Dr. Renu Josan teaches English Fiction, Poetry and Drama in the department at UG and PG levels. She has keen research interest in Fiction, Drama and Comparative Study. Dr. Josan has 7 publications to her credit. Her areas of specializations are English Literature (Fiction and Drama), Translation of Works from Hindi to English.

Experience:         

• Total Teaching Experience: 22 Years
• University Teaching Experience: 13 Years                 

Experience Detail :

• Member Selection Board Agra University, Agra
• Member Selection Board KP Engineering College, Agra
• Working in Department of English StudiesDEI Deemed University Agra since Oct 1998.
• Worked as Trained Graduate Teacher in Kendriya Vidyalaya Visakhapatman from Nov 1993 to Sep 1998.
• Worked as Trained Graduate Teacher in Green Fields Public School, New Delhi form Mar 1987 to Apr 1991.

Papers Published:

• Oppression to Assertion: Dalit Consciousness in Om Prakah Valmiki’s Joothanin the Journal of Teaching and Education, Connecticut State University, USA, Jan 2013
• Mystical Reflections in the Poetry of Rumi and Kabir in the Journal of Lincoln University, England, Aug 2012
• Translated DEI Core Course Book on Religion from Hindi into English, Dec2012.
• Translated History of Hindi Poetry and Prose into English for the DEI Project, Oct 2010.
• Community of Women: Feminist Articulations in the Poems of Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich in the Atlantic Critical Review Oct 2011.
• Social Mores and the Self: A Critical Analysis of Anita Brookner’s “Hotel Du Lac” and Shashi Deshpande’s “That Long Silence” in Thematics, An International Peer-Reviewed Journal, Jan 2011.
• Towards a Global Community: Ecopoetic Reflections in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich in the Literary Paritantra, An International Journal, 2011.
• Meditation: Panacea for the Afflicted Soulsin Health Psychology, 2009.
• Education and Mystic Sense of Life with reference to the poems of Rumi and Kabirin The Quest, Dec – 2006.
• Social Web and cry of the self: A Critical Analysis of Anita Brookner`s ‘Hotel Du Lac’ and Anita Desai`s ‘Where Shall we go this Summer’in Indian writings in English: Tradition and Modernity, 2006.
• Identity Crisis in Bharati Mukerjee’s ‘The Tiger’s Daughter’ and Bapsi Sidhwa’s ‘The Crow Eaters’in Pegasus, 2006.
• Feminist Consciousness in the poems of Adrienne Richin The Atlantic Critical Review, Oct - Dec 2005
• Voice of Sequestered Soul: Feminist Articulations in the  poems of Emily Dickinsonin Re-Markings, Sep – 2004
• Heroines of Jane Austen in Indian Book Chronicle, Feb – 2003

Seminars / Conferences Attended:

• International Conference at Florence, Italy, 19-22 Jun 2012.
• International Conference on “Transcending Disciplinary Decadence”, IIS University Jaipur18 – 21 Dec 2011
• International Conference on “Decolonising the Stage”, BHU, 15 - 17 Nov 2011.
• Inaugural Workshop of the Centre for Consciousness Studies, DEI, Oct 2011.
• International Conference on ‘Spiritual Consciousness’, DEI, Dec 2010.
• National Seminar on ‘Sanskrit – Mother of All Languages, Department of Sanskrit, DEI, Apr 2010.
• National Seminar on ‘Environment Concerns in Literature’ (sponsored by the Higher Education Commissioner, Haryana), Dronacharya Government P.G. College Gurgaon (Haryana). Mar 2010.
• International Seminar on ‘Health Psychology’organized by Department of Psychology, DEI, Feb-2008.
• International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture organized by Universiti Putra, , Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, May 2007.
• International Conference on ‘Women`s Studies and Contemporary Literature’, Centre of Women’s Studies and World Association for studies in Literature in English, University of Mysore, Jan 2007.
• National Conference on ‘Indian English Literature’organized by KRG College, Gwalior, 2007.
• National seminar on ‘Woman Empowerment: A challenge for the Home Scientist’organized by Department of Home Science, D.E.I.,Agra , Jan 2007.
• National conference on ‘Literature in Post Modern Times’organized by The Indian Association for English studies, University of Lucknow, Jan2006.
• XXX Indian Social Science Congress. ‘Towards A New Global Society’organized by Indian Academy of Social Science Algappa University, Karaikudi, Dec 2006.
• International Conference on ‘Commonwealth Literature’organized by Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT Roorkee , Oct 2005.
• National Symposium on ‘Education for better worldliness’organized by Faculty of Education, DEI, Agra, Oct-2005.
• National Seminar on ‘Changing Social Climate-Its Impact.’Organized by Department of Sociology Faculty of Social Science, D.E.I, Jan 2004.
• International Conference on ‘Communication’organized by All India Association of Teacher Educators, Kendriya Hindi Sansthan,Agra , Dec 2003.
• National Conference on ‘Trends in contemporary Literature’  organized by All Indian English Teachers Association, BHU Varanasi Sep -2000.

Extra Curricular Activities: 

• Literary Convener English Essay and Debate, DEI Deemed University Agra.
• Programme Officer NSS 2005 – 2008
• Member Editorial Board DEI Magazine
• University Convener for Kho – Kho
• University Quality Assurance Officer