Dr Prachi Priyanka

About

Dr Prachi Priyanka (PhD English) ha several research articles and chapters published in prestigious edited volumes like Routledge, Lexington publications and reputed Scopus-indexed journals. She is a dedicated professional with experience and expertise in teaching English to undergraduate, postgraduate, and International students. She is committed to academic excellence with a focus on promoting critical thinking and fostering student engagement. Books Published (5).Kintsugi (2025), Wo Jo Tha Khwaab Sa (2023), Wabi Sabi  (2021), Caste, Class and Gender in Modern Indian Literature (2021),  Thistle and Weeds (2016)

Experience

• 11+ years

Qualification

• Ph.D (English)

Award & Recognition

• Council member of WICCI (Women's Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry) Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Council
• Awards from Mission News TV, R.Crit awards, Ukiyoto Publishing, Crazy Tales Publishers and AGS Walk of Excellence for academic contribution.
• Editorial board member of Dialogos, an interdisciplinary international journal published by Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. Editorial board member of peer-reviewed national journals like New Literaria and Cape Comorin Journal. Advisory Board member of a peerreviewed literary journal, The Expression.
• Recognized and awarded Topper in 4 courses in NPTEL MOOC exams in the year 2019 and 2020.
• Chaired a session at the History-Culture congress held on 18-19th October, 2022, ISPEC Institute, Turkey.
• Chaired a session at Representations of Violence in Literature, Culture and Arts in the three-day international conference organized by Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Turkey on October 20-22, 2021
• Reviewer at Shodhkosh, a UGC CARE approved journal of visual and performing arts.Reviewer at Meridians Journal, Scopus indexed. Advisory Board member of The Expression: An International Multidisciplinary e-Journal, Editorial Board member at peer-reviewed Indian journals – The Creative Flight and New Literaria

Research

Book Chapters (International) - 7

Scopus Journals - 9

International Conferences: 10

National Conference: 08

Book Chapters (National) 15

Authored Books: 5

International Publications

• Humanistic Approaches in Hindi Literature: From Medieval to Modern Times”, The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature (Ed. By Michael Bryson, Routledge. New York. 2022)
• “Dynamics of Violence: Visual Narratives of the Pain 159 of Partition, 1947”, Violence in Art: Essays in Aesthetics and Philosophy (Ed. By Darren M. Slade, Inara Publishing. Denver, CO. 2022)
• “Reading Eco-feminist Approaches: Postcolonial Womens Writing in Hindi Literature”, Indian Feminist Ecocriticism (Edited by Douglas Vakoch and Nicole Anae, Lexington Books. 2022.)
•  “Portraits, Politics and the Picturesque in the Art of Colonial India", Dialogos (Journal of the Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication of the Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, Romania. Volume XXIII. No. 39/2022.)
• ‘Ritu Menon”, “Solo” and “The Collectors Wife” , The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English (Ed. Manju Jaidka. Routledge publications.2023)
• “Cultural Syndromes in India: Understanding Widow Burning in Sati and Jauhar through Indian Literature” , Culture Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture (Edited by Irina Pelea. Routledge publications. 2023)

Scopus Journals

• “Amalgamation of East and West in Art of Amrita Sher-Gil” Published in Scopus indexed Journal of International Women's Studies. 2022 (Quartile 3)
• “Eco-feminist Landscapes in Anita Desai's Cry, the Peacock and Where Shall We Go This Summer” Published in Scopus indexed journal e-Tropic, Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Volume 21, No. 1, 2022. (Quartile 1)
• “Quest for Selfhood: Women Artists in the South Asian Visual Arts" Published in Scopus indexed Journal of International Women's Studies in Volume 22, Issue 3, 2021. (Quartile 3)
• "Impacts of Historical Pandemics on India: Through the Lens of 20th Century Hindi Literature” Published in Scopus indexed journal e-Tropic, Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Volume 20. No 1, 2021. (Quartile 1)

International Conferences

• Presented a paper titled “Adaptation and Performance: Shakespeare in Hindi theatre in India” at the International conference themed Adaptation, Appropriation, Translation Conference by TDN Gaziantep University, Turkey 8-10 Dec 2023.
• Presented a paper titled “Redefining Humanity: Toxicity and Slow Violence in Indra Sinhas Animals People” at the 8th International BAKEA Symposium held at Marmara University, Turkey on 1-2-3 November 2023
•  Presented a paper titled “Through the lens of gendered violence: Agony, Angst and Abduction in the Partition stories of Sadat Hasan Manto” organized by the 5th Global Conference on Women's Studies at Dublin, Republic of Ireland on 28-30 July 2023
•  Presented a paper titled “Trans-media Storytelling: Convergences between Narrative Painting and Victorian Poetry” in the CLAM Conference Trans-codification: Literature, Arts, Media held on July 1-3, 2021 organized by the University of LAquila, Italy.
• Presented a paper titled “Encounters of East and West in the Art of Colonial India” organized by the Atlas 8th International Social Sciences Congress June 11-13 2021, Ankara, Turkey
• Presented a paper titled “Amalgamation of East and West in Art of Amrita Sher-Gil” in the 2nd Global Conference on Womens Studies held on 10th12th June 2021, Berlin
• Presented a paper titled “Disaster, Death and Diseases: Spanish Flu and Figurations of Mass Dying through Visual Narratives” at the International Hybrid Conference “Ethnology of Disaster” organized by Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, on 11-12 May 2021, Bulgaria.
• Presented a paper titled “Partition Revisited: A Study of Trauma in the Partition Poems” organized at the Veteran Politics and Memory Conference, organized by the University of Warwick, UK on 16-18 April 2021
• Presented a paper titled “Victorian fairy painting: Exploring the unknown, forbidden and concealed anxieties of the era” in the International conference organized by the University of Hertfordshire on the theme ‘Ill met by moonlight: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realm in literature and culture, held from 8‒11 April 2021.
• Presented a paper titled “Cross-Cultural Resonances of Migration, Memory and Loss of Identity in Visual Narratives of the Partition 1947” organized by the International Academic Conference held on November, 27, 2020. Latvia.
• Presented a paper titled “Violence and Trauma in Visual Narratives of Partition” in an international conference themed “Memory, Affects and Emotions” held on 10th-11th August, 2020, Poland.
•  Presented a paper titled “Depiction of Divine Love through Radha Krishna Myth in Miniature Paintings of India” at the International Conference on Myth and Art Revisited organized by National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece on December 18-19, 2019.

Guest Lectures

• Invited for a guest lecture on Cross-Cultural Communication at Marmara University, Turkey. 15th December 2023.
• Invited for a guest lecture at Sherubtse College, The Royal University of Bhutan to deliver an online lecture on 'The Art of Writing Flash Fiction'.19th June 2020
•  Invited as a resource person to deliver a lecture titled “Romantic Encounters: An Interdisciplinary Study of Word and Image during the Romantic Era” at the Two-Day International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics organized by Maria Rani Center, Thiruvananthapuram and Kerala on 3-4 October 2019.

Certifications

MOOC – 20

FDP = 25

• Certified as IELTS Trainer from British Council, Delhi. (2018)
•  Certified as a translator for NPTEL courses from English to Hindi language. Translated modules of 2 courses.
• Successfully completed 18 MOOC courses (2017 – 2024).
• Certificate in Advanced Level French language from Alliance Francaise, Delhi.

Area of Interest

• British drama, Indian Literature in translation, Indian mythology, Intertextuality and visual culture, Literature and art of the Partition, Victorian art and literature, Ecoliterature.