Dr. Shahla Rehana

• Name: Dr. Shahla Rehana (Former HoD)
• Gender: Female
• Department: English

• Graphic Novels
• Indian Literature in English Translation
• World Englishes

• Teaching in the Department of English, Patna Women’s College, since June 2003
• Headed the Department of English, Patna Women’s College from May 2018 to June 2021

• Head of the Department from 21^st Feb , 2018 to June 2021
• Chairperson, Board of Studies from 21^st Feb,  2018 to June  2021
• Member of the Academic Council from Feb, 2018 to June 2021
• Programme Officer, NSS from 09.08.2021

• Secretary, Staff Council , Patna Women’s College from Feb 2018 to June 2021
• Member of various committees at the college and university level

Nikhat Fatima on the topic-The Concept of self in the creations of Manju Kapur on

30-06-2022.

Currently supervising six Research Scholars for the award of PhD degree.

Title of the Research Project: Postcolonial strategies used by Indian English writers to Nativize Indian English Language

Year: 2024

Funding Agency: Patna University

PROJECTS COMPLETED

Worked on a project entitled Bridging the Gap-A course in Remedial English’, a part of the three year project on ‘Innovative Teaching: An Interdisciplinary and Experimental Approach at Patna Women’s College, Patna, which comes under Colleges Humanities and Social Sciences Improvement Programmes of the UGC.

Co –editor of Child Studies: Children in English Literature

ISBN: 978-93-83684-14-4

Rajesh Publications, New Delhi 2015

Title of the book: Dalit, Soceity and Politics: Emerging Trends in Indian Political System

ISBN: 978-93-82059-76-9

Synergy Books India, New Delhi 2018

Title of the Chapter: Dalit Identity in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable

 Title of the book: Child Studies: Children in English Literatures

ISBN: 978-93-83684-14-4

Rajesh Publications, New Delhi 2015

Title of the Chapter: Child’s World juxtaposed with the Adult World in Wuthering Heights

 Title of the book: Contemporary Indian English Fiction: An Anthology of Criticism

ISBN: 978-93-82630-20-3

Aadi Publications, Jaipur 2014

Title of the Chapter: Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss

Title of the book: Contemporary Responses

ISBN: 978-81-925776-2-3

AMS Publications, Patna 2013

Title of the Chapter: Subverting the Centrality of English Language in The God of Small Things

MADHAYA BHARTI –Humanities and Social Sciences: UGC Care Approved, Group-1, Peer Reviewed, Bilingual, Biannual, Multidisciplinary

Title: Assimilative Strategies for Indianization of English: A Postcolonial Study of language in R.K Narayan’s The Bachelor of Arts

Vol-46,Issue-4,No.01, July-September :2023

ISSN: 2278-6864

MADHAYA BHARTI –Humanities and Social Sciences: UGC Care Approved, Group-1, Peer Reviewed, Bilingual, Biannual, Multidisciplinary

Title: Challenging Western Anthropocentrism: Blurring The Human-Animal Divide in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana

Vol. 83, No.13, January-June: 2023

ISSN: 2278-6864

THE CRITERION: An International Journal in English (Peer Reviewed Open Access e-Journal)

Title: Memory, Trauma and Recovery with special reference to Manoranjan Byapari’s Autobiography

Vol.13 , Issue-1,February 2022

ISSN-090976-8165

Impact Factor: 7.86

LANGLIT : An International  Peer Reviewed  Open Access Journal

Title: Theory of Rasa Applied to Dalit Literature

Vol. 8 Issue 2 November: 2021

ISSN 2349-5189

Impact Factor: 5.61

Indexed: Google Scholar, Research Gate, Academia, edu, IBI, IIFC, DRJI

Website: www.langlit.org

 Explore: Journal of Research

Title: Does Husseini Portray Western-centric view of Afghanistan in his Novels?

Vol .XI No.2019

ISSN2278-0297(Print)

ISSN 2278-6414 (Online)

UGC Approved List of Journals No-6440

http:www.patnawomenscollege.in/jou

Title: Depiction of Males in the works of Female writers

Vol X No.2018

ISSN2278-0297(Print)

ISSN 2278-6414 (Online)

http:www.patnawomenscollege.in/jou

Explore : Journal of Research

Title: Adaptation of Shakespearean Tragedies into Hindi Films

Vol IX, 2017

ISSN2278-0297(Print)

ISSN 2278-6414 (Online)

http:www.patnawomenscollege.in/jou

Research

Title: World Englishes

Vol. 14 No. 2 in 2014.

 Urdu Today

 Title: Gyno-centric Approach to Qurutulain Hyder’s River Of Fire.

ISSN: 2321-8029

Vol 1 Issue No.4 January-March, 2014.

 RESOURCE PERSON IN WEBINAR

Title of the Lecture: Confessionalism in the Poetry of Kamla Das

B.S COLLEGE DANAPUR –PATNA, BIHAR (A CONSTITUENT UNIT OF PATLIPUTRA UNIVERSITY)

(ONLINE on 09.07.2020)

PAPERS PRESENTED IN SEMINARS/CONFERENCES

• Participated and presented a paper titled Challenging Anthropocentricism: Blurring the Animal Human Divide in Gir Karnard’s Hayavadana in the International Virtual Conference on Being and Bioethics: Towards an Inclusive Society on 23^rd&24 th Feb organized by St Aloysius College, Eithuruth , Kerala
• Co-Convener of International Virtual Conference  on Intersections of Gender:

Texts and Contexts organised by the Patna Women’s college on 26^th& 27^th April 2021.

Presented a paper titled Feminization of Poverty: Social Exclusion and Adverse Inclusion of Santhal Women in Hansda Sowendra Shekhar’s Adivasis will not Dance

Participated and presented a paper titled Re-imaging Marginalised Female Characters in Feminist Revisionist mythmaking  text The Liberation of Sita by Volga organised by Manav Rachna International Institute of Research & Studies Faridabad on 30^th Jan 2020.

 

• Participated and presented a paper titled Adivasi and development in Hansda Sowendra Shekhar’s collection of short stories Adivasis will not Dance in the National Seminar organised by St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology Patna on 8^th February 2020 on the topic : Human Development: Contemporary Issues and Challenges.

 

• Participated and presented a paper titled Feminist Revisionist mythmaking in  Volga’s The Liberation of Sita in the National Seminar organized by St Xavier’s College of Management , Patna on 16^th 17^thfeb 2019 on Empowerment of women

 

• Participated in the International Conference organized by Centre for Gender Studies on Gender issues: Priorities and Challenges and presented a paper titled Women’s Autonomy in making Life Choices on 17^th-19^th Nov 2017.

 

• Participated in the International Conference organized by  Centre For Gender Studies on Gender issues: Priorities and Challenges and presented a paper  titled Indian Muslim Women’s Movement  held on 7^th-9^th Feb 2016

 

 

• Participated in the International Seminar organized by Patna Women’s College on Challenging Patriarch: A Humanist Perspective and presented a paper entitled Eco Feminism: Challenging  Oppression Of Nature and Women By Patriarchal  Structures on 28th October, 2016

 

• Organising member and Treasurer of the National Seminar on ‘Representation of Children in English Literatures‘ organized by the  Dept of English, Patna Women’s College.Presented a paper titled Child’s world juxtaposed with the Adult world in Wuthering Heights

Poems published in the journal Research Vol.14 No .1 in 2014

 Poems published in the journal Research Vol.12, No 1. In 2012.

 Book Review published in Research Vol.11, No 2

POEM PUBLISHED IN AN  ANTHOLOGY,

“The Sound of Poetry” (Anthology published from USA).

 NEWSPAPERS

 Articles published on Language and Literature in “The Hindustan Times” and “The Asian Age”.

LANGUAGES KNOWN

English, Hindi, Urdu