Shruti Das

Prof. Shruti Das

Designation: Head of the Department

Qualification: M.A, M.Phil.,Ph.D

Phone No.: 9438435130

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6148-1093

VIDWAN ID: https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/174536

Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=qUprg10AAAAJ&hl=en

E-mail ID: drshrutidas@gmail.com

Prof. Shruti Das is currently Head, P.G. Department of English, Berhampur University and Director, Centre for Canadian Studies and Chairperson, Board of Studies for English, Berhampur University. She has her Ph.D on Toni Morrison’s Fiction from Utkal University, Odisha. She is a translator, creative writer and a critic, writing bilingually in English and her native tongue Odia....

She has participated, presented papers and chaired sessions in many National and International Seminars on English language, literature and Communication skills in India, USA and Europe. She has been a visiting Lecturer in 2 Universities in Poland. She has the distinction of being placed in the ALA Directory of Scholars, Princeton University, USA. She has published more than 75 research papers and also many creative work in National and International Journals of repute and anthologies. She also has Twelve books including three volumes of poetry to her credit. Her recent publications include two Book Chapters published from Routledge, two from Rowman and Littlefield and a Book from Bloomsbury. She is Member Board of Studies of many Universities and Colleges, member Board of Editors and member Advisory Body of many National and International Literary Journals and the Editor of Literary Oracle: An International Journal of Literature and Culture. Her poetry has been published in many anthologies and journals in India and abroad. A translator and public speaker of repute, she has received international acclaim and has been placed in the Bibliography of Commonwealth Writers for her first volume of Poems and has received the ASLE Travel Award-2019 at the University of California at Davis. Her special interests are Ecocriticism, Critical Theory, Postcolonialism, South Asian Feminism, Translation, Linguistics and English Language teaching. She has organised 4 National and 5 International Conferences, FDPs, and Workshops in the Department since 2013 and has created a YouTube Channel for the department as a repository of distinguished Web lectures. She instituted the Biyotkesh Tripathy Best Paper Awards that are given at the Conferences organized.

Ecocriticism; African-American and South Asian Feminism and Culture; Postcolonialism; ELT, Indigenous Literature and Indian Aesthetics

  • Books: 12
  • Book Chapters: 24
  • Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals: 52
  • Conference Proceedings: 04
  • Poetry: In International Journals, Anthologies from India and USA

  • Ph.D : Awarded -07; Pursuing – 7
  • M.Phil: Awarded -18
  • M.A. Dissertation: Awarded – 82

  • Translating Sanskruta o Sanskruti from Odia to English
  • Bikram Das: A Memoir- Work undertaken for Sahitya Akademi

  • Pre-Doc. course: Research Methodology; Trends in the development of Literary and Critical theory; Critical theory and Indian Aesthetics.
  • Post Graduate Classes: • Shakespearean Drama; • New literatures in English; • British and African-American Fiction; • Modern Poetry (Yeats, T.S. Eliot); • Linguistics and English Language Teaching;
    • Environmental Humanities

  • National Conferences- 31
  • International conferences-30
  • Conferences outside India- 20
  • Invited talks delivered- 50
  • Workshops attended- 10

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Tropical Imaginary and Climate Crisis. eTropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics. September 2021. James Cook University, Australia.Vol 20.2, 2021.
  • Associate Editor, Scholars:Journal of Arts & Humanities (SJAH). Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
  • Associate Editor, Translation and Languages (Algerian Scientific Journal platform) 2020-
  • Member, National Advisory Committee of Online International Conference on Geopolitics in Post-Covid Era: Emerging Dimensions and Dynamics, 11-12 September, 2020. Organized by UGC-HRDC Osmania University in collaboration with HISS, Hyderabad, Telengana State, India.
  • Awarded the prestigious ASLE, USA, Travel Award 2019 for a project on “Heterotopia of Crisis: Niyamgiri and the DongriaKondhs”
  • Awarded the EFSLE Travel Grant 2019 to travel to University of California to present Paper
  • Wrote the “Foreword” in The Crisis of Imagination Peter Lang Publication 2018.
  • Placed in the ‘Directory of Scholars’, The American Literature Association Princeton University, USA.
  • Placed in the Select Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature among Distinguished Commonwealth Writers 2012-2014. For first volume of Poetry :A Daughter Speaks. Published by AuthorsPress, 2014. List prepared by Sage Publications, UK, 2014.
  • Member Scientific Committee in the 3rd SidiBel Abbes Inter/national Conference on EFL / TEFL and Intercultural Understanding19-20November 2014, UDL OF SIDI BEL ABBÉS, ALGERIA Faculty of Letters, Languages and Arts, Department of Foreign Languages. Section of English
  • Member Board of Directors ( DHE Nominee), Barabati Institute of Management for BCA & MBA 2013-
  • Member Advisory Board. Journal of Higher Education and Research Society. A Refereed International. ISSN 2321-9432. http://herso.org/editorial-committee/
  • Member International Advisory Board, European Academic Research : International Multidisciplinary Research Journal. ISSN L 2286-4822. Online, Peer-reviewed, Refereed. Published from Romania, Europe. Web. http://www.euacademic.org/boardEditors.aspx
  • Member Board of Editors, RJELAL a Refereed Journal of English Language and Literature. ISSN:2321 – 3108
  • Member Executive Committee Alumni Association, P.G. Department of English, Ravenshaw University.
  • Felicitated by BRM League of Institutions, Orissa as Distinguished Author. 2nd April, 2010 at BRM Authors Meet, Bhubaneswar.

  • Member IQAC Team for Criterion VII of the AQAR 2020-22
  • Organized the Distinguished Lecture Series in Literature and Culture for the Department of English [ 15 Lectures between August 2020 and May 2023: 8 National and 7 International]
  • Organized 05 International and 04 National Conferences and 03 Poetry Festivals as Convenorbetween 2016-2023.
  • Organized a two Day OHEPEE Sponsored National Webinar on “Woman: Representations in Literature and Culture” during 8-9 March 2021.
  • Designed and Drafted the M.A and M.Phil/Pre-PhD Syllabi [CBCS Pattern] for Berhampur University, 2020, 2022, 2023
  • Edited the proceedings of the International Conference on “Environment and Culture in the Anthropocene” 2020.
  • Edited the proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Narrating the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature’, 8.2.2019.
  • As Head, lead the Department during the NAAC Visit in April 2016 and made a presentation before the NAAC Team.
  • As Member Board of Studies, restructured the MA (English) Part I and Part II SyllabiIntroduced and Designed Linguistics and ELT in Semesters I, II and III. 2013-15 & 2014-2016, 2020, 2022, 2023
  • Designed and Implemented the teaching of Linguistics as the second Special (Optional) Paper for MA in BU and taught it.2014-
  • Restructured the English Honours Syllabus of Berhampur University introducing History of English Language at the Hons. level. 2013-2015
  • Helped design the syllabus for Add-on course on Communicative English for Berhampur University.2013-14
  • Conducted a National Seminar on American Puritanism 21 July, 2015, as Director.
  • Established the Nature Reading Club in the department of English, BU. As Head of the Department in 2015.
  • As Head, lead the Department during the NAAC Visit in April 2016
  • As Director, organized a three-day International Conference on ‘Re-Thinking Environment: Literature, Ethics and Praxis’ during 28-30 Dec. 2016.
  • Edited the proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Re-Thinking Environment: Literature, Ethics and Praxis’, 30.12.2016.
  • Designed 5 Papers for MA English Syllabus of Berhampur University in the CBCS Pattern.: Linguistics, ELT , Modern Poetry, Commonwealth Literature and Professional Writing 2015-16
  • Designed the M.Phil/Pre-Ph.D syllabus of Berhampur University, 2017
  • External Adjudicator for PhD & M Phil Thesis- EFL University; Osmania University; Pondicherry University;Solapur University, Maharashtra; Acharya Nagarjuna University, AP; Andhra University, Amaravati University, M.P. among others.
  • Question Setter for PG, Central University Jammu; for Ph D Course Work IIS University, Rajasthan and IGNTU, Amarkantak, Osmania University among others.

  • Member of ASLE, USA
  • Life Member EFSLE, India
  • Member Global Footseps, UK
  • Member Melow, India
  • Member American Language Association (ALA)
  • Life Member of Asia-Pacific Writers Association, Australia.
  • Life Member of SARI, Paris, France.
  • Member of Tree Sisters, a group dedicated to philosophizing and communicating with Nature.
  • Life member of IACLALS
  • Life member of IAAS.
  • Life member of OUCIS (Formerly ASRC, Hyderabad).
  • Member, ELTAI
  • Life member Utkal Sahitya Samaj.
  • Life member Pandit Nilakantha Smruti Samiti.
  • Secretary BUTA (2021);
  • Vice President BUTA (2020)
  • Co-Convenor Joint Action Committee of Odisha Universities, 2020
  • Joint Secretary EFSLE-LEGH, Odisha Chapter, 2023