Dr. Namita Bhatia

Courses Taught:

Odd Semester:

Even Semester:

Areas of Research:

• Indian Poetics
• Consciousness Studies
• Eastern Philosophy

Honors and Recognitions

• Director’s Medal in M.A. English
• Member of Editorial Committee, DEI Magazine

Selected Publications:

Prof. J. K. Verma

Educational Qualification - M.A. (English), Ph.D.

Dr. Gurpyari Jandial

Dr. Gurpyari Jandial teaches Modern Drama, Modern Fiction, History of English Literature and Literary Movements, and Grammar & Language Courses in the department as well as in other departments of the Institute at UG and PG levels. Her research interests are Feminism and Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Indian English Fiction and Afro-American Women's Novels. She has 8 research publications to her credit.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Journals/ Book Chapters/ Conference Proceedings

• Meghna Middha and Gur Pyari Jandial, “Homosexuality and Contemporary Social Stance: A Study in American and Indian Film with reference to Ang Lee’s Brokback Mountain and Hansal Meta’s Aligarh” Crossing Borders in Gender and Culture, Eds(s) Konrad Gunesch, Olena Lytovka, Aleksandra Tryniecka, October 2018, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-5275-1355-6
• GurPyariJandial, "From Temporal to Trans-Temporal Consciousness: A Study in Pancychism with reference to Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, The Book of Job and Param Guru Huzur Maharaj’s NijUpdesh as a Response to Darrel W. Ray’s The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture", Consciousness, Literature and the Arts , Volume 19, Number 1, April 2018. ISSN No. 1470-5648

• Avneet Kaur and Gur Pyari Jandial, ‘The Epical Saga of J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings as Fantasy Fiction, in The Atlantic Critical Review, April-June 2017, Vol. 16, Number 2, ISSN 0972-6373

• GurPyariJandial, ‘A Neurotheological Approach to Understanding James Joyce’s Concept of Epiphany and Related States of Wajad and  Turiya with Some Reflections on the Radhasoami Faith”, Consciousness , Litearture and the Arts, Volume 15, Number 2, August 2014, ISSN 1470-5648

• GurPyariJandial, Dissolving Fetters: Images of Women in the Novels of Shauna Singh Baldwin and ManjuKapur, Indian Journal of World Literature and Culture, Vol 9-10, (July 2013), ISSN: 2229-7251.

CONFERENCES ATTENDED

• Gur Pyari Jandial, ‘Science And Religion’ in the ‘National Symposium: Education for Better Worldliness’, Dayalbagh Educational Institute 1-2 October, 2005.
• Gur Pyari Jandial, ‘Reflection of Women’s Predicament in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What The Body Remembers in International Conference on Commonwealth Literature, IIT, Roorkee 13-15 October, 2005.
• Ms. Rohila Naseem and Gur Pyari Jandial ‘Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man: A  Post Colonial Study’, in VI World Conference M.D University, Rohtak, 5-6 September 2007.
• Gur Pyari Jandial, presented the paper entitled,” There’s no Such Place as Far Away: Diasporic Consciousness in the Novels of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa  Lahiri’, in the American Canadian Conference for Academic Disciplines held at  Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, from May 25 2009 to May 28 2009.
• A Research Paper entitled “From Innocence to Experience: A Systemic Journey”, was presented at the Joint International Conference on Applied Systems Research and XXXIII National Systems Conference, November 27-29, 2009, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra.
• A Research Paper entitled “Spiritual Subtext: Truth And Mystical Experience In the Poems of Mansur and Rumi with Some Reflections on the Radhasoami Faith” was presented in the  Conference on ‘Spiritual Consciousness: Sant Mat’, November, 12-13, 2010.
• A research paper entitled, “James Joyce’s Epiphanies: A Neurotheological Approach” was presented at the Inaugural Worksop of the Centre for Consciousness Studies at the Dayalbagh Educational Institute, October 1-2 2011.
• Gur Pyari Jandial, ‘A Neurotheological Approach to Understanding James Joyce’s Concept of Epiphany and Related States of Wajad and  Turiya with Some Reflections on the Radhasoami Faith’, TSC, Tucson, Arizona, 9th April 2012 to 14th April 2012
• Gur Pyari Jandial, A Study in Pancychism with reference to Beckett’sWaiting for Godot, The Book of Job and Param Guru Huzur Maharaj’sNij Updesh as a Response to Darrel W. Ray’sThe God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture, TSC, DEI, March 3- 9, 2013.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Member, Editorial Baord, DEI NEWS
• Life-Member , Comparative Literature Association of India, New Delhi
• Life-Member, MELUS-MELOW
• Member,  Selection Committee, B.R  Ambedkar University.

• Avneet Kaur and Gur Pyar iJandial, “Rediscovering the Notion of Self in Post-1990s Indian Cinema with special reference to Deepa Mehta’s Fire, Mahesh Manjrekar’s Astitva and Nagesh Kukunoor’s Dor”, was published in the proceedings at 2nd Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2013) organized by Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), June 17-18, 2013, Singapore. (The paper won the Best Paper Award)
• Kanika Agarwal and Gur Pyari Jandial, “Legacy of Hate and Violence in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy-Man and Taslima Nasrin’s Lajja” was published in the proceedings at 2nd Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2013) organized by Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), June 17-18, 2013, Singapore.(The paper won the Best Paper Award)
• Gur Pyari Jandial, Conscious Machines and Super conscious Humans: A Systemic Study of the Matrix, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the concept of Maya in the Religion of Saints, IEEE sponsored 41^st National Systems Conference on ‘Super Conscious Machines and Man’, Dec. 1-3, 2017. (The paper won the Best Paper Award)