Faculty Details Name: Shahla Ghauri Designation: Assistant Professor Dept. of English Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh Contact Details: Email id: kukuniazi@yahoo.com Mobile: 09897813380 Office Address: Dept. of English, AMU, Aligarh 202002. Permanent Home Town Address: 9- Silver Estate, Nagla Road, Civil Lines, Dodhpur, Aligarh. Profile: Shahla Ghauri has been teaching Graduate and Post Graduate Courses in English and ELT and has been guiding PhD theses and MA level dissertations. Her areas of specialization are Fiction Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Literary Autobiographies. She also has keen interest in Women Writings, Cultural Studies, Indian English Studies, Black American Writing and English Language Teaching. She has attended several national and international seminars and conferences on related topics. Her research papers have been published in journals of repute and also as chapters in books. She has been associated with English Access Microscholarship Programme at AMU under Regional English Language Office (RELO), American Centre. She has been awarded scholarship by RELO to take up an online course on Teaching English to Teens by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Publications Published Papers: Identity Crisis in Paul Scott s Staying On. The Aligarh Journal of English Studies, Vol. 25 Nos. 182, 2003. Department of English, AMU. Another Success Story: Anurag Mathur s The Inscrutable Americans. Journal of the Faculty of Arts. Vol. 4 Nos. 1-2. Jan. 2005 Dec. 2006, AMU. The Writer Characters in Hemingway s Fiction published in The Aligarh Journal of English Studies. Department of English, AMU. Vol. 28, Nos.1&2, 2006.
Ismail Kadare s Broken April: Play of Perspectives published in the Journal of The Faculty of Arts, Vol.5 Nos 1-2, Jan. 2007- Dec. 2008. Book Chapters: Defining Black Female Identity: Maya Angelou s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings published in Literature of Small Cultures: An Assertion of Difference edited by Deepinderjeet Randhawa, Patiala, 2010. Voices, Whispers and Silences of Women in the Stories of Ambai in A Purple Sea, published in Women in Post-Colonial Indian English Literature: Redefining the Self, edited by Malti Agarwal, Atlantic Publishers and Distributers(P) Ltd. New Delhi, 2011. Sin, Suffering and Salvation in Qaisra Shahraz s The Holy Woman published in a volume, The Holy and The Unholy edited by A. R. Kidwai and M. Asim Siddiqui, 2011, Sarup Books: New Delhi. Kurt Vonnegut s Cat s Cradle: A Post Modern Narrative in Modern American Literature: Interrogations and Investigations Ed. Beena Agarwal, Authorpress, New Delhi 2012. ISBN 978-81-7273-688-0 Exploring Terra Incognita: Johnson s and Boswell s Journey to Scotland in Criticism and Counter Criticism Eds. Mohammad Asim Siddiqui and Abdur Rahim Kidwai, Viva Books, New Delhi 2013. ISBN 978-81-309-2302-4 Merging Myth and Contemporary Reality: Ismail Kadare s Spring Flowers, Spring Frost in the Volume Studies in Myth, Orality and Folklore in World Literature Edited by Vandana Sharma, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi 2013. ISBN 978-81- 269-1800-3 Papers presented at Seminars/Conferences: National Crisis of Values in Hemingway s Fictional World, paper presented at 47 th All India English Teachers Conference at Lucknow from 27 th to the 29 th of Dec. 2002. Kanthapura: An Attempt towards National Unity, paper presented at a Seminar on National Integration and Indian Literature at AMU, Aligarh from 20 th -22 nd March 2004. Teaching Writing Skills: A Communicative Approach, paper presented at a Seminar on Recent Developments in English Language Teaching at Kanpur from 19 th _ 20 th Nov. 2004.
Alienation in Albert Camus The Outsider and Arun Joshi s The Foreigner paper presented at 49th All India English Teachers Conference at Rae Bareli from 28 th to the 30 th of Jan. 2005. Interpretation of a Short Story: Directing the Students response, paper presented at a Seminar on The Narrative: Strategies for Teaching and Evaluation at Ram Lal Anand College, New Delhi on the 16th of December 2006. Voices, Whispers and Silences of Women in the Stories of Ambai in A Purple Sea, paper presented at a Seminar on Redefining the Self: Women in Indian English Writing, Meerut, 2 nd and 3 rd Dec. 2007. Defining Black Female Identity in Maya Angelou s I know why the Caged Bird Sings, paper presented at a Conference on Literature of Small Cultures: An Assertion of Difference, at Khalsa College, Patiala, 26 th 27 th March, 2010.. Discourse as Identity in Maya Angelou s I know why the Caged Bird Sings presented at National Conference held by Indian Association of American Studies, at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 11 th -13 th August, 2010. The Spanish Essence of Hemingway, presented at a Seminar on Geoscapes of the Mind: Travel, Belonging and Transformations, Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (IRIS), Jaipur, 9 th -10 th June, 2012. Assertion of Dalit Identity in Balbir Madhopuri s Changiya Rukh: Against the Night, An Autobiography presented at the IX Annual Conference, Rajasthan Association for Studies in English on The Experience of British Rule in Modern India as Reflected in Contemporary Life and Literature at Jaipur National University on 3 rd and 4 th November 2012. Zahida Zaidi s Burning Desert: A Play with a Difference presented in a Seminar on Socio- Cultural Paradigms in Post-Indemendence Indian English Drama at N.A.S College, Meerut on 1 st and 2 nd December, 2012. My Life: An Indian Muslim Woman s Autobiographical Voice in a seminar on Indian Women s Autobiographies: A Critical Study at Saraswati Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Palwal in Collaboration with The Shakespeare Association (India) on 7 th and 8 th March, 2013. Beauty in Art and Death: Bullfighting in Hemingway at the V National Seminar on The Enigma of Beauty at St. Berchmans College, Changanassery, Kerala in Collaboration
with Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences, Baroda from 2 nd 4 th Jan, 2014. International Experiencing Tamil Ethos through English Translation: A Case study of Select Stories of Ambai, paper presented at a conference of South Asian Languages conducted at the Department of Linguistics A.M.U. 6 th 8 th January,2008. Reading Kurt Vonnegut s Cat s Cradle through the Prism of Postmodernism, paper presented at a seminar on Postmodernism: Dimensions and Challenges, Organised by Shri Varshney College, Aligarh on 4 th 6 th March, 2011. Merging Myth and Contemporary Reality: Ismail Kadare s Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, paper presented at a conference on Myth, Orality and Folklore in World Literature, organized by School of Languages and Literature, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu and Kashmir, 29 th 31 st March, 2012. Where Women Dare to Tread: Yasmina Khadra s The Swalloas of Kabul presented at Unveiling a Secret Agreement: Revisiting the Contours of English Studies at EFL Universaity, Hyderabad on November 19 th 21 st 2012. Daring to Risk: Women in Kamila Shamsie s Broken Verses at the 15 th Biennial Symposium on Literature and Culture in the Asia Pacific Region at the University of Hong Kong, June 10 th 12 th, 2013. The Concept of After-Life Punishment for Suicide presented in a Seminar on Commonalities among World Religions at the Department of Shia Theology, A.M.U, Aligarh 0n 8 th 10 th Oct, 2013. The Idea of Republic in Shakespeare s The Rape of Lucrece presented at the VI International Seminar on The Republic in Shakespeare at the University of Jammu from Oct 16 th - 18 th, 2013. CURRICULUM VITAE Name:. Shahla Ghauri Designation: Assistant Professor Department: English Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh.202002 Contact Details: Mobile: 09897813380 Email id: kukuniazi@yahoo.com Home Address: 9, Silver Estate, Nagla Road, Dodhpur, Aligarh. 202002. Date of Birth: 12-10-1965 Academic Qualifications: Ph. D.: A Critical Study of Hemingway s Short Stories in relation to his Novels M. Phil.: The Significance of the Nick Adams Stories of Ernest Hemingway M. A. (English) from AMU. In the year 1993 with First Division B.Sc. (Hons.) from AMU. Aligarh in the year 1984 with First Division. P.M.C. from AMU. Aligarh in the year 1982 with First Division. P.U.C. from AMU. Aligarh in the year 1981 with First Division. High School from U.P. Board in the year 1980 with First Division and Distinction in Science. Other Qualifications: Certificate in French from AMU. Aligarh in the year 1994 with 85.5% Diploma in French from AMU. Aligarh in the year 1995 with 87% Certificate in Arabic from AMU. Aligarh in the year 2011 with 69% Qualified State Level Eligibility Test for Lectureship in 1997 Attended UGC sponsored Refresher Course in English from 15-3-05 to 7-4-05 Attended UGC sponsored Refresher Course in Environmental Studies (Interdisciplinary) from 17-05-06 to 03-06-06 Completed Online Teacher Training Course in Teaching English to Teens from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA from September 22 nd October 19th 2011. Teaching Experience: Lecturer in the Department of English, AMU from October 1999 to date Part time Teacher in S. T. High School, AMU during the session 1998-99 Taught at Women s College in the capacity of research Scholar in 1997-98 Resource person for contact classes at the Distance Education Centre, A.M.U. for three years. Resource person for Teaching English Communication Skills to Research Scholars (other than English) AMU. At Sultan Jahan Coaching and Guidance Centre.
Resource person for the English Access Microscholarship Program, a globally ongoing project of the United States to the under-privileged group of students at UGC Academic Staff College, AMU, Aligarh, for three years. Resource person for the Communication Skills Programme of six weeks duration at the Residential Coaching Academy, A.M.U, Aligarh for the session 2012-12. Courses Taught: American Literature, Victorian Novel, Modern British Novels and ELT at the Post graduate level and Poetry, Novel and Biography at undergraduate level besides the Compulsory English and Communicative English courses. Area of Specialization: Modern Fiction, Postcolonial Studies, Literary Autobiographies. Area of Interest: Fiction Studies, Cultural Studies, Women Writings, Postcolonial Studies, Black American Literature and ELT. Research Supervision: Awarded one PhD under her supervision. Presently supervising two PhD Thesis. Supervised MA (ELT) Project Dissertations for the past 8 years. Published Papers: Published in Journals: Identity Crisis in Paul Scott s Staying On. The Aligarh Journal of English Studies, Vol. 25 Nos. 182, 2003. Department of English, AMU. Another Success Story: Anurag Mathur s The Inscrutable Americans. Journal of the Faculty of Arts. Vol. 4 Nos. 1-2. Jan. 2005 Dec. 2006, AMU. The Writer Characters in Hemingway s Fiction published in The Aligarh Journal of English Studies. Department of English, AMU. Vol. 28, Nos.1&2, 2006. Ismail Kadare s Broken April: Play of Perspectives published in the Journal of The Faculty of Arts, Vol.5 Nos 1-2, Jan. 2007- Dec. 2008. Published as Book Chapters:
Defining Black Female Identity: Maya Angelou s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings published in Literature of Small Cultures: An Assertion of Difference edited by Deepinderjeet Randhawa, Patiala, 2010. Voices, Whispers and Silences of Women in the Stories of Ambai in A Purple Sea, published in Women in Post-Colonial Indian English Literature: Redefining the Self, edited by Malti Agarwal, Atlantic Publishers and Distributers(P) Ltd. New Delhi, 2011. Sin, Suffering and Salvation in Qaisra Shahraz s The Holy Woman published in a volume, The Holy and The Unholy edited by A. R. Kidwai and M. Asim Siddiqui, 2011, Sarup Books: New Delhi. Kurt Vonnegut s Cat s Cradle: A Post Modern Narrative in Modern American Literature: Interrogations and Investigations Ed. Beena Agarwal, Authorpress, New Delhi 2012. ISBN 978-81-7273-688-0 Exploring Terra Incognita: Johnson s and Boswell s Journey to Scotland in Criticism and Counter Criticism Eds. Mohammad Asim Siddiqui and Abdur Rahim Kidwai, Viva Books, New Delhi 2013. ISBN 978-81-309-2302-4 Merging Myth and Contemporary Reality: Ismail Kadare s Spring Flowers, Spring Frost in the Volume Studies in Myth, Orality and Folklore in World Literature Edited by Vandana Sharma, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi 2013. ISBN 978-81- 269-1800-3 Papers presented at Seminars/Conferences: National Crisis of Values in Hemingway s Fictional World, paper presented at 47 th All India English Teachers Conference at Lucknow from 27 th to the 29 th of Dec. 2002. Kanthapura: An Attempt towards National Unity, paper presented at a seminar on National Integration and Indian Literature at AMU, Aligarh from 20 th -22 nd March 2004. Teaching Writing Skills: A Communicative Approach, paper presented a seminar on Recent Developments in English Language Teaching at Kanpur from 19 th _ 20 th Nov. 2004. Alienation in Albert Camus The Outsider and Arun Joshi s The Foreigner paper presented at 49th All India English Teachers Conference at Rae Bareli from 28 th to the 30 th of Jan. 2005. Interpretation of a Short Story: Directing the Students response, paper presented at a seminar on The Narrative: Strategies for Teaching and Evaluation at Ram Lal Anand College, New Delhi on the 16th of December 2006.
Voices, Whispers and Silences of Women in the Stories of Ambai in A Purple Sea, paper presented at a seminar on Redefining the Self: Women in Indian English Writing, Meerut, 2 nd and 3 rd Dec. 2007. Defining Black Female Identity in Maya Angelou s I know why the Caged Bird Sings, paper presented at a Conference on Literature of Small Cultures: An Assertion of Difference, at Khalsa College, Patiala, 26 th 27 th March, 2010.. Discourse as Identity in Maya Angelou s I know why the Caged Bird Sings presented at a Conference held by Indian Association of American Studies, at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 11 th -13 th August, 2010. The Spanish Essence of Hemingway, presented at National Seminar on Geoscapes of the Mind: Travel, Belonging and Transformations, Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (IRIS), Jaipur, 9 th -10 th June, 2012. Assertion of Dalit Identity in Balbir Madhopuri s Changiya Rukh: Against the Night, An Autobiography presented at the IX Annual Conference, Rajasthan Association for Studies in English on The Experience of British Rule in Modern India as Reflected in Contemporary Life and Literature at Jaipur National University on 3 rd and 4 th November 2012. Zahida Zaidi s Burning Desert: A Play with a Difference presented in a Seminar on Socio- Cultural Paradigms in Post-Indemendence Indian English Drama at N.A.S College, Meerut on 1 st and 2 nd December, 2012. My Life: An Indian Muslim Woman s Autobiographical Voice in a seminar on Indian Women s Autobiographies: A Critical Study at Saraswati Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Palwal in Collaboration with The Shakespeare Association (India) on 7 th and 8 th March, 2013. Beauty in Art and Death: Bullfighting in Hemingway at the V National Seminar on The Enigma of Beauty at St. Berchmans College, Changanassery, Kerala in Collaboration with Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences, Baroda from 2 nd 4 th Jan, 2014. International Experiencing Tamil Ethos through English Translation: A Case study of Select Stories of Ambai, paper presented at a conference of South Asian Languages conducted at the Department of Linguistics A.M.U. 6 th 8 th January,2008.
Reading Kurt Vonnegut s Cat s Cradle through the Prism of Postmodernism, paper presented at a seminar on Postmodernism: Dimensions and Challenges, Organised by Shri Varshney College, Aligarh on 4 th 6 th March, 2011. Merging Myth and Contemporary Reality: Ismail Kadare s Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, paper presented at a conference on Myth, Orality and Folklore in World Literature, organized by School of Languages and Literature, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu and Kashmir, 29 th 31 st March, 2012. Where Women Dare to Tread: Yasmina Khadra s The Swalloas of Kabul presented at Unveiling a Secret Agreement: Revisiting the Contours of English Studies at EFL Universaity, Hyderabad on November 19 th 21 st 2012. Daring to Risk: Women in Kamila Shamsie s Broken Verses at the 15 th Biennial Symposium on Literature and Culture in the Asia Pacific Region at the University of Hong Kong, June 10 th 12 th, 2013. The Concept of After-Life Punishment for Suicide presented in a Seminar on Commonalities among World Religions at the Department of Shia Theology, A.M.U, Aligarh 0n 8 th 10 th Oct, 2013. The Idea of Republic in Shakespeare s The Rape of Lucrece presented at the VI International Seminar on The Republic in Shakespeare at the University of Jammu from Oct 16 th - 18 th, 2013.