| Prof. Rajul Bhargava | Former Head, Department of English,University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. |
| Prof. Anita Singh | Professor in the Department of English at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi |
| Prof. Dr. Gourhari Behera | Professor in the Department of English, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhapur. |
| Dr Parul Mishra | Professor of English, Amity School of Languages, Amity University Jaipur. |
| Prof. Dr. Aparajita Hazra | Professor in the Department of English in Diamond Harbour Women’s University, West Bengal. |
| Dr. Vipin Sharma | Faculty & Director, Planning & Development, English Language Institute, Jazan University, Jazan(Saudi Arabia). |
| Dr. Anupama Vohra | Professor, DDE, University of Jammu, President of iSPELL, India. |
| Dr. Anuradha Nongmaithem | Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology, Agartala |
| Dr. Pradeep Kumar Srivastva | Assistant Professor, Government Engineering College, Aurangaba |
| Dr. Varada Mohan Nikalje | Professor, Department of Elementary Education, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi. |
| Dr. S. Magesh | Professor & Chief Advisor, NFED, Coimbatore. |
Professor Rajul Bhargava,Former Head,Department of English,University of Rajasthan (2006-2008),Former Head, Department of English, Central University of Haryana (2009-2012),has an MA in English and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the university of Rochester USA and a PhD in the Sociology of Literature. She has been the recipient of the New York State Scholarship, the Charles Walcott Trust Scholarship and the Ray Tongue Grant and other bursaries. She has 42 years of teaching and research experience in both Linguistics and Literature having supervised over 70 PhD and M Phil dissertations in both the disciplines. Her publications include more than 64 papers in National and International journals and books and she herself is the author of 10 books.She has delivered Keynote addresses and Plenaries in Seminars and Conferences,both in India and abroad.She has successfully completed two Major and two Minor UGC Research Projects during her tenure.She has been a long standing member of TESOL,IATEFL,ELTAI,ANUPI,ASRC ,the Steinbeck Society of America,British Council and American Center and has actively contributed to these forums.She was the founder Secretary of MELUS ,India in 1998 and Secretary Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan,Jaipur.She has been in Academic positions on many Boards of Studies and Management in various Universities across the country and helped to plan and institute their Vision Documents,Curricula and Syllabuses as well as prepare Study Materials.Prof Bhargava has organized many Orientation and Refresher Courses in the Rajasthan University and delivered talks and conducted Workshops at others in different states.She has served in various administrative capacities in various Institutions.She is the Founder and Editor of VOICES and brings out a bi-annual journal and organizes Roundtables under its aegis.
Anita Singh is a Professor in the Department of English at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She received Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Scholar Fellowship for the year 2013-2014 at the University of Virginia, USA. She was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla, India (2018–2020).
Her recent publications are Staging Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Performance (Routledge, 2021) and the two edited volumes Gender, Space, and Resistance: Women and Theatre in India, (2013) and Hero and Hero Worship: Fandom in Modern India (2020). She has completed a Major Research Project sanctioned by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, on “Staging Gender: Performing Women in Ramlila of Ramnagar”. Dr Singh has published interviews with Indian women performers in the Asian Theatre Journal, contributed in four chapters in the Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre, ed. Siyuan Liu (2016), and was the Guest Editor for the special issue of the Journal Gender Issues (Springer) 2018. She has also served as the conference Chair for The Future of Women conference held in Malaysia (2018), Colombo, Sri Lanka (2019) and Bangalore (2020) and is the President of The Asian-African Association for Women, Gender and Sexuality (AAAWGS).
Prof. Dr. Gourhari Behera is the professor in the department of English DDU Gorakhpur University. He specialises in Literary Criticism and Theory, Postcolonial Literatures and Aesthetics. He has coedited two collection of essays, Representation and Resistance: Essays in Postcolonial Theatre and Drama and Literature of South Asia. He is also the author of Contemporary Indian Literary Criticism: Alternative frameworks.
Dr Parul Mishra is currently working with Amity University Rajasthan, as a professor of
English at Amity School of Languages. She has total 20 years of teaching and research
experience. She is the internal member of Board of Studies, English.; External BoS Member
Amity Mumbai, Member Selection Committee, Amity Gwalior. She has 29 research articles
published to her credit in reputed national/international journals and Books. Apart from
working as professor of English, she is programme coordinator of PG in English and PhD
Coordinator of Amity school of Languages.
Prof. Dr. Aparajita Hazra is a Professor in the Department of English in Diamond Harbour Women’s University, West Bengal, India. She has served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts in SKB University, West Bengal. She was also the Head of the Department of English, there. She has acted as Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies in S K B University. She was the Director of the Centre for Foreign Language Studies in S K B University. A gold medallist and a National Scholar, she has contributed numerous articles on literary topics in various national and international journals and newspapers too. She has also presented papers in various national and international seminars in India and abroad in countries like France, New Zealand, Macau, Malaysia, Canada, New Zealand, Georgia and Scotland. She has been invited as guest faculty in educational programmes on television. She has also been invited to deliver lectures on literature in various universities and Academic Staff Colleges in India. She has been invited as Resource Person and Keynote Speaker in numerous webinars and seminars too. She is the Indian collaborator of the World Shakespeare Project, a global venture initiated by Emory University, Atlanta. She also takes classes regularly with the students of Emory University through video-conferencing.
She has five books to her credit— The Terrible Beauty, Her Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Brontes: A Sorority of Passion, Marlowe, the Muse’s Darling and The Art of Articulation from Macmillan Publishers. An Anthology on the Gothic is on the way.
She has also adapted Shakespeare’s Macbeth into a local dialect called ‘Manbhum’ as a project for Performative Shakespeare. Her team won the second place in a contest for local adaptations of classical texts.
She has teaching as well as administrative experience spanning 23 years. She is the External Expert in the Board of Studies in a number of Universities like SKBU, Vidyasagar University, Mumbai University etc. She is member of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell in Bankura University. She has been appointed Adjudicator for PhD Theses by Baroda Universty, Assam University, Burdwan University, Rabindra Bharati University, Vidyasagar University, Bankura University, NIT Durgapur, Jadavpur University, etc.
She has been awarded the Noble Asian Educational Leader Award for 2020 from ISTAR, Philippines. She is the recipient of the Asian Education Award 2021. She has been Awarded the National Faculty Award for 2021-22 from NRA, Puducherry, India.
Dr. Vipin Sharma
M. A. (English & Sociology), M. Phil (ELT), Ph.D, PGDBM, PGDBA (Symbiosis, Pune)
Prof (Dr.) Vipin Sharma is presently working as Faculty & Director, Planning & Development, English Language Institute, Jazan University, Jazan in Saudi Arabia. He has 26 years of experience in teaching, administration, and research. During this period, he has been involved in the Undergraduate Teaching, Post Graduate Teaching, Academic Research, Monitoring & Evaluation of various academic programs in different capacities, training & capacity building of the academic staff, etc. He has been closely associated with social works and has contributed to different social awareness work individually or as a member of committees or groups. He has more than 60 papers published in various international journals, magazines, and edited books. He has two books and six edited books to his credit. His areas of interest are English language teaching, Business Communication, Technical Writing, Professional development, Eco criticism, sociolinguistics, and American literature.
Prof.Anupama Vohra teaches English in DDE, University of Jammu and during 2012-14 was Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Niwas, Shimla, where she worked on Kashmiri Testimonial Literature.
She has participated and presented papers in national and international conferences including First International Conference on Mapping Emergent Arab and Muslim Literatures in English organised by Department of Foreign Languages, University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman from 12-15 December, 2009. Her areas of research are Indian Writings in English, English Language Teaching, Testiminio Literature,Culture and Gender Studies. Her papers have been published in edited volumes and journals including Sage publications. Her book Postmodern Feminism in the Fiction of Audrey Thomas has been published by Anmol Publications, New Delhi. She has edited book on She visited Hanseo University, South Korea in 2005 to give extension lectures on Indian Women Writers. In May 2009, she participated in MIYP 2009 on Crime Free Generation in Malaysia. In April 2014 she was invited by Yeditepe University Istanbul, Turkey for presentation on Kashmiri Women’s Testimonios in Life Writing Symposium. In 2015 she presented paper “Do I Have Control On My Womb? Women’s Narratives On Infanticide/Feticide As Evidence From The Local Dialectics Of Jammu And Kashmir” in the Ist Annual World Conference on Women’s Studies “Elimination of Discrimination Based on Gender” organized by The International Institute of Knowledge Management, Colombo, Sri Lanka. In 2016 she was invited by Univesity of Roma, Italy to present her research work on Kashmiri Pandit narratives. She has also visited USA, Poland , Rome, Russia and Hongkong for paper presentations and invited lectures.
She has delivered more than 108 lectures in Orientation and Refresher Course in HRDCs across the country.
She is British Council certified IELTS trainer.
She is nominated National Resource Person for “Masters’ Training in Parenting Adolescents” by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu.
She has worked as National Service Scheme (NSS) Programme Officer and Associate Dean, Department of Students Welfare, University of Jammu. Currently, she is Convener, Publication Cell in addition to her teaching duties. She is also in the Editorial Board of WCWS newsletter. And is member if 12 litetary, cultural, and social organisations across the world.
Three PhD and five MPhil scholars have completed their research work under her and three PhD scholars and one MPhil scholar are currently working under her supervision.
On 25 th November 2021 she has been felicitated by the Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu for bringing out Coffee Table Book Rich Past Vibrant Future.
Dr. Anuradha Nongmaithem is currently working as an Assistant Professor of English at the National Institute of Technology Agartala. She did her M.A, M.Phil, and Ph.D. from University of Madras, Tamil Nadu. She graduated from D.M. College of Arts, Manipur. She is an ardent lover of Manipuri literature, culture, dance, and customs. She has written more than 43 articles in various national/ international/sate journals and has contributed chapters in several edited books. Her poems are also published in few anthology of poetry. She has presented paper both in national and international seminars and conferences. And has delivered lectures as Resource Person/ Invited speakers in various institute and local organization both in Tripura and Manipur. She has published two books. She is passionate about her teaching profession.
Dr. Pradeep Kumar Srivastva
Government Engineering College Aurangabad Bihar. His specialization is East-West Confluence in Literature. He has been delivering lectures on Soft-Skills and Personality Development in different colleges. His poems and articles have been publishing in different International Journals of English. He is a motivational speaker, too.
VARADA MOHAN NIKALJE
Designation: Professor, Department of Elementary Education,
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi 110016 India
Her work is related to qualitative improvement of English language education in terms of contributing academic support to states and UTs: specifically in the preparation of curriculum and syllabi and development of textbooks, graded reading series and children’s literature. She is a Professor (English) at the Department of Elementary Education, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) New Delhi, India since 2003. Her work in past fourteen years involves an active engagement with English in schools of India: development of curriculum and textbooks, learning processes and teacher training, academic support to State educational Institutions with a focus on English as a second language in the multilingual context of the country. Recently, she has worked on special series titled Raindrops meant primarily for children in rural and interior areas. She provided academic support in the development of Orchids, a series of folk tales in English, consisting of thirty tales from thirteen major tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. She developed an English Language Learning Kit for Primary Stage, to facilitate the teaching-learning of the English language for children of Classes I-V.She was one of the co-ordinators of Learning Outcomes for the Elementary Stage, a document developed at NCERT, and released by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India.
Attended “Sub-Regional meeting –cum-workshop on “Integrated Sustainable Goal (SDG) and Global Citizenship Education (GCED) 4.7 into teachers Training in South Asia” at NCERT, New Delhi during 26-29 June 2019.Participated in UNESCO 2019 Forum on Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Organized by UNESCO, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Training of Viet Nam and the Viet Nam National Commission for UNESCO and the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU). 2 – 3 July 2019, Melia Hotel, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
- Participated in 4th International Conference on Global Citizenship Education: Platform on Pedagogy and Practice – Reconciliation, Peace, and Global Citizenship Education (3-4 September 2019).
- Participated in the 2019 Asia-Pacific Regional Global Citizenship Education Network Meeting, held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, 5 September 2019.
Research papers/ articles
Co-authored
- Ahimsa (Non-Violence), Gandhi And Global Citizenship Education (GCED)
Worldwide | 25 June 2020, SCOO News
(With Mame Omar Diop, Head of Education, UNESCO New Delhi and Dr. Satya Bhushan, Asst. Professor, National Council of Educational Research and Training).
- The Cultural Connect: Imprints of Vietnam in Indian Social Sciences School Textbooks, Vietnam Journal for Indian and Asian Studies, Vol. 2, No.1. Hanoi, Vietnam. September2020.
(with Dr. Satya Bhushan, Asst. Professor, NCERT)