Title Dr. First Name ANJANA Last Name SHARMA
Designation Professor
Department Department of English
Email
Webpage
Phone.no 9811007287
Employement Info
Employee Type Nature Of Employment
Teaching Permanent
Educational Qualifications
Degree/Certification Name Institution Year of Completion
Ph.D. - PhD Pennsylvania State University 1990
PG University of Delhi 1984
UG University of Delhi 1982
Fellowship Details
Name Of Fellowship Awarding Body Fellowship Level
Edwin Earle Sparks Fellowship for the Humanities Pennsylvania State University International
Fulbright Institutional Collaboration Fulbright Foundation International
Senior Fellow, Nalanda Sriwijiya Center and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, Nalanda Sriwijiya Center and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, International
Fellow Academies
Fellowship Academy Award Name Year Of Award
Pennsylvania State University, USA Edwin Earle Sparks Fellowship for the Humanities 1989
Teaching Experience (Within Institution)
Designation Duration
Ad Hoc Lecturer 01-08-1984 To 09-05-1985 (9 months, 8 days)
Ad Hoc Lecturer 08-01-1991 To 31-03-1991 (2 months, 23 days)
Associate Professor 16-07-1991 To 31-03-2005 (13 years, 8 months, 15 days)
Administrative Experience (Within Institution)
Designation Duration
Teacher in Charge South Campus 24-08-2015 To 30-09-2022 (7 years, 1 months, 6 days)
Officer on Special Duty and Dean Academic Planning 14-01-2011 To 10-08-2015 (4 years, 6 months, 27 days)
Teacher in Charge 16-07-2002 To 15-07-2004 (1 years, 11 months, 29 days)
Administrative Experience (Outside Institution)
Designation Institute Duration
Research Assistant Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, USA 11-01-1988 To 06-06-1988 (4 months, 26 days)
Research Supervision Overview
PhD Scholars Supervised PhD Degrees Awarded Theses Submitted
8 0 1
M.Phil Scholars Supervised M.Phil Degrees Awarded M.Phil Theses Submitted
3 11 0
Research Publications
Title of Article Type of Publication Name of Journal ISSN Journal Volume Year Link to Article DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
IIC Quarterly Research Papers in UGC listed Journals IIC Quarterly 0376-9771 Autumn 2019 Unavailable No DOI

2015. “Nalanda University: A University for the 21st Century.” Senshu University, Institute of Humanities Monthly Bulletin. 2015-5. Research Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals Senshu University, Institute of Humanities Monthly Bulletin. 2015-5. ISSN o387-8694 2 Unavailable No DOI

Language, Nation and Narration - A Review of GJV Prasad's Writing India, Writing English: Literature, Language, Location Research Papers in UGC listed Journals The Book Review 09704175 XXXVI,No.330 Unavailable No DOI

(Re) Constructing Nalanda: A Twenty-first Century University IIAS Newsletter 0000 59,Spring Unavailable No DOI

Review of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Ed. “A History of Indian Literature in English” Research Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals South Asia Research 02627280 Vol.24,#2 Unavailable No DOI

A Variegated Ouvre - A Review of S. Marathe's Rudyard Kipling: Stories of India Research Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals The Book Review 09704175 XXVII,No.7 Unavailable No DOI

A Different Voice: Mary Hays and A Different Voice: Mary Hays' The Memoirs of Emma Courtney Research Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals British journal, Women’s Writing 0969-9082 Volume 8 Unavailable No DOI

Romanticism Revisited: William Godwin’s Caleb Williams Research Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism 091-9474 Vol. 6 Unavailable No DOI

Non-Journal Publications
Title of Publication Type of Publication Publisher Role ISBN Year Link to Publication Level
Gandhi: Advocacy, Journalism, and the Media Chapters in Books Peter Lang Author 978-1-4331-8241-9 Unavailable International
Epical Traditions in India Chapters in Books Wisdom Tree, New Delhi Co-Author 978-81-8328-587-2 International
Gandhi in August 1947: Self-Fashioning, Print Culture and the Republic of Letters Text/Reference/Subject Books/Other Palgrave Macmillan Author 978-3-030-59034-5 International
British Romantic Poetics and the Idea of Asia Chapters in Books ISEAS Singapore Author 978-981-4818-85-8 International
Anger is a Short Madness Chapters in Books Sage Co-Author 978-93-528-0650-8 International
Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections Text/Reference/Subject Books/Other ISEAS Singapore Editor 978-9814786-41-6 International
Civilizational Dialogue: Asian Interconnections and Cross Cultural Exchanges Text/Reference/Subject Books/Other Manohar: New Delhi Editor 9350980061 International
Agamemnon’s Mask: Greek Tragedy and Beyond. Text/Reference/Subject Books/Other Macmillan Co-Editor 0230630332 International
Revolutionary Aesthetics: Writing Nation/ Embodying Gender Text/Reference/Subject Books/Other Department of English, University of Delhi Editor 00000 National
An Englishman’s Novel? Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music Chapters in Books Pencraft International Author 81-85753-61-x International
In Exile/ At Home: The Urban Middle Class in Shashi Deshpande Chapters in Books Pencraft International Author 81-85753-59-8 International
Frankenstein: Gender, Culture, and Identity Text/Reference/Subject Books/Other Macmillan Editor 140392404X International
Autobiography of Desire: English Women Novelists’ of the 1790s Text/Reference/Subject Books/Other Macmillan Author 1403909474 International
Transfiguring Hunger: Writing the Body in Indian English Women’s Fiction Chapters in Books Katha, New Delhi Author 81-87649-67-4 International
Frankenstein, 1818 Text Text/Reference/Subject Books/Other Oxford University Press Editor ISBN:0-19-565 862-0 International
Research Projects
Project Title Project Type Year Of Sanction Outcome/Output Duration
Fulbright Grant for Project Titled "Toward Multicultural Pedagogy: Electronic Journal and Collaborative Teaching of English Literatures" Major 2001 Setting up of an Exchange Programme Between LSR College and Kenyon College, USA The programme ran for 3 years 18-07-2001 To 15-07-2002 (11 months, 27 days)
Professional Development Programmes
Programme Title Sponsoring Institution Organizing Institution Role Type of Programme
Writing Revolution in the Long 18th Century University of Delhi Department of English Organising Refresher Program
Eighteenth Century Literature University of Delhi Department of English Attending Refresher Program
Classical Literature University of Delhi Department of English Attending Refresher Program
Honors and Awards
Name of the Award Awarding Body Award Category Level Award Date
Pennsylvania State University, USA Edwin Earle Sparks Fellowship for the Humanities Research International 01-06-1989
Merit Scholarship University of Delhi Academic State/University Level 15-07-1982
N V Thadani Memorial Prize for First position in University of Delhi University of Delhi Academic State/University Level 01-03-1982
Talk Poster Presented
Name of the Activity Role Date of Activity
Symposium on India’s Soft Power Strength: Building upon in changing world. “India’s Spiritual Democracy.” Collaborative Symposium under the aegis of Indian Council of Cultural Relations and Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts. Invited Talk 14-07-2022
Vision of Culture, 2047 that was jointly spearheaded by the Secretary, Culture Ministry and Member Secretary, Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts. Invited Talk 09-07-2022
Creating a Century of Peace by Raising Global Citizens through Humanistic Education. Invited Talk 11-02-2022
Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on "Remapping the Indian Novel in English”. Department of English, Kirorimal College, University of Delhi. Oral Presentation 23-06-2021
“Ubiquitous: The Trajectory of Modern Voices.” Discussion with Chitra Bannejee Devakaruni. Litmus, Annual English Department Seminar, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi Invited Talk 21-04-2021
“Revolutionary Aesthetics and the Knowledge Economy in Late 18th century Britain.” Department of English, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi. Invited Talk 01-07-2020
“Tagore and the Idea of Asia.” National Webinar on “Retrospection and Relevance of Rabindranath Tagore’s Literature.” Department of English. Shri Sangameshwar Arts and Commerce College, Chadchan, Karnataka Invited Talk 20-05-2020
“Redefining Poetics: Revolutionary Aesthetics and the Polemics of Wordsworth and Coleridge.” Department of English. Rajdhani College. University of Delhi. Invited Talk 08-11-2019
“The Idea of Justice and Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.” Department of English. Lady Shri Ram College for Women. University of Delhi. Invited Talk 04-11-2019
."The Greeks and Their World." Department of English. Daulatram College. University of Delhi. Invited Talk 13-08-2019
Faculty Development Programme for the Discipline Specific Elective course on Travel Writing for 3rd year English Honours at Kalindi College. "A Woman of Observation: Gender, Travel and Romanticism in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written during a Short Re Invited Talk 06-04-2019
Annual Lecture Series, Department of English. Maitreyi College, Delhi University. “Romantic Poetics and the Idea of Asia.” Invited Talk 21-02-2019
“Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Recasting Romantic Discourse in the 1818 Text.” India International Centre, New Delhi. For the 200th commemorative event of the text’s publication. Invited Talk 08-08-2018
The 9th Suniti Kumar Chatterji Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Sachidananad Mohanty, Vice Chancellor, Central University of Orissa. Indira Gandhi International Centre for Arts, New Delhi. Invited Talk 30-01-2018
."From Carnival to the Carnivalesque: Bakhtin's Rabelasian Body and the Idea of Rupture." The Annual Literary Festival on the Carnivalseque at the Delhi College of Arts and Commerce. New Delhi. Invited Talk 27-01-2018
Book Launch and Discussion of Dr. Salila Kulshreshta's From Temple to Musuem: Colonial Collections and Uma Mahesvara Icons in the Middle Ganga Valley. India International Centre. New Delhi. Invited Talk 10-01-2018
"’...I am made unlike any one I have ever met’: Rousseau Confessions as Secular Autobiography and Romantic Self Fashioning.” Faculty Development Workshop for Credit Based Choice System for Undergraduate Studies at Delhi University at Delhi College of Art Invited Talk 10-11-2017
“Mary Wollstonecraft—Post Revolutionary Aesthetics,” at the Department of English, Khalsa College, Delhi University. Invited Talk 06-11-2017
The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Janapada Sampada Division, to participate in the National Consultative Meeting to Identify and Discuss the Available Regional Variations of the Mahabharata in the Country. Presented on “The Mahabharata and i Invited Talk 26-05-2017
. “Eighteenth Century Visual Culture and Sterne’s Tristam Shandy,, Department of English, Aurobindo College, Delhi University Invited Talk 11-04-2017
The Netaji and the Mahatma: Trajectories of Nationalism and Blueprints of India.” Seminar hosted by Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti and The Nehru Memorial Musuem and Library. The lecture was subsequently telecast on Rajya Sabha TV. Invited Talk 31-01-2017
“Richard Polwhele and his ‘Unsex’d Females.” Lady Shri Ram College for Women Annual English Department Symposium Bodies of Conquest-Narratives of Territory in Mythology. Invited Talk 12-03-2016
“Jacobin Literature of the 1790s.” Institute of Life Long Learning, Delhi University. Invited Talk 14-03-2016
“Nalanda and inter-Asian connections: a Long History.” November 13, 2013. Heritage Conference for creating the dossier for UNESCO, “Excavated Remains of Nalanda Mahavihara,” by Archaeological Survey of India and Nalanda University. Rajgir. Invited Talk 13-11-2013
“Envisioning Nalanda.” November 7, 2012. At the “Forum on Higher Education” to Host Professor Philip G. Altbach, Director of the Center for International Higher Education, Boston College. India International Center. New Delhi. Invited Talk 12-11-2012
I Pray to God to Grant Me Death’: Mahatma Gandhi and the Trauma of Partition.” Interdisciplinary Conference, History, Memory, Testimony. Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. New Delhi. Invited Talk 29-03-2010
“The Visual and the Verbal: Romantic Poetry and Romantic Art,” at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia University. New Delhi. Invited Talk 24-02-2010
“The Englishness of the English Departments in India.” Panel Discussion on Alok Mukherjee’s This Gift of English: English Education and the Formation of Alternative Hegemonies in India. Collaborative Event between the English Literary Society, South Cam Invited Talk 14-07-2009
“The French Revolution and the Republic of Letters in Great Britain, 1790-99.” University of Hyderabad, Humanities Scholar Programme, Invited Talk 09-09-2009
“’Anatomy’” of Gender: Caricature and the Female Body in Laurence Sterne’s Tristam Shandy and the Pictorial Satire of Thomas Rowlandson.” University of Hyderabad, Humanities Scholar Programme. Invited Talk 10-09-2009
“The French Revolution and the Republic of Letters in Great Britain, 1790-99.” University of Hyderabad, Humanities Scholar Programme, Invited Talk 11-09-2009
1947: The Year in Print.” Inter-disciplinary conference, Making Sense of History, I. The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. New Delhi. Invited Talk 09-11-2009
“Middlemarch and the Idea of Enforced Idleness,” Department of English, Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi. Invited Talk 20-04-2009
“Revolutionary Aesthetics, 1790-99.” English Department collaborative seminar on Revolution and Literature. Janaki Devi Mahila College, University of Delhi. Invited Talk 19-11-2008
“Frankenstein: Interrogating Monstrosity.” Miranda House conference on Fearful and Fantastical: Monsters in Literature and Popular Culture. University of Delhi. Invited Talk 10-11-2008
“Representation of Women in Indian Media and Literature.” September, 2008. Maitreyi Devi College, University of Delhi. Invited Talk 18-09-2008
“Jane Eyre: A Romantic Novel?” at Lady Shri College for Women, University of Delhi. Invited Talk 22-11-2007
“Gendered landscape: Visual Culture in Late Eighteenth Century England.” English Department collaborative conference, Visual Arts and Literature in Europe: 1500-1900. Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Invited Talk 16-02-2006
“Remapping Romanticism.” Department of English collaborative conference, The Long Eighteenth Century, Janaki Devi Mahavidyalaya. University of Delhi, Invited Talk 10-11-2005
“Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: An Intellectual Legacy.” Kamala Nehru College. University of Delhi, Invited Talk 21-03-2002
Amitava Ghosh’s Shadowlines and the Post Colonial Project.” Jesus and Mary College. University of Delhi. Invited Talk 02-03-2000
“Speaking in Many Tongues: Anjana Appachana’s Listening Now.” The Department of English national seminar, Home and Abroad: Indian Literature in English/ Translation, University of Delhi. Oral Presentation 25-02-1999
Two Voices: Translating India in Karma Cola and Journey to Ithaca.” The Annual Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) Conference. University of Pune. Oral Presentation 27-01-1999
“On Value Oriented Education,” at Building Bridges: A Values Education Programme at the Federation of Indian Chambers and Commerce (FICCI). New Delhi. Oral Presentation 16-12-1996
“Jacobin Women’s Fiction”. Department of English, Jawahar Lal Nehru University. Invited Talk 26-08-1993
. “Reading Jane Austen Aslant.” Department of English, Indraprastha College, University of Delhi. Invited Talk 19-03-1992
“The Socratic Dialogue: Pedagogical Pratice and the Indian Undergraduate.” National Conference, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts. Hindu College. University of Delhi. Oral Presentation 02-12-1991
Ikeda and Humanistic Education for World Peace.” Deciphering Dr. Ikeda’s World Vision. International Panel Discussion organised by Bharat Soka Gakkai and Gandhi Smarak Nidhi. New Delhi Invited Talk 07-07-2021
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