Trainings & Projects
Online Research Training for Outside Faculty:
1. Ms Nandini Nag, Assistant Professor, Ramjas College, Delhi University
Research duration: 1st June 2022 - 30th November 2022
Topic: An Image of Subversion: Initiation of the Goddess Kali in Mainstream Hinduism
Online Internship for the Undergraduate Students:
1. Ms Hannah Benjamin, Christ University, Bangalore
Research duration: 1st January 2023 - 30th June 2023
Topic:George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Onsite Internship for the Postgraduate Students:
1. Ms. Garima Tripathi, Nalanda University, Rajgir, Bihar
Research duration: 20th June 2024 - 19th July 2024
Topic: Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Approaches
Ongoing Projects:
1. “Ghosts, Goddesses, and Medicine from Nineteenth Century Bengal”, funded by IIT Indore Young Faculty Research Seed Grant (YFRSG) Scheme. The project aims to record, translate, and create a repository of the now-fading histories of oral narratives of Bengal in English.
2. “Teesta in Maps, Memories, and Music.” funded by India Foundation for the Arts Research from 2023-2025. The project will explore two stories that run in opposing directions - the one of the ascension of Siliguri with its progress as a town; and the other of loss, cultural disruption and continued deprivation of the river Teesta. Through local narratives and songs, dances, prayers and recipes, the project hopes to define water in multiple ways.
3. “Critical Thinking and Writing Lab IIT Indore” funded by the JP Narayan Center for Excellence in the Humanities 2023-25. The project seeks to create pedagogical tools and theoretical vocabulary based on provincial knowledge and local practices of South Asia.