuby Abidi PhD Trauma in the Contemporary Non-Fiction Rape Narratives in the Indian Subcontinent 2023
14 Poulomi Chandra Prof. Nishat Haider PhD Exploring Female Subjectivities, Trauma and the Uncanny in Select Works of Elena Ferrante and Sangeeta Bandopadhyay 2023
15 Ananya Bora Dr A.C. Kharingpam PhD Toxic Care: Acts and Practices of Caregiving in Contemporary Fiction 2023
16 Kritika Mathpal Prof Mukesh Ranjan PhD Children and Transgenerational Trauma: A Critical Analysis 2023
17 Sameyah Roomi Dr. Ivy Imogene Hansdak PhD 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
18 Bariya Siraj Dr. Shuby Abidi PhD Illness Narratives: Examining the Stories of Women Living with Chronic illness 2023
19 Vaishali Bidhuri Prof Saroj Kumar Mahananda PhD Digitalisation of Raginis and Saangs and their relationship with their contributors 2023
20 Bariya Hamid Dr. Asmat Jahan PhD Silence, Erasure and Resilience in the Literary Imagination of Kashmiri Muslim Women 2023
21 Pakhi Jain Prof Simi Malhotra PhD Tentative title- Study of the Literary History of Various Indian Childhoods in the British Empire for the Period of 1900-1947. 2021
22 Mamta Sharma Dr A.C. Kharingpam PhD Retelling of "Rajula Malushahi": A Study of the Literary Adaptations of Kumaoni Folk Ballad 2021
23 Savita Kiran Dr Ivy Imogene Hansdak PhD Sanjay as a narrator in Mahabharata: Time, Space and Significance 2021
24 Tarika NA Dr Asmat Jahan PhD Cultural Capital and Its Contestations in Select Indian English Poetry Anthologies Between 1990-2020 2021
25 Zainab Abrar Prof Nishat Zaidi PhD The making of Muslim Identity in select contemporary detective fiction: Explorations in politics of the popular 2021
26 Reshma Gupta Prof Anuradha Ghosh PhD A Study of the Travels of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave in the Cinematic Practices of India and Iran 2021
27 Somya Charan Pahadi Prof Nishat Haider Ph.D. Negotiating the Disruptive: Childhood Traumas in the fictional fluidity of representation - A study of select works 2021
28 Farhana Tasnim Prof Nishat Haider Ph.D. Understanding Huzun- A Memory and Trauma Study of Pamuk's Communal Melancholia 2021
29 Arisha Habib Prof Mukesh Ranjan Ph.D. 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
30 Sudipta Agarwal Dr Saba Mahmood Bashir Ph.D. Rekhti: Unveiling the Lives of Women in 18th-19th century North India 2021
31 Sheikh Sana Assad Prof Nishat Haider Ph.D. Transgenerational Trauma Inherited through Post and Prosthetic Memory with Special Reference to Literature and Art Produced from Kashmir after 1989 2021
32 Asmita Pandey Dr Shuby Abidi Ph.D. Analysing the Fandom: Popularity and Obsession in Digital Media 2021
33 Monib Ahmad Prof Anuradha Ghosh Ph.D. Popular Military Histories of World War Two, New Journalism and the Art of Narrating War 2021
34 Arghya Dey Prof Anuradha Ghosh, Co-Supervisor: Prof M. Asadduddin Ph.D. An Investigation of Surveillance Technologies Through the Lens of Cinema 2021
35 Pooja Prasain Prof Mukesh Ranjan Ph.D. Migratory Grief And Alienation in the Selected Works of Lil Bahadur Chettri and Indra Bahadur Rai: A Literary Analysis 2021
36 Saima Malik Dr A.C. Kharingpam Ph.D. Representation of Gender in the Folklore of Kashmir: A Study of Select Texts 2021
37 Mohd Aqib Dr Saba Mahmood Bashir, Co-Supervisor: Prof M. Assaduddin Ph.D. Self-translation as a Metaphor of Flow: A Posthuman Study of Modern Urdu Classics and their Self-translations in English 2021
38 Hishma Binti Nazir Prof Nishat Haider, Co-Mentor: Prof M. Assaduddin Ph.D. Women Across Literature of Resistance; A Study of Select Texts from Kashmir and Palestine 2021
39 Sk. Raqeeb Raza Dr Asmat Jahan Ph.D. Queer Identity and its Parenting: Modes of Representation in Hindi Cinema 2021
40 Noorussabah Prof Nishat Haider Ph.D. Of the Nonhuman: The New Weird 2021
41 Chhina Magotra Dr A.C. Kharingpam Ph.D. An Archival Analysis of Dogri Literature Recorded in Takri before 1940 2021
42 Alka Lakhera Prof Nishat Zaidi Ph.D. Brave New World: Re -imagining Dystopias in South Asia 2021
43 Tasadduq Tanveer Prof Nishat Haider Ph.D. Critiquing Representation of Male Impotence in Select Postcolonial Indian English Fictions 2021
44 Azhar Uddin Sahaji Prof Anuradha Ghosh, Co-Supervisor: Prof M. Asadduddin Ph.D. Tagore's Translation and Reception in Hindi: A Study of Select Novels 2021
45 Sadaf Rouf Prof Nishat Zaidi Ph.D. The Animality of Fiction and the Fictionality of Animal: A Study of Select Novels. 2021
46 Tapti Roy Dr Saba Mahmood Bashir Ph.D. Gender Subtexts of Colonial Medicine in the Select Works of Banaphool 2021
47 Aparna Pathak Prof Simi Malhotra Ph.D. Body, Identity and the Virtual Space: A Study of Posthuman Subjectivity in Interactive Media 2021
48 Md Fazal Mahmud Shah Dr Shimi Moni Doley Ph.D. Re-thinking Kazi Nazrul Islam: A Cosmopolitan Interpretation/Reading of his Poetic Works 2021
49 Aasif Ameen Dr Saba Mahmood Bashir Ph.D. Exploring Children Narratives within Conflict Literature: A Study of Select Text, Graphic and Visual Narratives 2021
50 Sheikh Mohammed Shafiulla Prof Nishat Haider Ph.D. A Legion of Literature: Contesting Odia Identity in the Works of Fakir Mohan Senapati (1865-1915) 2021
51 Kanupriya Prof Anuradha Ghosh Ph.D. Representation of Body, Desire and Sexuality of Disabled Women in Indian Cinema 2021
52 Shaghayegh Moghari Prof Nishat Haider Ph.D. Race, Gender and Desire in Select Works of Zadie Smith 2021
53 Elyas Matanyous Ebrahim Dr Shimi Moni Doley Ph.D. Existential Themes in the Selected Novels of Toni Morrison 2021
54 Aditi Das Khan Dr Asmat Jahan M.Phil./Ph.D. Exploring Multispecies Relationships in Select Indian Texts 2019
55 Tanushri Banerjee Dr Shuby Abidi Ph.D. Identity and Trauma: The Study of Select Narratives of South Asian Diaspora Cinema 2019
56 Numana Ibrahim Bhat Prof Anuradha Ghosh M.Phil./Ph.D. Eco-localism, Planetarism and the Green Imagination: A Study of Select New Nature Writings in Britain Post 2000 2019
57 Indrajit Prof Ameena Kazi Ansari M.Phil./Ph.D. Configurations of Exile in Select Novels of Milan Kundera 2019
58 Kanu Priya Dr. Ivy Imogene Hansdak M.Phil./Ph.D. Children’s Literature in English and Nation-Building in Post-Colonial India 2019
59 Steven S George Prof Nishat Zaidi Ph.D. Identity and Alienation: A Double Paradox in Literature of Dalit Christians in Kerala 2019
60 Jubi C John Prof Nishat Zaidi M.Phil./Ph.D. Exploring Corporeal Subjectivity in Island Women's Narratives 2019
61 Gulbahar Shah Prof Asaduddin M.Phil./Ph.D. Problematizing Representation of Trauma: A Comparative Analysis of Graphic Narratives by Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman 2019
62 Sakshi Dogra Prof Simi Malhotra Ph.D. Food, Feelings and Flavors: 2018
A Study of Contemporary Indian
Writing in English on Food
63 Grace Mariam Raju Prof Nishat Zaidi Ph.D. Subaltern Cosmopolitanism in Kochi: Re-Examining the City as Decolonial Space 2018
64 Moumita Roy Prof Anuradha Ghosh M.Phil./Ph.D. A Study of Thematic Trends in Post-Partition Bengali and Assamese Literary 2019
Writings in English.
65 Usama Zakir Prof Mukesh Ranjan M.Phil./Ph.D. Metamodernism after Postmodernism: Tracing a New Logic of Cultural Production in 2019
the Middle East
66 Ruchi Nagpal Prof Ameena Kazi Ansari M.Phil./Ph.D. Theorizing Flash Fiction : A Study of Postmodern Perspective(s) 2019
67 Meenakshi Yadav Dr Saroj K Mahananda Ph.D. Hindi Print Media: A Study of Caste Specific Journals in 1880-1920 2019
68 Sehnaz Hazarika Dr Shimi Moni Doley Ph.D. Deconstructing War Narratives and Conflicts in North-East India: A Study of the Repercussions of Wars in the Selected Novels 2019
69 Nabanita Deka Dr Shimi Moni Doley M.Phil./Ph.D. Location and Positionality of Indian Women: A Study through Select Dystopian Texts 2019
70 Rania Saber Ahmed Abel Rahim Dr Saroj Mahananda Ph.D. Reconstructing Native Womanhood through Confession in the Poetry of Kamala Das and Joy Harjo 2019
71 Disha Pokhriyal Prof Baran Farooqi Ph.D. Women, Writing and Discoveries of a Powerful Self 2019
72 Suraiya Shahin Dr Shimi Moni Doley Ph.D. Women's Subversive Identities and Subjectivities In Nigerian Society: A Study of the Select Works of Ifeoma Okoye and Flora Nwapa 2019
73 Khairun Tamanna Prof Anuradha Ghosh Ph.D. Translating Life/Translating Time: Engaging with Sufia Kamal’s Ekattarer Diary 2018
74 Syed Sumaira Gilani Prof Mukesh Ranjan Ph.D. Defying the Margins: A Comparative Study of the Fictional Worlds of Buchi Emecheta and Chamamanda Ngozi Adichie 2018
75 Asra Mamnoon Prof Nishat Zaidi Ph.D. Class, Gender and Society: A Study of select Fiction of Qurratul Ain Hyder and Ismat Chughtai 2017
76 Suab Ahmed Dr Asmat Jahan Ph.D. Interrogating Identity, History and Culture: An Analysis of Select Contemporary Texts of South Asian Diaspora in England 2017
77 Kashish Dua Prof Nishat Zaidi Ph.D. Queering Citizenship: A Critical Study of Select Texts in Post Independence India 2017
78 Shraddha Adityavir Singh Prof Simi Malhotra Ph.D. Posthumanism and the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood's Select Speculative Fiction 2017
79 Shreya Singh Dr Saroj K. Mahananda Ph.D. Revisiting Dalithood in the Works of Meena Kandasamy and Sujatha Gidla 2017
80 Aditi Sharma Prof Mukesh Ranjan Ph.D. Mapping Urbanisation of Delhi: An Analysis of Selected Works of Fiction and Non-Fiction 2017
81 Inderpreet Kaur Dr Saroj K. Mahananda Ph.D. Depiction of Dalits in Contemporary Hindi Cinema 2017
82 Saneya Prof Simi Malhotra Ph.D. Begumati Zubaan :Voice of a Subculture 2017
83 Elaheh Ghasempour Prof MukeshRanjan Ph.D. Representations of Imperialism in Select Works of Simin Daneshvar, Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Mahmoud Dowlat Abadi 2017
84 Ann Susan Aleyas Prof Simi Malhotra PhD Conversing History: A Study of Select Folk Traditions of Southist Christians 2017
85 Abhishek Pundir Prof Mukesh Ranjan Ph.D. Interrogating the idea of Modernity in works of Agyeya and Muktibodh 2016
86 Sarah Mariam Prof M. Asaduddin Ph.D. A Study of Habib Tanvir as Translator 2016
87 Roomy F. Naqvy Prof Mukesh Ranjan Ph.D. Imaging Self, Community and Nation: A Study of Parsi Writing of the 20th Century 2016
88 Mehak Burza Prof Baran Farooqi Ph.D. Literary Representations of the Holocaust: An Assessment 2016
89 Rupleena Bose Prof  Anuradha Ghosh Ph.D. The City Minstrel: Urban Music from Bengal, 1992-2002 2015
90 Kanika Gandhi Prof Baran Farooqi and  co-supervisor - Dr Shuby Abidi Ph.D. Writing the Self: Fictional and Non-Fictional Representations by Pakistani Women Writers 2015
91 Sombir Sharma Prof Mukesh Ranjan Ph.D. A Critical Evaluation of Premchand’s Non-Fictional Writings 2015
92 Shabeeh Rahat Prof Ameena K. Ansari Ph.D. Postcolonialism and Indian English Writing: Text, Context, Theory 2015
93 Indrani Das Gupta Prof Nishat Zaidi Ph.D. Social Vision of Science Fiction in Modern India: A Study of Select Texts 2015
94 Mansi Grover Dr Ivy I. Hansdak Ph.D. Representation of Disability in Women in Hindi Cinema since the 1970s 2015
95 Md. Shalim`Muktadir Hussain Prof Anuradha Ghosh Ph.D. The Contribution of Translation to the Shaping of an Assamese Literary Aesthetic 2015
96 Pratibha Dr Shuby Abidi Ph.D. Self and Community in Autobiographical Narratives by Dalit Women in the English Translation 2015
97 Nida Eqbal Dr Asmat Jahan Ph.D. Representation of Men and Masculinities in the Works of Ismat Chughtai 2014
98 Mirza Sadaf Fatima Dr Ivy I Hansdak PhD Globalization, Identity and Muslim Woman: A Study of Select Texts of Tehmina Durrani, Leila Abouzeid and Mohja Kahf 2014
99 Mona Sinha Prof Ameena Kazi Ansari PhD Imaging Indian Woman in the New Millennium: A Study of Select Hindi Soap Operas and Reality Television 2014
100 Rashmy C.P. Prof Simi Malhotra, Co- Supervisor: Prof M. Asaduddin Ph.D. From Bombay to Mumbai: Space, Structure and Identity in the Postcolonial Tapestries of a Transforming City 2013
101 Jahanshah Safari (foreign student) Prof M. Asaduddin Ph.D. A Comparative Study of the ‘subaltern’ in Selected Films Directed by Bahman Ghobadi and Selected Novels of Khaled Hosseini 2013
102 Mohd. Ashraf Bhat Prof Mukesh Ranjan Ph.D. Satirical Mode in the Post independence African Novel: A Study of the Selected Works of Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Ayi Kwei Armah 2013
103 Sananda Roy Prof M. Asaduddin Ph.D. Adaptation and Ideology: A Study of Rituparno Ghosh’s Films 2013