| Faculty Details: Ruchi Mundeja |
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Ruchi Mundeja |
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Associate Professor (Teacher-in-charge) |
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ruchimundeja@lb.du.ac.in |
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| Educational Qualifications : MA MPhil PhD NET |
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| Ph.D. |
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) |
2018 |
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| MPhil in English |
University of Delhi |
1994 |
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| MA ( English) |
University of Delhi |
1991 |
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| BA ( Hons) English |
University of Delhi |
1989 |
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| NET |
University Grants commission |
1994 |
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| Career Profile |
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Dr Ruchi Mundeja has been teaching in the college for a little over two decades now. Her teaching and research are alike animated by a quest for a mutually enriching balance between pedagogic commitment and research, both through expanding her research especially as it revitalizes her teaching and by organizing events that stimulate exploration in the students, such as a recently organized inter-college students’ conference (in her term as in-charge of the Department) on “’Speaking of Silence: Speaking from the Silence” ( March 8, 2019). Helming clubs such as “Cinaesthesia”- a Film Club that runs under the aegis of the English Department - continues to strengthen her belief in nurturing informal, ‘amateur’, forums of discussion as invigoratingly complementary to the space of the classroom. She is also the Convenor of a recently initiated Department Book Club called "inklinations", which will hopefully widen the universe of the written word for the book enthusiasts in the college. Her research is in the areas of modernist and postcolonial literatures, with special focus on women’s writing. She received her doctorate from Centre for English Studies, JNU, and her thesis is titled “The Politics of the Sneer: Jean Rhys and the Milieu of Modernist Iconoclasm.” As a part of a research opportunity, she spent one semester as a doctoral scholar at King’s College, London, working under the guidance of Prof Anna Snaith (Department of English, King’s College)..
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| Administrative Assignments |
• Department Head, 2018-19 and 2019-2020. • Member, Academic and Extra-Curricular Planning and Implementation Committee ( AEPIC), 2020-2021. • Deputy Superintendentship of Examinations at the college level, 2017. • Member, Paper Setting Board, GE Other Hons, Sem 2, July 2023. • Paper-setting (Final Semester exams, BA Prog First Year, 2013) and Evaluation (BA Hons English First Year, Third Year; BA Prog First Year, Stream A) and at the University level. • Participated in a workshop on e-Learning Units in the BA English (Hons) Syllabus of Delhi University on February 24, 2010 at the Institute of Lifelong Learning, University of Delhi. •
Convenor
/ Co-Convenor of various societies in college such as WDC (Women’s Development
Centre), Students’ Union, AIC (Academic Improvement Committee), Admission
Committee, English Literary and Debating Society. |
| Areas of Interest / Specialization |
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Modernist
Literatures •
Post-Colonial
Studies •
Women’s
Writing |
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| Publications Profile | |
| List against each head(If applicable) (as Illustrated with examples)
Journal Articles: · “Jean Rhys’s Cocktails and the Blurring of Literary Meridians”. Anglia: Journal of English Philology. De Gruyter. 141.4 (2023). DOI : 0.1515/ang-2023- 0036
• “Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield, edited by Todd Martin. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. • “In-Scribing Silence: Reading How the Silences Speak in Mansfield’s Stories.” In Katherine Mansfield: New Directions (Bloomsbury Historicizing Modernism Series) edited by Aimee Gasston, Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. • “Of Parvenus and Pantheons: Mansfield’s Short Fiction as a ‘Reading Back’ “in Re-Forming World Literature: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story eds. Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag: 2018. 51-69. • “Space of Debate, Debating Space: A Look at Irreverent Bloomsbury Through the Lens of Mansfield’s Stories” in Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group ed. Todd Martin. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 181-199.
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| Conference Organization/ Presentations (in the last three years) | |
| List against each head (If applicable) 1. Organization of a Conference: • Organized and was co-discussant in the event “Reading and Writing the Postcolonial : A Conversation with Saikat Majumdar” organized under the aegis of the Department of English of the college on March 18, 2021. · Organized
an Inter-College Students’ Conference on the topic “‘Speaking’ of Silence:
Speaking from the Silence” on March 8, 2019. Conference Presentations: · “Indiscreet Journeys: Re-Routing Women’s Wandering through the work of colonial women writers.” At the “Wanderings of the Subject, Wanderings of the Novel: For a Comparative Approach of Novelistic Inventions Between 1890 and 1939”, at the UCLouvain, Belgium, April 20-21, 2023. •“Time-Framing Modernism through the Blurring Time-Frames of Jean Rhys’s Fiction.” Presented at the SEM “Modernist Structures” Conference at Universite Caen Normandie, Caen, France, June 15-18, 2022. • “‘Homing In’: The ‘Disorderly’ Domestic in Mansfield’s Stories.” Presented at the Katherine Mansfield: Inspirations and Influences Conference at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, July 2019. · “In-Scribing Silence: Reading How the Silences Speak in Mansfield’s Stories.” Presented at the Katherine Mansfield Society Conference at Birkbeck, University of London, June 2018. ·
“The
‘Unseeing’ Gaze: Re-Placing Objects in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” Presented
at the Modernist Objects Conference held at Sorbonne University, Paris, June
2018. · “Rooms Not Quite their Own: Two Colonial Itinerants, Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys, and Narratives of Roomlessness.” Presented at the Elizabeth Von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield Conference held at The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, July 2017. · “Pencilling in the Margins: Woolf’s (Dis)-Engagement with the Heritage of the Imperial Metropole.” Presented at the 26th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference on Virginia Woolf And Heritage held at Leeds Trinity University, June 2016. · “Of Parvenus and Pantheons: Mansfield’s Short Fiction As a ‘Reading Back’ to the (Modernist) Novel.” Presented at the Katherine Mansfield Society Conference in Bandol, France, June 2016. · “Space of Debate, Debating Space: A Look at Irreverent Bloomsbury Through the Lens of Mansfield’s Stories.” Presented at the Katherine Mansfield Society Conference on ‘Katherine Mansfield and the Blooms Berries’ held in Chicago, May 2015. · “‘That Interminable
Conversation in her Head’: The Un-Sublime Poetics of Protest in the Works of
Jean Rhys.” Presented at the
Marginalized Mainstream Conference on ‘Disguise’ organized by the Institute of
English Studies, University of London, November 2014.
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| Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration) | |
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| Awards and Distinctions | |
| • Research Fellow at The Institute
of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, from December 5, 2022 to June 5, 2023. • Awarded
the Distinguished Teachers’ Award, received from former President of India, (Late) Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, and instituted by Delhi University
in the year 2009. · As
a part of a doctoral research opportunity, nominated by Jawaharlal Nehru
University (JNU) under the Study Abroad Exchange (Postgraduate Research) Programme
in 2016 to undertake one semester (Spring Semester) of doctoral research at
King’s College, London, under the supervision of Prof Anna Snaith.
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| Associated With Professional Bodies | |
| • Member:
SEM - Société d’Études Modernistes | |
| Other Activities | |
| • Organized a talk (online) by Dr Emily Ridge (Department of English and
Creative Arts, National University of Ireland, Galway) entitled “The State of
Empathy and the Politics of Care in British Women’s Writing at Mid-Century” on
September 17, 2021. |
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