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The next (Twelfth) International Conference of MELUS-India /MELOW will be held in the first half of February 2013 in Chandigarh. The exact dates will be announced in due course.

The suggested theme for the 2013 Conference is “Patterns of Story-telling: Tradition, Innovation, Visions and Revisions”. This broad umbrella theme will include several sub-themes like: (a) Adaptations and appropriations, (b) Theatre and performances, (c) Counter-narratives and revisionist texts, and (d) theoretical considerations. In addition there will be (e) Creative Writing / reading sessions. Delegates submitting abstracts who wish to read their creative writing will be asked to send 2 poems or a short story of about 500 words for consideration.

[The formal call for papers will be announced shortly on our Blog, Google Group, and other international sites which announce CFPs. Stay tuned!]

September Conference - Invitation

Invitation

IN SEARCH OFSOLUTIONS:
THE CONVENTIONAL,THE EXPERIMENTAL AND THE BIZARRE

EleventhInternational Conference
22-24 September 2011

organized by
MELUS-India
(The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States - India Chapter)
&

MELOW
(The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures ofthe World )

in collaboration with

OUCIP
(Osmania Centre for International Programmes)

Inauguration by

PROF. S. SATYANARAYANA
Vice-Chancellor, Osmania University
on
22 September 2011
Time: 9.30 AM
Venue: OUCIP

DAVID MEES
Cultural Counsellor, American Embassy, Delhi
to speak on American Studies in India

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (MELOW):

• President: Prof Sushila Singh, BHU, Varanasi.
• Vice-President: Prof Somdatta Mandal, Viswabharati, Shantitniketan, WB.
• Secretary: Prof Manju Jaidka, PU, Chandigarh.
• Jt. Secy: Dr Manpreet Kaur, IPU, Delhi.
• Treasurer: Prof Anil Raina, PU, Chandigarh


Executive Members:

• Prof MG Ramanan (U of Hyderabad)
• Prof Gulshan Kataria (Pbi U, Patiala)
• Prof Tutun Mukherjee (U of Hyderabad)
• Dr Mukul Sengupta (Calcutta)
• Dr Himadri Lahiri (Kolkata)
• Dr Vijay Sharma (Delhi)
• Dr RG Kulkarni (Sangli)
• Dr Nandini Bhadra (Mumbai)
• Dr Roshan Sharma (Solan, HP)
• Dr Meenu Gupta (Chandigarh)


International Advisory Board :

• Prof Paul Giles, Oxford University
• Prof Mukesh Williams, Soka University, Japan
• Prof Sushi Dutta-Sandhu, U Mich, Kalamazoo

Local Organizing Committee (Osmania University, Hyderabad):

• Prof C. Vijayasree
• Prof Vijay Kumar
• Prof E. Nageswara Rao
 

TITLES OF PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED:

Aarttee Kaul Dhar

Assoc. Prof. NDIIT
Nehru Place New Delhi
aartteekaul@gmail.com    
Ramayana Retellings: Laying Janaki to Rest

Akanksha Bansal

Research Scholar – M.Phil Linguistics
JNU, New Delhi-67.
akanksha.bansal15@gmail.com
The Cyberspace Trilogy:  Cyborg through the lens of Linguistics

Akiko Ogihara

Soka University, Japan
ogiharaakiko@gmail.com
Representations of Terrorism in the American Media

Amin Malak, Ph.D.

Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
malaka@macewan.ca
Seer or Cynic? Demasking Naipaul’s Discourse on Africa

Amit. P.Shesh

Department of English,
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University,
Lonere-402103
amitshesh1@yahoo.com
Use of Tricksters in Gerald Vizenor’s Novels

Andy Chih-ming Wang

Institute of European and American Studies
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan
wchimin@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Formosa and Its Betrayals: The Affective Paradox of Diaspora

Anil Raina

Professor of English
Panjab University
Chandigarh
aneelraina@gmail.com
The Politics of the ‘Storied Dead’: Wirza Waheed’s The Collaborator

Anne Angeline Abraham

Associate Professor, Dept. of English,  Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara.Kerala
annekunnath@yahoo.com
Harlem to Hip Hop: History through the Poetry of Nikki Giovanni

Aparna Mahajan

Research scholar
University of Jammu, Jammu
 arpitabharti@gmail.com
arpitabharti@gmail.com       
Affirmation of Self in Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters

Arnab Kumar Sinha

Lecturer in English, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal
arnab.ks@gmail.com
Multiple Responses at the ‘Contact Zone’: A Transcultural Study of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Ashis Sengupta

Professor, Department of English, University of North Bengal 734013
ashmit_2003@yahoo.com
Staging Diaspora: South Asian American Theatre Today

Ashu Vashisht

kulbhushan.razdan@rediffmail.com
Selection Grade Lecturer
Govt. P.G. College for Women, Parade Ground, Jammu, J & K State.
Universal Harmony and Psychic Wholeness: Fantasy as Reality and Reality as Fantasy in A B Guthrie’s The Last Valley (`975) and Fredrick Manfred’s Green Earth (1977).

Azad Hamad Sharif
The Caves of Steel,The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn


College of Languages,Salahaddin University
Erbil;Kurdistan Region
drazadsharif@yahoo.co.uk

The Destiny of Man and Environment in Jean Sasson'sLove in a Torn Land

Bhumika Sharma

Dept. of English, International College For Girls, IIS University, Gurukul Marg, Mansarovar, Jaipur, bhumika_19_73@yahoo.com
Baldwin’s Quest for ‘Panacea’: A Case Study

Charu C Mishra

KG Arts & Sc. College
Raigarh (CG)
dr.ccmishra@gmail.com
Veiled & Unveiled: Draupadi in Pratibha Ray’s ‘Yajnaseni’  & Irawati Karve’s ‘Yuganta’

Daigaku Murata

Soka University.
daigaku1121@yahoo.co.jp
Global Solutions for Japan in the American Framework: Translating Cultures

Dean Brink

Assistant Professor, English Department, Tamkang University, Taiwan
interpoetics@gmail.com
Assembling Intertexts and Intratexts for a Post-Jim Crow World: Richard Wright's Haiku

Debobani Biswas

Institute of Engineering & Industrial Technology
Durgapur-713212        
debobanib@gmail.com
An exploration of Isaac Asimov’s Robot series:The Caves of Steel,The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn

Garima Williams

Asstt. Prof. , P.S.Institute of Technology, NH2
Agra Highway, Kanpur,
garima.williams@psit.in, garimapsitk@gmail.com
Expatriate Sensibility in the short fiction of Rohinton Mistry

Dipankar Purkayastha

Professor of English, Assam University, Silchar - 788011,
dipankar151@gmail.com
The Transnational Space: Representations of Africa in Diasporic Locations

Himadri Lahiri

Reader, Department of English, University of
Burdwan,Golapbag, Burdwan-713 104, Burdwan, West Bengal.
hlahiri@gmail.com
The Local and the ‘Translocal’ in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth

G.A. Ghanshyam

Professor of English,
Govt. M. L. Shukla College, Bilaspur (C.G.)
gaglish@yahoo.com
Behind The Bars: Ugly Reality InBeautiful Thing

Ismael M.Saeed 

Asst. Prof.
Salahaddin University-Erbil City
Northern Iraq
drishmail@yahoo.com
The Synthetic Nature of Superhero Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Igina Tattoni

University of Roma, “Sapienza”
igina.tattoni@uniroma1.it
"Romeo and Juliet, 'Rappacini’s Daughter', Rometta and Giulieo: in search of solutions for  the Victimization of Love."

Research Scholar, PU, Chandigarh

j24.bhatti@gmail.com
Fairy Tales and the Postmodern Scenario: A Bizarre Paradox

Jagmit Kaur

Jayanta Kar Sharma

Reader, Govt. Women's College Sambalpur, Odisha,
Jayantakarsharma@Gmail.Com
Fictionalisation of Fact: William Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal

Jap Preet Kaur

Bhangu & Shagufta Kaur Bhangu
Associate Professor, Dept. of EDP & Humanities, SLIET, Longowal
Student M.A.Sociology, Delhi School of Economics 
jkbhangu@gmail.com, shaguftabhangu@gmail.com
In Between The Magic: The Ordained World Of Harry Potter

Kalikinkar Pattanayak

Reader, P.G. Deptt. Of English
Khallikote(A) College, Berhampur.
Feminist Issues in Women’s Poetry: Meena Alexander and Sujata Bhatt

Jaya Singh

Research Scholar,
University of Allahabad,
Dept. of English and MEL
jaya.singh16@gmail.com
Jointing Disjointed Peripheral Voices with Contemporaneity

Kaustav Bakshi

Assistant Professor
Department of English
Haldia;Govt. College
P. O: Debhog, Midnapore (East), West Bengal.
kaustav_259@yahoo.com,;kaustav.bakshi@gmail.com
Fissures in Harper Lee’s Sympathetic Vision: Re-reading the representation of Calpurnia in To Kill a Mocking Bird

Jyoti Mishra

Assistant Professor, Dept. of English,
Govt.;Naveen Kanya College, Raipur (C. G.)
Jyoti_mishra5@yahoo.co.in
jytmshr@gmail.com
Habib Tanvir’s Experiments with Truth in Charandas Chor
    


Manju Jaidka

Professor of English
Panjab University
Chandigarh
mjaidka@gmail.com
Interconnections: American Literature / World Literature

Kaoru Kinoshita

Soka University
kinosita@soka.ac.jp
Whitman’s American Solutions—Spiritual Democracy

Mary Mohanty

Lect(ss) in English;
Govt. Women's College, Station Road; Puri 2002;
mary.mohanty@yahoo.co.in
Transculturalism and Transnationalism in the Novels of Kuntala Kumari Sabat.

Mahesh M. Nivargi

Associate Professor, Dept. Of English, Mahatma Gandhi Mahavidyalaya, Ahmedpur-413515 Maharashtra
mmnivargi@gmail.com,nivargi101@rediffmail.com
Un-Dead Evermore: The Lure and Lore of Dracula in the 21st Century

Melissa Helen

Assoc. Prof, Gitam University
Hyd.Campus-A.P.
h_millie28@yahoo.com
Post modernism and ‘Acrobatic Language’: A Study of Suzan Lori Parks’The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World

Margarete Rubik

University Professor; English Department, University of Vienna.
margarete.rubik@univie.ac.at
A postmodern view of Jane Eyre: The fantastic manipulation of cognitive schemas in Jasper Fforde´s The Eyre Affair

Mohanmeet Khosla

Associate Professor, School of Communication Studies
Panjab University, Chandigarh
mohanmeet@gmail.com
Life at the end of the Terminal: Analyzing Internet Addiction

Meenu Gupta

Dept of English,
PU,Chandigarh
meenug36@yahoo.in
The Contemporary Indian Novel in English: Hooking the Booker

Mukesh Williams

Soka University, Japan
mukeshwilliams@hotmail.com
In Search of Solutions—India and the Anglo-American World

Miryam Sivan

Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature,
International School, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, 31905. Israel.
msivan@research.haifa.ac.il
"Dynamic or Stillborn: The Ploy of a Universal Language in
Cynthia Ozick’s, 'What Happened to the Baby'”

N. D. R. Chandra

Dept of English
Nagaland University, Kohima
chandra592001@yahoo.com
Mapping Cyborg and the Posthuman: From Hybridity to Eternity

Mohini Chakranarayan

M.A,M.Ed,Ph.D,PGDTE(CIEFL,HYD)
Retired Professor of English(Govt.MACC Jabalpur) Currently Guest
Faculty RDVV,Jabalpur.
mohinicn@yahoo.com
Jamaica Kincaid's Autobiography of my Mother:A Metaphyisical 

Nandini Bhadra

Head, Department of English,;BKM Science College,Valsad, Gujarat - 396001.
nandini_bhadra@yahoo.co.in
Beyond The Possible: Representations of the marvelous and the Fantastic in Chitra Divakaruni’sThe Mistress of Spices and Amy Tan’s A Hundred Secret Senses

N. D. R. Chandra

Dept of English
Nagaland University, Kohima
chandra592001@yahoo.com
Mapping Cyborg and the Posthuman: From Hybridity to Eternity

Navreet Sahi

Assistant Professor
Surya School of Engg. & Tech. Bapror, Rajpura
Research Scholar, (Ph.D)
Dept. of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
sahi_navu@yahoo.com
From the Classes to the Masses: Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk

Namrata Pathak and Bashabi Gogoi

Namrata Pathak, PhD scholar,
EFLU, Shillong,
namratapthk@gmail.com
Bashabi Gogoi: Academic Consultant (English), Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, Guwahati, myselfluna24@gmail.com,myselfluna_24@yahoo.co.in
“Ecology” in D.J. Borah’sThe Green Serpent: Expressions of Terror in the North East.

Nilakshi Roy

Associate Professor in English, K.E.T’s V.G.Vaze College, Mithagar Road, Mulund, (East), Mumbai 400081.
nilakshi_roy@rediffmail.com
The Way the World Looks to Them: Asperger’s Syndrome in Fiction

Nandini Bhadra

Head, Department of English, BKM Science College, Valsad, Gujarat - 396001.
nandini_bhadra@yahoo.co.in
Beyond The Possible: Representations of the marvelous and the Fantastic in Chitra Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices and Amy Tan’s A Hundred Secret Senses

Nishat Haider

Reader, University of Lucknow,
nishatzoon@yahoo.co.in
The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Post-9/11 Fiction: A Study of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Neela Sarkar

Assistant Professor (Dept. of English)
New Alipore College, Kolkata
neela.sarkar@rediffmail.com
Multiple Displacements and Fractured Identities in The Kite Runner and The Inheritance of Loss

Pamela M. Barber

The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC)
Carleton University
201 St. Patrick's Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada  K1S 5B6
pabarber@justice.gc.ca

Processes of Cultural Interpretation and Eighteenth-century Travel Accounts

Niraj Kumar Singh

Principal, DAV Public
School, Meerachak , Industrial Area, Barari, Bhagalpur, Bihar-812003
bgpdav@gmail.com
In Search for Heterodox Religious Practices in William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives

Payel Dutta Chowdhury

Assistant Professor & HOD (English)
Garden City College, 16th km Old Madras Road, PO Virgonagar, Bangalore 560049
Residential Add: No. 123/1, "SriNilaya", 1st Floor, 2nd Cross, 2nd Main, Muniappa Garden, KR Puram, Bangalore 560036
payeldutta.c@gmail.com
Representation of the African American Community: a Changed Perspective

Nishi Pulugurtha

Assistant Professor (Reader),
Department of English, Brahmananda
Keshab Chandra College,
111/2, B.T.Road, Kolkata 700108,
nishipulu@gmail.com
Memory, Diasporic Identity and the Gendered Space Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Pragna Paramita Mondal

Lecturer, Victoria Institution (College), Kolkata
pragna0909@gmail.com

“La tiniebla blanca”: Paraguayan Liminality and the Crises of Alterity in Augusto Roa Bastos’s Madama Sui

Pankaj Sharma

Lecturer Ryat Bahara Institute of Engineering & Nano Technology
Hoshiarpur
metaperceptions@gmail.com
The Old and the New: Reinterpreting Indian Mythology: an Eco-Critical Aspect

Prasita Mukherjee

Project Fellow, Department of English
University of Calcutta
Lecturer, Shri Shikshayatan College
11 Lord Sinha Rd, Kolkata- 700071 prasita.m@gmail.com/prasita.m@hotmail.com
Here And There: Glocalizing Feminist Utopias

 Prabhavati.Y

Associate Professor, Dept. of English,
GITAM University, Hyderabad Campus,
prabha@gitam.edu
Human Predicament and Human Possibilities - An Indian Approach to World Harmony

Purnendu Chatterjee

Asstt-Master, Hooghly Collegiate School
Research Scholar, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
purnendoo_chattrejee@rediffmail.com
Marginalization And A Ritualistic Murder: A Subaltern Reading Of The Merchant Of Venice

Pranav Joshipura

Associate Professor in English
“PRASADAM”,
1353/2,Sector– 7 D,
Gandhinagar: 382 007.
pranavjoshipura@hotmail.com
Hijra of India: Story of a Tragic Tale

Rajender Singh

Assistant Professor (English),
Govt. College Julana, Dist. - Jind, Haryana.
redhurajender@gmail.com
Text as a Cultural Document: The Bizarre and the Beautiful in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Pratibha Nagpal

Professor of English
Panjab University
Chandigarh
pratibhanagpal@hotmail.com
Of Unrest and Quiet: Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions

Ranjita Barik

P.G. Deptt. Of English,
S.C.S.(A) College,Puri.
barik.ranjita05@gmail.com
Expatriate  Identity in Verse: Taslima Nasrin and Bashabi Fraser

Rajendra Kulkarni

Shangli
dr_rkulkarni@yahoo.co.in
The Black Atlantic as a Concept for Transcultural Studies

K B Razdan

Former Professor and Head, Dept. of English,
University of Jammu, Jammu (J & K)
18-B, Sweet Home Apartments, Near J P World School,
Channi Himmat, Bye Pass Road, Jammu, J & K  180016
kulbushan.razdan@rediffmail.com
Mythology of Freedom through Fantasy: Autobiographical Experience and Popular Culture in William Burroughs’s Cities of the Red Night (1981)

Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri & Urjani Chakravarty

Assistant Professor of English, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee-247667, 
rajklfhs@iitr.ernet.in
Ethnic Consciousness through Language: A Study of Divakaruni’s Queen of Dreams

 

Rima Chakraborty

Behala College 
Parnasree, Behala, Kolkata
rchakraborty15@yahoo.com
No Longer Watno Dur: Technologizing the Diasporic Mirage

T. Ravichandran

Associate Professor of English
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
travichandran4@yahoo.com 
Cybercriticism: Theory@Virtual_Reality.Com

Roya Yaghoub

Research Scholar, Dept of English,
PU,Chandigarh
fall1890@yahoo.com    
Names and Naming in Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy

Renuka Thapliyal

Assistant Professor
Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali Government Postgraduate College
Kalka, Haryana
renuka_thapliyal@yahoo.ca

Solution to Global Warming: Deciphering “An Inconvenient Truth

S.D Baral

Associate Professor, Deptt of English; MZU;
sdbaral.08@gmail.com
Momaday and the Environmental Aesthetics

Roshan Sharma

PG Govt College, Solan
roshanlal.sharma@gmail.com
Privileging the Human/ Renegotiating the Mystical in Spiritual Poetry

Sherzad Shafee Babo Barzani

Salahaddin University
College of Languages
English Department
Erbil_ Iraq, Kurdistan
sherzadb@yahoo.com, bsherzadb@gmail.com
The Impact of Rumi On American Poetry

Saikat Sarkar

Assistant Professor in English
Address: PG Dept of English,
Bankura Christian College,
Bankura - 722101 (West Bengal).
 online.saikat@gmail.com
Interacting Cultures and ReclaimingVoices: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Smita Verghese (Ph.D.)

1-2-288/14
Domalguda
Hyderabad-500029.
verghese.smita@gmail.com, smitav11@rediffmail.com
Revisiting the Classics: A Study of Moby Dick

Seema Bhupendra

Head, Department of English,
S.G.G. Government College,
Banswara-327001 (Raj.) INDIA
simabhupendra@gmail.com
 The Changing Face af Bollywood Women: Renegotiating the Notion of the Self

Sukla Basu (Sen)

Professor of English, DEOMEL, Visva-Bharati, Santinketan, West Bengal
sukla1951@yahoo.com
Fictionalization of History on Page and Screen: Schindler’s List and A Mighty Heart.

Smita Jha,

Asstt. Prof.
Department of Humanities & Social
Sciences,IIT, ROORKEE.
smitaiitr@gmail.com, runalfhs@iitr.ernet.in
The Supernatural, the Fantastic, the Surreal, and Daphne du Maurier

Swati Guleria

Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
U.P. 208016 India
gswati@iitk.ac.in, guleria.swati@gmail.com
Anne Tyler's Politics of Transnationalism in Digging to America

Stuti Prasad

Reader, Dept. of English Patna Women's College,
Patna University
prasad_stuti@yahoo.co.in,stuti.pwc@gmail.com
Presenting  Apocalypse: Lessing's The Memoirs Of A Survivor 

Nishi Pandey

Lucknow University
American Studies in India

Swati Guleria

Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
U.P. 208016 India
gswati@iitk.ac.in, guleria.swati@gmail.com
Anne Tyler's Politics of Transnationalism in Digging to America

Sushila Singh

Banaras Hindu University
Presidential Address: “Redefining Literary Approaches”

Tanuka Das

Reader, Department of English & OMEL
Visva-Bharati. 731235
Setting linguistic patterns from the periphery a study of  Saadat Hasan Manto’s three stories

VC, Osmania

Inaugural Address

Vijayshree C.

OUCIP, Director
Welcome Address

Mohan G. Ramanan

Central U of Hyderabad
Isaac Sequeira Memorial Lecture: “The Figure the Poet Makes”

David Mees

US Embassy
The Future of American Studies